Brains and Eggs

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

Trump and Putin Will NOT Meet One-on-One — Rubio and Witkoff Joining - President Donald Trump will no longer meet by himself with Vladimir Putin to discuss Russia's war with Ukraine, CNN's Kaitlan Collins reported. The post ...
Mediagazer

Iran International says a cyber operation intended to intimidate its journalists has ties to a senior Iranian intelligence official and a network of operatives (Mojtaba Pourmohsen/Iran International) - Mojtaba Pourmohsen / Iran International: *Iran International says a cyber operation intended to intimidate its journalists has ties to a senior Iranian i...
The Verge

Louisiana sues Roblox for creating an environment where ‘child predators thrive’ - The state of Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, alleging that the company has “permitted and perpetuated an online environment in which child pr...
Alternet

'Attack on democracy': GOP senator slammed after invoking racist 'Three-fifths Compromise' - *U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty* (R-TN) is under fire after invoking the U.S. Constitution’s racist Three-Fifths Compromise—that mandated slaves be counted on...
Deadline Politics

Networks Plan Special Reports And Dispatch Anchors To Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin Summit - Networks will provide special coverage on Friday to President Donald Trump’s summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the ongoing ...
Salon.com

Texas Democrats signal likely end of gerrymander battle - "We are about to suffer the blunt force of Governor Abbott's weakness,” state lawmaker says
Eschaton

My God What Has Been Happening At U of Chicago - Decades of schemes. It is tempting to ascribe this betrayal of implied contract—with students, parents, and donors—to the pressure that the Trump administ...
Raw Story

Pentagon’s recruitment boast unravels as ‘strikingly beautiful’ soldiers revealed as AI - The Department of Defense claimed on social media that its recruitment of women into the armed forces is going great. The problem, however, is that when ...
Krebs on Security

Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme - Cybercriminal groups peddling sophisticated phishing kits that convert stolen card data into mobile wallets have recently shifted their focus to targeting ...
CultureMap Houston

9 new bars shaking up Houston with strong sips and compelling cocktails - Houston’s restaurant scene has taken hits this summer, with several longtime favorites closing their doors. But if you’re looking for somewhere new to rais...
World Socialist Web Site

Britain’s National Union of Students targets opposition to Gaza genocide amid growing movement for disaffiliation - NUS stands exposed as a tool of repression against students. The task is not to reform it, but to build a socialist movement against it.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Shining the Light on Academia Cuauhtli: Where Community, Culture, and Young Voices Thrive in Austin, Texas🌟🌟🌟 - *Shining the Light on Academia Cuauhtli: Where Community, Culture, and Young Voices Thrive in Austin, Texas**🌟**🌟**🌟* *A huge gracias to Becky Morales...
The Week

What is an upside-down car loan and how do you get out of it? - This happens when the outstanding balance on a car loan exceeds the vehicle's worth
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: AI Deskills Healthcare, mRNA on the Block, Three Hominins Living Together, the Workweek, and a College Essay Worth Reading - Part the First: AI and Deskilling in Healthcare. Yes, it does happen as described in the news article As AI spreads through health care, is the technology...
Political Wire

Schwarzenegger Ready to Oppose a New Map - Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is prepping for the redistricting battle in California, wearing a colorful shirt that includes the phrase: “Terminate...
NPR's Health Shots

Embryos small but mighty, first live videos show - Scientists have recorded a human embryo implanting in a womb in real time. The implications of how it happens could lead to more and better treatments for ...
Daily Dot

“Sue them!”: Toddler breaks $1,600 table at cafe. Mom says she was pressured to hand over credit card on the spot - [image: Mom talking about her 3-year-old breaking a 600 pound table at Hazelnut Cafe in New Jersey.] A New Jersey mother said her coffee stop turned into...
Courthouse News

Ancient humans transported ‘toolkits’ earlier than previously thought - Early human ancestors also carried these toolkits of carved and chipped stones long distances, possibly indicating an evolutionary step in ancient brains.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Michael Johnson admits Grand Slam Track on hold until 2025 debts are paid - - Johnson says athletes owed millions in prize money - LA finale cancelled after promised funding fell through - Upstar...
Techdirt.

PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents - The US Court system’s electronic filing front-end has always been a mess. Not only is it prohibitively expensive for most casual users, it’s prohibitively ...
Axios

Not every Democrat is fighting back against Trump's D.C. police takeover - Some House Democrats are striking a much more careful tone on President Trump's D.C. crime crackdown than their party's leadership. *Why it matters: *Dem...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio police officer turns self in after he's investigated for DWI related to single-vehicle crash - San Antonio police officer David McCall turned himself in Thursday after a magistrate judge issued an arrest warrant for a charge of driving while intoxic...
memeorandum

White House officials turn up the heat on Indiana redistricting (Politico) - Politico: *White House officials turn up the heat on Indiana redistricting* … The White House is also inviting Indiana Republicans to a meeting in Washi...
Slate

Trump Just Launched a New Assault on D.C.’s Home Rule. It’s Brazenly Illegal. - On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi launched arguably the most lawless assault on the District of Columbia in its 52 years of home rule.
The Hill

Alec Baldwin: Trump wants to 'deflect from his inadequacy' with 'insane moves' - Actor Alec Baldwin on Friday condemned President Trump’s efforts to take over D.C.'s law enforcement. “What’s gonna happen next? Is Trump gonna federalize ...
Consortium News

Interview: Richard Sakwa on Russia Since Perestroika - Natalyie Baldwin asks the British author about the Soviet collapse, the 1990s, Vladimir Putin’s governance, the rise of a new cold war and the Russia-Ukrai...
Al Jazeera English

Why has violence flared up in Serbia – and what’s next? - Trouble flares involving police, government supporters and anticorruption groups.
Dorf on Law

The Grim March Toward Enforced Right-Wing Groupthink in US Universities - "The Harvard of the Unwoke" was the unimaginative title of a puff piece about now-former University of Florida (UF) president Ben Sasse. That op-ed appe...
Mondoweiss

Groups calls on Delaware to revoke Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s corporate charter over complicity in genocide - [image: Palestinians carry food parcels distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Palestinians in Gaza are being routinely killed while attempting t...
Houston Public Media

Fort Bend library website targeted by cyberattack to be fully restored by September, county officials say - Patrons have been unable to log into their accounts and use the online catalog for months after a cybersecurity attack in February.
ArcaMax

America Is Wild! Get Out There and Enjoy It. - When I was a kid, my family often drove from northern Kentucky to Clearwater, Florida, where my grandmother had retired. We loaded down our van with campin...
Futurism

Sam Altman Admits OpenAI "Totally Screwed Up" - It has been a very long week for OpenAI, who just over seven days ago released its hotly-anticipated GPT-5 model with a large thud followed by histrionic...
Undernews

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Second Nexus

Helen Mirren Leaves Jimmy Fallon Flabbergasted After Claiming Tomatoes Are 'Bisexual' - In theory, growing food at home should, in the long run, save you money by turning seeds, sunlight, soil, and water into food. In reality, sometimes you ...
Daily Cartoonist

Hey Kids! Comics! for Aaughust - Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though o...
Texas Standard

Texas Legislature’s second special session begins Friday as quorum-breaking Democrats plan return - Gov. Greg Abbott released his second special session proclamation moments after the state legislature officially called its first special to a close. The g...
Grist

The International Seabed Authority’s war with itself - As the UN agency faces an American threat to its jurisdiction over deep-sea mining, diplomats have more or less left all the important questions unanswered.
Vox

Trump’s immigration raids are now before the Supreme Court - Last month, a federal judge in Los Angeles handed down a temporary order placing some restrictions on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in t...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Refuses to Enjoin New Virginia Law that Requires Parties that Nominate by Convention to Make Provision for Absentee Voting - On July 30, U.S. District Court Judge Norman Moon, a Clinton appointee, issued an opinion in Lynchburg Republican City Committee v Virginia Department of E...
Independent Political Report

United States Pirate Party Endorses Independent Timothy Grady for Ohio Governor - The United States Pirate Party has endorsed independent candidate Timothy Grady in his 2026 bid for governor of Ohio, following a unanimous vote at its m...
Angry Bear

You know they’re feeble - Exhibit A. The emperor grovels for the Nobel Prize (per The Guardian): “Donald Trump cold-called Norway’s finance minister last month to ask about a nomi...
Reform Austin

Texas Democrats Plan Return to Block Gerrymander, Awaiting End of Special Session - Dozens of Texas Democratic lawmakers are preparing to head back to Austin early next week after leaving the state to delay a Republican-led redistricting...
alicublog

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

Opinion: As a Vietnam vet, I know the results of military leaders staying quiet amid presidential mistakes - Deploying soldiers in American cities will undermine military readiness, a retired Army colonel says. The post Opinion: As a Vietnam vet, I know the res...
Dissident Voice

Smoldering Syria: Ongoing Security Crisis Undermines the Country’s Future - The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria last December was so swift and surreal that the initial euphoria lingered both inside and outside the country despit...
San Antonio Report

Mayor Jones reverses course on controversial policy-vetting proposal - After an early administrative directive drew intense backlash from the council, Gina Ortiz Jones sought to make peace and move forward. --------------------...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Rida and Her Family - 'We lost our son… and we’re struggling just to survive.'
Common Dreams

INC-5.2 Outcome: Plastics Treaty negotiations extended as majority of countries stand up for ambition, process undermined by corporate interests - What was expected to be the final session of negotiations on the new UN Plastics Treaty has closed in Geneva, Switzerland with negotiations being extende...
MintPress News

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

“Is Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act Unconstitutional?” - Bradley Smith and I talked about Callais and the future of Section 2 in the National Constitution Center’s “We the People” podcast with Jeffrey Rosen. In...
ProPublica

ProPublica Hires Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher as Deputy Editors - by ProPublica ProPublica announced that Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher have been hired as deputy editors on our data and news applications teams. Littl...
The Root

Jillian Michaels Sparks Outrage With These Comments About Slavery— While Raising a Black Daughter - The fitness trainer is being criticized by those who think her comments on slavery were irresponsible – especially since she adopted a Black daughter. Re...
Mother Jones

The Democratic Socialists of America Want to Win - Last month, energized by growing membership and recent electoral victories—including Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral primary win—the Democratic Soci...
Ian Welsh

Politicians V.S. Serial Killers: Introducing The Serial Killer Count - One of the themes of this blog is that, with some exceptions, the people who are most dangerous are politicians. Since rich people own politicians, indirec...
Bonddad

July industrial production: meh! - - *by New Deal democrat* Industrial production is much less central to the US economic picture than it was before the “China shock,” since so much p...
LareDOS

LACF awards over $500K in scholarships to local students - Foundation has awarded more than $3 million in scholarships since 2005 and currently manages more than $20 million in donor funds
Glasstire

So Deep A Bond: Texan and Mexican Artists at Cobertizo Art Residency - Down a red gravel road, we set off. Rows of ash and eucalyptus trees framed the way, which was spent chatting about the latest events in Mexico City, whe...
SCOTUSblog

You say “a-mee-cus,” Justice Breyer says “a-mike-us” - As readers of this site are well aware, the Supreme Court is deeply divided on a wide range of consequential issues. How should the justices consider his...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 203: “The Future Is Plastics” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Ted is back from his ICE deportation gulag! On “The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan,” we’re finishing ...
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Entering… - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section or find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: E...
WhoWhatWhy

DC’s Attorney General Tells Police Chief to Ignore Bondi’s Takeover Order - [image: Donald Trump, Press Conference, Pam Bondi, White House] Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday night tried to usurp the leadership of Washington, D...
The Progressive Wing

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

Patients in States With Abortion Bans Are the Biggest Users of Abortion Telemedicine - In a new study, 84 percent of online prescriptions went to people living in abortion-ban states. The post Patients in States With Abortion Bans Are the B...
The Conversation

Afghans in US face uncertainty after the cancellation of their humanitarian relief - Afghans who have lost US work permits and protections from deportation fear persecution by the Taliban if they return to Afghanistan.
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 9 - *A sorry mix of superstition, cult bragging, and bad theology* Baptist preacher William Miller predicted that Jesus would return on October 22, 1844. Th...
Democracy Now!

John Mearsheimer vs. Matt Duss: A Debate on Trump-Putin Summit, Ukraine, Russia & Paths to Peace - As U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska for a high-stakes summit to discuss a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, we ...
First Draft

No, You Don’t Gotta Hand It To Trump - Several examples of media working hard to enable Trump
Space City Weather

Gulf tropical disturbance to bring Houston an uptick in rain chances, followed by more typical August weather - In brief: Invest 98L, the Gulf tropical disturbance, will bring an enhanced chance of showers or storms to Houston today and Saturday, but nothing much mor...
Capital & Main

Measles Is Making a Comeback — and California Isn’t Immune - Vaccination gaps in 16 counties leave some communities exposed as children return to school. The post Measles Is Making a Comeback — and California Isn’t...
Bracing Views

Something Is Rotten in the States of America - Look No Further than Colossal Pentagon Spending and Perpetual War BILL ASTORE AUG 14, 2025 Something is Rotten in the States of America. America’s war budg...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Public Lands Are Our Public Commons - Author and poet Terry Tempest Williams urged the nation to recognize the value of public... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Public Lands Are Our Public Co...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Could He Be Any More Needy?’ Trump Mocked for Call to Norwegian Official Over Nobel Prize -
Daily Howler

BREAKING: As a public official heads north to Alaska... - * FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025* *..."every third Friday" is here: *Last week, the timing of our medical mission underwent a change. We've advanced from "an e...
Skeptophilia

The collapse - You've undoubtedly heard British philosopher Thomas Hobbes's famous quote that in the past, our forebears' lives were "nasty, poor, brutish, and short." ...
slacktivist

LBCF: Tactical decency - I believe that Christians are called to be salt and light — not to be the kinds of people that no one wants to sit next to on an airplane.
Off The Kuff

The end (of the quorum break) is near - And getting nearer. The House Democrats who fled Texas to block GOP redistricting appear likely to return in the coming days, according to a press release ...
Progressives Chat

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

US-Based Companies Announce Record Number of Impending Layoffs - "DOGE Actions" was the number one reason cited by employers for their planned job cuts.
American Prospect

PragerU Wants to Capitalize on PBS Defunding - The right-wing educational resource is available for classrooms in ten states and wants to go ‘toe-to-toe’ with PBS Kids. Will teachers go for what the com...
Crooked Media

Can Newsom Stop Trump’s Steal? - The post Can Newsom Stop Trump’s Steal? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Daily Poster

Why Everybody Should Care That Men Are Losing Their Deep Friendships - David Sirota’s full interview with journalist Sam Graham-Felsen on the far-reaching political implications of the male loneliness crisis.
The AltWorld

Stats PerformIndonesia Will Play A Key Role In Russia’s Asian Balancing Act - Their close Soviet-era strategic cooperation before General Suharto’s mid-1960s coup serves as a nostalgic reference point for […] The post Stats Perform...
Counterpunch

Toward Community Power: Federalism and the Left - When a president so openly and unapologetically embraces fascism and white supremacy, it can be easy to get distracted, to focus on the man rather than t...
jobsanger

The Takeover Of D.C. Is Just The Beginning -
Informed Comment

Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East - London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – China-US geopolitical rivalries have manifested in many arenas from esoteric ones like export controls over...
Portside

Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug - Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug jay Thu, 08/14/2025 - 21:58
Brad Blog

Newsom Unveils 'Election Rigging Response Act'; FCC Renews License for Sock-Puppeting Sinclair: 'BradCast' 8/14/2025 - It's your democracy at work, for better or worse, on today's BradCast! [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] FIRST UP... At a lively rally at the...
Popular Resistance

End The Colonial Occupation Of Washington D.C - President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to deploy the National Guard to Washington, DC, framed as a crackdown on crime, marks a dangerous escalation...
Claytoonz

Historical Vision - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
The NM Political Report

99.7% of residents tested near Cannon AFB have PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in their blood - This report is supported by NM Political Report, a nonprofit newsroom working to increase New Mexicans’ engagement in politics and public policy. Reporte...
Antiwar.com

Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska - Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review This week’s summit between Presidents Trump and Putin in Alaska is an opportunity for Russia and the West...
Workers World

People’s Summit for Korea spotlights role of U.S. imperialism - [image: People’s Summit for Korea spotlights role of U.S. imperialism] Protest in center of New York City followed Peoples Summit for Korea, July 27, 2025....
OpEd News

Will Trump, Putin Meeting in Alaska Succeed? - Putin will push for formal recognition of Russia's territorial gains, including full control over Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, and possibly more.
Church and State

World disaster exemplified by Sudan - It would’ve been so effective by simply making sure that women have their right to determine how many children they would have.
Progressive Army

Nueva reunión de Entidades del Comercio Exterior + ProComex - Nueva reunión de Entidades del Comercio Exterior + ProComex* El pasado martes 12 de agosto se llevó a cabo una nueva reunión de Entidades del Comercio Exte...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Wolf Street

Core Services PPI Explodes, Worst since March 2020, Causes Overall PPI and Core PPI to Explode - Food prices also spiked. Energy prices surged due to diesel, jet fuel, and industrial electric power. Ugly all around.
Sludge

DNC Chair Moves to Confront Corporate and Dark Money in 2028 Primaries - Here is the new resolution from DNC Chair Ken Martin targeting unlimited corporate spending and dark money, starting with the 2028 presidential primary.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Redder Shade of Purple: Comparing Bush to Trump in the Midwest - How the presidential results in the Midwest have changed over two decades The post A Redder Shade of Purple: Comparing Bush to Trump in the Midwest appea...
Project Censored

Pulling the Levers of Power: How the Trump Administration Hijacked Public Broadcasting - Once a bipartisan resource, public media is now cast as an ideological threat under the Trump administration’s efficiency campaign. Jackie Vickery On May...
Unlimited Hangout

Sabby Sabs - Sabby Sabs.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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

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

Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future - Saguaros are struggling to cope with extreme weather, monitoring studies reveal. The post Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future appeared first o...
Media Lens

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

State victories in 2025: rooftop solar, wildlife crossings, high value health care and more - In this moment, we’re taking great care to choose issues and solutions that Americans in every state — blue, red or purple — can get behind. The post Sta...
The Texas Signal

The Unending Tolls Of Being Undocumented In Texas - For undocumented Texans, the economic burdens keep growing
Trivial Knot

From the drafts: Data science as function fitting - Let’s dig out another article from my drafts bin, something I don’t think I was ever going to finish. This draft was titled “Data Science as function fitti...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Lara Loomer repeats claim about Lindsey Graham being gay in deposition' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Sen. Lindsey Graham. Is he or isn't he? Lara Loomer says he is. *'It's well-known!' MAGA activist repeats salacious claims about GOP senator in depositio...
See You In 2020

What’s changed since Trump’s first term: the resistance forces have needed to give up “detente” - In July, Kim Yo Jong made a statement responding to the Trump White House’s suggestion that it could return to its old relationship with the DPRK. The W...
Progressive.org

Medicaid Is Not a Luxury, It’s a Lifeline - As someone with a chronic illness, I rely on Medicaid. It's no gravy train—and the system is forcing the disabled community into poverty.
DeSmogBlog

Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead - Artificial intelligence (AI) use is spreading rapidly among oil drillers and other fossil energy companies — and some are now promoting plans to give “ag...
Greg Palast

All Washed Away: Trump drowns FEMA—Palast investigatesWatch this 1-hour special…then take swimming lessons. - The flood in Kerrville, Texas, was not an Act of God, it was an Act of Trump. Our investigation shows the horrific connection between the drownings in Tex...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Hominis - At this point in our exploration of Yeats’s great occult synthesis A Vision, it will help to step back and glance at an earlier work of his that provided t...
Infidel753

The gerrymandering crisis - We all know how this started. At Trump's behest, Texas Republicans came up with a super-gerrymandering plan intended to gain their party five additional ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Denzel Washington has Cowboys takes - One of our finest living actors is a lifelong Cowboy fan despite growing up in New York, and as he made clear on ESPN’s First Take, he’s just as frustrat...
ExChristian.Net

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

Will Trump Reschedule Marijuana? - [image: Donald Trump][image: Donald Trump]President Trump said that his administration is considering changing marijuana's federal classification The pos...
Dissent Magazine

Is America a Democracy? - An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
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...
The Grayzone

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

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

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

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

Cuba’s new Code of Childhood Adolescence and Youth proves putting people over profit is possible - 825,000 people, including many children, participated in creating the new Code,
The Militant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Seeing the Forest

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

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

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Campaign for America's Future

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

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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