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

Slate

Make No Mistake: This Is One of the Most Serious Developments of Trump’s Second Term - What happens when judges no longer trust the DOJ?
memeorandum

Trump dangles prospect of Mar-a-Lago visit for Xi (Lola Boom/Politico) - Lola Boom / Politico: *Trump dangles prospect of Mar-a-Lago visit for Xi* — U.S. president hints at reciprocal summits with Chinese leader next year as...
Raw Story

Trump makes 'emergency' Supreme Court power grab after AI plot by tech pals thwarted - President Donald Trump's administration filed an "emergency" Supreme Court plea to remove the register of copyrights at the Library of Congress, which ha...
The Week

Can the NBA survive the FBI’s gambling investigation? - A casualty of the ‘sports gambling revolution’
Second Nexus

Teacher Shares Students' Outraged Reaction To Having To Write A Single Paragraph—And We're Doomed - Anyone who graduated from high school or college during or before the pandemic can attest to the lengthy writing assignments they often had to complete. ...
El Paso Matters

El Paso immigration enforcement agencies see sharp decline in migrant encounters and drug seizures in fiscal year 2025 - Border Patrol encounters with undocumented immigrants in the El Paso area fell by 89% in fiscal year 2025 compared to record highs two years earlier, re...
Political Wire

Kathy Hochul Mistook Boos at Mamdani Rally - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) claimed she thought the crowd was chanting about the Buffalo Bills when she was booed at New York City mayoral candidate Zoh...
San Antonio Current

Nelson Wolff critical of ‘clumsy’ Project Marvel rollout, unconcerned if arena vote fails - Former county judge says rush to get the arena on the November ballot was unnecessary, adds that there's still time to reach a deal with Spurs if reside...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston (October 27, 2025) - Today: We discuss a possible A.I. bubble and its impact on the stock market, talk with Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth about the upcoming election, l...
Al Jazeera English

Jamaica readies for ‘catastrophic’ hazards from Hurricane Melissa - Jamaica is bracing for what forecasters call “catastrophic level hazards” from Hurricane Melissa.
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Is Margaret Brennan hearing footsteps? - *MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2025* *Fear comes to CBS: *Are journalists at some news orgs beginning to tailor their work in a way that's designed to keep them ou...
San Antonio Report

Experience the flavors of Día de los Muertos at Pearl this weekend - Ofrendas will light up Pearl for its Día de los Muertos celebration Nov. 1-2, with a communal procession at 7:15 p.m. on the last day. --------------------...
Courthouse News

Nevada judge excludes abuse accusations in decapitation trial - The murder trial for Devyn Jade Michaels, also known as Tracee Nicole Tavarez, is set for Nov. 4.
Futurism

EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly - "It's a problem when the dogs won't eat the dog food." The post EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly appeared first on Futurism.
ArcaMax

These are terrible times, to be sure. But we will triumph - A little over a week ago more than 7 million of us poured into the streets to reject Trump’s dictatorship. That’s more than 2% of the adult population of t...
Salon.com

“It was perfect”: Trump won’t say why he received MRI at Walter Reed - Since taking office, questions and rumors about the president's health have abounded
Eschaton

FALL FUNDRAISER DAY 6 - Venmo! Or Paypal! Or Patreon! Thanks to all!
The Verge

The last-gen Kindle is a steal at just $65 refurbished - In case you didn’t know, the last-gen Kindle is nearly just as good as the current model. Not only is the reading experience nearly identical, it also has ...
Mediaite

Britain’s King Charles Targeted by Heckler Asking About Andrew’s Relationship With Epstein in Wild Video - Britain's King Charles was targeted by a heckler Monday who shouted questions about Prince Andrew and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The post Br...
CultureMap Houston

Demi Lovato brings 2026 It's Not That Deep tour to Houston - Pop star Demi Lovato will head back on the road for the first time in four years with the 2026 *It’s Not That Deep Tour*, which will include a stop at the ...
The Greanville Post

US ‘neo-imperialist’ dollar scheme explained by economist Yanis Varoufakis - BEN NORTON—Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explains the US system of “neo-imperialism” based on the dollar, an “IOU issued by the hegemon...
World Socialist Web Site

Imprisoned CHP presidential candidate İmamoğlu arrested on charges of “espionage” in Turkey - The Erdoğan government’s use of the judiciary to attack democratic rights and build an authoritarian presidential regime reached a new level with the “poli...
The Hill

Federal SNAP benefits won't be paid in November: What happens next? - "The well has run dry," a notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture reads, warning the federal government will not be sending out November food assist...
Techdirt.

How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To Value - Mike Brock’s piece on Sequoia Capital last week laid out a pretty damning case study: a well-respected COO complains about a partner’s Islamophobic posts, ...
Daily Dot

“North be having Kim do anything”: Kim Kardashian and North West dress as Jay Guapo and Pink Cardigan for Halloween: Who are they? - [image: kardashians halloween jay guapo pink cardigan north west kim] Kim and North pay homage to the next gen of influencers with their niche Halloween ...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: American Politics, Follow the Money & Power Edition - "Follow the money (plus)" is an essential guide for those wishing to understand American politics in the Trump 2.0 era. Let's follow the money to The White...
First Draft

The Explanation For All Of This - A look at the hilarious-but-probably-true theory that everyone is now 12-years-old (at least on the right).
Axios

Food banks brace for 42 million without SNAP - Food banks are already seeing a surge as tens of millions of families prepare for their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to freeze. *T...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Milei’s win in Argentina had Trump’s fingerprints all over it. But just how long will their friendship last? | Jordana Timerman - The Argentine president’s libertarian experiment is in tatters, and his hold on power seems increasingly dependent on volatile US support - Jo...
Church and State

Trump‘s kingdom is not collapsing fast enough! - The kind of governance that Trump has provided since he attempted a coup on January 6, 2021 now is coming close to utter fruition.
Ballot Access News

Oregon Initiative for a Hybrid System of Nominations - An Oregon initiative called the “Voter Fairness Act” will begin to circulate soon. It would amend the State Constitution to say that there should be a syst...
Election Law Blog

“Lawsuit Plunges New York Into the National Gerrymandering Fight” - NYT: A lawsuit filed on Monday on behalf of four New Yorkers charges that the state’s congressional map unconstitutionally dilutes Black and Latino votes...
The Daily Poster

Spirit Halloween’s Nightmare On Wall Street - Spirit Halloween is robbing the shopping-mall cemetery after private equity sent retailers to an early grave.
Angry Bear

Tabulated state initial and continuing claims continue neutral trend indicating weak expansion - – by New Deal democrat As I have done since the beginning of the government shutdown, the number of initial and continuing claims can be calculated notw...
Deadline Politics

Brigitte Macron Cyberbullying: 10 People Accused Of Malicious Posts About French First Lady’s Sexuality Stand Trial In Paris - The two-day trial of ten people accused of sexist cyberbullying against France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron by propagating fake and malicious claims about ...
Mediagazer

How a focus on video helped News UK's Talksport transform from a radio station to a multi-platform sports brand, with 35M to 45M YouTube views per month (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette) - Alice Brooker / Press Gazette: *How a focus on video helped News UK's Talksport transform from a radio station to a multi-platform sports brand, with 35M...
Common Dreams

“Lawless Federal Raids Demand Accountability”: Free Speech For People Calls on Illinois Officials to Investigate Trump Administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” - Free Speech For People, a national nonpartisan legal advocacy organization, today filed a formal request urging Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Co...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The most exclusive club in Dallas - Some people yearn to get into the Dallas Country Club or Graileys. Me, I’ve had a different aspiration for many years. I wanted to be one of the handful ...
WhoWhatWhy

US Government Says It Will Stop Paying for SNAP Food Aid Next Week - [image: U.S. government shutdown, SNAP, Nov. 1 cutoff notice] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers be...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
Consortium News

Report: US Approves Israeli ‘Ceasefire’ Airstrike in Gaza - The attack marked the first time Israel and the U.S. coordinated military action in Gaza under a mechanism in the ceasefire deal, which has seen the IDF ki...
Progressive.org

How a Mass Movement on the Italian Coast Disrupted the Israeli Supply Chain - In Livorno, a port city off the coast of Tuscany, a coalition of labor unions, local organizations, and everyday people have blocked container ships from m...
Mondoweiss

Israel seeks redemption in the Gaza ruins - [image: Palestinians returning to their homes in the Nafaq area, Gaza City, during the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, October 11, 2025. (Photo: Omar A...
Texas Standard

UT San Antonio researchers tackle the issue of urban heat islands with AI - The research project is focused on how to cool off people’s homes as efficiently as possible.
Glasstire

Review: “The Canvas Can Do Miracles” at The Contemporary Austin - Have you ever felt an uncanny nostalgia for the future? You are in luck. A sense of longing, familiarity, and impassionment is omnipresent in The Contemp...
Texas Observer

Trump’s Federal Cuts Are Hitting Texas Food Banks Hard - Once a month, 79-year-old Ann Gaskill pulls her Dodge Caravan into the parking lot of the Ark Church in Conroe, where Combined Arms, a Houston-based vete...
Dissident Voice

Trump: Starting, Thwarting, and Claiming He Is Good at Stopping Wars - Donald Trump: “If I were president, and I say this, I will end that war in one day. It’ll take 24 hours. I know Zelenskyy well; I know Putin well. I woul...
Bonddad

Tabulated state initial and continuing claims continue neutral trend indicating weak expansion - * - by New Deal democrat* As I have done since the beginning of the government shutdown, the number of initial and continuing claims can be calcula...
Undernews

Word - [image: Image with black background and white text stating If the people putting their lives on the line for America dont get a paycheck then neither shou...
Independent Political Report

Court Dismisses Vest Derivative Lawsuit Against Former LNC Chair McArdle - The Superior Court of the District of Columbia has dismissed a lawsuit brought by former Libertarian National Committee Region 7 Representative Beth Vest...
Environment Texas

Is there lead in your child’s Halloween candy? - It’s rare, yet possible, and even small amounts of lead can add up over time. Here’s what you need to know. The post Is there lead in your child’s Hallow...
MintPress News

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide - From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war. The post Hi-Tech Holocaus...
SCOTUSblog

The dissent everyone knows was right - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. Please note that the views of o...
Daily Cartoonist

Monday Menagerie - Frew’s The Phantom reaches #2000, Walt Handelsman The Saints Caption Contest sets a record, a new Bob Staake book coming, news deserts and digitals – a rep...
Rewire

Patients, Doctors Challenge Michigan’s ‘Pregnancy Exclusion’ Law in End-of-Life Care - “Denying individuals the right to refuse treatment because they are pregnant is fundamentally at odds with the Michigan Constitution." The post Patients,...
Democracy Now!

NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Rallies with Bernie Sanders & AOC, Confronts Islamophobic Attacks - A record 164,000 people cast ballots in New York on the first two days of early voting in the city’s mayoral race. If elected, Zohran Mamdani would be the ...
The Conversation

The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing - Anti-immigrant housing policies have been cast as a way for citizens to access more housing, but they fail to prevent the shortages driving the crises.
Rallblog

Deprogram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Seabed Wars” - Live 9 am Eastern and Streaming 24-7: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou tell you about Argentina’s midterm elections, whe...
The Root

Why College Isn’t the Only Path to Black Success — According to This Expert - Skipping college may sound controversial, but business expert Loren R. Douglass explains how Black excellence and economic empowerment can be achieved ou...
Vox

Can AI make health care more human? - A couple weeks ago, I went to the doctor to go over some test results. All was well — spectacularly average, even. But there was one part of the appointme...
Mother Jones

Want Fluoride in Your Water? Too Bad. - This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the evening of June 2, 2025, ...
Space City Weather

Houston to have its coldest night in 200 days this week - In brief: In today’s update we discuss the season’s first real fall-like front, arriving Tuesday evening with the potential for some brief showers and thun...
Alternet

Trump calls for ban on 'fake ads' by 'radical left losers' as his poll numbers plummet - As President Donald Trump's poll numbers continue to plummet, the president called for a ban on "fake" political ads pushed by "radical left losers" that...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (10.27.25) - Take time to listen to Dan Sinker, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Karen E. Park, Joseph Margulies, Susanne Paola Antonetta, and Hamden Rice.
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: The Climate Action Network’s Pre-COP30 Briefing With Rebecca Thissen - Read a transcript of this episode. Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Ten years after... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: The Climate Action ...
Dorf on Law

Judicial Transparency and the Tenth Anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges - I was pleased and honored last week to be part of a symposium at Mercer University School of Law celebrating the tenth anniversary of *Obergefell v. Hodg...
The Smirking Chimp

Why Trump Really Wants the Shutdown To Continue -
Skeptophilia

The rush to judgment - A loyal reader of *Skeptophilia* sent me an email asking me what my opinion was about two current candidates for evidence of alien spacecraft -- the Palom...
Crooked Media

Trump’s DOJ Shakedown - The post Trump’s DOJ Shakedown appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

October 2025 campaign finance reports – CD18 - I looked at the October campaign finance reports for Congress and Senate last week, but didn’t include CD18 because they had a later deadline for reporting...
Scheerpost.com

Report: Israel Launched Airstrike in Gaza on Saturday After Getting US Approval - The IDF has killed at least 93 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect
ProPublica

U.S. Postal Service Cuts Funding for a Phoenix Mail Room Assisting Homeless People - by Nicole Santa Cruz ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoi...
Grist

Drought is quietly pushing American cities toward a fiscal cliff - Drought is set to pose a greater risk to the $4 trillion municipal bond market than floods, hurricanes, and wildfires combined.
Portside

Sunday Science: Cybercrime in the Age of AI - Sunday Science: Cybercrime in the Age of AI Ira Mon, 10/27/2025 - 04:40
High Country News

The first film made in Idaho was headed back to the big screen. Then DOGE intervened - When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives. The post The first film made in Idaho was ...
Counterpunch

The Sordid History of US “Aid” to Colombia - President Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of murdering Venezuelan fi...
jobsanger

Will Trump's Policies Create A Second Republican Great Depression? -
Informed Comment

Trump’s Siege of Chicago: “War Within” and the City’s Defiant Fight Against Tyranny - Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Among the most beautiful cities in world, my hometown Chicago has been defiled, violated, and ravaged by T...
Wolf Street

The Cities Where Condo Prices Are Now Below their Housing Bubble Peaks 20 Years Ago - Boom-Bust, Boom-Bust?
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Dr. Rosa Rivera-Furumoto and the Call for Climate Justice: Mothers, Memory, and the Earth, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - Dr. Rosa Rivera-Furumoto and the Call for Climate Justice: Mothers, Memory, and the Earth *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* I recently watched Cal State N...
Popular Resistance

US Deploys Aircraft Carrier And Threatens Invasion Of Venezuela - As the US continues to escalate threats and military pressure against Venezuela and now Colombia as well. On Friday, October 24, “Secretary of War” Pete ...
Antiwar.com

The Neocons Have Finally Found a Way Into MAGA Hearts - “Neocon” may have become a dirty word, but after a few years, their agenda is back in play. And no doubt many of their players, too. After being banished t...
OpEd News

Trump just imposed new sanctions on Russia's oil sector creating additional havoc in the world - President Trump just imposed new sanctions on two of the largest oil companies in Russia, Rosneft and Lukoil. This comes a day after Trump cancelled a prop...
DeSmogBlog

Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30 - Food and agriculture will be under the spotlight at the upcoming round of global climate negotiations in northern Brazil. Representatives from nearly eve...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 26, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 26, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trum...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Reform Austin

Fat Squirrel Week: “Meet some of the stoutest squirrels in the state” - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has declared this week “Fat Squirrel Week”, inviting Te...
The Progressive Wing

10/27-Nov2 News roundup& OT - 9 days until the NYC Mayor’s race. More in the comments blow.
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Cartoonists Dilemma' Toons - ...MEANWHILE, IN CONGRESS... ...AND OVER AT THE HIGH COURT... ...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas bunting - [image: Pe?zenas]
See You In 2020

Socialist China got this far by testing political practice, & this is how the workers will win everywhere else - In the face of the momentary defeats the anti-imperialist struggle has seen in Syria, Nepal, and Bolivia, we need to study the ideas that have let our c...
The AltWorld

Capitalism Is Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can’t Give Us What We Actually Want - At some point capitalism lost the ability to give us new things that we need and started […] The post Capitalism Is Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because I...
Trivial Knot

2025 California Special Election position - California has a special election this year, and I’m following my routine of discussing my choices, with the intent of normalizing the voting process. It ...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 25 October 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. *Note*: There will be no image round-up post this coming week. o o o o o These cat...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Workers World

China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games - [image: China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games] by Carlos Martinez Carlos@agent_of_change There is only one side responsible for sabotaging ...
Liberation News

‘We’re not giving up our freedom — not without a fight’: In memory of Black trans revolutionary Miss Major - Miss Major was a revolutionary, a visionary, a mother, and a mentor to generations of LGBTQ people who dream of a better world.
The NM Political Report

USDA: Emergency funds will not be used for SNAP during shutdown - [image: shutdown] [image: shutdown] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says emergency funds won’t be used to provide SNAP payments to states if ...
Lowering the Bar

Was That Scuba Burglary a Successful Aquatic Escape? - It remains to be seen ... but maybe.
The Militant

SWP forum: ‘There is no peace in Gaza’ - SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — “There is no peace in Gaza today,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler told a well-attended Militant Lab...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: a 22-Year-Old Widow and Her Children - Help Noor and her kids out.
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
LareDOS

Opening reception for Carlos Rosales-Silva’s Bloom exhibition opens Oct. 24 at TAMIU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts - Exhibit open to the public
The Texas Signal

A Dallas Church Paints A Rainbow - Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas is responding to a government decree by painting a staircase the colors of the rainbow
NPR's Health Shots

Sneaky viruses can hide in your body and bounce back even if you're cured - Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak ye...
Capital & Main

‘We’re the Resistance’ - A refugee and immigrant advocate reflects on how to cope with the ICE raids in Los Angeles. Amid the trauma, she says, there is also reason for hope. The...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
NORML

Older Adults Increasingly Identify as Cannabis Consumers - [image: A senior woman uses a grinder to prepare cannabis for rolling into a joint][image: A senior woman uses a grinder to prepare cannabis for rolling ...
Debunking Christianity

One of the Most Dangerous Cults in the World - *The Catholic church thrives on make-believe and* *authoritarianism * Okay, I admit it: I was raised in a small town in rural Indiana, which had three ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 24, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 24, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/24/2025 - 07:26 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Duck of Minerva

Ceasefire NOW (but not *now*) - After years of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, a ceasefire was recently announced and…those calling for the ceasefire are upset about it. There are some val...
Project Censored

The State of the State: A Historical Lens on Trump 2.0 - This week, we welcome back the esteemed historian, professor at American University, and co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United ...
Sludge

Corporate PACs Fund ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’ Rep. Randy Fine - Comcast, CVS, Boeing, and other major corporations have made PAC donations to the Florida Republican despite his repeated calls for violence against Muslim...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN to Likely Democratic; Watching Voter Dropoff in VA-AG Race - MN-SEN moves to Likely Democratic, and a look at how many voters skip the down-ballot VA statewide races The post Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Globalize Intifada - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb C’mon, folks. It says what it says, right there in the Declaration, second paragraph: “throw off”. Yeah, that...
Unlimited Hangout

The Chris Hedges Report - The Chris Hedges Report.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Oops! Inaccurate birth certificate proves how anti-trans policies can harm student athletes - Some of us told folks that these anti-trans policies would have unintended consequences. From *LGBTQNation: * In Arizona last week, a cisgender male ...
Idavox

Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign Trail into Proud Parade of White Supremacist Allies and Neo-Fascist Cheerleaders - Democratic nominee for New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has been been in the lead over... The post Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Worth in the Age of Fascism: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A new episode of The Check-In
Krebs on Security

Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M - Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian crypto...
Ecosophia

October 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the No Kings Rally in Chicago - We should take personal account of our lives from time to time and the way we treat others. We are holding our leaders to this same evaluation.
Bracing Views

Defending the National Guard - The Guard Shouldn’t Be Used in Undeclared Foreign Wars. Nor Should It Be Subject to the Whims of a Vainglorious and Unstable President BILL ASTORE OCT 21, ...
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 ...
Socialist Alternative

American State Terror: Charlie Kirk & A New Red Scare - In the immediate wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Trump and a whole gallery of figures across the right made it crystal clear it was not just Kirk’s killer wh...
Seeing the Forest

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
ExChristian.Net

True Believers and the Iron Grip of Belief - It never ceases to amaze me how completely a human mind can be taken over by belief. Once someone decides they have the truth, there’s no reaching them wit...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era - Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, *Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010*.
Progressives Chat

Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! - The October 3, 2025 episode of HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher* included among its guests *Van Jones*. Van Jones can be described in three words which a...
WAWG Blog

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

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - 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...
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
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 ...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
nonsite.org

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

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

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
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...
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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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...
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 ...
Free & Equal

Erectile Dysfunction - Summary Erectile dysfunction is a common and treatable condition that can significantly impact a man’s self-esteem, relationships, and overall well-being...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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