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

Dissident Voice

Will the US Attack Venezuela? - Spoiler alert – it already has. This is not a glib answer but a comment on the nature of the conflict. The US mission to wrench Venezuela’s Bolivarian Re...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | October 10, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | October 10, 2025 barry Fri, 10/10/2025 - 23:28
Mediaite

‘You Guys Would’ve Been Calling for Impeachment’: Abby Phillip Calls Out Republican Defending Prosecution of Trump Political Foe - Friday's edition of CNN NewsNight delved into a wild report about Attorney General Pam Bondi not knowing that one of her employees was about to indict a ...
World Socialist Web Site

Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as...
memeorandum

Trump 'in Exceptional Health' Says White House Doctor (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal) - Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal: *Trump ‘in Exceptional Health’ Says White House Doctor* — The president received a Covid-19 booster shot during m...
Common Dreams

A Beacon Of Hope and Woke Bullshit - Citing the value of “keep(ing) the flame of democracy burning," the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado fo...
Progressive.org

‘The Alabama Solution’ Takes No Prisoners as Incarcerated Workers Struggle for Their Humanity - Cellmates use cellphones to uncover ‘America’s deadliest prison system.’
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: October 2025 - My video game, Moon Garden Optimizer, just released a demo on Steam. If you’ve already tried previous versions, it’s not new. Otherwise… try it! Looking...
Raw Story

GOP senator bemoans government closure ‘slowly crushing our aviation system’ - U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran contends government closure ‘slowly crushing our aviation system’ by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector October 10, 2025 TOPEKA — U....
Daily Cartoonist

Clay Jones’ Streak Ends - 3,080. Eight years, five months and five days. That is how many days in a row that Clay Jones created and posted a political cartoon to GoComics. As Clay p...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Rampant Las Vegas Aces complete sweep of Mercury to win third WNBA in four years - - Wilson scores 31 as Aces clinch another WNBA title - Gray, Young add 18 each in finals sweep of Mercury The Las Vegas Aces c...
The Hill

Human Rights Watch declines donations from comedians who performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival - Human Rights Watch said on Thursday it will not accept donations from comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. The human righ...
Techdirt.

I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc… - My cancer is back. This is disappointing but not unexpected; of the 2/3 of people who survive their first bout with ovarian cancer, 80% usually have it rec...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTIFA VS. PRO-FA EDITION. - *Just nice.* According to Tubby and his mob, if you’re anti-fascist you’re a terrorist. Having declared antifa (obligatory mouse type: not a real organiz...
Al Jazeera English

US President Trump says Israeli captives to be released from Gaza on Monday - The US president told reporters that the bodies of Israelis who died in captivity in Gaza are 'being unearthed'.
Political Wire

Shutdown Becomes a Meltdown - Punchbowl News: “The Trump administration began layoffs across the federal government today in response to the ongoing government shutdown, with thousands ...
Workers World

Philly rage and resistance Oct 7 rally - [image: Philly rage and resistance Oct 7 rally] Hundreds rallied under the theme of “Reject normalization. honor the martyrs, uplift resistance!” on Oct 7 ...
Courthouse News

Arizona Medicare fraudster gets 14 years - The former Scottsdale. Arizona, socialite is required to pay more than $605 million in restitution to Medicare and other health care institutions.
The Week

5 torch-carrying cartoons about Lady Liberty’s rough week - Artists take on dark nights, Lady Lineup, and more
Axios

These are the agencies Trump is purging during the shutdown - President Trump and his administration prepared to lay off thousands of federal workers on Friday, using the government shutdown as an opportunity to tar...
ExChristian.Net

Bentham's "Not Paul, But Jesus" Revisited - *By William Kay ~ * JEREMY Bentham was born in 1748 unto a line of London lawyers. His father amassed a fortune flipping real estate. England’s youngest u...
NPR's Health Shots

AstraZeneca makes deal with White House to lower drug prices - The U.K.-based drugmaker became the second to strike a deal with the Trump administration as part of the president's push to rein in U.S. drug prices.
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Reignites Trade War with China - [image: President Xi Jinping, Rwanda] Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose additional tariffs on China in response to Beijing's announcement that it...
Daily Dot

“Ballin’ on a McBudget”: DIY bride claims she clipped her wedding flowers from McDonald’s - [image: Left: A McDonald's location with a hydrangea bush outside, text overlay reads, "Me when I told people I was getting my wedding florals at McDonal...
The Verge

Hollywood has no idea what to do about AI - This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. This week,...
Reform Austin

Oklahoma Governor Stitt Questions Texas National Guard Move into Illinois - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, a Republican and chairman of the National Governors Association,...
The Greanville Post

Pepe Escobar : Is the Kremlin Losing Patience? - JUDGE NAP–In this extensive discussion between Judge Andrew Napolitano and journalist Pepe Escobar, recorded on October 2, 2025, Escobar provides a vivid a...
CultureMap Houston

Exclusive: New pub flies into familiar Montrose space with NY-style pizza - A Galleria-area Irish pub has claimed a prime Montrose space for its second location. *Ducky’s Pizza and Tavern* is now operating in a quiet, soft opening ...
Popular Resistance

Africa Will Be Free When The IMF Stops Colluding To Steal Its Wealth - In February 2025, Senegal’s Court of Auditors released a report that found ‘anomalies’ in the management of public finances between 2019 and 2024, during...
Deadline Politics

Neil Young To Pull Music From Amazon: “Bezos Supports This Government” - Neil Young, who recently wrote and recorded the anti-Trump song “Big Crime,” says he intends to pull his music from Amazon and encourages fans to “shop loc...
SCOTUSblog

Court grants criminal case on right to appeal - The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added another case to its oral argument docket for the 2025-26 term. The justices agreed to take up the case of Mun...
Houston Public Media

More than 21,000 Harris County voter registration applications are still pending ahead of November election - The county isn’t alone in having a voter registration backlog this year. Fort Bend County reported having a similar backlog of roughly 22,000 applications,...
San Antonio Current

Study: San Antonio, South Texas metros have nation’s highest rates of delinquent mortgages - 4.3% of San Antonio metro residents are more than 30 days late on their mortgage. The post Study: San Antonio, South Texas metros have nation’s highest...
Futurism

MrBeast Concerned That AI Slop Will Put Him Out of Business - He called it "scary times." The post MrBeast Concerned That AI Slop Will Put Him Out of Business appeared first on Futurism.
The Daily Poster

Airlines Say Fixing Broken Boeing Planes Is Bad For Business - After regulators found cracks in Boeing 737s, Airlines are fighting increased inspections and safety measures.
Mediagazer

Sources: Paramount will stop airing five UK MTV channels at the end of 2025 but keep its flagship channel; some other non-US MTV channels are also set to close (Mark Savage/BBC) - Mark Savage / BBC: *Sources: Paramount will stop airing five UK MTV channels at the end of 2025 but keep its flagship channel; some other non-US MTV chan...
Mondoweiss

The Israeli media is reporting on a ‘secret clause’ in the Gaza ceasefire deal that no one is talking about - [image: Displaced Palestinians walk with their belongings along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, moving toward Gaza City, Friday,...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump - Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen
San Antonio Report

After losing federal grant for on-campus child care, Palo Alto College secured a deal with Head Start - PAC opened three Head Start classrooms after losing a federal grant for campus-based child care services. ------------------------------ After losing feder...
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...
Texas Standard

Texas stock exchange gets a green light - Also: The state’s highest court blocks execution and colleges limit classroom speech.
Wolf Street

Is it Really Different this Time? - AI is huge. But so is the mania of hype, hocus-pocus deals, and piles of real money fortified by leverage that caused stock prices to explode.
Bracing Views

The Russia-Ukraine War Continues - The Endgame Remains Unpredictable–Dangerously So BILL ASTORE OCT 08, 2025 Since the last time (July 19th) I wrote about the Russia-Ukraine War, perhaps th...
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: This is the faltering horse we rode in on! - *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2025* *Has statistical bungling won? *This new column by David Brooks discusses a topic which is important, or at least it's importa...
First Draft

I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter - Cheers to Fred E. Ahlert and Joe Young.
naked capitalism

Countdown! - The clock is ticking for the final hours of our fundraiser. Beat our countdown by supporting our work at the Tip Jar!
OpEd News

Albert Einstein and the Problem of War - Although Albert Einstein is best-known as a theoretical physicist, he also spent much of his life grappling with the problem of war. Today, as we face a vi...
Slate

A Master Filmmaker Made a Star-Studded New Movie About … Cancel Culture. Uh-Oh. - And then there's Ayo Edebiri's wig.
Undernews

Word - [image: Donald Trump stands behind a podium with American flag backdrop, wearing blue suit and red tie, speaking into microphone with right hand raised, b...
The Texas Signal

Documentary Shows Librarians Fighting From The Front Line - A new documentary explores the ways in which librarians became front-line workers in the battle for democracy and the First Amendment
MintPress News

Social Media Spies Exposed: Profiles Vanish After MintPress Report - After MintPress exposed ex-CIA and FBI officials working at Facebook, Google, and Twitter, many deleted their profiles and erased incriminating evidence....
Eschaton

Look At What You Made Us Do - (The thing we had long planned to do but now we are going to try to blame on you) Probably didn't tell gramps before he went for his "physical" (48 hour ...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party Requests Proposals for 2028 National Convention - The Libertarian National Committee has opened the process for selecting a host city and venue for the 2028 Libertarian National Convention, issuing a det...
Consortium News

Hedges Report: Inside America’s Academic Gulags - It is now impossible, says historian Rashid Khalidi, to teach about Israel, Palestine and the ongoing genocide in elite American education institutions. By...
Alternet

'Inconsistent with our core belief': This university is the first to reject Trump’s 'compact' - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first school to publicly reject President Donald Trump's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher ...
Vox

Saudi Arabia’s comedy festival is no laughing matter - Earlier this month, comedians, including Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson, and Bill Burr, flew to Saudi Arabia to perform at the inaugural Riyadh ...
Ballot Access News

Texas Won’t Defend its Open Primary in Court - On September 4, the Texas Republican Party filed a federal lawsuit, alleging that the party has a constitutional right to a closed primary instead of an op...
Second Nexus

Taylor Swift's Story About How Travis Kelce Drunkenly Met 'Barbie' Director Greta Gerwig Is Too Good - He’s Just Travis. At least that’s how Taylor Swift describes her fiancé—a man who can catch a football midair but apparently can’t tell an Oscar-nominate...
Church and State

Reality Seems to Be Gaining Traction: Religion Is Fake News - Christianity is peddling an inferior product, one that cannot withstand critical investigation.
Dorf on Law

How Could Even the Most Pessimistic Predictions Not Be Pessimistic Enough? - When writing a column like this one, it is no longer possible to provide a manageably short list of the unprecedented things that are happening in the Un...
The Root

13 Strategic, Powerful Moves Black Folks Are Making Amid Dark Times - Black folks aren't just surviving, we’re strengthening, and defying marginalization at every turn. Here are 13 powerful examples of our extraordinary gro...
Earthworks

Americans now own a stake in the Thacker Pass Mine. What can we learn from its flawed permitting? - The Thacker Pass mine demonstrates that the flawed permitting process for mining projects in the United States cuts Indigenous Peoples … The post Americ...
The Militant

Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust - Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying ...
Capital & Main

It’s Brown And Burns Your Eyes. In Small-Town Texas, Clean Water Is Elusive. - Plagued by climate-driven weather extremes, communities that need help improving water quality are being left behind. The post It’s Brown And Burns Your ...
Krebs on Security

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS - The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. ...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: In ‘One Battle After Another,’ El Paso becomes Hollywood’s lens on Latino migration and U.S. labor struggles - Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie uses El Paso’s immigrant landscape as the backdrop for a chaotic political drama that questions Hollywood’s shallow ...
Angry Bear

The “Big Picture” nowcast and forecast - – by New Deal democrat We are well into our data blackout, as no federal economic data whatsoever was released this week. Even sites that functioned in...
Dissent Magazine

Close Attention - An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
Election Law Blog

“How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland” - NYT: In the fight over deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., Democratic leaders in the city and state have pleaded with President Trump and...
NORML

Major Alcohol Producer Links Cannabis Legalization to Sales Decline - [image: A person sitting at a bar holds up their hand saying "no" to an alcoholic beverage representing choosing cannabis over alcohol][image: A person s...
Salon.com

“Boots” shows us what training warriors looks like - The Netflix show follows a closeted Marine and questions the type of courage that Pete Hegseth’s 1990 test ignores
Seeing the Forest

The Real AI Question: Who Benefits? - Here’s a different question about AI. Suppose it does what is promised, and does greatly increase productivity, and does bring all kinds of benefits. Who w...
Bonddad

The “Big Picture” nowcast and forecast - - *by New Deal democrat* We are well into our data blackout, as no federal economic data whatsoever was released this week. Even sites that functio...
Crooked Media

Solidarity in the face of hatred: how to unite after the Manchester attack - The post Solidarity in the face of hatred: how to unite after the Manchester attack appeared first on Crooked Media.
ArcaMax

Bill Press: Call it what it now is: The Department of Revenge - It’s hard to warm up to James Comey, and I never will. In fact, more than anyone else, I think Comey’s the one who saddled us with Donald Trump. As FBI dir...
Rewire

ICE Fears Put Pregnant Immigrants And Their Babies At Risk - Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health—and the health of their p...
Idavox

The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Became Part of ICE’s New Facility in Broadview - David Morgan At first glance, the story of 1900 S. 25th Avenue in Broadview, Illinois,... The post The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Becam...
Democracy Now!

"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It - Writer Cory Doctorow returns to *Democracy Now!* to discuss his new book *Enshittification*, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how onli...
Debunking Christianity

A Major Gimmick of Religions: The Promise of Eternal Life - *But how to get it? New Testament authors didn’t agree* I recall how stunned I was, many years ago, when a devout Catholic women told me about sitting w...
The Conversation

Political violence: What can happen when First Amendment free speech meets Second Amendment gun rights - Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political disagreement from debate to a...
Glasstire

Feminist Figuration in the South: Lorena Lohr’s “Desert Nudes” & Lauren Fleniken’s “Honky Tonk” in Dallas - Lorena Lohr: Desert Nudes at Galleri Urbane, September 6 – November 10, 2025 The exhibition Desert Nudes brings Lorena Lohr’s paintings to Dallas, synthe...
Scheerpost.com

Academic Freedom Under Siege: Brian Rosenberg on the Threats Facing Higher Education Today - Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Amazon / YouTube / Rumble In this episode of Scheer Intelligence, Brian Rosenberg, a noted educator and commentato...
The NM Political Report

NM’s vaccine shake-up: Governor acts to set independent immunization standards amid CDC turmoil - [image: A bill that temporarily allows New Mexico to formulate its own immunization policy was signed Wednesday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. ] [image: ...
Space City Weather

Drought slowly creeping into Houston, with slightly cooler temps and more dryness expected into next week - In brief: Dry weather will continue in the Houston area for the foreseeable future with warm to hot afternoons and somewhat pleasant mornings. Drought is e...
Rallblog

Deprogram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “So, the US DOES Control Israel” - Live 9 am Eastern and Streaming 24-7: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou bring you up to date on the ceasefire deal seekin...
Mother Jones

From Medicine to Mysticism: The Radicalization of Florida’s Top Doc - In early September, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo took the podium at a Tampa news conference to make an unprecedented announcement: He planned to e...
slacktivist

LBCF: Driving to O’Hare - Wherein Rayford Steele and the authors attempt to explain the problem of evil. It does not go well.
ProPublica

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America - by Melissa Sanchez and Mariam Elba Leer en español. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a new...
The Smirking Chimp

Want To Know Who’ll Be Our Next President? -
Skeptophilia

Taken by the flood - It amazes me the mental gymnastics the biblical fundamentalists will go through to use scientific studies to shore up their contention that the Bible is ...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Robbie McDonough - At the end of my HISD interview cycle, I noted that I had reached out to District V candidate Robbie McDonough but had not heard back from him. That happen...
Media Lens

Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’ - On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Isr...
Grist

New research shows there’s a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening? - The U.S. workplace regulator is considering a federal heat rule — if the shutdown doesn’t delay it further.
High Country News

The case for national monuments - Can one of the nation’s best conservation tools survive? The post The case for national monuments appeared first on High Country News .
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Destroying Rainforest for Economic Gain Is Like …. - This week’s quote is from scientist Edward O. Wilson: “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Destroying Rainforest...
Counterpunch

Flights of the Imagination: Jesus Christ Superstar at Tempelhof Airport - Founded in 1947, the third and youngest of Berlin’s great opera houses is the Komische Oper—the comic opera. In the rubble of war, it took up residence i...
jobsanger

Senate Refuses To Stop Trump's Executions Without A Trial -
Informed Comment

“From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:19 - With no. 19 in in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the theme turns away from the glory of kings as a flash-in-the-pan...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
See You In 2020

Economically crushing “Israel” isn’t China’s responsibility, it’s the duty of the global working class - Above: protesters blocking an Italian port to prevent shipments to the Zionist occupier. The reason why I feel a need to counter the accusations about C...
Brad Blog

Trump Labor Dept. Warns Trump Immigration Policy Sparking Food Shortage, Farmworker Crisis: 'BradCast' 10/9/2025 - Well, buckle up for today's jam-packed BradCast. Though you might need a shower after a portion of today's show regarding new details on Trump and Epstein....
The AltWorld

Thoughts On The Ceasefire News - Israel continued to hammer Gaza with military explosives on Thursday despite the announcement of the first stages of a ceasefire agreement […] The post T...
Antiwar.com

When Presidents Kill - During the past six weeks, President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to attack and destroy four speed boats in the Caribbean Sea, 1,500 miles from the...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Fron the archives: 'A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2' is the gayest horror movie you will ever see - *A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2* is considered by many to be a very subversively gay horror movie. Of course when I watched it, I was surprised and pleas...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford bareditors Fri, 10/10/2025 - 04:12 Black Agenda Radi...
Ian Welsh

Russo-Ukraine War Update - ~by Sean Paul Kelley I’m going to relay a conversation I had on X today with everyone here. It’s just easier this way, as I dislocated my shoulder yesterda...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
The Grayzone

Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show - Behind closed doors, the noted ‘humanitarian interventionist’ successfully lobbied for Israel’s inclusion on important UN committees even after the Human...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Leading with Conscience: Dr. George I. Sánchez, Dean Charles R. Martinez, Jr., and the Wisdom of Praxis, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Leading with Conscience: Dr. George I. Sánchez, Dean Charles R. Martinez, Jr., and the Wisdom of Praxis* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *Professor, De...
Discourse

Donald Trump Is No Peacemaker - Don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise.
Unlimited Hangout

City-States Without Limits – Part 1 - A powerful group of Silicon Valley oligarchs are using the Trump administration to push for the construction of privatized city-states in the US. Their i...
Texas Observer

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting - On September 24, a gunman shot at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas, killing two immigrants, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes and...
Environment Texas

Solar panels lasting longer than previously thought - A new study highlights long term effectiveness of solar panels The post Solar panels lasting longer than previously thought appeared first on Environment...
Greg Palast

The LAST American PresidentGot democracy? - Thom Hartmann’s new book, *The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink*, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Two New Swing Seats? Unpacking Utah’s (Possible) New Map - Earlier this week, Utah Republicans proposed a new House map that includes two new competitive seats. It is one of several that a judge will consider ahe...
Crooked Timber

Delighted to be proved wrong - A European justice minister who does have principles! The EU “chat control” proposal I wrote about the other day has been scuppered by Germany’s justice mi...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Principal Symbol - Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, it’s time for us to plunge into the depths of Yeats’s Vision. That’s easy, in a certain sense, because Yeats...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Happy Birthday, Opal Lee - We’d be egregiously amiss if we didn’t point out that Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” turns 99 today. In 2022, Trinity Hawkins sat down with L...
Infidel753

The horror - Today marks the second anniversary of the largest and most monstrous massacre of Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust. After the men of Hamas breached ...
Lowering the Bar

Lawyers Say Chief Justice “Calm” Despite Flying Shoe - The lawyer who threw the shoe was reportedly suspended before the day was out.
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...
American Prospect

What’s Behind the Viral Katie Porter Attack - Today on TAP: The political establishment in California saw their moment and pounced.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, will not seek reelection, but vows to “give it everything I have until the very end” of his term in December 2026 - Longtime State Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra, D-McAllen, on Thursday, October 2, 2o25, became the most recent member of the 150-member Texas House of Representa...
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...
Sludge

Israel’s New U.S. Influence Campaigns Target TikTok, Churches, and ChatGPT - In the wake of SKDK’s cancelled contract, three firms newly registered under FARA are executing influence operations in the U.S. for Israel.
Project Censored

Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! - Today on the program, we celebrate Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! Today we’ll speak with several people involved in Bann...
Democracy Chronicles

Medieval Muslim Thought Experiments and America’s Founding - There is a line of brilliant thought experiments that stems from medieval Islamic Central Asia and Spain, through the European Enlightenment and to Thomas ...
The Progressive Wing

9/6 – 9/12 Talarico Takes On ‘Billionaire Mega Donors’ & More - Talarico talks fighting mega donors, priorities in Senate bid State Rep. James Talarico says his campaign for the U.S. Senate is about taking on “billiona...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Fund Healthcare, Not ICE—Mass Workers’ Action Needed to End the Shutdown - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, provides food assistance to 6.8 million low-income ...
WAWG Blog

Replacing Authoritarian Capitalism With Democratic Socialism - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about replacing authoritarian capitalism with democratic socialism. Just as authoritarian capitalism replaced authoritarian...
TalkLeft

Dems Hold Strong, Shutdown is Here - The Democrats did not cave to pressure from Donald Trump and the cadre of Republicans in Congress who blindly follow him. The federal government has shut...
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 ...
Progressives Chat

From 🔴 to 🔵 and 🔵 to 🔴 and… - The United States has been experiencing some electoral patterns which are worth keeping in mind. I reserved this calendar date, one year and one month ahea...
DeSmogBlog

Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda - LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has ...
Two Party Opera

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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...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Avedon's Sideshow

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
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

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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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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
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...
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

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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

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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