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

Raw Story

'That's a cult': Alex Jones disavows Trump after he tells fans to drop Epstein - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones expressed dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump after he ordered MAGA fans to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein. "...
Political Wire

Unlocked Trump Coins to Boost His Wealth by $100 Million - “A batch of Trump memecoins set to be unlocked this week will test demand for the cryptocurrency and add almost $100 million to the billionaire president’s...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Elon Musk to Squeeze Tesla Shareholders to Juice xAI? - Elon Musk, Earth's wealthiest human, is leveraging his business empire to invest in xAI with SpaceX and possibly Tesla putting in billions.
The Verge

GM and Redwood teaming up to make batteries for energy storage - General Motors and Redwood Materials are joining forces yet again, this time with the intent to build energy storage units made out of recycled EV batterie...
Daily Cartoonist

Submissions Open for 2025 Galway Cartoon Festival - The Galway Cartoon Festival, held annually in Ireland, is open for submissions for this year’s event. This year’s theme is “Danse Macabre”—think the myster...
The Week

Film reviews: Superman and Sorry, Baby - A hero returns, in surprising earnest, and a woman navigates life after a tragedy
Alternet

'A tool for bribery': Critics warn 'there are no rules' on Trump’s presidential library - CBS News reports Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is joining other lawmakers in trying to rein in a president’s use of a presidential library fund to curr...
Salon.com

Trump says he’s “highly unlikely” to fire Jerome Powell - After threatening to fire Powell on Tuesday night, Trump now says he probably won't do so
World Socialist Web Site

The Tony Blair Institute’s filthy role in planning the ethnic cleansing and “reconstruction” of Gaza - Today, as grotesque as is Blair’s involvement in the filthy work of drawing up plans for a post-genocide Gaza, it is more than matched by his disciple Star...
Mediaite

Trump On If He’s ‘Effectively Disowning’ His Supporters: ‘I’ve Lost a Lot of Faith In Certain People’ - Trump cut off the question and added, “I've lost a lot of faith in certain people, yeah, I've lost. Because they got duped by the Democrats.” The post Tr...
Courthouse News

Europol says pro-Russia hacking group broken up - The organization is accused of multiple attacks on critical infrastructure like electricity suppliers and public transport systems in Europe.
WhoWhatWhy

Molecular Fossils Offer First Glimpse of How Life Survived Snowball Earth - [image: science, astronomy, Snowball Earth, life, survival, molecular fossils] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended ...
Al Jazeera English

More than 1,000 arrested in Cambodian cyber-scam raids - Nationwide detentions follow directive from Prime Minister Hun Manet to crack down on criminal operations.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Ex-police commissioner sues New York City and Eric Adams over alleged NYPD corruption - Tom Donlon claims he was sidelined after warning Adams he had ‘uncovered systemic corruption’ by NYPD leadership A former New York police commissioner is...
Mediagazer

An interview with News Agents podcast co-host Lewis Goodall about a now-lifted two-year super injunction to silence UK media over a government data breach (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette) - Alice Brooker / Press Gazette: *An interview with News Agents podcast co-host Lewis Goodall about a now-lifted two-year super injunction to silence UK me...
Eschaton

Eat Shit, Losers - Gramps is having a real one.
San Antonio Current

Texas House Democrats reportedly weighing walkout to prevent Trump's redistricting plans - In response to President Trump's call for redistricting ahead of what could be a disastrous midterm election for Republicans, Texas House Democrats are co...
Second Nexus

Dog Adoption Searches Skyrocket Thanks To Fan Favorite Krypto After 'Superman' Opening Weekend - Superman is supposed to the be big hero of his own story, but in the most recent *Superman*, directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet, the rea...
Mondoweiss

Palestinian man detained at Houston airport for nine days, says attorney - [image: George Bush airport, Houston (Wikimedia)]Muhanad J. M. Alshrouf, a 22-year-old Palestinian man, was detained by immigration authorities at Houston'...
Progressive Army

AGENCIA DE RECAUDACIÓN Y CONTROL ADUANERO – Resolución General 5725/2025 – - Estimados socios, buenas tardes: Adjuntamos RESOG-2025-5725-E-ARCA-ARCA – Procedimiento para el registro y trámite en el Sistema Informático MALVINA (SIM) ...
Mother Jones

Blame John Roberts for Enabling Trump’s Massive Power Grab in Texas - To justify their brazen effort to redraw US House districts in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterms, state Republicans cited a Department of Justice letter all...
Consortium News

UK Media Peddled Iran ‘Link’ to Palestine Action - The Home Office briefed The Times that the direct-action group could be funded by Iran, and then U.K. media kicked into action spreading the story, Mark Cu...
The Hill

Klobuchar says rural stations would go under due to GOP cuts - Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said on Wednesday that rural radio stations in her home state could go out of business due to a recession package moving throu...
CultureMap Houston

Texas country star Pat Green to livestream flood fundraiser concert - The Texas Rangers and REV Entertainment are partnering with Texas country music icon Pat Green for Pat Green & Friends: Texas Flood Relief Livestream, a sp...
Daily Dot

“This is not the flex you think it is”: Cops deliver woman’s GrubHub order after arresting her driver - [image: police deliver grubhub pizza delivery] One woman in Tempe, Arizona, got quite the surprise when her Grubhub pizza delivery showed up—not with a d...
NORML

Nebraska: Omaha Tribe Approves Marijuana Legalization on Reservation Lands - [image: hand holding green bottle of cannabis oil and glass jar containing cannabis flower in front of marijuana plants][image: hand holding green bottle...
memeorandum

Takeaways from FEC filing day (Punchbowl News) - Punchbowl News: *Takeaways from FEC filing day* — A trove of campaign-finance data due Tuesday night brought the clearest look yet at the 2026 landscap...
The Daily Poster

Buckle Up: Delta’s Expanded Surge Pricing Could Signal Higher Fares - Airline ticket prices are rising faster than inflation, and now Delta is scaling up its artificial intelligence-powered dynamic pricing to further gouge it...
Independent Political Report

Adrian Malagon Resigns from Libertarian National Committee - Adrian F Malagon resigned from his at-large representative position on the Libertarian National Committee on Tuesday, submitting a public statement sharp...
Techdirt.

ICE Again Gives The Law The Finger, Denies Member Of Congress Access To Detention Facility - The Trump administration continues to demonstrate it cares nothing for the law, despite repeated claims that it’s here to restore respect for the rule of l...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS Heart named Center of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery - [image: |||] Optum has named South Texas Health System Heart a Center of Excellence in bariatric surgery. The post STHS Heart named Center of Excellence i...
Common Dreams

More than 100 Members of Congress Co-Sponsor Legislation to Protect Workers from Extreme Heat - In the middle of another sweltering July afternoon, members of Congress, led by Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), fl...
Axios

Trump denies reports he's close to firing Powell - President Trump denied he was on the verge of firing Fed chair Jerome Powell, despite multiple news reports Wednesday suggesting he'd told congressional ...
Futurism

Top AI Researchers Concerned They’re Losing the Ability to Understand What They’ve Created - Researchers from Google, OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta have joined forces to warn about the cognitive powers of what they're building — and it's a pretty bi...
Dissident Voice

The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy: NATO Invades the Classroom - During President Donald Trump’s second term, education has remained a central battleground in American politics. Republicans claim that classrooms have b...
Deadline Politics

Democrats To Introduce Bill To Restrict Contributions To Presidential Libraries; Legislation Follows Trump Settlements With Paramount, Disney - Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and other congressional Democrats are introducing legislation on Wednesday that would restrict contributions to presidential l...
Houston Public Media

Mental health programs could bear the brunt of $600M federal cuts to Texas schools - Federal cuts and a lack of dedicated mental health funding from the state could erode programs to address chronic absenteeism, crises and more.
Slate

Slate Crossword: Notes From an Ad Agency? (Six Letters) - Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for July 16, 2025.
Glasstire

Five-Minute Tours: JJ Baker at Monterroso Gallery, Houston - Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artist-run...
Dissent Magazine

The Painter of the Right - Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
Grist

Inside the movement to recognize nature as an artist - Musicians have long sampled nature sounds. Now, they have a way to share credit — and share their royalties with conservation efforts.
Ballot Access News

Petitioning to Start for an Independent Gubernatorial Ticket in Ohio - Timothy Grady, a graduate student at The Ohio State University, has formed a ticket with Andrea Neutzling, a substitute teacher and Army veteran, with a 5,...
Undernews

Donald Trump - *Trump back in 2006 re sexual predators*
Election Law Blog

Redistricting for National Partisan Fairness - With mid-decade re-redistricting on the horizon in Ohio and Texas, I wanted to re-up this Slate column I wrote with Aaron Goldzimer a few years back. Ove...
Daily Howler

DESPERATELY SEEKING THE BEST: When Wallace spoke with Jason Bateman... - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2025* *...she decided to call him a name: *We don't think we've ever seen anyone lose his mojo faster than President Obama has. Tha...
MintPress News

MAGA Embraces Forever Wars With Foreign Policy Flip - Trump’s MAGA movement has shed its anti-war stance and embraced the neoconservative foreign policy consensus, backing sanctions and military escalation w...
Bonddad

June industrial production: a mild coincident positive for the economy - - *by New Deal democrat* Industrial production is much less central to the US economic picture than it was before the “China shock,” since so much p...
NPR's Health Shots

On super hot days, this insurance plan pays out cash for lost wages - It's called parametric insurance, it offers protection for climate-related wage losses and it's gaining ground in India.
Texas Observer

Proposed Transmission Line Threatens Texas’ Largest Reservoir - Houstonian Mike Peppercorn bought property along Lake Livingston in 2008, choosing timberland where his family would have privacy and pasture where they ...
Discourse

Gavin Newsom Is a Garbage Person - He will not stop talking to fascists about how maybe trans kids don't deserve equal rights. Please go away!
Texas Standard

Mental health programs could bear the brunt of $600M federal cuts to Texas schools - Federal cuts and a lack of dedicated mental health funding from the state could erode programs to address chronic absenteeism, crises and more.
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Watch classics at Plaza Film Fest, hear country hits at McKelligon Canyon - Plaza Classic Film Festival returns with iconic movies and guests, while Cool Canyon Nights brings country sounds to McKelligon Canyon. Here’s what else...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 181: “Trump Always Chickens Out to Kiev” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Program! Program! You can’t tell where Trump stands on Russia and Ukraine without a program! Here’s that prog...
Rewire

Philly Abortion Doula Provides Cooking, Clinics, and Child Care to Pregnant Patients - “Tell me what you need, and I’ll tell you what we can do,” the doula says. The post Philly Abortion Doula Provides Cooking, Clinics, and Child Care to Pr...
First Draft

Been Caught Stealing - Meet Alex Mooney, my former House rep, who is now a lobbyist despite the rule against it.
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, July 16 - Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Also, for those of ...
Democracy Now!

"Farmworkers’ Voices Are Not Being Heard": UFW President Teresa Romero on ICE Raids & Workers’ Lives - The Trump administration’s mass deportation machine continues to shatter families and communities with violent, indiscriminate raids on schools, homes and ...
Space City Weather

Apparently TikTok is convinced a hurricane will hit Houston this weekend - In brief: In today’s post we take a quick temperature check on TikTok, which seems hot and bothered about the possibility of a hurricane hitting Houston. I...
Socialist Alternative

Lessons From the Lucas Plan: How Workers Can Fight Climate Change and Militarism - From devastating floods in Texas to the threat of escalating war in the Middle East, every day brings a new reminder of how urgently we need to stop the bi...
ArcaMax

A Review: Six Months in the Trump White House - We have a madman in the house, the White House. By that I mean Donald Trump is a bit insane, drunk with power and revenge, and full of fury, at the one-eig...
The Root

Finally, Barack and Michelle Obama Break Their Silence Together About Divorce Rumors - Michelle's brother Craig jokingly asked the couple on their podcast, “Wait, you guys like each other?” Read more...
Vox

The Trump administration’s fundamental misunderstanding about deportations - The Trump administration has offered little consolation to American businesses worried about losing undocumented workers to deportations. US Agriculture Se...
Dorf on Law

Remembering Richard Fallon - Richard H. Fallon Jr., the Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, died on Sunday. Dick was an exemplary scholar and teacher of constitutional law ...
Angry Bear

Supply Chain Location is Important to Supply Asia - Supply Chain planning done the right way: Why is this a big deal? Well for one thing China and the European Union have been at odds with each other. EU c...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Doesn’t Realize Why MAGA Needs the Epstein Files -
Skeptophilia

Tense situation - In my Critical Thinking classes, I did a unit on statistics and data, and how you tell if a measurement is worth paying attention to. One of the first thi...
Off The Kuff

The long haul of recovery - We only really have a best guess as to how many people are still missing from the Hill Country floods. More than 10 days after catastrophic July Fourth flo...
San Antonio Report

Trump’s redistricting plan could move seats out from under San Antonio’s long-safe congressmen - San Antonio's three Democrats and two Republicans are used to little political opposition, but that could change before the 2026 midterm. ------------------...
ProPublica

Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks. - by Logan Jaffe In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story. Li...
American Prospect

Texas Redistricting Maneuver May Harm Republicans More Than It Helps - The map may produce a ‘dummymander’ that threatens more GOP incumbents than Democratic ones.
Scheerpost.com

Renowned Genocide Scholar Says ‘I Know It When I See It’—And He Sees It in Israel’s Assault on Gaza - "My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."
High Country News

Two hotshots, two memoirs - A Q+A with outliers in fire. The post Two hotshots, two memoirs appeared first on High Country News.
Crooked Media

Was Jeffrey Epstein an Israeli Asset? - The post Was Jeffrey Epstein an Israeli Asset? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Five Key Lessons from Mamdani’s Startling NYC Win - In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. ...
jobsanger

The Israeli Government Is Committing Genocide In Gaza -
Informed Comment

The Most American King: Interview on Jordan with Aaron Magid - Interview with Aaron Magid, author of “The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan” – “King Abdullah is likely more beloved in Washington than inside Jordan...
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, June 2025: Single-Family & Condo Prices Plunge to Multi-Year Lows in Toronto, Hit Record High in Montreal - And everything in between: Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Ottawa, Halifax, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg.
Workers World

On the 25th anniversary of his execution: Shaka Sankofa ¡presente! - [image: On the 25th anniversary of his execution: Shaka Sankofa ¡presente!] Houston — Passion, admiration, love, and a bit of sadness filled the venue of t...
Popular Resistance

Friends Of The Hague Group Launches To Support Anti-Imperialist Models Of Multilateralism - Bogota, Colombia - Representatives of major international organizations will convene to launch the Friends of The Hague Group (FOTHG) in Bogota as The Ha...
Brad Blog

Trump IRS Agrees to Allow Churches to Endorse Political Candidates. Are All Nonprofits Next?: 'BradCast' 7/15/2025 - On today's BradCast: Like everywhere else in the federal government, the Trump Administration's IRS seems determined to undermine decades of the rule of la...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Chip and Joanna Gaines trigger conservative Christian rage by showing that religious freedom about gays go both ways - By casting a same-sex couple in their docuseries Back to the Frontier, HGTV personalities Chip and Joanna Gaines enrage conservative evangelicals and puts...
The NM Political Report

Haaland warns of rural healthcare crisis, opposes federal healthcare legislation - Deb Haaland, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for New Mexico governor, held a press conference outside a hospital in Española on Tuesday to criti...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check In with Jared and Danielle - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie's live video
Antiwar.com

Trump’s Tariffs Threats Against the Global South, ASEAN and the Philippines - In early April, the Philippines responded with “guarded optimism” to US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, saying higher rates placed on its neighb...
Portside

Supreme Court Clears the Way for Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department - Supreme Court Clears the Way for Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department Greg Tue, 07/15/2025 - 19:34
The Greanville Post

Putin Calls Trump’s BLUFF, This Move WIPES OUT Ukraine w/ Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson - DANNY HAIPHONG—Trump has come begging back to China for relief from his tariffs regime as the US's trade war backfires dramatically on its own economy. Ana...
Sludge

Mining Firm Tied to Trump Allies Poised for Major Favor From EPA - Northern Dynasty Minerals, once represented by Susie Wiles and underwritten by Howard Lutnick’s investment firm, could soon see a key veto of its Pebble Mi...
Claytoonz

Tanks For Nothing - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
The AltWorld

U.S. hubris-driven blunders transform the entire complexion of the wider war - Trump continues to be seized by the delusional view that his Israeli-centred vision could all be accomplished […] The post U.S. hubris-driven blunders tr...
slacktivist

Secret police slush fund is gonna be SO corrupt - All that money makes such a succulent sound. Welcome to the Boomtown.
Church and State

Trump finally gets Putin right and may avoid impeachment now, but the GOP should pay dearly! - The uncertainty of world peace and stability is now so completely uncertain thanks to what the Trump administration has perpetrated.
DeSmogBlog

Oil Advocate Behind Anti-Suzuki Complaint a Nameless ‘BC Resident’ in National Post Story - A well-connected lobbyist and advocate for fossil fuel resource development is one of eight applicants alleging the David Suzuki Foundation used misleadi...
OpEd News

Matriarchy, Witchery and the Great Goddess: A Neopagan Marxist Analysis and Synthesis - Roughly 130 years Engels wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. In it he relied on the theories of matriarchies. More recent Marxi...
The Conversation

Florida is fronting the $450M cost of Alligator Alcatraz – a legal scholar explains what we still don’t know about the detainees - Alligator Alcatraz represents a significant departure from past Florida policy regarding immigration.
Progressive.org

Climate Denial Paved the Way for the Texas Flooding - Fossil fuel executives lied about climate change. Public officials cut funds for climate science and disaster preparedness. This time, the result was catas...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Gen Z’s Sacred Discontent: Reclaiming Forgotten Selves and Humanity in a Commodified World, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Gen Z’s Sacred Discontent: Reclaiming Forgotten Selves and Humanity in a Commodified World* * by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *We urgently need to hav...
Reform Austin

State Sen. Nathan Johnson Launches Campaign for Texas Attorney General - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas State Senator Nathan Johnson, a three-term Democrat from Dallas, announced Tuesday that h...
The Texas Signal

In Texas, Bats Are Beloved And In Danger - Though hardy animals, Texas bats are seeing major upheavals to their environment thanks to man-made climate change.
Bracing Views

Appeasing the Military-Industrial Complex - Orwell’s 1984 Wasn’t Meant As a How-To Guide BILL ASTORE JUL 15, 2025 In an ever-changing world, the one constant in Universe USA is rising Pentagon budget...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
Ian Welsh

Imperial Presidency Watch: Congress Loses Control Over The Purse - So, the Supremes have decided, without even bothering to write an opinion, that the Department of Education can be massively reduced without Congressional ...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 15 July 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the "Martian Grand Canyon" video, click here.] ...
Earth 911

Everything Your Child Needs for a Waste-Free School Year - Remember that crisp excitement of September mornings when choosing fresh notebooks and sharpened pencils would... The post Everything Your Child Needs fo...
See You In 2020

The mass will to defeat monopoly capital is there. The question is whether we'll rebuild the workers movement. - One of the biggest challenges which U.S. communists and their allies are about to confront is that of bringing Americans away from apathy. Burnout and l...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: Our Genocide and the Limits of Pretend - With recent news that the US sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, it's time for everyone to admit we're watching an American genocide in ...
Krebs on Security

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI - Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. So...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
Project Censored

Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk - In the first part of the program, Mickey sits down with Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, founding director of the Park Center for...
The Progressive Wing

7/14-20 News Roundup and Open Thread - Mamdani has a big lead in the latest NYC poll.0
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The End of PEPFAR - Check out the timelapse drawing video (including video of Frank Young’s coloring process). TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. All of them ...
Capital & Main

Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers Least Able to Pay - With wage garnishments expected later this summer, low-income Americans brace for impact. The post Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers L...
Earthworks

Flaring in Plain Sight - A ‘solution’ of governments and industry to the common practice of burning off methane pollution and other air pollutants at … The post Flaring in Plain...
Media Lens

Burying Genocide – The BBC, Gaza And The Role Of The UK - One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person ...
Crooked Timber

Attention is All You Need - One of my foundational theoretical commitments is that the technology of reading and writing is neither natural nor innocuous. Media theorists McLuhan, Pos...
Democracy Chronicles

Camp LeJeune Justice Act Litigation - Congress had to waste time passing a new law because DOJ and Navy JAG won when Congress didn’t want them to win.
Reading the Pictures

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
Liberation News

The latest billionaire attacks on public education and how to fight them - Students need full funding of public schools, not privitization.
alicublog

SUNDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SAW THE NAZIS GETTIN' SLOPPY EDITION. - *I follow Robert Christgau because how can I not,but also because he catches me up on acts like this.* On the one hand, the outrages never cease; on the...
Texas Monthly

A Young Magician Has Been Secretly Perfecting His Act for Years. Now He’s Ready to Make History. - Eric Chien plans to perform a new form of magic at a secretive competition in Italy.
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...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: July 2025 - This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects–often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. I came away thinki...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
The Militant

‘The working class needs to take political power in our own hands’ - SWP campaign in Minneapolis goes over the top in ballot drive MINNEAPOLIS — After nine days of campaigning throughout the city, Socialist Workers Party mem...
Greg Palast

Kherson: Human Safari — Zarina Zabrisky’s haunting documentary exposes Russian war crimes in Ukraine“While the world is asleep, we are dying here.” - Kherson: Human Safari is both a frontline documentary and a work of resistance art — a powerful and poetic film created inside the war-torn city of Kherson...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 - *Are the devout in love with Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians? * When enthusiastic Christians decide they’d better read the Bible cover-to-cover...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:07 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Bud Kennedy

It’s not evil to ask why Texas flood warnings failed Kerrville | Opinion - We’re all heartbroken. It’s our job to write about why. It isn’t wrong or evil to write about how officials failed to anticipate the Kerrville flooding, or...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation presents The Price of Admission, solo exhibition of Jorge Javier López - Opening reception July 11 at Casa Daphne
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Nebraska Senate, Upcoming Special Elections - In Nebraska, independent Dan Osborn's entrance into the Senate race makes it more of a contest; given their recent overperformances, an upcoming special ...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends - Perhaps the most important thing that sets A Vision apart from other works of occult philosophy in its time is that its author was one of the greatest writ...
ROAR Magazine

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Environment Texas

How plastic in the ocean hurts animals - Plastic pollution is injuring, sickening and killing wildlife — from seabirds and turtles to seals and whales The post How plastic in the ocean hurts ani...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farías, III, longtime statewide leader in Texas higher education, appointed to two key positions at UTRGV’s School of Optometry - Dr. Fred Farías III, a lifelong advocate for higher education and a nationally respected leader in optometry and public service, has joined The University ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

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

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues - E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded versi...
TalkLeft

Sean "Diddy" Combs: Beats Biggest Charges But Bail Denied - Yesterday, with less than two full days of deliberations under their belt, jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial sent a note to the judge saying they had ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
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...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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