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

CultureMap Houston

Here's what 11 Houston chefs will serve at James Beard fall food event - The James Beard Foundation has partnered with one of Houston’s rising star chefs for a special one-night only event. ChòpnBlọk chef-owner Ope Amosu is lead...
Discourse

On Blue Cities and Women's Bodies - Mike Johnson's "Yield, man" comment gives away the conservative game
Mediaite

Trump Admin Refused to Comment on the Record About Nick Fuentes ‘Out of Fear’ of Attacks by His Online Fans, NY Times Reports - A new article by The New York Times profiling Nick Fuentes revealed that the Trump administration refused to comment on the record "out of fear" of attac...
Deadline Politics

Rosie O’Donnell Says Trump’s First Term Impacted Her Mental Health; Wants To Return To The U.S. “When It Is Safe” - “I have not been back since arriving in January,” Rosie O’Donnell told 60 Minutes Australia in an interview set to air on Sunday. “I would like to go back ...
Progressive.org

Suppressing Dissent - In ‘Police Against the Movement,’ Joshua Clark Davis investigates the role of police violence during the Civil Rights Movement.
Axios

Israel's attack in Qatar infuriated Trump advisers, officials say - On Tuesday morning, the U.S. military spotted Israeli jets flying east toward the Gulf. The U.S. sought clarification, but by the time Israel provided it...
Slate

My Boyfriend Is the Complete Package. There’s Just One Major Problem. - I don't want this to end.
Political Wire

The Hoax Playbook, Revisited - Donald Trump’s “birthday letter” to Jeffrey Epstein landed with a thud, but the president’s response was entirely predictable. It’s all a hoax. Join now to...
Reform Austin

Redistricting Map Puts California Republicans on Edge - Due to California’s possible renewed congressional map, the GOP is on alert and some Republicans are calling it an outright “guillotine” for their compro...
Mediagazer

Paramount chief communications officer Justin Dini steps down following the Skydance merger; Dini started in 2017 and will be replaced by Melissa Zukerman (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: *Paramount chief communications officer Justin Dini steps down following the Skydance merger; Dini started in 2017 ...
memeorandum

Amy Coney Barrett Gives Least Reassuring Answer on Trump Third Term (Robert McCoy/New Republic) - Robert McCoy / New Republic: *Amy Coney Barrett Gives Least Reassuring Answer on Trump Third Term* … It's unclear whether President Trump plans to run ag...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Colby Hall gets it right about Fox! - *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2025* *But where are the larger news orgs?* As we noted in real time, we thought *Mediaite's* Colby Hall took a giant swing and a ...
The Verge

Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event - Apple's hotly-anticipated Apple event was chock-full of news about updates to AirPods, the Apple Watch, the new suite of iPhones, and more. But during the ...
Courthouse News

Meghan Markle defamation case falters at 11th Circuit - An attorney for Meghan Markle’s estranged half-sister asked a resistant appellate panel to revive the defamation suit against the royal, saying, “The whole...
Al Jazeera English

Nepali PM forced to step down, parliament torched amid deadly protests - KP Oli steps down but mass anticorruption protests continue, with government buildings set on fire.
Ballot Access News

Professor Michael C. Munger, Libertarian Party Leader in North Carolina, Files Amicus Curiae Brief in U.S. Supreme Court Tariff Case - On September 8, North Carolina Political Science and Economics Professor Michael C. Munger and other individuals and groups filed an amicus curiae brief in...
Election Law Blog

“Why some longtime gerrymandering opponents are reconsidering their strategies” - Hansi Lo Wang for NPR. The post “Why some longtime gerrymandering opponents are reconsidering their strategies” appeared first on Election Law Blog.
Daily Dot

“They did a bait and switch on us”: Le Creuset apologies after disappointing mystery box event in Connecticut goes viral - [image: le cruset connecticut hartford mystery box apology] Shoppers say they're disappointed with Le Creuset's $300 mystery boxes from the Hartford, Con...
Techdirt.

DC Circuit Makes Rookie Mistake In Actually Following Binding Precedent In A Case Involving Donald Trump Firing People - The DC Circuit Court of Appeals did something remarkable last week—they followed binding Supreme Court precedent. In 2025. Involving Trump. Which, predicta...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Israel Attacks Qatar” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou analyze a day of escalation and bloodshed...
NPR's Health Shots

The MAHA plan for healthier kids includes 128 ideas, but few details - The Make America Healthy Again commission is proposing more than 100 moves to address the root causes of childhood chronic disease. Critics say other Trump...
Raw Story

'Ironic': MTG can wield Trump’s own immunity shield against him in Epstein scandal - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) could hide behind the same immunity shield protecting President Donald Trump to expose other individuals allegedly inv...
The Week

Trump's drug war is now a real shooting war - The Venezuela boat strike was 'not a mere law enforcement action'
Eschaton

Oopsie - * WHITE HOUSE: U.S. FEELS BADLY ABOUT LOCATION OF ATTACK * WHITE HOUSE: ASSURED QATAR THAT SUCH A THING WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN ON THEIR SOIL @reuters.com ...
San Antonio Current

Rep. Joaquin Castro asks music fans to suggest songs by Texas artists worthy of national archive - [image: George Strait appears at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.] The San Antonio congressman has submitted lists of worthy Latino artis...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: The Loneliest Movement - A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part II: MAGA, as an authoritarian movement, capitalizes on a deep sense of loneliness and fear
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Hamas Surrender Won’t Stop the Genocide - If Hamas surrenders, the genocide won’t end: but Palestinians will be erased from a Palestinian territory forever. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.co...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Dragon’s Teeth - Military analysts expected China to showcase advanced weapons at its latest Beijing parade, and the display did not disappoint. From hypersonic missiles an...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Michigan judge dismisses charges against 15 of Trump’s 2020 fake electors - Judge says sufficient evidence of intent wasn’t given against those who signed files claiming Trump won 2020 election A judge in Michigan dismissed the f...
Dorf on Law

When Crossing the US Border is Perilous for International Scholars, We Must Give Them Other Options - Academia has been forced to play one of the leading roles in the Trump administration's war on the key institutions of society and on the rule of law mor...
World Socialist Web Site

London Underground workers speak from picket lines: “We don’t do this lightly, we need change” - The week-long rolling strike by more than 11,000 Rail, Maritime and Transport union members on the Tube and Docklands Light Railway began on Friday. The DL...
Second Nexus

Bruce Springsteen And Courteney Cox Just Had A 'Dancing In The Dark' Reunion At The U.S. Open—And The Nostalgia is Real - Though most people know actress Courteney Cox primarily from her years as Monica Geller on *Friends* or as Gale Weathers in the *Scream *franchise, those...
San Antonio Report

Bexar County approves $2.8B budget with more jail staff, election technology, employee raises - County leaders admit tough spending decisions are around the corner, but for now, they're avoiding major cuts and keeping the tax rate even. ---------------...
ProPublica

Connecticut DMV Committee Expands Study of Towing Law to Help Low-Income Residents Get Their Cars Back - by Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk, The Connecticut Mirror This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Conne...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party to Endorse 26 Candidates in September for 2025 State Elections - The Forward Party announced this month that it will endorse 26 candidates running in state elections this November. It issued the first of these endorsem...
MintPress News

MintPress News Faces Shutdown Amid Unprecedented Attacks on Truth - For 14 years we’ve exposed empire, propaganda, and genocide. Now, with funding slashed, our future depends on you. The post MintPress News Faces Shutdown...
Capital & Main

ICE Is Putting Ankle Monitors on People Who Show Up for Immigration Court Hearings - After federal judges began pushing back on efforts to detain people at hearings, Immigration and Customs officials implemented a strategy that tracks imm...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - September 9, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Electricity demand is soaring around the country, and so...
Futurism

The Man Who Proposed Simulation Theory Has a Dire Warning - More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed in a 2003 Philosophical Qua...
Mondoweiss

Israel bombed Qatar to assassinate Hamas’s lead ceasefire negotiators - [image: Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya at a conference in Gaza City, July 28, 2022. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)]Amid ongoing ceasefire talks, Isra...
The Greanville Post

Before and after: Trump’s extreme goldening of the Oval Office - J. YERUSHALMY—Over the months of his administration, the number of gold trophies and vases littered across the mantlepiece has multiplied, and there are no...
Wolf Street

Annual Benchmark Payroll Revisions: Nonfarm Job Creation for 12 Months to March Chopped by 911,000, to 1.44 Million Jobs Created - Based on employers’ quarterly payroll filings. Why wait so long for revisions? Do it quarterly!
WhoWhatWhy

Blood Moon Wows Skywatchers Worldwide - [image: science, astronomy, stargazing, blood moon, fall 2025 lunar eclipse] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by...
The Hill

Watch live: White House briefs press amid immigration raids, Epstein birthday book release - White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief the media Tuesday afternoon as President Trump looks to ramp up immigration enforcement in major ci...
Houston Public Media

Video of clash over gender-identity content in Texas A&M children’s lit class leads to firings - After the video fueled outrage, two college leaders were removed from their administrative roles for approving plans to teach content inconsistent with the...
The Daily Poster

Your Taxes Are Subsidizing The End Of The World - American taxpayers are spending more than $30 billion a year for toxic “enhanced oil recovery” processes and other handouts to the fossil fuel industry.
Texas Standard

‘Someday All the Adults Will Die!’ chronicles the birth of Texas punk - In a new oral history, photographer Pat Blashill traces the music, art and culture that shook Austin in the late 1970s through the mid-80s.
The AltWorld

Scott Ritter & Alex Christoforou On The Israel-Qatar Strikes - Scott Ritter & Alex Christoforou On The Israel-Qatar Strikes The post Scott Ritter & Alex Christoforou On The Israel-Qatar Strikes appeared first on TheA...
Mother Jones

Democratic Voters Want Their Leaders to Stop Running From Zohran Mamdani - Zohran Mamdani hadn’t been Regina Weiss’ first choice for mayor of New York City. She’d ranked city comptroller Brad Lander number-one on her primary ballo...
Undernews

Trump has added record few new jobs - * Occupy Democrats** -* Donald Trump gets jaw-dropping bad news as it's revealed that the U.S. economy actually added 911,000 fewer jobs over the 12 mon...
Bonddad

The “gold standard” QCEW suggests there may have been *no growth at all* in jobs so far this year - - *by New Deal democrat* The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) for Q1 of this year was released this morning. Perhaps more importantly...
Dissident Voice

The Peoples Conference for Palestine: Another Step Forward - The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought over 4600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence. Most of the speakers in the plenaries were...
Popular Resistance

Gaza Flotilla In Tunis Attacked By Explosives Delivered By Drones - For the second time in three months, drones carrying explosives have attacked boats in the Gaza flotillas. I was in Malta when the “Conscience” ship was ...
SCOTUSblog

Learning from Second Amendment litigation - Second Thoughts is a recurring series by Haley Proctor on the Second Amendment and constitutional litigation. Please note that the views of outside contr...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, A Battle for the Bible in Trump's America - It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, pol...
Salon.com

The best way to meal prep - Forget slogging through sad weekly leftovers. Try a quarterly Big Prep Day, instead
Daily Cartoonist

Has Olivia Jaimes Quit Nancy? – Update - Last week for the first time I am aware of since Olivia Jaimes took over the Nancy comic strip in 2018 it went into rerun status, using Jaimes strips from ...
Texas Observer

Twenty Years Later, Katrina Still Haunts the Gulf from New Orleans to Houston - Editor’s Note: Join us Wednesday evening for a joint event sponsored by Mother Jones, the Texas Observer, and Capital B. “The Lingering Storm” will revis...
Idavox

Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it Sounded it Would Be - A Nazi rally by any other name stinks all the same. Andy Fleming On Sunday,... The post Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it S...
The Root

Inside Skyh Black, KJ Smith’s Stunning New Atlanta Mansion - Actors Skyh Black and KJ Smith are back in headlines, but not for their over-the-top wedding. This time it's for their insanely gorgeous new home in Atla...
El Paso Matters

UTEP expands esports program; EPCC launches its own - The University of Texas at El Paso and the El Paso Community College have embraced esports competition this fall. Both institutions expect these moves w...
First Draft

A Pox Upon Our House - As nitwits dismantle public health policy and some brave experts speak up, "moderate Republicans" are staying (vaccinated and) AWOL.
Ian Welsh

The West Is In A Far Worse Position than the Warsaw Pact Was At The Start Of the Cold War - One of my long term predictions, coming true before our eyes, was that the world would fall into a new cold war, forming two trade blocs. I hoped it wouldn...
Rewire

Telehealth Abortion Could End Up in Front of The Supreme Court With This Latest Move - In a suit brought by Texas, New York Attorney General Letitia James will defend her state’s abortion shield laws, which protect health providers offering...
Glasstire

Recapping the 2025 Armory Show - I just returned from a whirlwind trip to New York City and Washington, D.C. I was in NYC for the 2025 Armory Show, my first time to attend the fair.… The...
Democracy Now!

"Chipocalypse": Viet Thanh Nguyen on Trump Invoking "Apocalypse Now" & Speaking Out on Gaza Genocide - Just days after President Trump threatened to wage war on the city of Chicago, ICE launched what it called “Operation Midway Blitz,” and President Trump cl...
ArcaMax

Scam Season: The 'Genocide Scholars' Stage A 'Vote,' And We Get Snookered - When a president recites 30,000 documented falsehoods in one term, is indicted by federal grand juries for violating the Espionage Act and obstructing just...
Space City Weather

Happy Fall Day, everyone! - In brief: It’s officially Fall Day in Houston, with the season’s first 65-degree temperature reading this morning. We are also excited to announce that we’...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Federal Worker Crackdown: Mass Fightback Needed - On March 27th, Donald Trump unveiled an executive order that would strip over a million federal workers of the ability to engage in union bargaining with g...
Angry Bear

Political Appointees will Review Scientific Grants - A first level of review is carried out by a scientific review group (SRG). It is composed (primarily) of non-federal scientists who have expertise in rel...
Vox

Why everyone hates the Democrats right now, explained in 3 charts - If there’s one thing a large majority of Americans have consistently agreed on this year, it’s that the Democratic Party sucks. Unfavorable views of the pa...
The Smirking Chimp

Should Democrats Shut the Government? -
Alternet

'What else is he lying about?' Dems pounce on new Trump-Epstein bombshell - Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Monday released a photo showing a pornographic birthday card that US President Donald Trump allegedly sent ...
Skeptophilia

Collectibles - A couple of days ago my writer friend, Vivienne Tuffnell, posted a link to a blog called *Cazadora*. Vivienne is a stunningly good writer, and her books...
Off The Kuff

NY AG to intervene in Carpenter case - Raising the stakes. New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday said she will intervene in a legal fight over Texas’ ban on abortion pills, escalatin...
American Prospect

Trump Lets Bosses Grab $400 Billion in Worker Pay - By refusing to defend a ban on noncompete agreements in court, the Federal Trade Commission enables employers to suppress wages.
Scheerpost.com

US War Department To Shift Focus From China to ‘Threats’ in Latin America: Report - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the US is trying to overthrow his government and has pledged to combat any armed coup attempt.
Progressive Army

Argentina Alimenta 2026: la nueva exposición internacional para el sector alimentario en Buenos Aires - La feria Argentina Alimenta 2026, organizada por La Rural junto a Copal y la Agencia Argentina de Inversiones y Comercio Internacional, se realizará en nov...
Grist

Report: Big businesses are doing carbon dioxide removal all wrong - The technology is needed to limit global warming. But corporations are supporting it in lieu of emissions reductions.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 9 September 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the *Lawrence of Arabia* video, click here.] ...
High Country News

How to comment on the planned roadless rule rollback - The deadline to weigh in on the change is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 19. The post How to comment on the planned roadless rule rollback appeared f...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Epstein Doodle Grosser than Expected - The post Trump’s Epstein Doodle Grosser than Expected appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

Centering Their Voices: This Is What Power Looks Like - After decades of silence born of fear, shame, trauma, over 20 Epstein survivors came together in D.C. for the first time to publicly tell their grievous ...
Counterpunch

The Politicization of Intelligence Weakens the United States - The politicization of intelligence is nothing new, but Donald Trump is finding new ways to pursue it. The United States has gone to war with phony intel...
jobsanger

Trump Only Hires People Who Are Corrupt, Bigoted, Dishonest, Or All Three -
Informed Comment

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11 - The eleventh quatrain in the first edition Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám became one of the more famed poems in the Englis...
Portside

Need I List All the Reasons Why Trump Shouldn’t Get a Nobel Peace Prize? - Need I List All the Reasons Why Trump Shouldn’t Get a Nobel Peace Prize? Mark Brody Mon, 09/08/2025 - 23:03
Church and State

Religion and Overpopulation: Threats to Human Survival - If the Catholic Church is not the only important opposition to population growth control, it is, at least, the most significant opposition.
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Workers World

From Palestine to Turtle Island: Smash the capitalists’ settler states! - [image: From Palestine to Turtle Island: Smash the capitalists’ settler states!] This is Part Three of a series based on a talk given at a national Workers...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters celebrate 19 years of LGBTQ hellraising and receipt keeping - Alvin A. McEwen, blogmaster of Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters celebrates his blog's 19th anniversary (after apparently watching too many scenes of Dia...
Antiwar.com

A Global Awakening: How People Power Is Reshaping Western Policy on Palestine - Is it finally happening? Is the West turning against Israel? Or are we, whether motivated by hope or driven by despair, simply engaging in wishful thinking...
Krebs on Security

18 Popular Code Packages Hacked, Rigged to Steal Crypto - At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico treasurer urges Supreme Court to strike down Trump tariffs - [image: New Mexico Treasurer Laura Montoya is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold lower court rulings that found President Donald Trump’s tariffs on ...
Claytoonz

Citizenship Blues - 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...
Sludge

Trump-Tied Ballard Partners Becomes the Highest-Paid Lobbying Firm in D.C. - The firm, which employed Attorney General Pam Bondi and other Trump administration officials as lobbyists, saw its lobbying revenue skyrocket by 300% year-...
The Grayzone

Israeli intel campaign used US comedian in effort to flip Iranian scientists - A mysterious online campaign linked to Israel’s intelligence services attempted to recruit Iranians to overthrow their government. Some appear to have be...
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE/ DOCUMENTARY FILM / The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2025 Cross-posted from Alice Embree’s Substack. The documentary portrait of folk and protest singer Barbara D...
NORML

Analysis: No Differences in Cognitive Performance in Older Adults Who Consume Cannabis - [image: an older man with short grey hair and a long grey beard sits at a table holds a lighter to a clear glass bong to smoke legal cannabis][image: an ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The MAGA kids are not all White: Tokenizing Black Conservatism - Friends: The *Washington Post*’s profile of CJ Pearson’s “Cruel Kids Summer” party shows how Trumpism is being rebranded: young, multiracial, and “fun.” D...
The Conversation

How Trump’s dismissal of a Fed governor could redefine presidential power – if courts agree that he alone can interpret vague laws - Donald Trump’s unprecedented firing of a Federal Reserve board member isn’t just about her job status. It’s about what checks remain on a president bent on...
Project Censored

Resisting Silence: From Palestine to Cop City - In the first part of the program, Mickey Huff sits down with author and professor Omar Zahzah to talk about his upcoming book: Terms of Servitude: Zionis...
Dissent Magazine

Falling Leaves - How do we know when democracy is gone?
Debunking Christianity

How Strong is 2nd/3rd Handed Testimony? - From Jack Johnson on Facebook. He studied Biblical academics and counseling at Baptist Bible College, Baptist Bible School of Theology, Trinity Seminary. ...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Author and Activist Bill McKibben Brings The Sun - Listen now and read a transcript of this episode. Introducing Sustainability In Your Ear transcripts... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Author and A...
See You In 2020

American Azovism, & the popular masses who will wage a resistance against it - “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”—Sun Tzu When you know where to look, it’s easy to become fa...
The Progressive Wing

9/8-9/14 News Round Up and Open Thread - The U.S. Open just showed Donald Trump on the screen for a second time and he got booed for 30 seconds straight. Fans are pissed off. This is the clip that...
Bracing Views

Sports and the Military - An Unholy Alliance BILL ASTORE SEP 07, 2025 There’s a full slate of NFL football games today, meaning there’ll be a full slate of military flyovers and sim...
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...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Trieste (2009) - [image: Cubism]
The Texas Signal

Houston Maritime Museum Reopens Where City’s History Began - The Maritime Museum is incredibly elegant, easily the fanciest of Houston’s little quirky museums (or maybe the quirkiest of the fancy museums)
Lowering the Bar

Yet More Aquatic Escape Attempts - [image: pond standoff]People show no signs of stopping, even though these show no signs of working.
slacktivist

LBCF: Episode IV - Wherein we contemplate the effects of the Rapture, the Great Tribulation, and the Rise of the Antichrist on the business model of suburban chain restaurants.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Would you like a free tree? - The City of Dallas will be handing out free trees on Arbor Day, which falls on November 8. You can choose from American Elm, Bald Cypress, Chinquapin Oak...
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...
Environment Texas

Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? - More algae blooms in Florida’s waters means less food for its struggling manatees. The post Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? appeare...
Earthworks

In the Race to Build the Country’s First Deepwater Port, the Bluewater Texas Terminal is in Last Place - It’s been five years since the Port of Corpus Christi granted lease approval and pipeline easement for Phillips 66 and … The post In the Race to Build t...
DeSmogBlog

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change? - After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual ...
The Militant

Labor Day reflects growing working-class resistance - Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Duck of Minerva

Benjamin de Carvalho - Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a mother from Norway and a father from Brazil. Ben talks about h...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. What I'm following: Marco Rubio in Mexico, and his comments at a press conference aft...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Iowa, and Maine - Virginia to Likely Democratic, while Iowa and Maine move from Likely to Leans The post The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Io...
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...
Ecosophia

Situationism: A Voice From The Fringes - There’s much to be learned from studying movements that thought they were the wave of the future, and weren’t. To begin with, there’s a distinctive tone of...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Black Agenda Report

Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera - Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera bareditors Tue, 09/02/2025 - 23:00 North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
Trivial Knot

Hating the artist, hating the art - (Disclaimer: to the extent that this article was inspired by a specific creator, it’s not a creator you’ve heard of, and not one that I mention anywhere in...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
Democracy Chronicles

Honoring Legacy, Embracing Justice - My family's story is not only one of proud military service and enduring sacrifice but also one marked by the lasting consequences.
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
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.
Liberation News

La guerra de Trump contra los sindicatos del VA es una guerra contra los veteranos - El gobierno de Trump declaró el 6 de agosto que cancelaría por completo los contratos sindicales de casi 380,000 trabajadores sindicalizados del Departamen...
Media Lens

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

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

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

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

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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
WAWG Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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