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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

Sen. Gallego Warns Members of the Military: ‘There Will Be Consequences’ When Trump is Gone if You’re ‘Going After Sitting Members of Congress’ - Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) warned military members "there will be consequences" if they "railroad" Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) once President Trump leaves offi...
SCOTUSblog

Challengers to Texas redistricting map urge justices to strike it as racially discriminatory - Civil rights groups and Texans challenging the new congressional map adopted by the Texas Legislature in August urged the Supreme Court on Monday to rein...
Houston Public Media

Houston ISD is losing more students than previously projected, internal document shows - State funding from the Texas Education Agency, which has controlled HISD since 2023, is tied to student attendance and enrollment.
Second Nexus

TikToker Speaks Out After 'Temporary' Henna Face Tattoo He Got On Vacation May Leave Him With Permanent Scar - Whether or not we personally went through a "wild" phase in our lives, when we hear a story that opens with "one drunken night" or "one wild night," we k...
memeorandum

The Forgotten Nuclear Weapon Tests That Trump May Seek to Revive (William J. Broad/New York Times) - William J. Broad / New York Times: *The Forgotten Nuclear Weapon Tests That Trump May Seek to Revive* — Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since...
The Week

Tariffs: Will Trump’s reversal lower prices? - Retailers may not pass on the savings from tariff reductions to consumers
Al Jazeera English

Everton beat Man Utd despite Gueye seeing red for slapping teammate - Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall's superb first-half goal seals 1-0 win for the visitors, who had 10 players for most of the game.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump begins process of designating Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist groups - President signed executive order for Rubio and Bessent to submit report on chapters in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan Donald Trump on Monday began the process...
Futurism

Former Astronaut Fires Back After Trump Threatens Him With Execution - "I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution." The post Former Ast...
The Hill

Swalwell: Californians want 'get s--- done approach on lowering prices' - Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who is running for Golden State governor, said Sunday residents of his state want a “get s--- done approach on lowering pric...
Popular Resistance

RWU Opposes Merger, Responds To Latest Fratricide In Rail Labor - When Railroad Workers United (RWU) was founded in 2008, delegates agreed that rail labor’s strength depends on solidarity, unity, and democracy across al...
Eschaton

Monday Happy Hour - Get happy
Slate

It Turns Out Lindsey Halligan Was a Fake Prosecutor All Along - This fight is not over.
Salon.com

“That cannot be the law”: Judge tosses Trump’s “extraordinary” case against James Comey - A federal judge ruled that the DOJ prosecutor who brought the case was not lawfully appointed to her role
Axios

Trump unveils new AI 'Genesis Mission.' Here's what to know - President Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at boosting AI research and development, with an eye toward reducing Americans' spiraling energy c...
Alternet

Trump’s former chief strategist now warns his agenda will 'crush the working class' - Steve Bannon — who was President Donald Trump's chief White House strategist in 2017 — is now railing against one of the president's top policy prioritie...
San Antonio Current

Two probationary San Antonio police officers fired after being arrested in separate incidents - [image: Two probationary officers have lost their positions at SAPD.] One reportedly was booked on a misdemeanor family violence charge, while the other a...
Church and State

Now many elites from both parties will be exposed as Jeffrey Epstein’s clients! - I suspect the overall Trump governing record, currently seemingly well into the sacrifice of Ukraine, in favor of his buddy Putin.
ArcaMax

How to get rid of ‘Citizens United’ - Several of you responded to my “Sunday thought” by saying that the first step out of the mess we’re in is to get rid of the Supreme Court’s bonkers Citizen...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's Shipley Do-Nuts launches AI-powered ordering assistant - Popular Houston-born doughnut chain Shipley Donuts has added a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence-powered assistant to its online ordering platform.
Techdirt.

CNN’s Latest Innovation: Slathering Your Screen With T-Mobile Ads - CNN, like most U.S. cable news networks, professes to provide users access to journalism. Instead, what you’ll most consistently find is a sort of generic,...
Angry Bear

Flawed Construction of NYC Tower - An article by Lloyd Alter about the problematic construction of a tall building (NYC) that flexes and bends in the wind. The result of which are cracks i...
The Verge

Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo - Christ. Fine. So over the weekend, a strange Substack post from what appears to be a CEO of a pet relocation company went very viral. This post — which to ...
Mondoweiss

Israel is launching its campaign for a massive increase in U.S. aid – will it succeed? - [image: US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, July 7, 2025. (Photo: Official White House Photo by Dan...
Scheerpost.com

Winter Drive: Help ScheerPost With a Tax-Deductible Donation! - If you find it in your heart to do so, please give what you can to help us calm our financial worries so we can focus our energies on producing the high qu...
Daily Dot

“If it’s not radioactive what’s the point?”: Doritos and Hot Cheetos debut new chips without artificial flavors or dyes - [image: flaming hot cheetos no dye] After a push for healthier ingredients, classic chips like Doritos and Hot Cheetos will ditch artificial flavoring in...
Political Wire

Bonus Exchange of the Day - Bill Maher interviewed Lara Trump on his podcast: MAHER: Don’t do things like call a woman, “piggy.” LARA: Do we know that happened? MAHER: I saw it on tap...
Election Law Blog

Will the Supreme Court’s Big Campaign Finance Case End with a Whimper? Court-Appointed Amicus Argues SCOTUS Has No Jurisdiction over the Case, Partly Because VP Vance Has Not Indicated He Will Run for Senate or President - Read the unusual motion from SCOTUS-appointed amicus in the NRSC case to file a supplemental brief on jurisdiction after oral argument. The post Will the...
Undernews

DOJ’s Demand for State Voter Rolls Threatens Fair Elections - *Democratic Association of Secretaries of State *- Let’s be clear about what’s happening: Trump’s Department of Justice is pressuring states to turn ove...
slacktivist

ICE vs. churches (cont’d.) - Does DHS have an "official plan" to "raid churches"? Maybe. But considering what its already doing, that hardly matters.
Mother Jones

Twitter’s Foreign Influence Problem Is Nothing New - Late last week, the X social media platform rolled out a new “location indicator” tool, plans for which had first been announced in October. Suddenly, it b...
Raw Story

DOJ purge 'deliberately kneecaps' public safety: ex-prosecutors - President Donald Trump's weaponization of the U.S. Department of Justice is weakening investigations in civil rights and national security, among other t...
Mediagazer

[Thread] Politico is ending its print newspaper, which had been publishing three times a week while Congress is in session, at the end of the year (Scott Nover/@scottnover) - Scott Nover / @scottnover: *[Thread] Politico is ending its print newspaper, which had been publishing three times a week while Congress is in session, at...
San Antonio Report

Friend or foe? Research, local doctors explain coffee’s impact on your heart. - New research finds a protective effect of moderate coffee consumption on heart arrhythmias. Here's what San Antonio doctors have to say. -------------------...
OpEd News

Disobey an Order that is Illegal or from Trump (But I Repeat Myself) - If Trump is ordering you to use force or the threat of force, you can tell whether it's an illegal order simply by checking whether his mouth is moving.
Space City Weather

Today’s storms turn unruly, including a confirmed tornado, and we have another round coming tonight - In brief: The National Weather Service has confirmed the formation of a tornado in northwest Harris County this afternoon. More storms are expected over th...
Consortium News

Trump & India’s Different Response to Terrorism - Two weeks have passed since the Red Fort attack in Delhi and the Indian response against Pakistan has been muted, unlike after an earlier terrorist attack ...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Friend, do you believe that numbers exist? - *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2025* *Inquiring minds wanted to know:* We mentioned this morning that President Trump has been on a jag of late. At *Mediaite*, yo...
Project Censored

Memory Work & Culture Wars: From Palestine to Corporate Media - In the first part of the program, Palestinian-American journalist, translator, photographer, and media analyst Laura Albast joins the show to discuss jou...
Progressive.org

Kshama Sawant Wants to Start a ‘Political Earthquake’ - A former Seattle City Council member is bringing her revolutionary socialist politics and firebrand rhetoric to a Congressional primary in Washington State.
Capital & Main

California Endures Whipsaw Climate Extremes as Federal Support Withers - Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump The post California Endures Whipsaw Climate Extremes...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
Reform Austin

Texas Troops Ordered Home Ahead of Thanksgiving - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… In an interview with Nexstar, Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas National Guard troops deployed to Ill...
Courthouse News

Ohio high school athletes cleared to profit from name, image, likeness - The high school athletic association’s update to the bylaws takes effect immediately to allow athletes in Ohio to enter into NIL contracts.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Flailing OpenAI Follows Meta’s Malignant Model - OpenAI may be following Meta's malignant model by putting profits before user safety while hyping ambitious expansion plans.
First Draft

Outsourcing ‘America First’ - That a lot of MAGA accounts on TwitterX have turned out to be catfishing by foreign actors should be a bigger story.
The Conversation

Peace plan presented by the US to Ukraine reflects inexperienced, unrealistic handling of a delicate situation - In a war that’s lasted almost four years, a former diplomat says it’s not realistic to say, ‘In the next week, come up with a very complicated peace deal, ...
Krebs on Security

Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet? - On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to m...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Furious Minds of MAGA - Matt and Sam talk to Laura K. Field about her new book, *Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right*.
World Socialist Web Site

British ruling elite to increase military spending to fight “protracted, industrial-scale war” - Not a day passes without the Starmer government moving forward its preparations for the re-armament and conscription necessary for an extended war with Rus...
Vox

Become a Vox Member — and double your impact - We’re launching a campaign to make each new Vox Membership go twice as far. This holiday season, when someone joins Vox as an annual member, we’ll match th...
The Grayzone

Funcionarios de la Casa Blanca sabían de antemano del golpe de Estado Venezolano de 2020, según archivos - Documentos publicados por una corte federal ofrecen detalles nuevos y perturbadores sobre el intento de figuras relacionadas con Trump de orquestar un go...
Deadline Politics

Judge Dismisses DOJ’s Indictments Of James Comey And Letitia James - A federal judge dismissed a federal indictment against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the interim...
ProPublica

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. - The post ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. appeared first on ProPublica.
WhoWhatWhy

Incredible Wildlife Highlighted to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday - [image: science, nature, biodiversity, U.S. wildlife, America's 250th birthday celebration, incredible species highlighted] PICKS are stories from many sou...
Debunking Christianity

The Problem of Evil Will Pulverize Theism into Oblivion Thanks To James Sterba, Paul Draper, and My New Book On Horrendous Suffering! - This latest book by Paul Draper should be very good! This should lead to a triple thumping to take place against Christian theism! It's coming from books b...
The Greanville Post

New Atlas Dispatches: Al-Qaeda in the White House and its Implications Far Beyond it The New Atlas - BRIAN BERLETIC—The US has once again changed the status of terrorists of its own creation to open allies with the head of Al Qaeda in Syria (Hay’at Tahrir ...
The Daily Poster

Anti-Trans Hysteria, Paid For By The Dark Money Right - A dark money foundation led by conservative operative Leonard Leo is boosting collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines’ anti-trans empire.
DeSmogBlog

As Mark Carney Fast-tracks Canadian LNG Projects, First Nations Face Hidden Financial Traps - A 2015 report by the Canadian pro-development group Resource Works cynically telegraphed the growing recognition by industry a decade ago that major proj...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #06: Trump ♡ Zohran - Rafi Schwartz joins us to talk about the instantly hall of fame White House summit between the president and the incoming mayor of New York City.
Texas Observer

Pam Perillo’s Sisterhood of the Condemned - Pam Perillo greets me at the door of her trailer, the yaps of a chihuahua named Peewee nearly drowning out our niceties. Perillo had just been looking fo...
Dissident Voice

Elon Musk vs. Dungeons and Dragons - I’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons, but plenty of my family members do, and they consider it to be one of the world’s most engaging table top games; a ...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Takes No Action on North Dakota Legislative Redistricting Case, Nor on Birthright Citizenship Cases - On November 21, the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether to hear Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v Howe, 25-253. But it didn’t make a decision ab...
The AltWorld

The U.S. ‘bait and switch’ operation targeting Putin’s ‘root cause’ principles - The 28-point so-called ‘peace plan’ – written as a putative legal treaty – will strike any experienced […] The post The U.S. ‘bait and switch’ operation ...
The Root

Lupita Nyong’o Says Her Post-Oscar Career Shared the Same Fate as This Other Award-Winning Black Woman Legend - Lupita Nyong'o is opening about her Hollywood career and her historic Oscar win, but what she has to say isn't exactly positive. Read more...
Bonddad

Scenes from the very tardy September jobs report - -* by New Deal democrat* An opening comment: it is an abomination that the US government treated its statistical agencies as doing expendible work. ...
Glasstire

Talking with Satchel Lee About Documenting Houston’s Freedmen’s Town - Satchel Lee, who has worked as a photographer, film director, and, most recently, an installation artist, is currently taking viewers into the historical...
Ian Welsh

Long Covid Disabling Continues - One of the predictions I made many years ago was that Long Covid would slowly cripple workforces. Covid still exists, and that we deliberately don’t try to...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard Thanksgiving Week: A look back on our 10th birthday travels - The Texas Standard crew is taking a breather for the holiday, but tune in to revisit some of our shows from the road this year.
El Paso Matters

City of El Paso weighs tougher animal ordinance for dog-on-dog, pet attacks - The ordinance would classify dogs that attack pets as aggressive or vicious and require registration, signage and owner training. The post City of El Pa...
Democracy Now!

Climate Deal Excludes Fossil Fuel Phaseout as Wealthy Nations Place Burden "On the Backs of the Poor" - Global negotiations at the annual U.N. climate summit ended Saturday in Belém, Brazil, with a watered-down agreement that does not even mention fossil fuel...
Rallblog

What’s Next for Marjorie Taylor Greene?? | DeProgram Show with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss: Marjor...
Workers World

Maduro llama a los pueblos a rebelarse «contra el imperialismo» - [image: Maduro llama a los pueblos a rebelarse «contra el imperialismo»] By Publicado por Resumen Latinoamericano, 14 de noviembre de 2025. El presidente d...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Peace Without Shame Without Peace - “From the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of My people with very ...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Star’s Tech Hando Choi On Inventing A Low-Carbon, Low-Chloride De-Icer Made From Star Fish - Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. What if the solution... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Star’s Tech Hando C...
Dorf on Law

Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death - A few weeks ago at the Federalist Society National Convention, Judge Patrick Bumatay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit declared that, “we ar...
The Smirking Chimp

The Truth About Trump Is Sinking In for His MAGA Followers -
Skeptophilia

Batman's watching you - Lately, the political scene in the United States has been dominated by not just the single-cause fallacy (the tendency to attribute complex phenomena to ...
Greg Palast

Larry Summers, Epstein and the “End Game” Memo - Forgive me, but I have send a little thank you to Jeffrey Epstein. The latest cache of the predator’s memos have finally brought down Lawrence Summers, onc...
Off The Kuff

Another lawsuit filed against Texas’ anti-ESG law - This one by religious groups. Faith-oriented nonprofits are suing Attorney General Ken Paxton in federal court over a new state law they argue infringes on...
NPR's Health Shots

A bowhead whale's DNA offers clues to fight cancer - Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the bowhead whale.
Common Dreams

Quiet, Piggy - Whew. Last week was...a week. Enraging, astounding, often venomous, with flailing small dicktator energy all around. There were pigs, dogs, bonesaws, ped...
Grist

How to make data centers less thirsty - There’s a way to reduce both the climate and water harms of data centers: build them in places with lots of wind and solar energy.
High Country News

The West’s vanishing porcupines - Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds. The post The West’s vanishing porcupines appear...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 24 November 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] Not always true, but often true. Why do people d...
Crooked Media

Boy Math, Boy Law, Man Problems - The post Boy Math, Boy Law, Man Problems appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Resolution 2803: How the UN Security Council Legitimized Palestinian Children’s Death-Worlds - Three days before celebrating children's rights (November 20, 2025, marked 36 years since the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Chil...
jobsanger

Trump Claims The Power So He Must Accept The Blame -
Portside

Sunday Science: The Gravity Particle Should Exist. So Where Is It? - Sunday Science: The Gravity Particle Should Exist. So Where Is It? Ira Mon, 11/24/2025 - 00:26
Informed Comment

“Your Reward is Neither Here nor There!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:24 - A Muezzín from the Tower of Darkness cries "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There!"
Antiwar.com

Who Is Ready To Die for Trump’s Gaza Plan? So Far, Nobody - On November 17th, 2025, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to endorse President Trump’s plan for Gaza, including a transitional government headed ...
See You In 2020

Trump’s war on Nigeria, the empire’s pivot towards “rightist” politics, & the need to revive Black Power - The aggression against Nigeria is one of the signs that we must reorient the antiwar movement, and our broader popular struggles, around pan-African lib...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Leave 'em in Stitches' Toons - ...HAPPY THANKSGIVING!... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning incr...
The Progressive Wing

11.23-30 🦃 Thanksgiving Week Open Threads - Hola, you all. These are Open Threads. So, post whatever suits your fancy (within reason). Also, 🥂here’s🥂 to a safe and Happy Thanksgiving for everyone. 🙂
Wolf Street

The 14 Bigger Cities & Counties with the Biggest Price Declines of Single-Family Homes (-10% to -25%) from Peak to October - Oakland, Austin, New Orleans, Manhattan, Lee County (Cape Coral, Fort Myers), Sarasota County, San Francisco, Birmingham, Washington DC, Denver, Phoenix, C...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Lord Of The Files - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2.4mb With a big ol’ School Book Depository Anniversary Day salute to all you poor-ass marks who showed out for thi...
Socialist Alternative

Building Socialist Alternative’s Black Caucus Under Trump 2.0 - Socialist Alternative’s national convention, held in early November, included the largest ever meeting of our Black Caucus. Dozens of Black Marxists from a...
Bracing Views

Sedition! Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal! MTG Resigns! Gaza Peace Deal! - Thoughts on a busy week of news BILL ASTORE NOV 22, 2025 It’s been a busy week of news. Here are four items that stood out. A group of Democratic members o...
Trivial Knot

Colorblind glasses - What if you and I see different colors? Like when I see red, it’s the same as when you see blue and vice versa? A classic Deep Thoughts thought experiment ...
Crooked Timber

Musk’s last grift - The US is one big grift these days: the Trump Administration, traditional and social media, corporations, crypto, financial markets are all selling some ki...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TRUMP EMBRACES SOCIALISM EDITION. - *Where they spend their se-molians / Just to watch those cre-olians /Skippin', hippin′, doin' the uptown lowdown. (Chick Webb!)* The week was strange; f...
Alas, a Blog

Stupid Things You Hear In A Wheelchair - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: As a cartoonist in the internet age, I’m really lucky to have access to drawing tutorials as well as...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Illinois Raises Privacy Concerns Over State Digital ID System - The Libertarian Party of Illinois has come out against the state’s new digital identification system, arguing that the program threatens privacy rights a...
The Militant

Author Boualem Sansal released from prison in Algeria - In a victory for human rights, 81-year-old prize-winning Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal was released from imprisonment Nov. 12 and flown to a hospital in...
The Texas Signal

Historic El Paso Tramway To Reopen With New Upgrades - The beloved tramway that used to dot the El Paso sky will (eventually) be making a comeback
Environment Texas

More of our coast threatened by offshore drilling under new proposal - Here’s how the new draft offshore drilling plan puts more of America’s coastlines at risk The post More of our coast threatened by offshore drilling unde...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What the Dictator Wants: The Normalization of Violence and Oppression - Trump is openly calling for the execution of his political enemies. We've stepped into a new chapter of this crisis
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rust on the Midterm Iron Law? Voter Expectations for 2026 - In the early parts of the Trump administration, citizens were skeptical that Democrats could retake the House or Senate, but more recent surveys indicate...
Rewire

After Abortion, Some People Report Worsening Mental Health. It’s Not About Regret, Experts Say - The feelings of depression may come from hormonal and physical changes that can follow pregnancy's end, but researchers say more research is needed. The ...
NORML

Promoting Compassionate Cannabis Policies for Vulnerable Youth - [image: a father holds up a cannabis joint and asks his teen son about it][image: a father holds up a cannabis joint and asks his teen son about it]NORML ...
MintPress News

Saudi Arabia just said NO to Israel & the US | Sharmine Narwani - Sharmine Narwani joins Mnar Adley to unpack Saudi Arabia’s rejection of US and Israeli pressure, Israel’s escalating regional attacks, and Yemen’s growin...
Duck of Minerva

Here We Go Again: Why American Presidents Can’t Resist Regime Change - The U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean is confusing the MAGA faithful. With rumors swirling of an imminent operation to topple Venezuela’s Nicolas Madu...
The NM Political Report

Arctic Frost payout repeal put on ice, frustrating Heinrich - [image: U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich speaks on the floor of the Senate (C-SPAN)] [image: U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich speaks on the floor of the Senate (C-SPAN...
Avedon's Sideshow

Everybody's crying justice, just as long as it's business first - Here's a picture of my Second Life avatar in a sexy gown, just to spice things up. I hope no one's forgotten that *Common Dreams* is about as close as you...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 21, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 21, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/21/2025 - 05:11 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Liberation News

3 lies we’re being told about Venezuela - Hand in hand with the billionaire-owned mainstream media, the U.S. government is spreading dangerous lies to justify a military invasion of Venezuela with ...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral. He did, however, sign the Epstein bill. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Anti-LGBTQ Congressman Clay Higgins the only vote against Epstein files release' & other Wed/Thurs news briefs - Clay Higgins *All about anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Clay Higgins, the lone vote against Epstein files release *- *While I can't, as of now, find anything where...
Lowering the Bar

First Alleged Space Crime … Didn’t Happen - [image: AI image of a burglar on the ISS]And when it does it won't look like this.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Rise of the Latino Far Right is Less about a Political Shift and More About an Emotional Realignment: An Analysis of the Emotional Architecture of Latino Conservatism - The Rise of the Latino Far Right is Less about a Political Shift and More About an Emotional Realignment: An Analysis of the Emotional Architecture of Lati...
LareDOS

TAMIU Practicum Seminar students host exhibit opening reception Thursday, Nov. 20 - Public welcome to opening reception and exhibit
Ecosophia

Situationism: Where Domination Ends - The two interludes just past strayed some distance from the writings of the Situationists, the little clique of avant-garde Marxists in mid-20th century Fr...
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / COMMENTARY / Sleeping Giant: Thoughts on the results of the November 4 elections - Image from Pix4Free.org. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-F...
Claytoonz

Surprise - 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 Pa...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
Earthworks

Putting the Just Transition into Practice at COP30 - by Lauren Pagel and Jan Morrill This week, negotiators at COP30 have an opportunity to make history by addressing the … The post Putting the Just Transi...
Sludge

Trump Invests in Media Merger His Administration Controls - Days after the Ellison family expressed interest in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump bought up to $1 million in its debt. He is now reportedly pushing ...
Progressives Chat

Trump–ed - U.S. president *Donald Trump*’s appeal for millions, who supported him, have become Trump–ed. Among Trump’s recent achievements with his Part II presiden...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Reveal

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

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American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
WAWG Blog

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

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

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
nonsite.org

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

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

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

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wednesday, January 08, 2020

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