Brains and Eggs

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

‘Whoa, whoa, whoa!’ Newsmax host abruptly cuts off reporter over Russian meddling remark - While discussing President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Newsmax host Bianca de la Garza cut off Politico reporter...
Political Wire

Trump Issues Warning to Russia Before Summit - President Trump said that there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t agree to stop his war in Ukraine after their...
Courthouse News

DC Circuit upholds Trump freeze on billions in foreign aid - U.S. Circuit Judge Florence Pan slammed the decision, warning it “paves the way for future illegal conduct” by the executive branch.
memeorandum

Cornyn asks DOJ to probe groups tied to O'Rourke, others in Texas fight (Julia Mueller/The Hill) - Julia Mueller / The Hill: *Cornyn asks DOJ to probe groups tied to O'Rourke, others in Texas fight* — Sen. John Cornyn (D-Texas) is asking the Justice ...
Mediaite

Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’ - Maggie Haberman said Democrats risk seeming out of touch when they push back on President Donald Trump over his policing takeover. The post Maggie Haberm...
Techdirt.

UK Court Ruling Leaves Wikipedia Facing Years Of Uncertainty Under Online Safety Act - Two headlines walked into a UK courtroom: the BBC says “Wikipedia loses challenge,” while the Guardian says “Wikipedia can challenge if the strictest rules...
Mediagazer

The UK's Reach is hiring an overnight team in Australia for the first time to deliver "what UK news audiences want to see", following its expansion in the US (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) - Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: *The UK's Reach is hiring an overnight team in Australia for the first time to deliver “what UK news audiences want to ...
The Hill

Lebanon takes a first step toward reclaiming its sovereignty - The Lebanese government has committed to disarm all groups possessing heavy weapons, most notably Hezbollah, in a historic move to restore full authority o...
Vox

Rudolph and all of the other reindeer are probably dying from climate change - It’s bad enough that climate change is ruining the dream of a white Christmas for many people, as warming makes snow in some regions less likely. Now, appa...
Daily Dot

Rachel Brosnahan’s husband is being slammed for liking one very specific insult about her on-screen relationship with “Superman” star David Corenswet - [image: Left: Actors Rachel Brosnahan and David Corenswet filming a scene for the 2025 "Superman" movie. Right: Tweet reading "rachel brosnahan’s husband...
Independent Political Report

Liberal Party USA to Hold Virtual Town Hall to Discuss State and National Activities - The Liberal Party USA will host a virtual town hall later this month, open to supporters and the public to hear updates from national and state Liberal l...
Houston Public Media

Houston City Council approves amended disaster recovery plan with $100 million for housing repairs - In a major victory for housing advocates, the city of Houston will spend nearly a third of $315 million in federal recovery funds on home repairs and housi...
Alternet

'I know a lot about grass': Trump meanders off-topic in bizarre Kennedy Center remarks - President Donald Trump wandered through a litany of grievances and a long list of concerns during his announcement of the Kennedy Center honorees at the ...
The Verge

New York claims Zelle’s shoddy security enabled a billion dollars in scams - New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the banks behind Zelle over claims that their payment platform enabled “massive amounts of fraud” that cau...
The Week

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped trigger the Great Recession. Would an IPO create new dangers? - It depends on the 'implicit guarantee'
Eschaton

Keep Going - I saw some people making it sound as if they were going to cave, but apparently not! New statement from TX House Dems: "After deliberation among our caucu...
SCOTUSblog

Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? - In 2015, shortly after the Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, a local county clerk from Kentuc...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Experts push to uphold credible climate science findings as Trump administration spreads doubt - Veteran scientists organize response to recent energy department report while top group of advisers ‘fast-track’ review of greenhouse gas evidence Vetera...
Second Nexus

Halle Berry's Ex Is Getting Slammed After Revealing Overtly Sexist Reason He Left Her - Halle Berry's marriage to former Major League Baseball player David Justice may have ended nearly 30 years ago, but she still seems to be on Justice's mi...
Futurism

Doctors Using AI Quickly Lose Ability to Spot Cancer, Study Finds - For years now, AI cancer detection has been touted as being as good as or better than doctors — but today, it seems that it has essentially atrophied doc...
OpEd News

Chomsky, The Sitcom: Episode 5: Everybody Wants To Rule the World - The latest episode in the season 1 expriment of looking at Noam Chomsky's life from a ligfhter side. Very loosely based on the memoir, Chomsky and Me, by B...
Salon.com

Democrats demand to know what’s up with Ghislaine Maxwell - Democrats want to know why the convicted sex offender was recently transferred to a minimum-security prison
Al Jazeera English

The Privacy Paradox - We claim to value privacy, but surrender it daily, often without knowing.
The Daily Poster

America’s Biggest Landlord To Stop Using Rent-Setting AI - Corporate apartment giant Greystar has agreed to end its use of RealPage’s algorithmic rent-setting software after allegations of price-fixing.
Slate

My Friend’s Annoying Habit Makes Dining Out a Terrible Ordeal. I Think I Have to Cancel This Friendship. - Just pick something!
Dissident Voice

The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba - [First published by Middle East Eye] If you thought Western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel’s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly tw...
DeSmogBlog

Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures - Nigel Farage and his fellow Reform UK MPs, many of whom deny basic climate science, represent constituencies exposed to the worst effects of extreme heat...
Consortium News

WATCH: Tribute to Journalists Killed by Israel - Protestors gathered outside the Washington offices of NBC and Fox News near the Capitol to decry the most recent assassinations of Palestinian journalists ...
Glasstire

Review: “Michael Velliquette: The Distance Within Us” at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, Austin - “Skill” and “effort” are precarious qualities for contemporary artists. Oil painters that attend classical painting academies in Florence will often find...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Says He Will Host The Kennedy Center Honors, Unveils This Year’s Recipients - Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the list of this year’s Kennedy Center Honorees, the first since he took control of the institution, saying that he wil...
San Antonio Current

Texas’ oldest wildlife refuge was set to expand. Then the Trump administration changed course. - Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communiti...
Capital & Main

‘They Feel They Can Trust No One; Not Even to Open the Door’ - Immigration raid fears have some undocumented patients avoiding medical care. One L.A. clinic is responding by sending mobile health teams directly to th...
American Prospect

Cooking the Inflation and Jobs Numbers - Today on TAP: There are some genuine problems with BLS methods. A hack Trump appointee is not the answer.
Mother Jones

Report: Teen With Disabilities Detained by ICE Outside School in Los Angeles - On Monday, a 15-year-old boy with disabilities was detained by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside a Los Angeles Unified School D...
Progressive Army

Cronograma – 15 de Agosto – TRP - Con motivo del feriado no laborable del próximo viernes 15 de agosto, TRP informa el esquema operativo de la Terminal: Operaciones del viernes 15 de agosto...
Infidel753

The gerrymandering crisis - We all know how this started. At Trump's behest, Texas Republicans came up with a super-gerrymandering plan intended to gain their party five additional ...
NPR's Health Shots

In 1985, famine led to Live Aid and a U.S. alert plan. Trump froze it. Now it's back - It's the 40th anniversary of the superstar concert to raise money for an Ethiopian famine — and of the creation of a U.S. program called FEWS NET to preven...
Sludge

House Dem Kept His Bitcoin-Linked Stock Position Secret While Helping to Pass Key Crypto Bills - Michigan Democrat Shri Thanedar is just the latest of dozens of lawmakers to violate the STOCK Act’s disclosure requirement.
Election Law Blog

“No Longer ‘Dead Brad Walking’: Georgia’s Election Chief Makes a Comeback” - From the WSJ, which is paywalled: Five years ago, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was banished to the political wilderness. ...
Axios

Trump told Zelensky he wants ceasefire from Putin summit - President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders on Wednesday that his goals from Friday's summit with Vladimir Putin are...
CultureMap Houston

Innovative 3D-printed affordable housing development rises in Houston - What’s being promoted as the world’s first large-scale affordable housing development built using 3D technology is taking shape in Houston.
Texas Standard

New Uvalde records: District leaders didn’t reach out to some surviving teachers, knew about broken locks - The records also shed light on previous concerns about shooters’ classroom behavior. The release follows a yearslong lawsuit from news agencies.
Ballot Access News

U..S. Solicitor General Files Amicus in Support of Bost Lawsuit in U.S. Supreme Court - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Bost v Illinois State Board of Elections, 24-568, on October 8, 2025. The issue is whether a candidate has standing to cha...
Undernews

Trump regime - *Robert Reich - * Trump has halted or dropped enforcement actions against 160+ corporations, including: - - 42 consumer protection cases at CFPB -20 fo...
Bonddad

Shelter, tariffs, and “just-so” inflation indexes - - *by New Deal democrat* In my note yesterday about the July CPI, I noted the transition from the trend where overall inflation ex-shelter was low, ...
naked capitalism

Iran and Russia Vow to Block U.S. Caucasus Ambitions - How the much-bruited Trump Caucasus deal, meant to cause trouble for Iran and Russia, is only a napkin doodle and may never be more than that
The Root

Black Mom Tries to Stop School Fight—What She Did Next Left Kids Fleeing in Terror - An argument between Cherez Davis's son and another boy led the 34-year-old to take a "drastic" solution that ended in a bang. Read more...
Daily Howler

REVOLUTION: Divinely appointed, the one pastor said! - *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025* *"Revolution in the air:" *When it happened, back in May, it got very little play. The New York Times did a news report, bu...
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: UTEP opens soccer season, museum debuts military women exhibit - UTEP soccer starts its 2025 home slate and a new museum exhibit honors local military women, plus more culture and civic events in El Paso this week. T...
Bracing Views

Trump and the Feds Take DC! - We’re finally invading ourselves BILL ASTORE AUG 12, 2025 President Trump’s decision to federalize the police in DC and to deploy National Guard troops the...
WhoWhatWhy

State Dept’s Human Rights Report Omits Journalist Killings in Gaza - [image: Marco Rubio, testifies, Senate Foreign Relations Committee] A new State Department report on human rights across the globe seems to absolve Donald ...
Rewire

Same-Sex Marriage Is Absolutely On the Chopping Block—Opinion - Marriage equality isn’t safe. Don’t believe people who tell you it is. The post Same-Sex Marriage Is Absolutely On the Chopping Block—Opinion appeared f...
First Draft

OMG Just Say You’re Afraid Of Black People - It's not like it's a secret.
Grist

Plastic pollution is toxic and everywhere. Now, legal experts say it’s a human rights violation. - This week, they’re advocating for a U.N. treaty to safeguard people’s basic rights.
The Conversation

4 out of 5 US troops surveyed understand the duty to disobey illegal orders - As National Guard troops head to the streets of Washington, and likely civilian encounters, a new survey reveals service members’ understanding of the dist...
Democracy Now!

YouTube Star Ms. Rachel on Her Gaza Advocacy: "My Deep Care for Children Doesn't Stop at Any Border" - We speak with Rachel Griffin Accurso, the educator known to millions around the world as Ms. Rachel, who has become a leading advocate for children in Gaza...
Texas Observer

Abortion Funds See Dwindling Donations as Demand and Cost Rise - When the one-two punch of Senate Bill 8—a 2021 Texas law that barred nearly all abortion care —and the U.S. Supreme Court’s subsequent decision to overtu...
Space City Weather

Typical August weather continues for Houston as Atlantic tropics continue to wake up - In brief: Parts of central Houston saw some fairly strong showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday, with a few isolated areas picking up 1 inch, or more, of ra...
ArcaMax

It's a War Out There - They have declared war on us. Washington, D.C., is now a police state. Sending in the National Guard, President Donald Trump seized control of nation's cap...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Humpday Afternoon - A flashback from Dark Side. When I was 12 or so, I used to walk to the hospital each Friday to have my braces tightened and to get a Tommy Tooth lecture. T...
Dorf on Law

Teaching Constitutional Law in 2025: Part 2 - Last week on this blog, Professor Segall posed twenty questions about how to teach constitutional law at a time when the Supreme Court has been rapidly r...
San Antonio Report

Gun rights YouTuber Brandon Herrera to challenge U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales again in GOP primary - Pro-gun activist Brandon Herrera launched another primary challenge against Rep. Tony Gonzales this weekend, aiming to replace the three-term incumbent in ...
The Smirking Chimp

The Trial Run -
Skeptophilia

There were giants in the Earth - I remember reacting with honest bafflement when Barack Obama was running for his first term as president in 2008, and one of the criticisms levied agains...
ProPublica

Help ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Report on Education - by Lexi Churchill and Jasmine Aguilera, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Ellis Simani, ProPublica Texas’ education landscape is changing. Our repor...
Off The Kuff

Everything happens on Tuesday - Hey, remember when I said yesterday that there was still no quorum and not much had happened? That was then, this is now. The Supreme Court will take its s...
Scheerpost.com

Twenty-Four US-Allied Nations Urge Israel To Lift All Restrictions on Aid Entering Gaza - By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com Twenty-four US-allied nations and three senior EU officials have signed a joint statement calling for Israel to lift all restr...
The AltWorld

Rule by Quacks - Adam Dick of the Ron Paul Institute reports that the American Academy of Pediatrics last Monday called […] The post Rule by Quacks appeared first on TheA...
High Country News

How community assemblies kindle advocacy and solutions - Labor organizer Rosalinda Guillen explains how participatory democracy gives workers political power. The post How community assemblies kindle advocacy...
Crooked Media

South Park, Queer Travel, and Weapons with Margaret Cho - The post South Park, Queer Travel, and Weapons with Margaret Cho appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Pay For Your Sins, Real and Imagined - The Trump Administration has used baseless accusations of anti-Semitism to shake hundreds of millions of dollars out of colleges and universities, just a...
Counterpunch

Debunking the Myths About Mamdani’s Candidacy - Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable campaign for New York mayor has left the Democratic party deeply divided. Moderates and conservatives like James Carville and...
World Socialist Web Site

The Clairton Coke Works disaster: Social murder in Pennsylvania - The fatal Clairton Coke Works blast, which claimed two lives and injured ten, exposes decades of unsafe conditions maintained to protect profits at the exp...
jobsanger

The Next President Will Keep The Powers Trump Has Grabbed -
Informed Comment

Scientists prove Extensive Viking Silver Trade with Abbasid Empire from British Silver Hoard - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Northeastern England fell to the Vikings in 865, and they held it for several decades. They not only had what is now Newcast...
Workers World

“Capital One, you can’t hide!” – Cambridge protesters escalate for Palestine. - [image: “Capital One, you can’t hide!” – Cambridge protesters escalate for Palestine.] A militant crowd organized by the Boston Coalition for Palestine fac...
Portside

‘Dracula’ Review: Romanian Auteur Radu Jude’s Rowdy, Fellatio-Filled Vampire Flick Is Way Too Many Movies at Once - ‘Dracula’ Review: Romanian Auteur Radu Jude’s Rowdy, Fellatio-Filled Vampire Flick Is Way Too Many Movies at Once Marti Tue, 08/12/2025 - 23:45
Brad Blog

It's Not About the Rule of Law, It's About Authoritarian Control: 'BradCast' 8/12/2025 - Today on The BradCast: Donald Trump's latest attempt to make himself feel powerful by deploying U.S. military troops on American streets --- against Americ...
Popular Resistance

Netanyahu’s Plan To Occupy Gaza Violates World Court Ruling - As the death toll of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip surpasses 61,000 and Israel continues to starve Gazans to death, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ma...
The NM Political Report

Opinion: Special Session Process Needs to Be Open to Public Input - [image: Peter St Cyr] [image: Peter St Cyr] This commentary is submitted by Peter St. Cyr, an award-winning longtime New Mexico journalist and open gove...
Antiwar.com

Open Letter to Israel Foreign Minister Sa’ar - Reprinted from CommonDreams. H.E. Gideon Sa’ar Foreign Minister Government of Israel August 9, 2025 Dear Mr. Minister, I write to you following your speech...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"Time for Progressives to Become Active In the Democratic Party," by Thom Hartmann - *Friends,* *I couldn’t agree more with Diane Ravitch’s post amplifying Thom Hartmann’s urgent message: progressives must learn from the radical Right’s p...
slacktivist

I got an A on my 6th-grade Bible class mid-term - An artifact of 1970s white fundamentalism helps us see what has, and hasn't, changed in that world.
The Texas Signal

Texas Senate Passes Redistricting Bill - Despite a walkout from several Democrats, a redistricting bill passed the Texas Senate but remains in limbo in the House thanks to a quorum break
Progressive.org

A Sanctuary Fights Back - When the Trump Administration rewrote the rules around immigration enforcement, the people of Chicago, Illinois, were ready.
Discourse

They're Huge Babies. All of 'Em - To be a Republican is to brag about how scared you are of everything all of the time.
Claytoonz

Roof-Top Felon - 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...
Common Dreams

Common Cause Launches Fairness Criteria to Counter Mid-Decade Power Plays - Common Cause today reaffirmed its commitment to fair, people-powered democracy, making clear that independent redistricting commissions remain the gold s...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Denzel Washington has Cowboys takes - One of our finest living actors is a lifelong Cowboy fan despite growing up in New York, and as he made clear on ESPN’s First Take, he’s just as frustrat...
Angry Bear

The consumer inflation transition continues, as shelter prices decelerate further, and other sectors show some re-acceleration - – by New Deal democrat The story of this month’s CPI report is summed up in the first few graphs below: the shelter portion of the index continues its s...
Ian Welsh

How Leadership Worked In the Early & Middle Roman Republic - When a lot of people talk about Rome, they’re thinking of the Empire and when they write about Rome, they’re writing about the decline and fall. But I’ve a...
Church and State

Corruption at the Core of the Vatican - Opus Dei will continue to control the Vatican’s finances and politics as long as the city state has an exemption from international financial oversight.
Wolf Street

Fed’s Nightmare: CPI Inflation in Core Services Worst in 6 Months, Pushing Core CPI to Worst in 6 Months. Some Goods Prices Fell, Others Rose - The shocker for the 2nd month was the re-acceleration of inflation in core services, the biggie, accounting for 60% of overall CPI.
See You In 2020

There is no making “peace” with the empire or its proxies. Principled resistance is the only path forward. - Above: an Armenian soldier guarding the border with Azerbaijan At this moment, a lesson from history that all antiwar-minded people must apply is the le...
Mondoweiss

‘Weimar is over’ - [image: Settler from the Har Bracha settlement throws stones at Palestinian villagers from Burin under protection of the Israeli army, April 19, 2011.(Phot...
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...
Reform Austin

In redistricting clash, Texas GOP flexes power to shut down Democrats’ last tool of resistance - For Jim Dunnam, the last few weeks have felt like déjà vu. The Waco attorney led the Texas House Democrats in 2003 when they walked out over Republicans’...
NORML

Will Trump Reschedule Marijuana? - [image: Donald Trump][image: Donald Trump]President Trump said that his administration is considering changing marijuana's federal classification The pos...
Dissent Magazine

Is America a Democracy? - An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
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...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: How To Help Birds Navigate The Human World - You might hear birds singing on some mornings, just bits of sound between car horns... The post Guest Idea: How To Help Birds Navigate The Human World ap...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trump justifies taking over DC police with claim that Democrats 'want transgender for everybody' - If you haven't heard by now, Trump has decided to take over the DC police and deploy the national guard in the Capitol city. He claims to be doing it bec...
The Grayzone

NYC’s Mayor Adams boasts of endorsement from ‘rabbi’ accused of child molestation - Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign quickly removed all references to a “rabbi” accused of pedophilia after eagle-eyed social media users discovered the charges...
Project Censored

From Factory Farms to Firewalls: Resisting Corporate Power - In the first part of the show, we welcome back award-winning investigative reporter Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red. We’ll talk about his lat...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Debunking Christianity

What Could Convince Reasonable People to Accept the Miracle Stories in the Bible? - This is a segment of my talk at last weekend's BAHA conference in Sarnia, Canada. The conference was fantastic, by the way, with excellent speakers who wer...
Edinburg Politics

Public given more time to see agendas, proposed budgets before local governments take action under new state law coauthored by Rep. Janie López, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new Texas law, coauthored by Rep. Janie López, D-San Benito, will increase transparency in local governments by requiring agendas and proposed annual bud...
Crooked Timber

I guess that makes me…Horace Slughorn? - The Economist, having surveyed the current state of European higher education, has decided that the most significant problem is that the specialized gradua...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: August 2025 - I don’t have many links this time, and all videos. If you’re one of the readers who doesn’t watch videos, you can skip this one. The Physics of Dissonance...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Creating Meaning and Purpose to Fight Capitalism: Audio From A Collapsing State - We're not just facing a political battle. Our present moment requires us to reinvigorate a sense of calling and belonging
Liberation News

Cuba’s new Code of Childhood Adolescence and Youth proves putting people over profit is possible - 825,000 people, including many children, participated in creating the new Code,
The Militant

‘Working class in our millions must take the political power’ - SWP on Minneapolis ballot! ‘Oppose rulers’ drive to war’ Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis Kevin Dwire was certified on the ballot...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN' EDITION. - *lol* Sorry I missed last week’s edition -- guess I'm really due for a vacation. Or a nervous breakdown. In either case, as St. Augie said, not yet. In ...
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...
The Progressive Wing

8/8/2025-8/14/2025 News Roundup and Open Thread - The fact that she chose to be offended about them attacking her appearance instead of the puppy killing pretty much proves South Park’s point. — Visual Reb...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Lowering the Bar

Constitution Deleted - [image: wayback machine image showing disappearing text]Is somebody practing for the big day?
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
MintPress News

Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS - Trump ally David Ellison just bought CBS. His first move? Bring in Zionist ideologue Bari Weiss to direct news coverage and purge dissent. The post Israe...
Unlimited Hangout

From Project 2025 to the PayPal Presidency: School Choice Fin-Tech for a Blockchain Social Credit Economy - The ambitions of the Koch-backed network behind Project 2025 and the the PayPal Mafia behind President Trump are set to converge in a public-private fin-...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Previewing the 2026 Secretary of State Races - About half the states will hold secretary of state elections next year, with key contests coming in presidential battlegrounds The post Previewing the 20...
Ecosophia

Talking Back to Flying Heads - As a writer with an unruly muse, I’ve gotten used to accepting inspiration no matter the quarter from which it arrives. Even for me, though, this essay is ...
Environment Texas

Austin’s $6.3 billion budget targets water, energy, and parks upgrades - Proposed FY 2026 plan boosts investments in clean energy, tree planting, wildfire preparedness, and water conservation amid financial constraints The pos...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Vice President Vance says people who fought in the Civil War have a larger claim to citizenship than people living here today - J.D. Vance by DonkeyHotey. This caricature of J.D. Vance was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore’s Flickr photostream. By Mic...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Epistle to the Wokians - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 2. It’s a bit of a weird update, as you are about to discover. Before we get into it, I want to convey my heartfelt thanks ...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
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...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1975: Jimmy Hoffa Disappears - Last Wednesday was July 30, 2025. It marked 50 years since the anniversary of the disappearance of Teamsters Union president *Jimmy Hoffa*. Born February...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Greg Palast

Katrina Redux: Trump Drowns Texas – Are You Next? - Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated ...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

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

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
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...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
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...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
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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Campaign for America's Future

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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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