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

Off The Kuff

Erica Lee Carter withdraws from County Judge race - A bit of a surprise, at least to me. Former Congressman Erica Lee Carter announced Wednesday that she will not be running for Harris County Judge after pre...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

DC Democrat challenges long-serving House delegate amid age concerns - Council member Robert White says ‘we need our strongest fighters’ as he bids to take on Eleanor Holmes Norton, 88 Washington DC’s long-serving delegate E...
Salon.com

Trump claims “leftist” nonprofits incited violence. Can he prove it? - Trump is focusing on progressive nonprofits following Charlie Kirk's death. It will probably turn up nothing
Eschaton

Morning - Get it started.
Slate

Think You’re Smarter Than Ben Mathis-Lilley? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz. - Test your knowledge of this week’s big stories.
Raw Story

Trump's racist Supreme Court has committed its worst outrage yet - Jason Brian Gavidia, a Trump supporter and U.S. citizen, *has described how federal agents* treated him during an immigration stop in June. Gavidia runs ...
Mediagazer

Survey: 50% of newspaper columnists, 38% of BBC executives, and 45% of leading podcasters in Britain are privately educated, vs. 7% of the general population (Carl Cullinane/The Guardian) - Carl Cullinane / The Guardian: *Survey: 50% of newspaper columnists, 38% of BBC executives, and 45% of leading podcasters in Britain are privately educat...
memeorandum

4 service members were aboard US Army helicopter that crashed in Washington state (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *4 service members were aboard US Army helicopter that crashed in Washington state* — Four service members were aboard a U.S. Army MH...
Progressive Army

CIEN: importaciones argentinas crecieron 31,7% entre enero y julio de 2025 - Fuente: Aduana News Las importaciones de Argentina aumentaron un 31,7% en los primeros siete meses de 2025 respecto al mismo período del año anterior, de a...
Axios

Inside Democrats' emerging AI playbook - With the midterms just over a year away, Democrats are sharpening an AI message focused on how the technology could widen economic divides and harm worke...
NPR's Health Shots

Wildfire smoke is killing Americans. A new study quantifies how much - More intense future wildfires, fueled by further climate change, could lead to 70,000 deaths from smoke exposure a year, according to a new study.
Daily Dot

An “ecosystem jar” created in 2020 has TikTok spiraling out over the world growing inside—and proper disposal method - [image: ecosystem jars] This TikToker made an ecosystem jar four years ago. When she finally saw it again, she was surprised to see what was growing—or r...
ProPublica

Pentagon Bans Tech Vendors From Using China-Based Personnel After ProPublica Investigation - by Renee Dudley ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Grist

Who pays for wildfire damage? In the West, utilities are shifting the risk to customers - Utah laws cap wildfire damages and let utilities pass the cost onto customers. Utility lobbyists are pushing the model in other states.
The Week

The week’s best photos - A new world record, a rescued toucan, and more
High Country News

What old growth forests have to do with your food - [image: A view of the mixed conifer forest in early fall outside Troy, Montana.] More than you might think. The post What old growth forests have to do w...
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-09-19 -
naked capitalism

Trump Administration, Jimmy Kimmel, and Media Brownshirting - Like it or not, the FCC had ABC and Disney completely over barrel in the Jimmy Kimmel ouster.
Al Jazeera English

Bali court hands Ukrainian man life sentence for illegal drugs laboratory - Authorities say Russians and Ukrainians are collaborating to form crime rings on Indonesia's most famous holiday island.
Crooked Media

Trump Cancels Kimmel - The post Trump Cancels Kimmel appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Daily Poster

The Giant Fireball That Could Save Us - America’s real-life Lorax says the climate apocalypse might be averted after all.
ArcaMax

Dead Bosses - Charlie Kirk is dead, and so is one of the two bosses I wanted to see dead. Maybe a little backstory. I'm 68. I've been working since I was 14. I've worked...
Rallblog

Rules-Based Order, Revised - Russia accidentally on purpose invades Polish airspace with drones and blows up a farmer’s house. Israel brazenly bombs downtown Doha, as well as Iran. T...
The Progressive Wing

9/19-22 News Roundup and Open Thread - More fallout from Jimmy Kimmel and Charlie Kirk. I’m in Madrid–just returned from a few days in Cordoba and Granada.
Counterpunch

Trump’s Destruction of the US Economy - Trump has created a crisis for U.S. agriculture with his Cold War weaponization of foreign trade with China and Russia, for manufacturing as a result of ...
Wolf Street

Condo Prices Dropped by 12%-27% in these 25 Bigger Cities through August: Condo Bust Update - Oakland, Cape Coral, Austin, San Francisco, Denver, Tampa, Seattle, New York City, Saint Petersburg, Fort Myers, Sarasota, Boise, Jacksonville, Detroit, N...
jobsanger

Right-Wingers Are Far More Likely To Commit Political Violence Than Anyone Else -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of our Ingenuity 1441: Secret New York - Episode: 1441 The secret places that define a city. Today, we look for the secret places that complete a city.
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: Box Spoiled - Meow from Claire.
Election Law Blog

DOJ’s new lawsuit seems to show DOJ is violating federal law - Justin again. On Wednesday, Ned linked to two new lawsuits DOJ filed in Oregon (here’s the complaint) and Maine (here’s the complaint) over DOJ’s demand ...
Informed Comment

Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday S...
World Socialist Web Site

Evergreen classified staff strike ended with a sellout contract under union pressure - Classified staff in Evergreen Public Schools ended their 12-day strike with a contract that leaves workers trapped in poverty wages despite their determine...
Mediaite

Trump Expected to Fire U.S. Attorney Who Was Unable to Find Evidence Letitia James Committed Mortgage Fraud: Report - President Donald Trump is expected to fire U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert after Siebert's office was unable to find sufficient evidence that New York Attorne...
The Texas Signal

Untitled Art Gives Houston A First-Class Art Fair - Untitled has been an elegant annual celebration of art in Miami since 2012 and now has a Houston branch running this weekend
Techdirt.

Somebody’s Lying: Susan Monarez’s Congressional Testimony Is 180 Degrees From RFK Jr.’s - When you’re brought before Congress to testify, you’re not supposed to lie. I realize that sounds rather obvious to many of you, but I’ll remind you that t...
Black Agenda Report

The Black Puerto Rican Radical Tradition - The Black Puerto Rican Radical Tradition Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/19/2025 - 08:35 Black Agenda Radio · The Bl...
The Hill

Texas A&M president to step down after turmoil over gender identity lesson - Texas A&M University’s president Mark Welsh will step down on Friday after turmoil ignited over a gender identity lesson, the Texas A&M University System s...
Political Wire

Trump Explores Government-Backed Manufacturing Boost - “President Trump’s team is weighing a plan to spur the construction of factories and other infrastructure in a bid to jump-start the American manufacturing...
Deadline Politics

Dissent Grows At Disney Over Jimmy Kimmel Benching As Talks About His Possible Return Continue - EXCLUSIVE: As the fallout from Disney’s suspension Wednesday of Jimmy Kimmel has seen discord erupt at the House of Mouse, top brass have been engaged in t...
Claytoonz

Comedians Canceled Before Kimmel - 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...
Popular Resistance

We’ll Be Back Soon - We rarely take a day off, but our director, Margaret Flowers, is getting married on the International Day of Peace and we'd like to take a short break to...
The Greanville Post

Silence - SCOTT RITTER—In January 1943, Jewish resistance to efforts by the Germans to deport the remaining Jews of the ghetto broke out. In April 1943, the Germans ...
Workers World

Global universities sever academic ties with Israel over Gaza - [image: Global universities sever academic ties with Israel over Gaza] The following article first appeared on the Islamic Republic News Agency website (en...
LareDOS

“The Search for Dark Matter” coming to TAMIU Oct. 8 - UT’s Dr. Timothy Aldeen presents latest research in particle physics
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

I humiliated a Trump supporting white supremacist on Thursday. How was your day? - On the risk of bragging, I embarrassed a "prominent" white supremacist today. I put the word prominent in quotes because to me, labeling a white supremac...
Futurism

MIT Researchers Release Disturbing Paper About AI Boyfriends - Just a few years ago, human society didn't have access to AI chatbots, but nowadays, there are everywhere and about 19 percent of Americans have used the...
Daily Cartoonist

Recognize! I’ve Seen That Before - A few cartoonists of late have paid tribute to the giants that preceded them. For example: Lalo Alcaraz doing Jack Kirby. Michael de Adder does Joe Shuster...
Antiwar.com

Dirty Wars and Endless Lies: Scott Horton’s Shattering History of America’s War on Terror - Scott Horton’s masterpiece “Enough Already” shows how the U.S. and its allies spread devastation through Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, a...
Mother Jones

This Republican Attempt to Scuttle Federal Land Plans Could Cause Great Upheaval - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly bur...
Portside

McCarthyism on the Campuses - McCarthyism on the Campuses barry Thu, 09/18/2025 - 19:11
CultureMap Houston

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey will make cynics believe in the power of love - Romantic movies can come in many different shapes and sizes, from cheesy straight-to-streaming throwaway trifles to grand, sweeping Oscar-worthy dramas. An...
Vox

Trump’s brazen attack on free speech - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
San Antonio Report

Former U.S. ambassador to Russia to deliver 2025 Maverick Lecture - SPONSORED: One of America’s leading voices on diplomacy and democracy, will present a talk about "the new global disorder.” ------------------------------ F...
Ballot Access News

Mississippi State Senator Jeremy England Will Introduce a Bill to Restore the Initiative - According to this story, next year Mississippi State Senator Jeremy England will introduce a bill to restore the statewide initiative process. Mississippi ...
Undernews

Polls - [image: A poll graphic from Fox News displaying results about the Trump administration\'s impact on the economy. The text shows "HAS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ...
The AltWorld

The Twilight of the White Ethnicities - By closing the border Trump Has Delayed for a Few Years the Destruction of White Ethnic America, […] The post The Twilight of the White Ethnicities appea...
San Antonio Current

How Bucán Rodeo’s Roy Baker and Michael Barrera-Pacheco fired up San Antonio’s food truck and pop-up scene - [image: Roy Baker and Michael Barrera-Pacheco are the minds behind the food truck Bucán Rodeo.] The pair operated several pop-ups before collaborating on ...
The Verge

Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal - In the future, Intel will make CPUs with Nvidia graphics inside — among other things, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed today that Nvidia will contribute “...
Alternet

Trump's FCC chair thinks TV stations should 'get to decide what the American people think' - Explaining the “massive shift” he intends to impose on the focus of the Federal Communications Commission, Chairman Brendan Carr announced that he will t...
Reform Austin

Republicans Fight to Be the Next Texas Attorney General - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is preparing to leave the office to run against current U.S. ...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Michigan Names James Harris to District 12 Executive Committee Seat - The Libertarian Party of Michigan has appointed James Harris as District 12 representative to its Libertarian Executive Committee. Harris will serve a tw...
WhoWhatWhy

Young Climate Activists Are Challenging Trump’s Executive Orders - [image: climate crisis, global warming, fossil fuels, Montana, young activists, federal court, executive orders challenged] PICKS are stories from many sou...
El Paso Matters

Fort Bliss ‘assessing potential risks’ after city of El Paso deploys Chinese-made drones next to Army post - The city of El Paso’s drone program using Chinese technology draws concern as Fort Bliss reviews possible risks to national security. The post Fort Blis...
The Root

The Fascinating Backstory of Music Mogul Dame Dash - Dame Dash's explosive interview on The Breakfast Club is just one chapter in the entrepreneur's fascinating journey. Read more...
slacktivist

‘On the side of the underdog, always and everywhere’ - "'If men would behave decently the world would be decent' is not such a platitude as it sounds."
The NM Political Report

Gubernatorial race heats up: Bregman challenges Haaland to policy showdown - [image: Sam Bregman at his Las Vegas gubernatorial campaign announcement, speaking to Juliette Gallegos.] [image: Sam Bregman at his Las Vegas gubernatori...
Mondoweiss

Israel moves to embrace its isolation - [image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assesses the situation on Mount Hermon with Defense Minister Israel Katz and former army Chief of Staff, ...
Second Nexus

Kid Goes Viral For Showing How You Can Use Two Candles If You Don't Have A Nintendo Wii Sensor Bar - One of the fun things about time passing is that trends tend to reemerge, giving us a chance to see younger generations experience some of our most nosta...
OpEd News

Live Zoom on Full Disclosure Tonight 09.18.25 with Danny Sheehan - UFO Disclosure and Its Spiritual Impact, interview today with Danny Sheehan.
Texas Standard

New book explores the birth of the Texas Civil Rights Project - The memoir from founder Jim Harrington highlights the work and journey that came together to create a decades-old social justice organization.
Church and State

Trump slammed the door on free speech with help from gutless ABC! - It will be of interest to see how many other businesses are willing to remain silent in the light of this red line that has been crossed.
Progressive.org

This Incarcerated Journalist Is Making a Case Against Solitary Confinement - Christopher Blackwell’s new book ‘Ending Isolation’ tackles the cruel practice employed against incarcerated people in prisons across the country.
American Prospect

Canceling Kimmel. Canceling Speech. Canceling Comedy. - Today on TAP: Making jokes has never been this dangerous, except in authoritarian states.
Common Dreams

Merkley, Warren, Hoyle, Ryan, Jayapal Introduce New Bill to Crack Down on Health Insurers Buying up Clinics Across the U.S. - Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Massachusetts’ U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren teamed up with U.S. Representatives Val Hoyle (OR-04), Pat Ryan (NY-1...
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow for firing of Fed governor - The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to pause a ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that keeps Lisa Cook, a member of ...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Professor Richardson took some grief! - *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2025* *Kimmel got suspended: *Does Jimmy Kimmel read Heather Cox Richardson's very popular, extremely Blue Substack? We'll tell...
Consortium News

‘Show Me Your Papers’ Ruling Defies 4th Amendment - The Supreme Court for the first time in the modern era lets police demand to see your papers. To colleagues in media, law and academia who love liberty, Ju...
Infidel753

A consistent philosophy - I fervently support freedom of individual choice on both abortion and gun ownership. I fervently oppose militant religious fanatics trying to impose their...
The Militant

Airport Plane Train workers vote union in, seek first contract - ATLANTA — Nearly 100 workers who operate and maintain the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s Plane Train voted 56-24 to go union. The Inter...
Dorf on Law

I Honestly Have Tried to Avoid Piling On When It Comes to Democratic Party Leaders, But OMG - After a party loses an election, it is both necessary and healthy for everyone involved to ask what happened. After the 2024 election, however, Democrat...
Angry Bear

The adult states step up - Here in Rhode Island, my wife and I were able to get the latest COVID booster with no problems. This is my 9th jab since August 2020. I’m not dead yet. A...
Discourse

Charlie Kirk Is Not Jesus - Hope this helps!
DeSmogBlog

Trump Ambassador’s Fortune Intertwined With Big Tech Trade Push - President Donald Trump’s UK ambassador holds investments in the companies set to develop flagship tech projects across the country. U.S. financial record...
Capital & Main

California Moves to Curb Ultraprocessed Foods in School Cafeterias - The bill before the governor could help address nutrition gaps in neighborhoods with limited access to fresh food — and be a model for the nation. The p...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

In the Fire: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - Things are heating up and it's on us to ground and keep fighting.
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - September 18, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: New study finds climate change responsible for two-third...
Dissident Voice

Why Do Men Watch Porn? A Feminist and Queer Analysis - The dominant neuroscientific discourse on male porn addiction is underpinned by a moral pedagogy that tacitly assumes a normative sexual baseline: that t...
Project Censored

The Trouble with Tradwives - Lori Bindig Yousman “Tradwives” are having a moment. Amidst the rejection of “lean-in” culture and “girl boss” backlash, a host of popular social media a...
Bonddad

Jobless claims continue higher YoY trend - - *by New Deal democrat* We are in the part of the year when, post-Covid, likely residual seasonality has resulted in a declining trend in new joble...
Rewire

Vaccine Guidelines for COVID, Measles, and Hepatitis B Under Review by CDC Panel - Experts worry the panel could vote to change science-backed vaccine guidance for these viruses, all of which can pose a severe threat to pregnant people ...
Scheerpost.com

Slamming ‘Fascist Tactics’ of Trump, Mahmoud Khalil Fights Judge’s Deportation Decision - A member of his legal team noted that “the immigration prosecutor, judge, and jailer all answer to Donald Trump, and that one man is eager to weaponize the...
Democracy Now!

"The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya": Al Jazeera Film on Israel's Abduction & Torture of Gaza Doctor - A powerful new documentary produced by *Fault Lines* on Al Jazeera English tells the story of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the Palestinian pediatrician and direc...
The Conversation

Trump administration is threatening liberal foundations and nonprofits after Kirk’s death – but proving wrongdoing by any of them would be very hard - When foundations provide grants, they’re engaging in a protected free speech activity that entitles them to certain privacy rights.
Glasstire

Top Five: September 18, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s 2025 Fall Preview picks, please go here. 1. Untitled Art Houston George R. Brown ...
Space City Weather

After our latest dry spell, how did the greater Houston region do this summer with rainfall? - In brief: In today’s post we dive into the precipitation Houston recorded this summer. Most of the region got significantly less than normal, but we’re not...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Outrageous Attack on Free Speech’: ABC Hit With Severe Backlash for Pulling Jimmy Kimmel -
Skeptophilia

Mechanical brain transplant - New from the "Well, I can't see any way that could go wrong, do you?" department, we have: scientists growing Neanderthal brain fragments in petri dishes a...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Midway to the Midterm: The Imperfect Bellwethers of New Jersey and Virginia - The NJ and VA gubernatorial races sometimes suggest what will happen in the following year's midterms, but there are many exceptions The post Midway to t...
See You In 2020

Gaza, the 680,000 death estimate, and what it looks like to resist your own annihilation - Image from the PFLP. The extermination campaign against Gaza’s people is the fulfillment of every anxiety about engineered depopulations, apocalypses, o...
Dissent Magazine

[NYC EVENT | October 19] Food Tour with Arun Gupta - Please join us in New York City for a food tour in support of Dissent. On Saturday, October 18, Dissent editors, staff, and donors will enjoy New York Ci...
Texas Observer

News Orgs Fight to Unseal Records in the Paxtons’ Divorce Case - This article was first co-published by The Texas Newsroom and ProPublica. A group of state and national media organizations, including The Texas Newsroom...
Ian Welsh

American Billionaires Are Competing To Be King Shit of Turd Island - You may have heard that Tesla’s board has proposed giving Elon Musk a one trillion dollar payday. Tesla is falling apart, and the ostensible theory is that...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

In Lak’Ech and the Good Samaritan: Texas State Rep. James Talarico and the Redemptive Politics of Radical Neighborliness, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *In Lak’Ech and the Good Samaritan: Texas State Rep. James Talarico and the Redemptive Politics of Radical Neighborliness * *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph...
Sludge

Following Sludge Report, SKDK Says It’s Dropping Its Israel Contract - The Democratic PR firm was under contract with Israel to build a social media bot program, but says it never worked on such a program.
Ecosophia

Situationism: Understanding the Spectacle - Two weeks ago we started a discussion of the Situationists, an obscure movement spawned by fringe Marxism in 1950s Europe. As I commented at the time, that...
NORML

Minnesota: Retailers Begin Adult-Use Cannabis Sales - [image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cannabis leaf symbol representing the sale of legal cannabis][image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cann...
Bracing Views

The Department of War Is Back! - But Victoryless Culture Remains Also at TomDispatch.com. BY WILLIAM J. ASTORE My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / Political Commentary / Virtually everything the Trump Administration has done to ramp up deportations has been illegal - Honk for Trump Vance. Photo by Thomas Hawk / Flickr/ Creative Commons. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / September 16, 2025 The following is an expanded...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is filling up fast. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. I turned on the TV coverage of CNN for Tyler Robinson's court appearance. ...
Crooked Timber

On the philosophical – moral implications of a 1989 Honda Civic - A trolley problem, some personal stuff, a bit of Islamic jurisprudence, and then the Honda. 1) Trolley time. Let’s start with the trolley problem. Peop...
Krebs on Security

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages - At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials fro...
Earth 911

Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden - Mulch is any material you use to cover bare soil in a landscape. But mulching... The post Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden appeared fir...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
The Grayzone

Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he a...
Idavox

Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! - Charlie Kirk does not deserve our respect or goodwill, no matter how much the mainstream... The post Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! appeared first on...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Liberation News

Trump’s war on culture shows that people’s voices are powerful - It's time to build a peoples culture of resistance.
Trivial Knot

Computer difficulties - Story time. So the other day, my computer crashed and then it wouldn’t restart. I’m not much of a hardware person, but my brothers are, so I spent a long...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION. - *Saw *Velvet Goldmine * recently; it was a whole vibe,and this tune certainly didn't hurt.* Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as myself have to ...
Debunking Christianity

A Comment On Charlie Kirk - With regard to the killing of Charlie Kirk, bad ideas that are communicated respectfully still cause harm and must be opposed even though the person who ...
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Environment Texas

Solar driving American energy growth - With renewables on track to meet more than a quarter of America’s electricity in 2026, solar energy drives the growth. The post Solar driving American en...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Texas Freedom Network

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

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

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

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

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

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

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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nonsite.org

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

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

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Media Lens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
Two Party Opera

2PO Revisits - Last year was the 150th anniversary of the impeachment and Senate trial of 17th President Andrew Johnson. Starting on March 13, 2018, Two Party Opera ran f...
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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