Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

Mediagazer

A district court judge dismissed Matt Taibbi's defamation case against Eoin Higgins and publisher Hachette for the cover and content of Higgins' book, Owned (Eoin Higgins/The Flashpoint) - Eoin Higgins / The Flashpoint: *A district court judge dismissed Matt Taibbi's defamation case against Eoin Higgins and publisher Hachette for the cover ...
Courthouse News

Businesses get second chance to sue Seattle over 2020 protest zone - While concluding the businesses failed to prove the government intentionally created a danger, a Ninth Circuit panel gave them another shot to raise their ...
The Hill

Mrvan, Regnitz set for November House matchup in Indiana - Democrat Rep. Frank Mrvan (Ind.) is set to face off this fall against Republican Porter County Commissioner Barb Regnitz in what’s expected to be one of th...
Portside

Cooperation Is More Powerful Than Coercion - Cooperation Is More Powerful Than Coercion Judy Tue, 05/05/2026 - 19:33
El Paso Matters

ICE says detained 23-year-old is not candidate for ovarian cyst surgery, denies humanitarian parole - ICE denied humanitarian parole to a 23-year-old Minnesota woman detained in El Paso, saying she is not a candidate for ovarian cyst surgery despite conc...
Ballot Access News

Vox Article Claims the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact May Pass After the 2026 Elections - This article in Vox says that if the predicted blue wave is big enough and deep enough in legislative and Governor elections in certain states, the Nationa...
The Verge

Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests - Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini f...
Mediaite

‘Why Shouldn’t You Go to Jail?’ Conservative Pundit Suggests Cost Overruns on Ballroom Could Trigger Tough Legal Questions for Trump - Anti-MAGA conservative Jonah Goldberg suggested the $1 billion taxpayers will pay to secure Trump's ballroom will raise tough legal questions for the pre...
CultureMap Houston

Why Yemeni coffeehouses are booming in Houston and across the U.S. - Hundreds of years ago, Yemen helped introduce the world to coffee. Lately, the mountainous, war-ravaged country that borders Saudi Arabia and Oman is expor...
memeorandum

Federal employment agency sues NYT for discrimination (Axios) - Axios: *Federal employment agency sues NYT for discrimination* … - The Times also filed its own lawsuit against the Defense Department last year over its...
Al Jazeera English

CENTCOM: ‘Safe path’ through Hormuz is US priority in ‘Project Freedom’ - US CENTCOM spokesman Tim Hawkins says the main priorities in Hormuz are securing safe routes & blockading Iran.
Popular Resistance

Brooklyn Rally Demands: Free Nicolas Maduro And Cilia Flores - People rallied outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, to demand freedom for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Comba...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Election Law Blog

“Guess Whose Rights the Supreme Court Thinks Come With a Stopwatch” - Dahlia Lithwick & Alexis Romero in Slate: And the justice found even more changes to celebrate. New elections! New party lines! New computer programs! So...
Novara Media

Labour Weaponises Antisemitism Ahead of Local Elections - It’s 2019 all over again, as the media and a desperate Labour party weaponise antisemitism against the left once more. Plus: Organisers of anti-genocide ma...
Futurism

Earth Screams in Agony as Microplastics Found to Increase Global Warming - "We can say with confidence that overall they are warming agents." The post Earth Screams in Agony as Microplastics Found to Increase Global Warming appe...
OpEd News

Turkey Proposes Alternative Energy Corridor as Strait of Hormuz Disruptions Expose Global Vulnerabilities - This article talks about Turkey Proposing an alternative energy corridor to the Strait of Hormuz
Environment Texas

Hundreds of volunteers kick off a month of action to address plastic pellet pollution - The International Plastic Pellet Count officially kicked off on Saturday. The post Hundreds of volunteers kick off a month of action to address plastic p...
The Week

People across the US are ‘speed-running’ into Scientology buildings - The church is alleging that the pranks constitute hate crimes
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
Alternet

GOP hit with creeping 'anxiety' as red state becomes surprise battleground - Ohio proved itself more of a red state after Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown failed to retain his seat in 2024. And along with Brown losing to Republi...
Independent Political Report

Spotlight PA Examines Rise in Pennsylvania Independent Voters, Barriers for Candidates - A new Spotlight PA report finds that Pennsylvania’s independent and third party voter rolls are growing, even as the state’s political system continues t...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Obama's a traitor all over again! - *TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2026* *Tyrus drops in on The Five:* Is the era of rational discourse over? As we noted yesterday, that's what the headline says on a ...
First Draft

Gret Stet Of Confusion - Chaos in Louisiana as The Clownfish cancels Congressional primaries in search of partisan advantage.
NORML

Virginia: NORML Leads Coalition Urging Governor Not to Veto Adult-Use Marijuana Sales Bills - [image: a map of the mid-Atlantic US with the state of Virginia shaded green and marked with a location pin featuring the state seal on a background of c...
Brad Blog

‘Green News Report’ – May 5, 2026 - Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!…(Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Nearly half of Americans are cutting back on driv...
Houston Public Media

Environmental advocates call for increased enforcement against Dow Freeport plant - A nonprofit watchdog group found that the company emitted at least 119 tons of volatile organic compounds over the last five years, despite enforcement act...
Common Dreams

New Report Reveals Coordinated Corporate Campaign Against Life-Saving Federal Heat Standard for Workers - As record heat waves threaten workers from report sites and warehouses to farmlands and delivery routes across the country, a new report from Groundwork ...
Salon.com

“Battlestar Galactica” had Cylons — We have AI - The beloved sci-fi series, now streaming on Paramount+, is one of TV’s strongest political and social parables
Daily Cartoonist

National Cartoonist Day de Mayo - Nancy Beiman gave us a three week notice of the annual “holy day.” The others mostly waited until today. Today comic strips transition from World Press Fre...
Scheerpost.com

Photographic Memory Is A Myth – Here’s What Research Really Says About Remembering - Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can rememb...
Consortium News

Craig Murray: The Morass of Injustice - The Starmer regime is intent on the subversion of so-called British justice. It is operating purely in the interests of a foreign state to protect Israel f...
Slate

My Husband Makes Demands of Me in Bed That I’m Afraid Could One Day Land Me in Trouble. Still, I Acquiesce. - I thought we'd be done with this by now.
Mother Jones

ChatGPT Gave Me Chilling Advice—as I Simulated Planning a Mass Shooting - On April 14, I created a free account on ChatGPT and asked for some help. It resisted me at first, but after some pushing the responses turned shocking. Du...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Quinceañeras, Community, and the Power of Being Seen by Bobby Pulido in South Texas, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. 5 de Mayo, 2026 - *Quinceañeras, Community, and the Power of Being Seen **by Bobby Pulido in South Texas* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *Feliz 5 de Mayo! Happy 5th of...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court’s indefensible evisceration of the Voting Rights Act - *Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy.* Last week,...
The Conversation

In rural Appalachia, abortion pill offers reproductive choice and privacy − but police may see a crime - A Kentucky woman was arrested for ordering abortion meds online. Her case shows how bad policy can trap people just trying to cope with an unintended pregn...
Vox

Falling birth rates don’t have to be a crisis - Let’s face it: Another baby boom isn’t coming anytime soon. The latest round of US birth data, released earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Contr...
ArcaMax

Life of the Party: Maine's Senate Race Tests the Democrats' Future - In his famous poem "The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats ruminated about what happens when "the center cannot hold," and "things fall apart." Things ha...
Earth 911

We Are Doing to Low Earth Orbit What We Did to the Oceans - About two tons of satellite material burns up in Earth’s atmosphere every day. That is... The post We Are Doing to Low Earth Orbit What We Did to the Oce...
WhoWhatWhy

The Green New Deal Has Evolved. Now It’s All About ‘Affordability.’ - [image: Woman, shopping, groceries] Eight years ago, three little words took hold of the environmental movement: Green New Deal. Part popular slogan, part ...
San Antonio Report

Small-town mayors cruise to reelection, while some add new faces on council - Leon Valley’s longest-serving mayor was reelected in a landslide Saturday evening, while nine other small-town mayors didn’t even draw an opponent. Mayor C...
Skeptophilia

Scary times - Dear Readers: This is to let you know of some upcoming changes. Some of you might know I also write over at Substack, and over there have focused mainly o...
Countercurrents

Strains Within NATO: U.S. Troop Withdrawal Signals Deepening Transatlantic Divisions - Is a fault line emerging across the Atlantic within the imperialist camp—one that carries serious implications? If this fault line cannot be repaired, does...
Off The Kuff

SCOTUS puts administrative stay on unhinged Fifth Circuit mifepristone ruling - On hold for now. The Supreme Court on Monday restored nationwide access to a widely used abortion medication in a temporary order that will, for now, allow...
Crooked Media

Trump Is Falling. Are Democrats Rising? - The post Trump Is Falling. Are Democrats Rising? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Grist

Cities are rehearsing for deadly heat. Will it help when disaster comes? - As heat waves grow longer and deadlier, cities around the world are using drills and tabletop exercises to expose weaknesses before a real emergency strikes.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 5 May 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- to see any image at full size, right-click and open the link in a new tab. [For the link round-up, click here. For the...
High Country News

Controversial gas pipeline across Navajo Nation to begin - The pipeline would eventually cross 234 miles of tribal land. The hearing initiating the project caught community members off guard. The post Controvers...
Counterpunch

History Moved But the Liberal Left Didn’t: Ireland’s Fuel Protests - The liberal left again adopted a self‑defeating posture during the recent fuel and cost‑of‑living protests in Ireland. Instead of supporting the proteste...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military - Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’ Workers developing Googl...
jobsanger

Is It Operation Epic Fury Or Operation Colossal Blunder? -
Informed Comment

Netanyahu’s Hezbollah War Masks a Mission of Destruction - An Israeli soldier admitted that their mission in Southern Lebanon is not about targeting Hezbollah; it is “to destroy villages
Deadline Politics

Jon Stewart On Trump’s Eschewal Of Congressional War Approval: “You Almost Have To Admire The Brazenness” - Jon Stewart — after getting the news of the night, that he was not invited to the Met Gala, out of the way — set his sights on the continuing saga of “our ...
Raw Story

Melania Trump humiliated her husband as he tries to outrun his decay: analysts - First lady Melania Trump just handed President Donald Trump his biggest humiliation yet as the president tried to outrun his decay, according to two poli...
Glasstire

Five-Minute Tours: Dario Robleto at Art League Houston - Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artist-run...
Techdirt.

Trump Does An RFK Jr.: Fires Entire 22 Member Board Of The National Science Foundation - The Trump administration’s war on science has been a furious one. Be it deep cuts to scientific research, policies that ignore scientific research, or the ...
Political Wire

Supreme Court Agrees to Fast-Track Louisiana Map - New York Times: “The Supreme Court on Monday evening agreed to immediately transmit to the lower courts its opinion striking down Louisiana’s congressional...
Axios

You built it with AI. Now run it with AI. - *I'm offering you four specific ways to get more out of AI: better prompting, improving AI memory, starting a business using AI and running a business us...
The AltWorld

U.S.-Iran War About to Explode Again? w/ Navid Zarrinnal in Tehran - The Trump administration has announced a new military operation in the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran is […] The post U.S.-Iran War About to Explode Again?...
The Greanville Post

Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s Trap, Trump’s Sanity - PATRICK LAWRENCE—In effect, Rhodes via Platner makes the case for a fundamental renovation of American foreign policy — a turn toward 21st century realitie...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anti-LGBTQ coalition planning to target gay couples and their children via legislation - Katy Faust LGBTQ Americans and our loved ones should consider the following to be a warning: We're ok with the Kim Davis case being passed over by the ...
Antiwar.com

The West’s Bubble of Illusion About Israel – and About Itself – Is Finally Being Burst - For decades, two irreconcilable narratives about Israel and its motivations have existed in parallel. On the one side, an official western narrative portra...
The Daily Poster

Spirit Airlines Didn’t Crash — It Was Taken Down - From predatory pricing to blocked mergers, the forces that sunk Spirit reveal how concentrated corporate power controls our skies.
Claytoonz

Fugly Passport - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
The NM Political Report

The Bernalillo County tax civil war: Assessor vs. Treasurer - [image: Bernalillo County Assessor Damian Lara and Treasurer Tim Eichenberg face off over short-term rental property taxes] By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — A...
San Antonio Current

Brewer Marcus Baskerville back in San Antonio to work for St. Anthony’s culinary concepts - [image: Weathered Souls Brewing Co. founder and chief Marcus Baskerville is back in San Antonio but wearing a slightly different hat.] Baskerville, who le...
Rewire

Abortion Pill Access Is in Limbo. Here’s What’s at Stake—and Your Options. - SCOTUS is poised to weigh in on the tug-of-war over access to mifepristone. What happens next could upend a popular form of abortion care—telehealth medi...
The Texas Signal

A Museum’s Quest To Humanize The Incarceration Experience - Amid the morbid and the macabre is a bold attempt to explain the life and impact of incarceration on the humans who serve time and the people who guard them.
Project Censored

Farmworkers in Mexico Lack Basic Social Security - Farmworkers on both sides of the US-Mexico border play a huge role in agriculture, but many still lack basic protections. In a March 2026 article, origin...
NPR's Health Shots

Anti-poverty program is effective even in one of the world's toughest settings - Researchers looked at whether a tried-and-true poverty alleviation effort that gives cash and coaching to households, and is typically implemented in rural...
ProPublica

ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting - The post ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting appeared first on ProPublica.
Wolf Street

Bond Market on Edge: Treasury Yields Spike, 30-Year to 5.03%, Mortgage Rates to 6.52%, as Gulf War Reheats - Which raises a question: How many more Fed rate cuts would it take in this inflationary era to drive the 30-year Treasury yield to 6%?
Capital & Main

Nike Isn’t Playing Trump’s Anti-DEI Game. What Will That Cost? - The sportswear company is one of the few that hasn’t caved to Trump on diversity, equity and inclusion. Now it’s under investigation. The post Nike Isn’t...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Abundance Bro Seth London & Lis Smith’s Caper Typifies State of the Art Dem Dark Money Schemes - Venture capitalist and Abundance bro Seth London's ambitious dark money scheme employing powerful consultant Lis Smith is best of class, but far from alone...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Children Describe 'Despair, Loneliness, and Boredom' at Colorado Juvenile Detention Centers - Children describe adult jail-like conditions at Colorado juvenile detention centers
The Root

Tatyana Ali Opens Up About Traumatic Birth of Her First Baby - Actress Tatyana Ali reflected on the 2016 delivery of her son Edward, during which she said doctors “pushed him back inside” her. Read more...
Texas Standard

Rep. Michael McCaul warns Texas Republicans not to nominate Ken Paxton for Senate - The outgoing Austin congressman believes that Paxton could lose the race to Democrat James Talarico.
Undernews

Kamala Harris - *Independent, UK - *Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ new home, tucked away in a celebrity-packed part of Malibu, may signal what’s to come for her poli...
Dissent Magazine

How Mamdani Can Build Mass Engagement - The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the ...
Texas Observer

Brownsville bajo la influencia - Nota del editor: Esta es la segunda parte de una serie de dos partes respaldada por el Pulitzer Center y la Beca de Periodismo de Investigación de la Ida...
Bonddad

Long leading indicators in Q1 GDP point in absolutely opposite directions - - *by New Deal democrat* The advance report for Q1 GDP was a study in contrasts, both in terms of the leading indicators and also the sources of str...
Mondoweiss

How Dr. Adam Hamawy’s experience as a surgeon in Gaza inspired him to run for Congress - [image: Dr. Hamawy in Gaza (Hamawy for New Jersey)]A combat surgeon who volunteered in Gaza during the genocide is one of the surprise leaders in the Democ...
Democracy Now!

Trita Parsi on Iran War: Trump Still "Looking for a Silver Bullet" Instead of Negotiating Seriously - We discuss the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft’s Trita Parsi. U.S. officials are denying Irania...
Rallblog

Welcome to Club H - The president nearly met his Maker again. With the possibility of death comes consideration of what might await one in the hereafter. With little doubt t...
Space City Weather

Houston just had its nicest weekend of the year. What’s next? - In brief: After stunning weather across Houston this weekend, we return abruptly to reality this week with rising humidity levels and warmer weather. Begin...
Debunking Christianity

God Failed as a Parent! - Just consider what good parents do. They raise their children to be good people, sometimes despite bad circumstances. Bad parents don't. Why is it a heav...
slacktivist

Recent reads (5.04.26) - Featuring New England fauna, western flora, conspiracy theorists, Theosophists, Roberto Clemente, and "supernatural rabbits more generally."
The Smirking Chimp

What Trump’s Hidden Rich Man’s Ballroom Bunker Reveals About His Mental State -
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Interim report provides no answers on Bondi terrorist attack - The section of the report dealing with the role played by the federal policing and intelligence agencies, about which so many questions remain, has been su...
Socialist Alternative

Workers Take Action On May Day—Wins, Limitations & What Comes Next - May Day this year took place in a period of extreme capitalist instability and volatility, with Trump at the helm of this system in decay. The fragile ceas...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 03, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 03, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War War, El Niño, Pestilence, and Famine: The Coming Shock to Global Food Supplies Craig...
Bracing Views

The Great Retreat from Germany - News out of the Pentagon is that the great retreat from Germany is beginning. Five thousand U.S. troops are being withdrawn at the request of a petulant pr...
The Progressive Wing

5.3-4 Open Threads - Hello, Everyone. 🤗 LD had to take a much-needed breather, so I’m filling in. These are Open Threads, and the Nest is ready. Print whatever suits your fanc...
Greg Palast

Frank Sinatra, Donald Trump and My Partner - It's kind of embarrassing. Donald J. Trump was my business and character reference for my investigations firm, Union Associates, when, in the 1980s, I appl...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Canigou and cherry trees - [image: Canigou and cherries]
Trivial Knot

Origami: Polyrhythmic flower - This is a pleat-based design, similar to other designs I’ve posted before. They’re fairly simple to fold on the spot and improvise. This probably took me...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
Workers World

Trump’s standoff with Iran fuels mounting economic, political strain across Europe - [image: Trump’s standoff with Iran fuels mounting economic, political strain across Europe] Press TV posted the following article on April 27, 2026. Europe...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
Lowering the Bar

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case - She used bees to assault some people. She didn't assault a bee.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Angry Bear

When a Senator Makes Ignorant remarks - If this is a true statement by esteemed Senator Sununu, he must be in his last term in office. Personally, I believe all Senators and Representatives sho...
LareDOS

WCHF recipient of two Texas Association of Museums awards - Recoognition for excellence in museum communications and design
Seeing the Forest

The Old Enemies Of Peace – Welcome Their Hatred - This post first appeared at Imagine Democracy – Imagining government of the people, by the people and for the people. In 1932 FDR campaigned asking for hel...
Church and State

‘Only the Beginning’: Santa Marta Summit Heralded as New Dawn in Fight to End Fossil Fuel Era - The single biggest breakthrough at the conference was France’s unveiling of a national roadmap to phase out fossil fuels in the coming decades.
Sludge

Bayer Built a Farm Front Group to Fight Roundup Cancer Claims - The German pharmaceutical giant launched the Modern Ag Alliance two years ago to help protect itself from billions in cancer-related liabilities and push f...
The Militant

Chicago school lunchroom workers rally for a contract - CHICAGO — Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools lunchroom workers and their supporters rallied downtown here April 23 protesting the lack of progress toward a...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Christian Nationalism as Heresy and Threat: A Conversation with Rev. Angela Denker - I was so happy to welcome Rev. Angela Denker of I'm Listening to Dispatches From A Collapsing State. Here, Denker, author of Disciples of White Jesus, and ...
Earthworks

Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’ve Witnessed in 2026 So Far - The Air is Shared What happens at an oil and gas site doesn’t stay there. It moves. Out here there … The post Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’...
Liberation News

Working people can defeat Trump! - Millions of people across the country are marking International Workers Day in the true tradition of the holiday that was born right here in the United Sta...
Progressive.org

In Chile, Latin America’s Latest Far-Right Leader Takes the Stage - José Antonio Kast, a once-marginal figure who rode fearmongering on crime and migration to Chile’s presidency, is taking pointers from far-right leaders in...
Dorf on Law

The Alien Tort Statute's Translation Problem - The Alien Tort Statute (ATS) was enacted by the first Congress as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 and, with the exception of references to particular f...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterm Elections: Six Months Out - Now that May 2026 has arrived, we are six months out from the 2026 United States midterm elections. Scheduled date is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. At this...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
Black Agenda Report

Dr. Gerald Horne Analyzes the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iran - Dr. Gerald Horne Analyzes the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iran Authors Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist bareditors Fri, 05/0...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Rising Responds to SCOTUS VRA Ruling - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2026 AUSTIN, Texas – The U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday opened the path for Texas and other states to redraw their...
Krebs on Security

Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs - A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Redistricting Check-in at the Dawn of the Callais Era - What the Callais decision may mean, and how the national House map has already changed, or not changed, so far The post A Redistricting Check-in at the D...
Ecosophia

War In Heaven? - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, the topic of the fifth Wednesday post here gets decided by the readership via...
The Grayzone

UK judge gags Palestine Action defendants to secure ‘terror’ stitch-up - Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equ...
See You In 2020

People’s Forum hosts neocons & Democrats, revealing a consolidation of the pro-reformist forces - There is evidence that the “red liberal” tendency within left politics is now being directly assimilated into the Democratic Party itself. We have reaso...
Field Negro

Render unto Caesar. - *" Julius Caesar styled himself as a servant of the republic, claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded laws and norms to govern by capric...
Discourse

Abolish the White House Correspondents Dinner (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: All the depraved moments and images from the failed shooting
Duck of Minerva

This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide - As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and An...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not just anybody - Photo: Harrowgate Valley Gardens by Cliff Ounsley Harold Meyerson at *The American Prospect*, "New Israeli Law: Hangings for Palestinians, but No Noose ...
MintPress News

Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE Complicity - As Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehran ...
Idavox

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. - MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ... The post I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Big Bidness Babble - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 592kb Starring in order of appearance: Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of “Some Crap You Bought To Read On T...
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
Campaign for America's Future

I Want You to March With Me This May Day - I invite you to march with me this May Day, then organize to win elections and protect our right to vote. Together, we can prove the power of organized peo...
DeSmogBlog

Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in ...
Edinburg Politics

Landmark state law led by Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Rep. Terry Canales to bring $160 million biomedical research center to Edinburg, Mayor Omar Ochoa reveals in State of the City Address - One of the many results of a landmark state law, led in 2013 by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, will be a $160 million b...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - 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 ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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