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/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 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

Raw Story

GOP clamors for Trump Cabinet member to become 'easy fall guy' for Epstein: MS Now hosts - If for no other reason than as a distraction, Republican lawmakers are hoping that one member of Donald Trump’s inner circle will be pushed out due to hi...
The Hill

Trump seeks to loosen environmental regulations to 'unleash' nuclear energy - The Trump administration is making moves to loosen the environmental rules for nuclear energy. Earlier this month, the Energy Department published an exclu...
Mediaite

Trump Shuts Democratic Governors Out of Annual White House Meeting: Report - The session, held alongside the National Governors Association’s winter gathering, will exclude every Democratic governor, a spokesperson said. The post ...
WhoWhatWhy

Climate News Is Written in a Language Most People Can’t Understand - [image: Fire danger, sign, BLM, California] A new report argues that English-only climate science and disaster alerts are excluding most of the world, and ...
naked capitalism

Links 2/10/2026 -
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Democrats reject White House ICE offer as partial shutdown looms – US politics live - Schumer and Jeffries says White House proposal is ‘incomplete and insufficient’ as prospect of deal recedes *Police departments across the US are quietly...
Crooked Media

Dignity In Demand - The post Dignity In Demand appeared first on Crooked Media.
Salon.com

Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think - The California governor's policy priorities undermine his Trump trolling — and his progressive credentials
memeorandum

Samuel Alito Opens Up About Antonin Scalia and the Path from Roe to Dobbs (James Rosen/Politico) - James Rosen / Politico: *Samuel Alito Opens Up About Antonin Scalia and the Path from Roe to Dobbs* … On the unseasonably hot evening of Oct. 2, 1986, a ...
Vox

Pope Leo is quietly reviving America’s Catholic left - A quiet cold war is happening across America — one that many Americans might not be aware of if they’re not tuned into the changes underway in America’s Ch...
Skeptophilia

Falling rock zone - Some of you may have heard of the Sylacauga meteorite -- a 5.5 kilogram, grapefruit-sized piece of rock that gained more notoriety than most because it cra...
The Smirking Chimp

Clown Car Presidency’: Trump Mocked After Threatening Canada in Social Media Meltdown -
Scheerpost.com

Seth Harp Speaks on New York Times Spiking US Foreign Policy Interview With Ross Douthat - “I think the US is only the latest in a very long history of military empires,” he told Common Dreams. “This is a perspective to which New York Times reade...
Mediagazer

Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M, and a €701M operating income, above €639.1M est. (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) - Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: *Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M, and a €701M operat...
Novara Media

Peter Mandelson Sold Off Britain to the Super-Rich. He’s Not the Only One - Britain’s political scandals have acquired a peculiar quality. They don’t feel like ruptures in an otherwise healthy system, but small windows thrown open ...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Traci Gibson - You have to go all the way to the bottom of the ballot in a primary year to get to the race for Party Chair. It’s been a non-issue most cycles recently – I...
Slate

Help! My Family All Vacations Together. I Never Get Invited. - I couldn't keep quiet about this anymore.
San Antonio Report

VIA’s Green Line bus stops approved by city commission after design changes - VIA’s Green Line bus stops were approved by a City of San Antonio commission last week after the transit agency made slight changes to its designs. ------...
The Week

The world’s most romantic hotels - Treetop hideaways, secluded villas and a woodland cabin – perfect settings for Valentine’s Day
Al Jazeera English

People displaced by South Sudan fighting wait for aid at remote camp - Displaced civilians in South Sudan have fled heavy fighting between government forces and opposition fighters.
ProPublica

Tracking Habeas Cases - The post Tracking Habeas Cases appeared first on ProPublica.
Axios

Europe's leadership crisis - Data: Morning Consult; Chart: Axios Visuals U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting for his political life, rejecting calls to resign yesterday as fal...
NPR's Health Shots

Hospitals are posting prices for patients. It's mostly industry using the data - The Trump administration pushed for price transparency in health care. But instead of patients shopping for services, it's mostly health systems and insure...
Courthouse News

Global heatwave affected half of world’s coral reefs - Coral reefs experienced significant bleaching in 2014 to 2017 due to rising ocean temperatures.
Grist

Data centers are scrambling to power the AI boom with natural gas - As tech giants find creative ways to generate electricity, they’re building a glut of new fossil fuel projects.
Common Dreams

Anti-Them: A Joyful Colonial At the Heart of Empire - Good Bunny Bad Trump Dept: Super Bowl LX sucked, but Bad Bunny's exuberant "cultural landmine" of a half-time show was fire, a heartfelt, sanguine, unify...
High Country News

How a Colorado ski town reserved almost 75% of its full-time housing for workforce - Breckenridge is aiming to keep locals local. The post How a Colorado ski town reserved almost 75% of its full-time housing for workforce appeared first ...
The AltWorld

Why Russia and China should step up the defense of Cuba - How much aggression is Moscow and Beijing going to let the American psycho regime get away with […] The post Why Russia and China should step up the defe...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 10 February 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the food video post, click here.] ...
Countercurrents

Army of Children: How Israeli Training Centers, Schools, and Settler Violence Are Creating an Army Before Adulthood - From playgrounds to boot camps: Israel trains children as young as seven in combat skills, weapons, and occupation duties, raising an army of children. In ...
Counterpunch

Washington’s Cult of the Bomb - The first of the bombs used against Japan, the one that flattened Hiroshima, produced a blast equivalent to about 15,000 tons of TNT and killed tens of t...
LareDOS

Dan Clouse memorializes the small town milieu that was Laredo, the place that formed us - Nostalgia is complicated
jobsanger

Capitalism Must Be Regulated To Benefit Everyone -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3350: Pickering’s Harem - Episode: 3350 Today honoring a special group of women scientists. Pickering's Harem.
World Socialist Web Site

Widespread anger over NYSNA’s sellout bid to end New York nurses’ strike - The union is attempting to push through sellout contracts for striking nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore systems, while isolating the 4,500 nurses at Ne...
Informed Comment

Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Puerto Ricans are Americans, but the US is Guilty of Neglect - Puerto Ricans are subject to taxation without representation, which is against everything the Constitution otherwise stands for
Land Destroyer

US Consolidates Control Over Proxies Amid War on Multipolarism - *February 2, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Behind the political theater that is the “US-European split,” exists an aggressive campaign of US consolidation...
Portside

Republican Frostbite - Republican Frostbite Mark Brody Mon, 02/09/2026 - 23:32
Techdirt.

Newly Public Emails Sure Make It Look Like RFK Jr. Lied To Congress About His Trip To Samoa In 2019 - Way back in 2018, a series of events in Samoa brought about the country’s worst measles outbreak in years. It started in July of that year when two 1-year ...
Popular Resistance

Minneapolis Teaches How To Fight Fascist Occupation And Terrorism - The Trump administration's 'Metro Surge' in Minneapolis-St. Paul, where 3,000 or more federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security have been d...
Political Wire

Trump Told Police ‘Everyone’ Knew About Epstein - “President Donald Trump has repeatedly maintained that he had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes,” the Miami Herald reports. “But in July 2006, j...
Alternet

Georgia judge deals fatal blow to MAGA election lawsuit - A Georgia judge has officially dismissed lawsuit filed by supporters of President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, and paused another one. That's ...
Wolf Street

Despite 4 Years of Mass-Layoffs at Alphabet & Amazon, Headcount Rose in 2025, Nearly Flat with Peak, as Hiring Continued - After biggest hiring binge ever in 2020-2021, it was clear there’d be a lot of sorting out & cleaning up afterwards.
Consortium News

Jeffrey Sachs: On Iran’s Comprehensive Peace Proposal - The Middle East stands at a crossroads between endless war and comprehensive peace. A framework for peace does exist. Will the U.S. finally seize it? By Je...
Deadline Politics

Olympian Hunter Hess Responds To Trump After POTUS Called Him A “Real Loser” For Expressing “Mixed Emotions” Over Representing The U.S. - After being on the receiving end of President Donald Trump’s ire for expressing “mixed emotions” about representing the United States as an Olympian, frees...
Brad Blog

About Trump's FBI Raid of the Fulton County, GA Elections Warehouse: 'BradCast' 2/9/2026 - I wish we coulda talked about Bad Bunny for the entire BradCast. But, alas, fighting fascism calls. (Which actually brings us back to Bad Bunny! But I digr...
Workers World

Super Bowl LX, Bad Bunny and the bigoted backlash - [image: Super Bowl LX, Bad Bunny and the bigoted backlash] Super Bowl LX featured two halftime shows on Feb. 8. The official halftime show was headlined by...
The Verge

New Mexico goes to trial to accuse Meta of facilitating child predators - At the center of a consequential case about social media liability is a key question: did Meta lie or mislead the public about the safety of its platform, ...
The Greanville Post

Elina’s Dispatches: Managed Outrage Under Capitalism • Criminal US Sanctions - ELINA XENOPHONTOS—In the current crisis of capitalism, Trump—much like historical figures such as Hitler in moments of systemic rupture—functions as a vehi...
ArcaMax

Why Police Traffic Stops Are Dangerous and Ineffective - The Fourth Amendment protects us from being stopped, searched or detained by police without good reason. But over the years, courts have dramatically weake...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Republicans want nothing to do with effort to ban gay marriage' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *Republicans Want Nothing to Do With Conservative Efforts to Ban Gay Marriage *- *This isn't surprising seeing how popular gay marriage (same-sex marri...
Independent Political Report

Texas Forward Party Appoints New County Chairs in Cameron and Harris Counties - The Texas Forward Party has named two new county chairs, appointing civic leader Ciara Perez as Cameron County Chair and attorney John Flud as Harris Cou...
Antiwar.com

Iran’s Comprehensive Peace Proposal to the United States - History occasionally presents moments when the truth about a conflict is stated plainly enough that it becomes impossible to ignore. Iranian Foreign Minist...
Futurism

Bitcoin Finally Finds Practical Use: Kidnapping Senior Citizens for Ransom - There it is. The post Bitcoin Finally Finds Practical Use: Kidnapping Senior Citizens for Ransom appeared first on Futurism.
Ian Welsh

America Psychopathy Continues To Stun (Cuba Edition) - So, as you probably know America is stopping all fuel from reaching Cuba. They’ll be out in days. Tomorrow the jet fuel runs out, so no more international ...
San Antonio Current

UT-San Antonio grad is first Super Bowl winner in school’s history - UT-San Antonio alum and Seattle Seahawks cornerback Riq Woolen on Sunday brought home the first Super Bowl victory in the school’s history. The Seahawks...
CultureMap Houston

Celebrate Houston's culinary stars at 2026 CultureMap Tastemaker Awards - If you love food and drink, this one's for you. The *CultureMap Tastemaker Awards* return this spring to celebrate Houston's top restaurant and bar talent ...
Alas, a Blog

The Obsession - This cartoon is by me and frequent collaborator Nadine Scholtes. In December 2025, Representative Sarah McBride – who is herself trans – commented about he...
El Paso Matters

2 Republicans compete for GOP nomination for El Paso County judge in bid to oust Ricardo Samaniego - Republicans Guadalupe Giner and Minerva Torres Shelton are seeking the GOP nomination in the March primary to vie against El Paso County Judge Ricardo S...
Environment Texas

Study links adoption of electric vehicles with less air pollution and improved health - A new peer-reviewed study finds that electric cars are associated with real-world reductions in air pollution and respiratory problems. The post Study li...
The Texas Signal

A Steep Rise In Texas Immigration Cases - Last year, two districts in Texas – the Southern and Western District – recorded 25,506 immigration criminal case, breaking all previous records. And that ...
Mother Jones

Who Paid for the Super Bowl ICE Ad? - On Sunday during the Super Bowl, you may have encountered a particularly saccharine bit of propaganda: a pro-ICE ad describing agents from US Immigration a...
Claytoonz

Trump Loves Hate - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - I did see my first Cybertruck. The reality is so much worse than pictures.
Green Pages News

Dues-Paying Membership and Ranked Choice For GPUS Growth - Author’s Note: This essay was originally published in New Green Horizons on November 9, 2025. A 2013 Strategic Plan put forth by the Green Party of the Uni...
OpEd News

A Confession from Tech Bro Gerry McGovern - While so much of our world collapses, we all look for solutions. Israeli historian Ilan Pappe' recently offered another approach. Speaking last month about...
Dissident Voice

A New Era of Political Mobilization Is Dawning - Born in South Africa just a few years after the end of World War II and reared by activists in the anti-apartheid movement, I witnessed my parents’ strug...
Sludge

Companies ‘Honor’ Trump With Kennedy Center Donations - From defense to oil to tech, new companies are supporting the Kennedy Center since Trump’s takeover while others are revising their disclosure practices to...
Church and State

Don’t be confused as we see the GOP go fascist!! - Despite Trump‘s constant lying, understand that he is frequently willing to tell the truth about what his objectives are.
Daily Cartoonist

NCS Announces Time and Place of the 80th Reuben Awards Dinner - The National Cartoonists Society has officially announced the time and place of this year’s Reuben Awards. The 2026 NCS Conference and 80th Annual Reuben A...
Progressive.org

The Real Threat to Arctic Security - Conflict in the Arctic is entirely avoidable and unnecessary.
Second Nexus

Gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy Takes Aim At Trump Administration By Peeing NSFW Message In The Snow - During the first week of the 25th Winter Olympics, athletes have spoken out against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies in ways both expected a...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Kristof affirms Mississippi miracle! - *MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2026* *We seek "proof of life:"* In this morning's New York Times, Nicholas Kristof offers a lengthy column affirming the Mississipp...
Texas Standard

The man who walked over 50 miles across Dallas in two days wants to tell you about it - Jeffrey McWhorter met over 200 people during his trek across his hometown.
Capital & Main

What the Arrests of Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Mean for Black Americans - The arrests of two Black journalists for doing their jobs mark a new chapter of an age-old struggle for democracy, inclusion and unflinching truth that t...
First Draft

MAGA Gets Funny Over Fun Bunny’s Sunny Halftime - And I don't mean ha-ha.
Election Law Blog

“Checks and Balances, Democracy, and the “Noble Dream” of Constitutionalism,” at the NYU Democracy Project - This provocative essay comes from Roberto Gargarella, Professor of Constitutional Theory and Political Philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and ...
MintPress News

The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg - There is an epidemic of child sex crimes in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since 2021, and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of el...
Discourse

Discourse Pod Is Now on YouTube - Here's a trailer!
Texas Observer

How Trump’s ICE Is Locking Up Longtime Texans with Paths to Legal Status - Moizali Momin spent the final months of 2025 bouncing around immigrant detention centers in Texas, Louisiana, and Arizona. Like tens of thousands of othe...
Mondoweiss

Liberal institutions are designed to acknowledge Palestinian oppression but not end it - [image: Human Rights Watch logo (Image: Human Rights Watch)]Two recent episodes have shown how liberal institutions like Human Rights Watch and Doctors Wit...
The Daily Poster

Do Not Pass “Go” - Monopolies are driving down wages — but proper reform could boost your check by 30 percent.
The Root

What Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance Says About Who Shapes Today’s Mainstream - From record-breaking viewership to a fully Spanish performance, Bad Bunny’s halftime show didn’t just entertain — it sent a clear signal about where cult...
Earth 911

Check Out These Great Gardening Tips - Redfin, the real estate site, asked Earth911 to share gardening tips that are good for... The post Check Out These Great Gardening Tips appeared first on...
Angry Bear

“a few thoughts about the current housing mess” - Guest post as taken from a recent reply to a post (Housing Affordability), from which the content came from Econofact November 4, 2025, and placed on Ang...
Project Censored

Fact-Checking the Future: AI, Fracking, and Data Center Propaganda - First up, Mickey and Eleanor dive into some critical media literacy, including AI-generated videos and images that ping our confirmation biases, making i...
Bonddad

Expect shelter inflation to continue abating in the next few CPI reports - - *by New Deal democrat* There’s no significant economic news until Wednsday’s jobs report, as to which Scott Bessent gave an interview this morning...
Undernews

Americans on welfare -
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Tucker Carlson’s Phases and Stages - Matt and Sam talk to Jason Zengerle about his new book, *Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind*.
SCOTUSblog

Charging Homeland Security bosses: obstruction of justice and the Supreme Court - ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Imagine: A group of drug dealers be...
Glasstire

Read the Room: Dallas Museum of Art’s “International Surrealism” Misses the Mark - One sentiment that I have heard lately from people around me at art openings, dinner parties, protests, friend gatherings, and on the radio is: “How can ...
Bracing Views

What Is Genocide? - Man’s Inhumanity to Man BILL ASTORE FEB 08, 2026 Who the hell wants to talk about genocide and man’s inhumanity to man? I taught courses on the Holocaust, ...
The Progressive Wing

2/9 News Roundup & Open Thread - More News, videos, etc. in the comments.
Rewire

Sex Educators Are Self-Censoring Online to Avoid Content Bans. Does it Work? - It's called 'algospeak,' and it looks like 's3x,' 'le$bian,' and 'c00chie.' Some creators swear by it, but experts say it may increase stigma. The post S...
Democracy Now!

"The War Hasn't Ended": Palestinians in Gaza Still Face Israeli Attacks, Disease, Medical Neglect - The partial reopening of Gaza’s southern Rafah crossing with Egypt has been marked by chaos and severe restrictions imposed by Israel, as tens of thousands...
The Conversation

How the law can add to child sex trafficking victims’ existing trauma - State law aimed at protecting sexually trafficked children can cause more harm than good by identifying them as criminals and not victims.
Rallblog

Nihilism Is It | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Space City Weather

Spring-like weather will persist all week, with frequent fog chances - In brief: In today’s post we briefly revisit this past weekend’s stunning weather, and look forward to when we might see similar conditions. Mostly, howeve...
Dorf on Law

Trumpmenbashi Station, Trumpmenbashi Airport, Etc. - I am pre-writing today's blog post on the afternoon of Friday February 6 because I have a busy weekend planned. By the time this essay goes live, for all...
See You In 2020

The Luigi movement provides hope that America’s people will overthrow their pedocracy - Now that the Epstein files have largely come out, the Luigi movement has taken on a new role. One where it provides hope that America’s people will be a...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Hurting Children is the Point: The Right Wing Authoritarian Mindset - The motivation that hides in plain sight is the key to understanding what's happening
TalkLeft

Big Day for Bad Bunny: He'll Knock it Out of the Park - I may not care for football but I will be watching this afternoon to see Bad Bunny's half time show, which he'll sing in Spanish. He is probably the bigg...
Field Negro

Monkeying around. - A shockingly racist trope *(to some)* depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife as apes was posted by the current president from his person...
Ballot Access News

Louisiana Special Legislative Elections - On February 7, Louisiana held special elections in five districts, but in three of them only Democrats were on the ballot. In the House 37th district, ther...
Liberation News

Nashville’s ice storm wasn’t unprecedented, it was predictable - As the ice storm approached Nashville, familiar patterns set in: empty grocery shelves, last-minute supply runs, and widespread uncertainty about how sever...
Debunking Christianity

Here is a Visual of the Book "God and Horrendous Suffering" - In case you need a visual this is a very B.I.G. book! 600+ pages! Just released! You’ll get your money's worth. Get it. Review it. Laud it. Praise it. L...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LEMON, IT'S WEDNESDAY EDITION. - *Sabor.* Here’s where I'd repeat the 30 Rock What A Week joke except I assume even people who never saw the show know that one by now because every week i...
Socialist Alternative

Union Leaders Call For Nationwide General Strike—All Out To Get Strike Ready - “We all have to be preparing for a general strike. We all have to be focusing on strike readiness. This is the fundamental check on capitalism. The greates...
The Grayzone

Kincora: British intelligence-run sex abuse brothel? - Half a century after the public learned that boys at a Belfast group home were sexually assaulted by senior staff, a key question remains unanswered: was...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

How We Would Rate the Democrats’ Proposed Virginia Gerrymander - Virginia Democrats finally unveiled a proposed partisan gerrymander on Thursday night that is intended to elect 10 Democrats and 1 Republican if implemen...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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NORML

Study: Fewer Cannabis-Related School Disciplinary Incidents Following Legalization - [image: A group of smiling teens poses outdoors for a photo][image: A group of smiling teens poses outdoors for a photo]"These findings reinforce the rea...
DeSmogBlog

Canada Pension Plan is Bankrolling Trump’s Fossil Fuel and AI Agenda - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is financing — and profiting from — U.S. President Donald Trump’s fossil fuel and AI development agenda,...
The Militant

Fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US! - Unions help build Minneapolis protests to unite working clas MINNEAPOLIS — Across the country last week unionists, high school students and others marched ...
Trivial Knot

What’s next in game dev? - So I’m finally done with my video game. What’s next? Should I make another? I will definitely make a second game. One of my brothers has long been interest...
Greg Palast

Feb 26-27: Free Black History Screenings of Vigilantes Inc. in Georgia - Join MAJ Gamaliel W. Turner Sr. (RET.) for two special Black History screenings of Greg Palast's award-winning documentary, Vigilantes Inc. A victim of Geo...
Democracy Chronicles

State of Power: Marx, Democracy, and the ICE Crisis in Minneapolis - In the early weeks of 2026, the streets of Minneapolis became unexpectedly dark. What began as an immigration enforcement regime has morphed into a nationa...
Seeing the Forest

Crypto Crash – The Serious Money Is Betting Trump Will Fail - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy The crypto crash means the “serious money people” are betting that Tr...
Idavox

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) - When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one... The post Chip Berlet (1949-2026) appeared first on Idavox.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 6, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 6, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/06/2026 - 05:21 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
The NM Political Report

Bill to close ICE facilities in New Mexico signed into law by Gov - Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill today designed to end New Mexico’s involvement in federal civil immigration detention. House Bill 9, the I...
Earthworks

Rushing Mineral Extraction Puts This California Community at Risk - The Imperial County, Calif. government is rushing through industrial development at the expense of communities’ health, air, water, and landscapes that h...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
Ecosophia

On the Education of Desire - As I mentioned a little over a month ago, the competition over which theme would get the fifth Wednesday post in December was almost unparalleled in the en...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
Crooked Timber

A modest proposal for the use of AI - A modest proposal for the use of AI Which jobs will be replaced by AI? Here is a modest proposal.* Replace higher management by AI. Not “management” in the...
Lowering the Bar

In Memory of “Death v. Graves” - You will be missed.
Krebs on Security

Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters - A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim f...
Progressives Chat

2026 United States Midterm Elections: Democrats May Sweep - Now that February 2026 has arrived…we are nine months from the general election for the 2026 United States midterm elections. *Due Dissidence* co-host Ke...
Moron Majority

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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...
Duck of Minerva

“Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump - A century before Trump’s tariff threats, Joseph Chamberlain pitched the same idea: use duties as a “big revolver” to force rivals into “fair trade.” That h...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

What About The – - 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb “Now Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political strategy, even though there’s little...
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, Sen. Juan Hinojosa, and Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa hail new $10.9 million DPS Hangar 5 as “a fortress of readiness that will house the guardians of our skies” - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg; Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa; and Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen. The three South Texas leaders on Monday,...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
The Rag Blog

MARIANN GARNER-WIZARD / REMEMBRANCE / Robert “Bob” Pardun, beloved prairie radical - By Mariann Garner-Wizard / The Rag Blog / January 27, 2026 Robert Pardun was born June 30, 1941 and passed away January 16, 2026 after a long struggle with...
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. —...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
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...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

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

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Chris Kindred: The Struggle Isn't Over

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