Brains and Eggs

Friday, December 25, 2020

Hard Candy Christmas

Twenty twenty was the year I became a fan of Comrade Dolly.

I'll be fine and dandy
Lord, it's like a hard candy Christmas
I'm barely getting through tomorrow
But still I won't let
Sorrow bring me way down

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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
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Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
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— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
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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

memeorandum

'This Is a New Dimension' ... On Friday morning, hours after Don Lemon was apprehended ... (Status) - Status: *‘This Is a New Dimension’* … On Friday morning, hours after Don Lemon was apprehended in a Beverly Hills hotel lobby by a team of federal office...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for January 26 - 30 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The trends in the high frequency data that became apparent after last ...
Mediaite

Melania’s $75 Million Documentary Exposes the Folly of MAGA’s Anti-Elite Act - Melania Trump’s $75 million documentary reveals how MAGA’s anti-elite posture collapses when it seeks elite money, platforms, and cultural validation. T...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Snow and blizzards move into US east coast as 85 dead from last week’s storm - About 190,000 are still without power in the south-east as states scramble to prepare for more winter weather Dozens of people have died in the teeth of ...
Futurism

If You’re a Real Person Looking for a Job, the Flood of Fake AI Job Applications Will Make Your Blood Boil - "Within 12 hours of posting the role, we received more than 400 applications." The post If You’re a Real Person Looking for a Job, the Flood of Fake AI ...
Raw Story

'I stay on the perimeter’: Education officials doubling as student security amid ICE raids - Zena Stendvik, superintendent of the Columbia Heights Public Schools District, has swapped her high heels for a pair of boots amid the ongoing immigratio...
Al Jazeera English

German football federation rules out World Cup boycott to oppose Trump - German football federation confirms it met to discuss a boycott of the FIFA 2026 World Cup, which is co-hosted by US.
Glasstire

Light & Reflection: A Conversation with Matt Scobey - I first became interested in Matt Scobey’s work in spring 2025 at Maintenant, an exhibition space in Marfa. In the evening of the record release for loca...
Eschaton

But They'll Be Safer Than Humans!!! - This was an evidence-free article of faith among autonomous vehicle boosters. I've never really doubted that to the extent that they work, they'd be reason...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Why were the protesters out in the streets? - *SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2026* *Fox & Friends Weekend explains:* Yesterday, on a chilly day, they were at it again. People were marching in the streets--"...
The Hill

Where incomes have risen the most (and least) over the past 50 years - One state has seen the typical household income jump nearly 80% — while another has watched it decline.
Salon.com

Eating the same thing isn’t failing - The quiet relief of meals that require fewer decisions — and why that matters more than novelty
Grist

New Hampshire Republicans want to raise taxes on homes with solar - The proposed repeal of a property tax break for solar owners is sparking fierce opposition from those who say the benefit barely dents tax rolls.
The Verge

Cassette Boy forces you to see its world in a whole new way - It's no secret that Cassette Boy is inspired by the classics. It's a top-down adventure game in the vein of a retro Legend of Zelda, while your home base i...
ArcaMax

'Mad Max' Anarchy Is Safer Than Trump's Terror State - Many people assume that Germany instantly transitioned from representative democracy to totalitarianism following the ascension of Adolf Hitler to chancell...
Political Wire

The Humiliation of Kristi Noem - Mark Leibovich: “When a conspicuous presidential project goes awry—in this case, federal immigration agents killing two protesters in Minnesota—someone typ...
Houston Public Media

Houston voters will finally pick the next representative in the 18th Congressional District - Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards are competing in a special election runoff Saturday to complete the term of late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, who died ...
Vox

Trump’s polls are tanking. What does his base think? - Today, Explained will now be publishing video episodes every Saturday in audio and video, featuring compelling interviews with key figures in politics and ...
Mother Jones

Oregon Bill Would Tax Tourists to Protect Animals and Their Habitats - This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Oregon’s short legislative ...
NPR's Health Shots

The U.S. will likely lose its measles elimination status. Here's what that means - The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination st...
naked capitalism

Links 1/31/2026 -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Saturday Morning Apolitical Cartoons - I was prepared to jump right into this very non-comical story, and the AAEC has released a statement on it, but I didn’t find enough cartoons this morning ...
The Smirking Chimp

Unmask ICE. End the Rittenhousing of America. -
Skeptophilia

Strange places - In Kurt Vonnegut's novel *Cat's Cradle*, a scientist develops a polymorph of ice with a very strange property. Unlike ordinary ice, that melts at tempera...
Crooked Media

Adam Friedland Just Wants to Understand - The post Adam Friedland Just Wants to Understand appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

TPOR primary poll: Crockett 38, Talarico 37 - Add it to the pile. Texas Public Opinion Research (TPOR), a nonpartisan public opinion initiative that examines what Texans believe and the policies they s...
San Antonio Report

Where I Live: Mission del Lago - Lisa Espinoza found a fresh start in this neighborhood and enjoys the several opportunities that allow her to be involved in her community. ---------------...
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for Jan. 31, 2026 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
Countercurrents

Domestic Workers, Women’s Labour, and the Language of the Courts - The observations made by the Bench comprising the Chief Justice of India, Suryakant, and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, while hearing a public interest litigatio...
ProPublica

What We Saw in Minneapolis - The post What We Saw in Minneapolis appeared first on ProPublica.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 31 January 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o A dog improves a firework show. The railing is not making it any safer. ...
The Root

Professor: Why Don Lemon’s Arrest is One of the Most Terrifying Trump Moves We’ve Seen So Far - Don Lemon wasn’t protesting, vandalizing, or disrupting a church service. He was reporting. His arrest isn’t about law enforcement—it’s about what happen...
The Week

Syria’s Kurds: abandoned by their US ally - Ahmed al-Sharaa’s lightning offensive against Syrian Kurdistan belies his promise to respect the country’s ethnic minorities
World Socialist Web Site

Strike by 31,000 Kaiser nurses continues, as strike looms for thousands of pharmacy and lab workers - Healthcare workers are being driven into direct confrontation, not only with corporate healthcare giants like Kaiser Permanente, but with the entire politi...
jobsanger

The Rot Runs Deep At DHS -
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Bootleg - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Informed Comment

The Israeli Military’s Denial of the Gaza Death Toll was always to Shape Western News Reporting - The horrid Bill Maher and his guest Van Jones even guffawed about dead Gaza babies.
Courthouse News

Historic ocean view along San Diego coast remains blocked amid access plan delays - A historically accessible portion of the Scripps Coastal Reserve in San Diego has been closed to the public now for six years. And some say discussion dela...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Cheerleading Aggression Against Iran - Corporate media doesn’t represent humanity’s interests. It promotes the interests of billionaires and their hangers-on, who make huge profits from a war ma...
Mediagazer

Former GM of Sacramento public radio service CapRadio, Jun Reina, was arrested and charged with allegedly embezzling ~$1.33M from station funds for personal use (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) - Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: *Former GM of Sacramento public radio service CapRadio, Jun Reina, was arrested and charged with allegedly embezzling ~$1.33M...
Deadline Politics

‘Real Time’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says “I Completely Support” Don Lemon’s Arrest: “That’s Not Journalism” - Amid her resignation from Georgia’s 14th congressional district, Marjorie Taylor Greene provided her input on Don Lemon’s arrest during an onscreen appeara...
Techdirt.

DOJ Arrests Journalists Don Lemon & Georgia Fort For Acts Of Journalism, Even After Courts Rejected Arrest Warrants - Last week, a federal magistrate judge told the DOJ it could not arrest journalist Don Lemon. The DOJ appealed and lost that appeal too. The legal system sa...
Alternet

GOP-appointed judge smacks down Trump admin for hiding government spending: report - Law & Crime reports a federal judge called out President Donald Trump's administration for violating a court order demanding access to hidden spending pl...
The AltWorld

“Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??” - Any time things heat up with an empire-targeted government I always get people demanding to know why […] The post “Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??” appear...
The Texas Signal

Deaths In ICE Detention Escalate - The January 2026 deaths continued the rise in fatalities seen in 2025. That year marked a 20-year high for deaths in ICE detention, coinciding with a 65 pe...
Claytoonz

Mango Lemon Hater - 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...
The Greanville Post

Pepe Escobar : Zero Hour Approaching - PEPE ESCOBAR—Iran’s asymmetric naval strategy, painstankingly built since the start of the millenium, has myriad ways to counter-act an imperial attack: ov...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | January 30, 2026. Fascism Can Be Defeated! - Friday Nite Videos | January 30, 2026. Fascism Can Be Defeated! barry Fri, 01/30/2026 - 20:01
Popular Resistance

The Global South Needs Productive Employment - On India’s 79th Independence Day, in August 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi devoted his speech to Viksit Bharat 2047 (Developed India 2047) and announ...
Axios

Scoop: Saudi defense minister says Trump not bombing Iran would embolden regime - Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman (KBS) said in a private briefing on Friday in Washington that if President Trump doesn't follow through o...
Election Law Blog

Watch My Appearance on the PBS News Hour, Discussing: “FBI raid of election offices ignites debate over voting security and federal authority” - Great to talk to Geoff Bennett of the News Hour: The FBI’s move to execute a warrant at voting offices in Fulton County, Georgia, and the presence of Dir...
Wolf Street

Markets’ Reaction to Warsh: Silver Collapses, Gold Plunges, Dollar Jumps, Treasuries Yawn, Stocks Drop, already Battered Cryptos Sink - Pulling the rug out from under the “debasement trade.”
Workers World

Philadelphia: Trump removes historic depiction of enslavement - [image: Philadelphia: Trump removes historic depiction of enslavement] Philadelphia Despite broad public opposition, on Jan. 22 National Park Service (NPS)...
San Antonio Current

Ultra-modern mansion for sale in San Antonio comes with sport court, private gym and surround sound throughout - A chíc, contemporary home has hit the market just inside Loop 1604 in North San Antonio for $3.25 million. The sprawling space, constructed in 2023, is ...
The NM Political Report

Vasquez joins Trump in push to limit Wall Street home buys - [image: In a rare moment of bipartisan overlap, U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., and President Donald Trump have both advanced similar proposals aimed at cu...
Undernews

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Texas Standard

Texas Republicans shift messaging around ICE tactics amid election-year risks - With midterm elections approaching, Texas Republicans are publicly questioning ICE’s tactics following deadly and controversial enforcement actions. Analys...
CultureMap Houston

Welcome the Year of the Horse at these 10 Houston Lunar New Year events - February 17 marks the Lunar New Year. Mostly observed in Asian countries and places with large diasporas like Houston, it's a time of feasts, performances,...
OpEd News

Access Is Not Democratic - A critique of how the language of openness in media masks systems of gatekeeping where visibility functions as pre-approval.
Common Dreams

Sanders Secures Vote on His Amendment to Cut $75 Billion in ICE Funding and Redirect Those Funds to Medicaid - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today secured a Senate vote on his amendment to the government funding package to repeal the $75 billion funding increase for...
Scheerpost.com

Exclusive: Trump May Launch Strikes on Iran — Regime Change, Not Nukes, Is the Goal - By Joshua Scheer A Drop Site News exclusive reports that senior U.S. military officials have informed the leadership of a key Middle Eastern ally that Pres...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IS IT FASH YET? EDITION. - *You better run.* Tubby and his mob have been busy, seizing voting records in Georgia (presumably to manipulate in furtherance of his years-long Stolen E...
Church and State

Trump being a racist could bring our country down! - What has happened with Trump proclaiming that the only people we need in this country are white people and people who believe in Jesus Christ.
Progressive.org

The Ethnic Cleansing of Ras Ein al-Auja - The clock is ticking before a new Israeli settlement is built on the ruins of this West Bank village.
Ballot Access News

Washington State Appeals Court Reverses Conviction of a Voter Who Voted in November 2022 in Both Oregon and Washington - On January 6, 2026, the Washington state Court of Appeals reversed the conviction of James Padrta, who had been convicted of voting in both Oregon and Wash...
Novara Media

Meet the Green Party’s New Candidate - We speak to Hannah Spencer, who the Green Party has picked to go up against Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin in the Gorton and Denton byelection. Plus: Martin Lewi...
Second Nexus

Regal Theaters' Popcorn Buckets For Melania Trump's New Documentary Are Getting Dragged Hard - Social media users are tearing into Regal Cinema's "limited edition" popcorn buckets for First Lady Melania Trump's new *Melania* documentary. *Melania* ...
Dissident Voice

Latin America Pushes Back Against U.S. Intervention - Photo: Nuestra America gathering in Bogotá, Colombia. Credit: Progressive International When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a r...
Moron Majority

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NORML

NORML Argues in Supreme Court Brief That Disarming Cannabis Consumers Is Unconstitutional - [image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint]"The historical analo...
Environment Texas

Is nuclear energy renewable? - Nuclear energy has produced electricity in America since 1958. But is nuclear energy clean, renewable energy? The post Is nuclear energy renewable? appea...
Mondoweiss

The U.S. occupation of Gaza has begun - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after joint press conference announcing the U.S. peace plan for Ga...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court will hear birthright citizenship case on April 1 - The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on April 1 in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship – that is, the g...
Angry Bear

“ICE in My Latte, Not in Our Communities” - What is happening down in Arizona? These businesses will be giving up Friday’s revenue by shutting down a day in protest of the government’s actions and ...
See You In 2020

Nick Fuentes has merged with the Zionist right over support for ICE. Marxists must fill the populist power vacuum. - Nick Fuentes, or rather the controlled opposition ideology he represents, has reached the end of a political “half-life.” Now that Fuentes has called fo...
Dissent Magazine

A Crisis of Conflict Resolution, Not Conflict Studies - A response to “The Demise of Conflict Studies” from our winter issue, followed by a reply by the authors.
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...
The Militant

31,000 Kaiser nurses strike over staffing in California, Hawaii - LOS ANGELES — Nurses and other health care workers set up picket lines at over two dozen Kaiser Permanente hospitals and hundreds of its clinics across Cal...
The Conversation

I’m a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here’s how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles - A policing scholar and former FBI special agent lays out the established principles of policing and constitutional law that govern how federal immigration ...
LareDOS

Lifelong learning has no limits: LC alum, aspiring writer, delivers commencement speech - Reposted from Tragaluz - A Borderland Journal of Arts and Culture
Trivial Knot

My game released - My game, Moon Garden Optimizer has finally released on Steam! If you follow my blog, you may be aware that I have already made the game available for free ...
Capital & Main

Amid Climate Crisis, Insurers’ Increased Use of AI Raises Concern For Policyholders - States and consumers accuse insurance giants of using technology to slow payouts and drop homeowners. The post Amid Climate Crisis, Insurers’ Increased U...
Bracing Views

Insurgencies and America’s Defeat in Vietnam - An Old Paper from 1993 BILL ASTORE JAN 29, 2026 Scrolling through old files today, I came across this paper that I prepared for a “Strategic Studies Semina...
Dorf on Law

A Little Palate Cleanser: An Expert Veers Out of Her Lane to Say Ridiculous Things About Taxes and Deficits - Because the frightening situation in the US and the world became even more harrowing over the last week, one part of which I discussed with some emotion ...
Ian Welsh

The Wisdom Of Machiavellian Virtu & Why America Is Losing Its Bill of Rights & Constitutional Virtues - If you’ve read Machiavelli, especially “Discourses on Livy”, which is actually his major work (“The Prince” is not) you know his emphasis on Virtu of the p...
WhoWhatWhy

The Climate Fight Without America: Why Hope Isn’t Optional - [image: Greenpeace International, action, UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, Expo City Dubai] While America abandons climate action, the world races ahea...
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...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay Number 8 - *There is far too much mediocre, alarming Jesus-script in the gospels* ...
El Paso Matters

UTEP sets research expenditure record, Fabens ISD audit uncovers credit card misuse - This week: UTEP reports record research spending as a Fabens ISD audit details credit card misuse, alongside updates on taxes, health screenings and cit...
Rewire

The HPV Vaccine, Explained - Federal inoculation guidelines are changing. Our sex health columnist answers some frequent questions about this cancer-preventing vaccine, including who...
Democracy Now!

"Prevent the Bloodshed": Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi on Iran Protests & U.S. Threats of Military Strikes - The latest reliable estimates of the death toll in Iran’s recent nationwide protests are growing, potentially reaching the tens of thousands. Some estimate...
The Progressive Wing

1/30-31 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, etc. in the comments.
Space City Weather

Winter is back for a hot (cold?) minute in Houston - In brief: Another possible hard freeze awaits Houston on Sunday morning with colder air starting once more today. Remember your plants, pets, pipes, and ne...
Rallblog

Is Trump Bidening Out? | 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...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Escaped Exotics, Tariffs, Trickery, and Guns - The post Strangest State: Escaped Exotics, Tariffs, Trickery, and Guns appeared first on The Texas Observer.
The Daily Poster

The Derailment That Never Ended - Three years after the East Palestine disaster, everybody’s gotten paid — except the victims.
High Country News

See the West’s rich geologic past - An illustrated timescale of Earth focuses on the region’s landscapes, flora and fauna. The post See the West’s rich geologic past appeared first on High...
Seeing the Forest

Abolish ICE — Stop Dehumanizing People - If you give them an inch … And look, now they’re taking their mile. Crossing the border without authorization is a misdemeanor. It only became a crime at a...
Counterpunch

Board of Peace? - A few years ago, I wrote in a piece (Can NATO Still Make America Great?—8/28/2017) about the future of NATO that if the trumpists were successful in disc...
Socialist Alternative

The Battle Of Minneapolis & The Way Forward For The Anti-ICE Movement - An epic battle has been unfolding in the Twin Cities, between ICE’s homicidal state terror on the one hand, and the ingenuity, determination, and solidarit...
Brad Blog

It's About Elections and the Windmills of His Mind: 'BradCast' 1/29/2026 - It's always about elections, as detailed yet again on today's BradCast, with a boatload of breaking news, and a concurrent trip through the twisted windmil...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 30, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 30, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/30/2026 - 05:14 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anti-LGBTQ groups launch new effort to overturn gay marriage featuring the same old lies - Forty-seven conservative and anti-LGBTQ groups are teaming up in an effort to overturn the 2015 SCOTUS decision which legalized gay marriage. There is o...
Antiwar.com

The Iran Escalation Machine: Narratives, Sanctions, and the Normalization of Force - U.S. policy toward Iran is frequently sold as a reaction to urgent threats. In practice, it behaves more like a system: narrative escalation, economic coer...
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...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Faculty, Students Speak Out Against Censorship at Texas A&M, by Texas AFT, January 23, 2026 - *Friends:* *What’s unfolding at Texas A&M University is a sobering sign of how academic freedom is being hollowed out in Texas. After Dr. Leonard Bright s...
Alas, a Blog

The Future of Journalism is Now - This cartoon is by Jenn Manley Lee and I. This cartoon was originally posted on Patreon on December 19th, 2025. Just three days later, Bari Weiss, the utte...
Liberation News

NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE: THE TWIN CITIES DEMANDS ICE OUT - The Twin Cities have again activated the nation and many groups, businesses, and organizations are answering the call to shut it down across the US on Frid...
The Grayzone

NBA star Stephen Curry’s ties to Israeli intelligence exposed - Less than three years after being named the NBA’s 2023 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion, the league’s all-time three-point leader has begun qu...
Project Censored

The Hidden Cost of AI: How Data Centers Are Straining Water, Power, and Communities - By Ella Mrofka Editor’s Note: This is the second of two Dispatches on AI data centers; read the previous article, by Alefiya Presswala, here. The residen...
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...
Greg Palast

The real story of the FBI raid on Fulton County, AtlantaYou are watching the theft of 2026 before your eyes - For god’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind Wednesday’s-FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warr...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: A Couple of Rating Changes in Favor of Democrats, but Republicans Still Favored Overall - Despite facing what is likely to be a difficult national political environment this fall, Republicans remain favored to hold their Senate majority. The ...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: 7 Solutions to Give Your Old Sunglasses a Second Life - In recent years, many of us have learned that “recyclable” isn’t as simple as we... The post Guest Idea: 7 Solutions to Give Your Old Sunglasses a Second...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Battle is Ours: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Earthworks

Tribute to Jim & Terry Fitzgerald - by Gwen Lachelt, Earthworks co-founder Jim and Terry Fitzgerald were giants in the oil and gas accountability movement that took … The post Tribute to J...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Finds for 11-Year-Old in Toy-Dinosaur-Assault Case - Assault *with* a toy dinosaur, not upon one.
DeSmogBlog

Top U.S. Oil Lobby API Targets Landmark EU Climate Law, Policy Document Shows - This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews. ExxonKnews is a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. The U.S. oil lobby aims to bul...
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...
Ecosophia

Evil Makes You Stupid: A Case Study - Yes, as most of my readers are probably aware by now, I’ve relocated. It’s been a little less than two years now since my wife Sara died; it’s been a rough...
Crooked Timber

A New Hope - Ever since it became evident that Trump was likely to be re-elected, I’ve been among the most pessimistic of commentators on the likely course of US politi...
Idavox

H.K. Edgerton, ROT IN HELL! - Uncle Ruckus had nothing on this one. A Black man that loved the Confederacy and... The post H.K. Edgerton, ROT IN HELL! appeared first on Idavox.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Buried Human Rights Reports Few Ever Heard Of! - Many of the biggest Human Rights groups in the world have been documenting atrocities by Israel against Palestinians for decades, possibly going back to...
Democracy Chronicles

Somaliland: A North-South Korea-like Divide… in Africa - With continued democracy and civic freedom, and now globalization and a start at international recognition, Somaliland's future is in the other direction: ...
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. —...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #12: One Terrible Year of Trump 2.0 + Oscar Nominations Reactions (w/Katherine Krueger) - Katherine returns to recap the first year of Trump's violent, unrelenting second term.
Krebs on Security

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? - The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf -- a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices -- recently shared a screenshot indicating th...
TalkLeft

Minnesota and Sunday Night Open Thread - A Minnesota judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security prohibiting it from destroying evidence pertaining...
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...
Field Negro

The Fuehrer Principle - I understand now how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party became so powerful in Germany, and how, as president of the party, he was able to rise to power th...
MintPress News

Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi - Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime change t...
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...
Independent Political Report

Texas Forward Party to Host First State Convention, Back Independent Candidates for 2026 - The Texas Forward Party will host its inaugural state convention in Austin this spring, where members will select leadership and set organizing prioritie...
Sludge

Hudson River Park Trust to End Longstanding ICE Contract Following Sludge Report - After contracting with ICE since 2004, the Trust tells Sludge it will stop when the current contract ends in June.
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...
Progressives Chat

Trump Part II: One Year Later - Next Tuesday, January 20, 2026, will mark one year since *Donald Trump* returned to office. I am not going to write an assessment on Trump Part II, becau...
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...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
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

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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...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
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...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
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

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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