Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts on Instagram (Alex Thompson/Axios) - Alex Thompson / Axios: *Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts on Instagram* — James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Car fleeing police slams into bar in Tampa, killing 4 people and injuring 11 - Police say vehicle was involved in street racing before driver fled from authorities and then crashed into Ybor City bar A speeding car fleeing police s...
Alternet

Revealed: Trump just quietly dished out more tax breaks to his rich investors friends - The Trump administration is quietly waging an all-out regulatory war on a Biden-era corporate tax that aimed to prevent large companies from dodging their...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Money Can't Buy You Love: Fascist Oligarchs as a Cautionary Tale - Musk and Trump and their whole cadre of conspirators are joyless and give the lie of capitalism away. We should be grateful.
Mediaite

‘Entertainment Welfare’ Gutfeld Says ‘Only Reason’ Kimmel and Colbert Were on the Air Is They ‘Toed’ Anti-Trump Line - Greg Gutfeld said the main reason Kimmel and Colbert have been on the air for years is because they have dutifully "toed" the anti-Donald Trump line for ...
Political Wire

Olivia Rodrigo Slams Trump for Using Her Song - Olivia Rodrigo criticized the Trump administration after one of her songs was featured in a government video promoting deportation efforts, The Guardian re...
Daily Dot

“You’re not perfect”: The impossible expectations people say are destroying dating today - [image: online dating gripes shared ask reddit] Red flags. Cheating scandals. Relationship drama. All of these factors play into the negativity of today’...
Raw Story

Lindsey Graham complains about having to work ‘on a Saturday’ while ‘beautiful outside’ - Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) opened a speech on the Senate floor Saturday by complaining about having to work on a Saturday, while also endorsing President...
OpEd News

Donald Trump, frozen in time - Trump lacks the basic human instinct to care about another human in distress. Empathy is nonexistent in him. He doesn't know it and he doesn't care.
The Hill

SNAP benefits don't cover healthier diet costs: Study - Researchers considered whether SNAP benefits provide enough money to cover the costs of three popular eating plans.
First Draft

Caturday: The Way We Were - Meow from Liam and Connor.
Al Jazeera English

Paz sworn in as Bolivia’s president, promises ‘capitalism for all’ - Rodrigo Paz faces Bolivia's worst economic crisis in 40 years, with high inflation and a shortage of fuel and dollars.
Ballot Access News

Two New Polls on California Gubernatorial Race Shows Two Republicans Are Among the Top Three or Four - This Newsweek story says that a poll commissioned by a Democratic candidate for Governor of California shows these results: Chad Bianco (R) 20%; Antonio Vi...
Eschaton

Saturday Long Read - enjoy A taste: Every bit of this is disheartening on its face. But it’s actually worse than any first-blush irritation, that familiar annoyance that come...
Mediagazer

In a global first, DAZN will broadcast a live match between two teams in the National League, the fifth tier of English soccer, for free on its TikTok account (Matt Slater/The Athletic) - Matt Slater / The Athletic: *In a global first, DAZN will broadcast a live match between two teams in the National League, the fifth tier of English socc...
Dissident Voice

Consultants and Artificial Intelligence: The Next Great Confidence Trick - Why trust these gold-seeking buffoons of questionable expertise? Overpaid as they are by gullible clients who really ought to know better, consultancy fi...
Daily Cartoonist

Matthew Prichett on Pocket Cartoonist Matt - Lotte Brundle for Country Life sat down with the very funny Daily Telegraph socio-political cartoonist Matt. Matt has been the newspaper’s in-house cartoon...
Futurism

Tech Workers Are in Deep, Deep Trouble - "Those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles, which could further loosen the labor market." The post Tech Workers Are in Deep, D...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #AHiddenEmpireRules - [image: Cargill, Death Star] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: #AHiddenEmpireRules originally appeared on...
Undernews

Donald Trump - *Trump: * “We could blow up the world 150 times, and there’s no need for this.” The president said he had spoken to Xi and Russian President Vladimir Put...
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for Nov. 8, 2025 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
Salon.com

In “Christy,” Sydney Sweeney’s only fighting herself - Sweeney's boxing biopic is an Oscar vehicle quickly running out of gas, thanks to its star's lack of conviction
CultureMap Houston

5 Houston suburbs among best places to retire and more popular stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week. Five area suburbs are among the top places to retire, plus the long-awaited I...
San Antonio Report

Michelin star, New York Times recognition ignites Isidore at Pullman Market - Meet the trio behind the prestigious star at San Antonio’s hottest new restaurant, Isidore: Ian Lanphear, Danny Parada and Jorge Hernandez. ----------------...
El Paso Matters

El Paso-Juárez 10K run postponed; latest victim of government shutdown - The binational U.S.-Mexico 10K run has been postponed due to the ongoing government shutdown, which has left key federal agencies unable to support the ...
Popular Resistance

Honduras Under Increasing Threat As Election Nears - Just one month before the November 30 vote for a new President of Honduras, as reported by Progressive International, leaked recordings unveiled a plot t...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: We watched an array of Unrecognizables! - *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2025* *Telling this story is hard:* At one point, the Harvard Law School graduate said it, though only perhaps in a dream: *I was...
The Verge

Apple helped kill netbooks. Will it bring them back? - Rumor has it, Apple is working on a low-cost MacBook. And not "low-cost for a Mac," but a proper cheap laptop, possibly as low as $599. For a company that ...
Reform Austin

Could Tesla Make Musk the First Trillionaire? - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Tesla shareholders are set to vote on a compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that could make ...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Shutdown Hits the Skies - The knock-on effects from the government shutdown, now the longest in US history, continue apace, with the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) cuts to ...
Houston Public Media

Here’s how Houston police investigated 39 bodies found in bayous - Houston Public Media obtained records from police for every body they found in local bayous over the course of a year. Two-thirds of them are either awaiti...
NPR's Health Shots

CRISPR gene-editing works to reduce high cholesterol in a new study - An experimental gene-editing treatment shows promise for permanently lowering levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, possibly helping cut the risk for he...
San Antonio Current

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Galveston ISD for not displaying Ten Commandments in classrooms - [image: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Texas GOP Convention in San Antonio on May 23, 2024. Paxton sued the Galveston school district ...
Courthouse News

UPS and FedEx grounding MD-11 planes following deadly Kentucky crash - UPS and FedEx have grounded their MD-11 fleets after a fatal crash at UPS’s Kentucky aviation hub, citing “an abundance of caution” as investigators probe ...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 3 - 7 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. This was the week that the 800 pound gorillas of Wall Street reported Q...
Axios

Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online - James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, e...
Grist

Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car - The president hates EVs. But his policies are making gas cars more expensive too.
Mondoweiss

Why writers must boycott the New York Times - [image: Writers Against the War on Gaza protest in the New York Times’ headquarters, March 14, 2024. (Photo: Julia Sharpe-Levine)]The New York Times is the...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Power Shifts And Election Shocks - An obscure election galvanizes national power battles, a worker takes on corporate exploitation, consumers’ favorite energy program survives Trump, and ele...
Glasstire

The Museo del Westside, An Act Against Erasure - On a gorgeous October morning on the near west side of San Antonio, a longtime community dream was realized. Mariachis greeted a throng of guests gathere...
Vox

The tragedy of Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth - In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered — in Flagstaff, Arizona. I stood in line to sq...
naked capitalism

Links 11/8/2025 -
The Root

Political Icon James Carville Offers Wild Theory On Future Of Supreme Court and U.S. in 2026 - President Donald Trump appointed three ultra-conservative justices to the court, which might trigger a huge change according to this political legend. ...
The Smirking Chimp

Senate Republican Calls Closed-Door GOP Meeting an ‘Intergalactic Freak Show’ -
Skeptophilia

The un-canon - A while back I was interviewed on the radio program *Graphic Ear*, and the interviewer, the wonderful Sabra Wood, asked me an interesting question: how w...
Off The Kuff

A bit more election miscellany - Pondering the County Attorney situation. Despite technically resigning, [Harris County Attorney Christian] Menefee has remained the acting county attorney ...
Crooked Media

Have the Democrats Decided to Win? - The post Have the Democrats Decided to Win? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Scheerpost.com

Layoffs in 2025 Second-Highest Since 2009 in Potential Sign of Looming Recession - “Those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles,” one of the report’s authors said.
DeSmogBlog

UK Newspapers Publish More Ads for Polluting Products Than Climate Coverage - British national newspapers devoted more than triple the space to advertising polluting industries such as oil, airlines, and sports utility vehicles tha...
Common Dreams

Turn It Up: Hero With A Hero Is Icing On the Cake - Hope glimmers. After an election that saw "democrats in array" rising up to thunderously repudiate "anyone and anything" associated with a doddering wann...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 8 November 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. If you like a blog post I link to here, remember to leave a supportive comment *on t...
The Week

Why Trump pardoned crypto criminal Changpeng Zhao - Binance founder’s tactical pardon shows recklessness is rewarded by the Trump White House
jobsanger

Are We Headed For Another Great Depression? -
ArcaMax

Shutdown Politics - It has been a terrifying week for the one in eight Americans who depend on food stamps -- the SNAP program -- to feed their families. Would they be eating ...
Consortium News

California Law Illegally Muzzles Students & Teachers - The new law conflates criticism of Zionism with antisemitism and punishes educators for teaching truthful information, reports Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie C...
Environment Texas

From New England to Texas, community action works - The post From New England to Texas, community action works appeared first on Environment Texas.
Informed Comment

Turkiye Indicts 37 Israeli Officials for Genocide amid Reports Israel’s own Military Lawyers warned of War Crimes - The office pointed to the killing and wounding of thousands of people and the deprivation of the populace of shelter
World Socialist Web Site

Elon Musk’s $1 trillion payout and the case for expropriation - The awarding of Musk’s pay package is, at the same time, a declaration of intent by the ruling class to massively impoverish the working class through layo...
Workers World

Cheney, corporate boss and White House warmonger (1941-2025) - [image: Cheney, corporate boss and White House warmonger (1941-2025)] We come to bury Cheney, not to praise him. This is unlike the comments in most of the...
Techdirt.

‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds More Allies From MPs In The UK - Thankfully, the Stop Killing Games movement isn’t stopping this time. YouTuber Ross Scott kicked the movement off in 2024 to generate political action arou...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: RAY OF LIGHT EDITION. - *Heard this in a restaurant -- you remember this?I don’t and I don’t know how I missed it.* I missed ‘Round-The-Horn last week, and I’ll let you know ...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | November 7, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | November 7, 2025 barry Fri, 11/07/2025 - 21:18
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court temporarily pauses ruling on November SNAP payments - Updated on Nov. 7 at 9:34 p.m. The Trump administration on Friday night asked the Supreme Court to pause a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island that...
Wolf Street

Here Come the HELOCs: Mortgages, Housing-Debt-to-Income-Ratio, Serious Delinquencies, and Foreclosures in Q3 2025 - Banks are mostly off the hook this time; risks were shifted to taxpayers and investors.
See You In 2020

The self-implosion of ruling-class ideologies, & the favorable chaos that this has left - Above: Zohran Mamdani with Alex Soros, son of George Soros. The ideological frameworks that used to hold dominance over the politically conscious masses...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
The Greanville Post

‘It’s simply common sense!’: Justice Thomas grills Dem lawyer in SC clash over Trump tariff legality - ET—Nov 7, 2025 #SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #TrumpTariffs During oral arguments over the legality of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Supreme Court Ju...
The Progressive Wing

Nov 7-9 Weekend OT - I saw our other thread was at 110. Decided to open Benny’s Bar. News, opinions, and video jukebox is of your choosing below the jump.
The Texas Signal

Rodney Ellis Doc To Screen At Round Top Film Festival - A new short documentary from three storied directors about Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis premieres this weekend
The NM Political Report

State DOT will seek 25-35% hikes on vehicle registration, new EV car fee to fund road repairs - New Mexico motorists could pay more to keep their vehicles registered and on the road under a proposal from the state Transportation Department, part of ...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Partners With Arizona Independent Party for 2026 Election Cycle - The Forward Party is entering into a cooperative agreement with the Arizona Independent Party, giving the national organization a recognized ballot line ...
Liberation News

The assault on the left: Trump’s crackdown in context - There is a long history of rightwing forces stretching the letter of the law to protect capitalist institutions from challenge.
Progressive.org

This Veterans Day, the VA Faces Multiple Threats - As the Trump Administration guts the Department of Veterans Affairs, VA patients and workers are fighting to save it.
Angry Bear

Jim Watson RIP - I see where Jim Watson, famed for the Watson-Crick double helix structure of DNA, has died. Watson was certainly very smart by conventional metrics. He e...
Capital & Main

U.S. Deports Asylum Seekers to Southern Mexico Without Their Phones - The Trump administration's deportation flights to the Mexican southern border towns of Tapachula and Villahermosa leave people stranded with few resource...
The AltWorld

Ecocide and Zionist greenwashing - Gaza shows how genocide and ecocide are one crime, against humanity and Earth itself. A growing body […] The post Ecocide and Zionist greenwashing appear...
The Militant

‘Workers need to break from the two parties of the bosses’ - SWP candidates point road forward for working class WEST NEW YORK, N.J. — “The Socialist Workers Party and all of its candidates are part of the working cl...
Dorf on Law

"Affordability Issues": Did Democrats Land on a Good Strategy for a Bad Reason? - By now, everyone who pays attention to US politics has heard some version of the immediate conventional wisdom explaining the Democrats' across-the-board...
Second Nexus

Gay Priest's Powerful Sermon About Love Between LGBTQ+ People Has The Internet Sobbing - In a sermon that resonated well beyond the walls of Southwark Cathedral, *The Very Reverend Dr. Mark Oakley* delivered *a passionate and powerful respons...
Texas Standard

Canceled Digital Equity Act grants disrupt projects aimed at getting underserved people online - The Digital Equity Act was designed to work in tandem with the government’s broadband infrastructure program to expand internet access and training.
Election Law Blog

“Why Democrats Could Win the Redistricting War” - Nate Cohn for NYT’s The Tilt: Republicans have had an advantage in this year’s redistricting wars because they control the redistricting process in state...
Bracing Views

Sports and the Military Again - Salute to Service Returns! BILL ASTORE NOV 03, 2025 As I watched NFL football yesterday, I noticed coaches on the sidelines wearing “salute to service” fat...
Texas Observer

Jane Goodall, the Natural World, and Why I Track Skunks - In a final message, Jane Goodall urged us not to lose hope, even “as we destroy one ecosystem after another, as we create worse climate change and worse ...
MintPress News

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America - As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional r...
LareDOS

LC student art exhibit opens Nov. 7 at Fenstermaker Gallery; mariachi soloist Juan Capetillo recital Nov. 13 - Applied music students perform Nov. 19
Rewire

Doctors Challenge Arizona Abortion Laws as Unconstitutional Burden on Patients - “I find that the laws that we are challenging are preventing me from providing the sort of care that I think my patients want and that they deserve, and ...
Democracy Now!

Remembering Peter Weiss: Legendary Human Rights Lawyer Dies at 99 - The trailblazing human rights attorney Peter Weiss died November 3 at the age of 99. Weiss served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights for ...
The Conversation

Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation - ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.
Space City Weather

Prepare for some serious temperature whiplash over the next week, H Town - In brief: Get ready for a wild ride in the temperature department. Houston will threaten our all-time November high temperature tomorrow before a cold fron...
Rallblog

What To Do When Your Country Sucks - In a New York Times op-ed titled “How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things,” M. Gessen asks: “When your country pursues abhorrent polic...
slacktivist

LBCF: CSI Atlanta - Wherein we discuss why a dogged insurance investigator would have made a better protagonist for these books than the callous, self-absorbed, apathetic auth...
Debunking Christianity

The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 - On Sunday, November 1, 1755, in Lisbon, Portugal, a great earthquake took place while Christians were worshipping their good all-powerful God. Since it was...
ProPublica

Alaska’s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis. - The post Alaska’s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis. appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - [image: Piikunii high school students Alisa and Alison Skunkcap, Jasmine Bechel and James Trombley at Fire in the Mountains (left to right).] In response ...
Earth 911

Design Your Landscaping to Handle Stormwater Runoff - It’s time to think about spring. Yes, now, before the heavy runoff that begins the... The post Design Your Landscaping to Handle Stormwater Runoff appear...
Counterpunch

Speaking Truth to Power - The post Speaking Truth to Power appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Church and State

The Great American Heist: How Reagan, Trump, and Their Billionaire Backers Stole the Middle Class - Back in the 1960s you could rent a small apartment, buy a used car, and put yourself through college on a minimum wage job.
Brad Blog

'We Can See Light at the End of the Tunnel' After Election 2025: 'BradCast' 11/6/2025 - Today on The BradCast: Analysis (and giddiness) continues amid the fallout from Election 2025, during which the bottom appeared to drop out for Team Trump ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 7, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 7, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/07/2025 - 05:55 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Antiwar.com

Russia Can ‘Mirror’ in Venezuela What West Is Doing in Ukraine - When regional relations Iran and Syria called on Russia to help defend them against attacks by America, Israel, and a swarm of former ISIS militants, they ...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Deadline Politics

Condé Nast Fires Four Employees After Incident With HR Executive Over Teen Vogue Consolidation; Guild Calls Terminations “Illegal” - Condé Nast fired four editorial staffers after they sought to question the company’s head of human resources over the announcement of layoffs, including th...
Earthworks

Vale’s Problematic Indonesia Track Record - As eyes turn to Brazil, host of this year’s COP30 climate conference, Brazilian mining giant Vale is trying to position … The post Vale’s Problematic In...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MEDIA / A new Rag for a new generation - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2025 Many of us have worked to keep The Rag flag flying since the 2005 reunion. It’s hard to believe that was...
Lowering the Bar

Jury Deliberates in Sandwich-Assault Case [Update: Not Guilty] - Agent claims sandwich "exploded" on his chest, says he "could smell the onions and the mustard."
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #03: What Zohran Mamdani's Win Means - An election night so momentous we had to record a bonus episode
Project Censored

When Algorithms Break the News - Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl Hospitals denying maternal mental health care, employers using AI tools that drive workplace discrimination, and “phantom...
Sludge

The Democrats Won’t Stop Spamming - Despite ActBlue’s updated policies banning fake matches and deadlines, Democratic Party groups are continuing to spam supporters with messages designed to ...
Krebs on Security

Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List - For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare's public ran...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Journalist says that 188 Republican and Christian leaders have accused of sexually abusing kids this year (so far) - *While the far right falsely paint drag queens and other members of the LGBTQ community as 'groomers,' journalist Evan Hurst has identified 188 Christian...
Crooked Timber

Death and Capitalism (Part 4 of 4) - Death comes for us all. We are outlived, as Barkandji man Woddy Harris would have it, by Mother Nature, who holds us in something that I think he would lik...
Socialist Alternative

Zohran’s Historic Victory: Full Steam Ahead To Fight Trump & The Democratic Party Establishment - In a truly historic victory, self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has defeated hated former governor Andrew Cuomo to become mayor of New York...
NORML

Marijuana Arrests Comprised Nearly Half of All Drug-Related Arrests in Over a Dozen States in 2024 - [image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against three tiny buds][image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against t...
Ecosophia

Why The Left Can’t Meme: A Second Interlude - The exploration of the no-ego ego trip and its relevance to contemporary culture a few weeks back has implications that reach far. The discussion that foll...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Dem Wave Hits Virginia, New Jersey, and Elsewhere; a Dozen House Ratings Shift in California Following Approval of New Dem Map - Democrats enjoyed a strong election performance last night. Aside from wins in New Jersey and Virginia. Prop. 50 will pass in California, which has promp...
Dissent Magazine

Zohran’s Promise - The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward ...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence - There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its ...
ExChristian.Net

Megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges - *From the Oklahoma Attorney General:* OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 2, 2025) – The founder of a Texas megachurch pleaded guilty today to five counts of lewd or inde...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Unity Walk—Friday, Nov. 7th in collaboration with the National Day of Action against the Trump Compact for Higher Education - *The Unity Walk in collaboration with the National Day of Action against Trump's Compact for Higher Education is happening this coming Friday. You ...
Duck of Minerva

Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “A House of Dynamite” - I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s so much potential fo...
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
The Grayzone

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities - Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tes...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread: Clocks - Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m. If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Democracy Chronicles

Forgetabaht it! New York City is… Screwed - Zohran will probably win. Our 1970s municipal bankruptcy won't have nuttin' on an abandoned tax base by the class who pay all the bills here today.
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“No Threat” Weekend - 8.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 683kb “Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People he...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
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 ...
Alas, a Blog

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Two Party Opera

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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 ...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
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...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
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 ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
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...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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