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

Rio Grande Guardian

Hamer: Strengthening U.S.-Mexico Ties - The president and CEO of the Texas Association of Business says he just completed an incredible trip to Mexico. The post Hamer: Strengthening U.S.-Mexico...
Raw Story

'Thugs': Trump floats 'prosecuting Obama' as president spirals from latest scandal - Donald Trump on Saturday seemed to show enthusiasm for "prosecuting Obama" as the president is reeling from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The president to...
Courthouse News

Car strikes crowd outside Los Angeles venue, injuring 30. Bystanders attack driver, who was shot - A car crashed into a crowd outside a Los Angeles music venue, injuring 30 people. The driver, who was shot, was hospitalized. Police are still searching fo...
Claytoonz

Bigger Boat - 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...
memeorandum

Another Hegseth aide exits as Pentagon churn continues (Dan Lamothe/Washington Post) - Dan Lamothe / Washington Post: *Another Hegseth aide exits as Pentagon churn continues* — Justin Fulcher was at the center of two unusual controversies...
The Hill

Hegseth senior staffer out at Pentagon - Justin Fulcher, a senior staffer at the Pentagon and advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has left the Defense Department (DOD), an agency spokespers...
Mediaite

Jon Stewart Revealed Uncertainty About Daily Show’s Future Just Hours Before Parent Company Axed Colbert - Jon Stewart revealed an uncertain future for The Daily Show just hours before CBScanceled Stephen Colbert's Late Show. The post Jon Stewart Revealed Unce...
Al Jazeera English

Weeks-old baby dies of starvation in Gaza hospital during ongoing blockade - Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.
The Greanville Post

Israel, the US and Iran: the war has only just begun - THOMAS FAZI—From Moscow’s perspective, the war has never been solely about Ukraine. Russia’s demands include a new European security architecture, limits o...
Election Law Blog

Charles, Fuentes-Rohwer & Peale, “Reconstructing (the Law of) Democracy” - Guy Charles, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, and Farris Peale have posted this paper on SSRN. The abstract: American democracy is experiencing a stress test, but th...
Political Wire

Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein - “In the swirl of money and sun-tanned women that was their Palm Beach-and-Manhattan set, Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein spent nearly 15 years mingling si...
WhoWhatWhy

Thank You for Your Service, Tulsi Gabbard! - [image: Tulsi Gabbard, Trump, Cabinet meeting] In an effort to distract MAGA Nation from Jeffrey Epstein, Tulsi Gabbard presents the flimsiest of straw men...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

McIlroy digs in to unearth oddball Open surprise and ‘half-chance’ at late title tilt | Sean Ingle - Home favourite in disbelief after shot on the 11th sends an old ball flying but eagle a hole later sends fans into ecstasy Deep into day three of the Ope...
Glasstire

The Health Museum Announces an Open Call for Writers & Visual Artists - The Health Museum in Houston has announced an open call for its upcoming healing arts exhibition Age in Our Times. Writers and visual artists are invited...
Debunking Christianity

Leaving Home - [Dr. Valerie Tarico posted this on 05/25/2007. Enjoy!] Greetings! John has graciously asked me to join this community of thinkers and scholars, and I am ho...
Angry Bear

CFPB Ruling on Medical Debt Reversed by the Court - If was near the end of the Biden Administration when a rule removing Medical Debt from credit reports was finalized and activated March 2025. The rule wa...
Popular Resistance

Hague Group Confronts Israel Over Gaza - Collective measures to confront Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people have been agreed by 12 nations after an emergency summit of the Hague Group i...
OpEd News

Build 3rd Temple Next to Dome of the Rock - The world knows their intentions. They want to destroy the Dome of the Rock. In an off the street discussion on the subject here, a kid offered a brilliant...
Mediagazer

Ad-Shield: 976M people globally use ad blockers that block on-site analytics, whitelisted ads, registration walls, and more, up from 590M in 2019 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) - Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: *Ad-Shield: 976M people globally use ad blockers that block on-site analytics, whitelisted ads, registration walls, and...
Salon.com

Beaten and shot, driver arrested after LA nightclub crash - A man is in custody after his car hit pedestrians outside a LA nightclub, most victims were female
Axios

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns following Coldplay concert scandal - Astronomer CEO Andy Byron has resigned from the company after a video of him canoodling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert wen...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"A decade of missed opportunities: Texas couldn’t find $1M for flood warning system near camp - * Friends:* *In a decade defined by indecision, deflection, and short-sightedness, Texas failed to invest just $1 million in a flood warning system—an am...
San Antonio Report

Q&A: UP Partnership’s new CEO talks challenges, opportunities for San Antonio youth - UP Partnership, an influential nonprofit that advocates for youth development, has a brand new CEO hailing from Austin: Cathy Jones. ----------------------...
Consortium News

Trump’s Desaparecidos - A hacker found more than 40 people not previously acknowledged by the Trump administration on the list of migrants deported to CECOT, according to 404 Medi...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Gabbard charges Obama with treason! - *SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2025* *On Fox, three friends cheer her on:* Tulsi Gabbard has finally spotted the treason. She has even suggested that Barack Obama, ...
Eschaton

Things That Don't Enrage Dash Sulzberger - I don’t think that fucking newspaper is omnipotent, but it has not tried to use its agenda powers against this .
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Convergence: Fascism as Capitalist Consolidation - Moments like Paramount's bribing of Trump and firing of Colbert reveal the true nature of our moment, and we cannot afford to look away.
Alternet

Texas 'Republicans are sweating through their solid gold Trump pins' — here's why - Barbed Wire Editor Brian Gaar says this year’s race for Republican senator in Texas “has everything,” including a “four-term U.S. senator trying to fend ...
Mother Jones

Trump Sues the Wall Street Journal Over Epstein Birthday Album Story - Donald Trump filed suit late Friday afternoon against the Wall Street Journal’s parent company, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and several other defendants, s...
San Antonio Current

How Trump's IRS may unshackle churches from their political restraints - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or f...
CultureMap Houston

10 hot Houston Restaurant Weeks newcomers lead our most popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with the highly anticipated 2025 Houston Restaurant Weeks lineup. Plu...
Slate

I Thought I Got Divorced Because My Wife Is Gay. Now I’m Learning It All Might’ve Been a Huge Lie. - Her and her new wife are having threesomes with people that seem to resemble me.
Daily Dot

Have you seen the “Do It Lady” meme? Behind the rise of Chit and his new catchphrase - [image: do it lady meme] TikTok’s favorite awkward coworker tried to convince his officemates “Do it lady!” was a catchphrase, and now it is. Internet ...
Futurism

Popular Sugar Substitute Marketed to Diabetics Linked to Stroke, Heart Attack, Brain Cell Damage - A widely-used sugar substitute found in products marketed to people with diabetes might contain more risks than rewards. In a new study published in the ...
The Verge

Here’s how to save on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 preorder - The forthcoming Galaxy Z Fold 7 is Samsung’s thinnest foldable yet. Our own Allison Johnson just published her full review ahead of the phone’s launch on J...
The Week

July 19 editorial cartoons - Saturday’s political cartoons include a Medicaid time bomb, and Donald Trump's fixation with the Fed's Jerome Powell
Undernews

Word - [image: Image] Via Thursday
Dissident Voice

BBC isn’t Failing. Its Job is to Obscure the UK’s Partnership in Israel’s Genocide - After months of a confected furore over a BBC documentary supposedly demonstrating pro-Hamas bias, followed by the shelving of a second film on Gaza, an ...
alicublog

SATURDAY ‘ROUND THE HORN: BRIDE OF EPSTEIN EDITION. - *I'm still playin' the victim and you still playin' the pick-me.* I don’t usually front-load these weekly updates with a *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* free...
Sludge

Energy Chair Hires Ex-Lobbyist to Help Shape U.S. Energy Legislation - Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Latta has selected a former lobbyist for natural gas, uranium, and geothermal firms, as his new aide.
The Root

Behind James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni’s Viral 1971 Black Men-Women Convo That Still Resonates - In 1971, writers James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni sat down for a riveting two-hour conversation about Black love and relationships that still has us talk...
Reform Austin

NFL Star Sentenced After 119 MPH Crash on Texas Highway - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in jail and five...
Mondoweiss

A father’s obituary for his martyred son in Gaza - [image: Yousef Al-Ghefari and his father, Mahmoud.]Mahmoud Al-Ghafari remembers his son, Yousef, who was killed in the Gaza genocide. "Israel killed Yousef...
Progressive.org

‘The Last Class’ is a Glowing But Incomplete Portrait of Robert Reich - It’s unclear to what extent we should buy into Robert Reich’s autumnal, self-appointed role as a reliable “progressive” voice in the blab-o-sphere. One wou...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for July 14 - 18 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. A number of shorter term indicators - mainly stock prices and jobless ...
Daily Cartoonist

Clay Jones vs. Margolis and Cox, Editoonists’ Not-So-Civil War - It began with the cartooning team of Margolis and Cox drawing Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as a clown which made her look like a representat...
Counterpunch

The Mob Murder of Saif Musallet - His family and friends called him Saif. He was affable and gregarious. He was kind and generous. He was handsome and athletic. He helped run the family’s...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Breaking The ICE - States stand up to ICE, a class act in the Garden State, wildlife crossings get a boost, and an agency backtracks on DOGE cuts.
Second Nexus

Woman Collects Diet Coke-Obsessed Boss' Empty Cans For A Month—And It's Truly Alarming - If you've ever been concerned about your caffeinated soda intake, or thought that you might be Diet Coke's Biggest Fan, you may need to rethink both of t...
Grist

The race to build solar and wind in New York before Trump’s tax credit deadline - Trump’s megabill gives wind and solar companies one year to put as many shovels in the ground as possible. They want New York officials to help.
The Militant

2,000 Teamsters strike Republic Services waste hauler nationwide - MANTECA, Calif. — Three dozen members of Teamsters Local 439 went on strike against Republic Services Forward Landfill here July 8, 15 miles south of Stock...
Vox

The brain tech revolution is here — and it isn’t all Black Mirror - When you hear the word “neurotechnology,” you may picture Black Mirror headsets prying open the last private place we have — our own skulls — or the cyber-...
ArcaMax

Retrain American Workers - More than anything else, American voters worry about the economy. Specifically, they struggle to pay their bills. Those with jobs are scared they will get ...
Progressive Army

Entrevista a Juan Carlos De Giacomo (Youtube) - El despachante de aduana y agente de transporte aduanero (ATA) Juan Carlos De Giacomo, vicepresidente de la Cámara Argentina de Empresas de Servicios de Co...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump administration ends 988 Lifeline's special service for LGBTQ+ young people - Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a ...
naked capitalism

Links 7/19/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Fires Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey, Which Sure Looks Desperate -
Skeptophilia

Footprints - The southern tip of mainland Italy is called Calabria. It's a strikingly beautiful place, containing three national parks (Pollino National Park, Sila N...
Off The Kuff

The flood insurance problem - This is only going to get worse unless we take steps to mitigate it. Less than 5% of residential properties in high-risk areas in Kerr County were covered ...
Scheerpost.com

Medicaid Is Giving ICE Access to Data of 79M Enrollees, Including Ethnicity - Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for Medicaid, but DHS says the data will aid their immigration crackdown.
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 19 July 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o You wouldn't want to depend on these people for anything. Here, let me he...
The AltWorld

US is Not “Retreating” From Asia-Pacific, It’s Dispersing Assets, Moving Others Back Before Conflict - ▪️The notion that the US is somehow “retreating” in the Asia-Pacific region is highly flawed – what […] The post US is Not “Retreating” From Asia-Pacific...
jobsanger

Trump's Birthday Letter To Epstein -
World Socialist Web Site

Talisman Sabre military exercise in Australia: A dress rehearsal for war against China - Involving almost 40,000 troops and some of the most potent weaponry in the world, the biannual war games have been transformed into a dry run for a US-led ...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1408: The Tortoise and the Hare - Episode: 1408 Fast game, slow game, and Stone Age population dynamics. Today, a Paleolithic story of the tortoise and the hare.
First Draft

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

Stephen Colbert and I: The Tightening of Right-Wing Censorship - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Paramount Global corporation has fired late night comedian Stephen Colbert even though Colbert dominated his time spot. ...
Nina Illingworth

Recommended Reading: Yes, It’s A Concentration Camp - As fascists and cowards push back on calling Alligator Alcatraz a concentration camp, Nina reads the news and asks what else you could possibly describe ...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | July 18, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | July 18, 2025 barry Fri, 07/18/2025 - 23:19
Workers World

The victorious struggle for national liberation of the peoples of the former Portuguese colonies - [image: The victorious struggle for national liberation of the peoples of the former Portuguese colonies] The author, a former member of the Secretariat of...
Techdirt.

DOJ Drops Charges Against Plastic Surgeon, Friend of RFK JR., For COVID Vaccine Fraud - Back when the COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out, to the surprise of nobody intelligent, fraud schemes around vaccination cards began to pop up. Group...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Files Suit Against Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones Over Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Epstein Story - Donald Trump has followed through on his threat to sue Rupert Murdoch and his media companies over the Wall Street Journal‘s report on a bawdy letter in hi...
Environment Texas

The Trinity dispatch - Your hub for all of our articles, updates, and actions about the environment in Dallas-Fort Worth The post The Trinity dispatch appeared first on Environ...
Ballot Access News

July 2025 Ballot Access News Print Edition - BAD ACCESS BILLS PASS IN IOWA AND VERMONT, BUT NOT IN DELAWARE OR NEW HAMPSHIRE During June, restrictive ballot access laws passed in Iowa and Vermont, but...
Common Dreams

Sanders: The March Toward Authoritarianism - *Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released the following statement today, on President Trump's steady march toward authoritarianism: * This is what the march ...
ProPublica

Microsoft Says It Has Stopped Using China-Based Engineers to Support Defense Department Computer Systems - by Renee Dudley ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
slacktivist

LBCF: Still not creepy enough - "Creepy" and "numinous" don't mean the same thing. But they kinda FEEL the same way. And you won't find either on in Left Behind.
Wolf Street

The Foreign Investors Who Bought the Recklessly Ballooning US Debt: July 2025 Update - US Treasury debt surged by $441 billion since the debt ceiling, to $36.7 trillion. Foreign demand for this stuff is an increasingly important issue.
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...
Capital & Main

Skater Kid: Behind the Viral Video and Continued Fight for Justice - A lone young man taunted an army of immigration cops and a street erupted with the firing of tear gas and crowd-control munitions. The post Skater Kid: B...
Church and State

James Carville Is Right to Panic – Because Trump’s Next Power Grab Doesn’t Need a Mob - Donald Trump has already laid the psychological and structural groundwork to undermine or suspend elections.
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Epstein Files - On our live show, David and Ken Klippenstein discuss the split between Donald Trump and the MAGA base over the Jeffrey Epstein case.
The NM Political Report

Good Trouble Lives On: New Mexico communities join national civil rights protests - This report is supported by NM Political Report, a nonprofit newsroom working to increase New Mexicans’ engagement in politics and public policy. Reporte...
El Paso Matters

Podcast: More on flash flooding in El Paso, how water utility tries to manage stormwater - El Paso Matters staffers talk about the flooding we've seen in El Paso, why we see water pool in streets even after brief rain storms, and what El Pasoa...
The Texas Signal

How Will Democrats Approach The Special Session? - Monday will give a glimpse if Texas Democrats have a plan to fight redistricting not just with websites and rhetoric but action too
SCOTUSblog

Where does Trump’s birthright citizenship order currently stand? - Three weeks after the Supreme Court ruled to limit the use of nationwide, or universal, injunctions in a case stemming from President Donald Trump’s exec...
The Conversation

How the ‘big, beautiful bill’ will deepen the racial wealth gap – a law scholar explains how it reduces poor families’ ability to afford food and health care - The measure enables broad tax cuts that disproportionately favor wealthy households while forcing its costs on the most economically vulnerable Americans.
Rallblog

DeProgram: “Why Epstein Refuses to Stay Dead” - LIVE 1:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: It’s time for “DeProgram,” where political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou tackle t...
Texas Standard

‘What’s the alternative? It has to be all right’: Maren Morris on her new album & speaking her mind - “Dreamsicle” is the Arlington native’s first album in three years.
MintPress News

Rotten Apple: Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant - A new MintPress News study has found dozens of former agents of the Israeli spy agency, Unit 8200, working at tech giant Apple. The post Rotten Apple: Do...
Dorf on Law

Treating Trump's Abuse of Power as a Spectator Sport - What is a "win" or a "victory"? Those words can only meaningfully describe having prevailed in a contest that could have gone the other way. For exampl...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Rewire

Jewish Woman’s Challenge of Kentucky’s Abortion Ban Gets Green Light From Appeals Court - The lawsuit now returns to Jefferson Circuit Court. The post Jewish Woman’s Challenge of Kentucky’s Abortion Ban Gets Green Light From Appeals Court appe...
Democracy Now!

Trump Cuts to Public Media Threaten Native Stations That Protect Culture & Public Health, Issue Alerts - We speak to Loris Taylor, president of Native Public Media, about the Trump administration’s drastic defunding of public media and its impact on tribal nat...
Space City Weather

After today, it seems that Houston’s rain chances will go slip sliding away - In brief: Invest 93L is kaput, and now we will look for some heavier downpours in spots today. Rain chances begin to dwindle on Saturday and Sunday as a ho...
Bracing Views

Trump Can’t Drain the Swamp–He Is the Swamp - The Jeffrey Epstein Case BILL ASTORE JUL 17, 2025 Chris Hedges has a superb show on the case of Jeffrey Epstein: Donald Trump, along with other “luminaries...
High Country News

The national parks are not OK - Former national park supervisor explains why toilets may be clean this summer, the parks themselves are actually ‘hollowed out.’ The post The national p...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Give Nature a Chance - Michel de Montaigne was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. Yet... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Give Nature a Chance ap...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Secret Epstein Letter Revealed - The post Trump’s Secret Epstein Letter Revealed appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
Brad Blog

CO Election Clerks Block White House/MAGA Plot to Breach Voting Systems: 'BradCast' 7/17/2025 - Yikes. On today's BradCast, Trump's fascistic lawlessness is really taking hold this week in several areas...with a lot of help from his fellow corrupt Rep...
Krebs on Security

Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai - Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald's was exposed after they guesse...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Simone Biles gets last laugh in 'feud' with anti-trans activist Riley Gaines during 2025 Espy Awards - While Simone Biles (top pic) shines and achieves, Riley Gaines (bottom pic) will continue to ride her fifth-place tie with trans athlete Lia Thomas for ...
Antiwar.com

From Secular Jewish State to a Jewish Herrenvolk Democracy - When I first met Amos Oz amid the 1982 Lebanese War, which we both condemned, he was an internationally renowned novelist and co-founder of the “Peace Now”...
Greg Palast

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Will control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demog...
Democracy Chronicles

How Gerrymandering is Poisioning Our Elections - No politician should draw any maps and should not be able to pick their voters. Gerrymandering is a democracy killer.
Discourse

These Substack Kids Wouldn't Last One Shift in the Blog Mines - An unintended side effect of digital media's demise is that no one knows how to write anymore.
Independent Political Report

Yankee National Party Seeks Ballot Access in Connecticut - The Connecticut chapter of the Yankee National Party has submitted designation petitions for a wide range of local and state offices ahead of the 2025 an...
Texas Observer

How Trump’s IRS May Unshackle Churches from Their Political Restraints - Last week, the Family Research Council’s longtime president Tony Perkins exulted over the win the Trump administration delivered to the Christian right: ...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center, Boys and Girls Clubs launch Back to School Mobile Clinic - Well-child visits, immunizations, health checks and preventative services available
Texas Monthly

First Hit by a Tornado, Then by the Flood: “I Feel Like Our Family Is Cursed” - For a Central Texas family, two natural disasters nearly three decades apart have destroyed homes, taken loved ones, and turned life into a bad dream.
DeSmogBlog

‘No Such Thing as a Free Lunch’: Opposition Outcry over Reform’s Secretive DOGE Unit - Councillors in West Northamptonshire last night slammed Reform UK’s plan to access council data as part of its ‘DOGE’ drive to reduce local “fraud and wa...
Liberation News

The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ deals a big, big blow to working-class students - Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' reduces student loan options and guts student loan forgiveness programs.
Bud Kennedy

Greg Abbott has $86 million. Texas Democrats don’t have a candidate. Here’s why | Opinion - Gov. Greg Abbott is down to his last $86 million. In his 11th year leading the state, Abbott has wielded his power and punished political opponents like no...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2004 to 2024, Part Two: When Each State Was at its Most Republican - Over the past few decades, some states have gotten more Democratic compared to the nation as a whole, while others have gotten more Republican. This arti...
Earthworks

The Big Beautiful Lie - While we celebrated the 4th of July, Republicans passed a budget that puts polluters first—gutting protections, silencing communities, and handing fossil...
See You In 2020

Class struggle will bring Russia to final victory, & will cure the anti-imperialist movement's internal problems - In his contribution to the April 2025 issue of The Platform, the anti-imperialist Dimitrios Patelis came to a shrewd analysis about Russia’s Ukraine op...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life ...
Socialist Alternative

Behind Enemy Lines: Lessons For Elected Socialists - Following the surprise victory of Zohran Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, many on the left...
NORML

Nebraska: Omaha Tribe Approves Marijuana Legalization on Reservation Lands - [image: hand holding green bottle of cannabis oil and glass jar containing cannabis flower in front of marijuana plants][image: hand holding green bottle...
Dissent Magazine

The Painter of the Right - Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Ecosophia

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors - In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
Project Censored

Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk - In the first part of the program, Mickey sits down with Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, founding director of the Park Center for...
The Progressive Wing

7/14-20 News Roundup and Open Thread - Mamdani has a big lead in the latest NYC poll.0
Crooked Timber

Attention is All You Need - One of my foundational theoretical commitments is that the technology of reading and writing is neither natural nor innocuous. Media theorists McLuhan, Pos...
Reading the Pictures

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
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...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: July 2025 - This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects–often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. I came away thinki...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:07 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
ROAR Magazine

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Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farías, III, longtime statewide leader in Texas higher education, appointed to two key positions at UTRGV’s School of Optometry - Dr. Fred Farías III, a lifelong advocate for higher education and a nationally respected leader in optometry and public service, has joined The University ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Stinque

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues - E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded versi...
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Eater Houston

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

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

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
Countercurrents

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

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

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

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

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
Save Buffalo Bayou

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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