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

Infidel753

Video of the day -- sometimes a nutcase is just a nutcase - Mentally-ill sexual perverts who live in a dream-world of incoherent and unclassifiable delusions have probably always existed, but today the internet is ...
Mediagazer

A look at Fox News Books, where execs sometimes match a Fox host or contributor with a subject and the books are launched with a cascade of Fox News appearances (New York Times) - New York Times: *A look at Fox News Books, where execs sometimes match a Fox host or contributor with a subject and the books are launched with a cascade...
memeorandum

Trump Makes Bonkers Demand for Bondi to Lock Up His Enemies (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast) - Jack Revell / The Daily Beast: *Trump Makes Bonkers Demand for Bondi to Lock Up His Enemies* — NOT YOUR EMAIL, DON — The president sent a rambling me...
Al Jazeera English

LIVE: Arsenal vs Manchester City – Premier League - Follow the build-up, analysis and live text commentary of the match as Arsenal host City at the Emirates Stadium.
Raw Story

Alex Jones mocks Charlie Kirk 'Superman' bullet claim: 'Easter Bunny has more credibility' - Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA declared that there was a "miracle" involved in the late commentator's killing, but noted conspiracy theorist Alex Jones...
Mediaite

‘We Have to Act Fast!’ Trump Promptly Doubles Down On Pressuring Pam Bondi to Go After His Political Enemies - Shortly after his stunning Truth Social post in which he publicly pressured Bondi to go after his political enemies more swiftly, Trump promptly doubled ...
The Verge

Why PlayStation and Xbox are no longer about the station or the box - This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the intersection of gaming and technology, fol...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Virginia woman donates $150,000 Powerball prize to charity: ‘I needed to give it all away’ - Carrie Edwards, a widow and grandma, gave the money to dementia research, food access and aid for military families Carrie Edwards of Virginia wasn’t the...
WhoWhatWhy

Democrats Should Use the Shutdown To Expose GOP Lawbreaking and Bad Lawmaking - [image: Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, living statues, waiting to act] “Saving” Republicans from their health care cuts won’t help Democrats win the midte...
Vox

The accessibility revolution hiding in your AirPods - As a person firmly ensconced in middle age — 57 percent of the way through life, to be precise, if government actuarial tables hold — I have begun to notic...
naked capitalism

Links 9/21/2025 -
Salon.com

Inside MAGA’s fight over Charlie Kirk’s legacy - Podcaster's memorial overshadowed by right-wing conspiracy theories
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: Confronting Tyranny -
Off The Kuff

How the hemp industry wooed Greg Abbott - Some interesting stuff here, and a reminder that some things are eternal. Colton Luther, a 29-year-old from Houston who hosts the cannabis podcast “Puff an...
The Hill

Lawmakers say only Trump can avert government shutdown - Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say Washington is headed for a government shutdown next week unless President Trump intervenes to cut a...
Eschaton

Morning - Sunday funday
San Antonio Report

Can San Antonio’s long list of flood control projects compete with flashier development? - The city's financial analysts are projecting the next infrastructure bond could be much smaller than in 2022 due to slowed economic growth. ----------------...
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for Sept. 21, 2025 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
Scheerpost.com

76 Years After Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK To Recognize Palestine - By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected ...
Daily Dot

“Is that meme ever gonna die?”: Woman featured in Jimmy Tatro skit explains how it came to be - [image: judging girls at a college party meme explained] If you’ve scrolled the internet in the last decade, you may have seen a popular reaction meme fr...
Two Party Opera

I Got Jumped By The FCC Chair - Read More
Crooked Media

The Roots of Political Violence and How We Prevent It - The post The Roots of Political Violence and How We Prevent It appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Week

Is free speech under threat in Britain? - The Trump administration thinks that free speech is in retreat in Britain. What do we mean by freedom of speech, and is it in danger?
Counterpunch

Sanctions Are Not Only Not an Alternative to War, They are More Deadly - Increasingly, the United States and the European Union leverage their dominance in the world capitalist system to impose sanctions on other countries. Po...
jobsanger

Trump Takes Another Step To Destroy Our Free Press -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1443: Praising the Famous - Episode: 1443 Some thoughts on fame and fortune in technology. Today, thoughts on fame and fortune.
Political Wire

Border Czar Investigated for Accepting $50K Bribe - “In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could hel...
Informed Comment

76 Years after Colonial Britain Scheduled a Palestinian State, UK to Recognize Palestine - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state...
Claytoonz

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet - 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...
Daily Cartoonist

AI Cartoon from Major Player Enters NYC Mayor’s Race - NEW YORK (PIX11) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams took jabs at Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a political cartoon posted on his X account Saturday eve...
Deadline Politics

Sinclair Moves Charlie Kirk Special To YouTube Instead Of Taking Over Kimmel Slot - After announcing a Charlie Kirk tribute special to take over Jimmy Kimmel‘s time slot, Sinclair backed out of Friday’s planned programming. The country’s l...
Courthouse News

Marchers gather in worldwide protest of financial institutions ‘profiting off the climate crisis’ - The demonstration in New York was one of many coordinated globally, with protesters demanding accountability from corporations and governments they accuse ...
Dissident Voice

The “Fat Boy Posse’s” Impending Attack on Iran - Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates. How many children in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have been hang-glided through the past...
NPR's Health Shots

Here's how RFK Jr.'s hand-picked vaccine advisory committee is starting to reshape vaccine policy - A federal vaccine advisory committee signaled a new approach to U.S. vaccine policy after a two-day meeting.
Liberation News

A giant quantum computing center for warfare threatens the cost of living on Chicago’s South Side - [image: Feature photo: The entrance to the old U.S. Steel South Works on the South Side of Chicago. Photo credit: Vaticanus]Tech companies like these worse...
Ballot Access News

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe Still Hasn’t Signed Bill for New U.S. House Districts - As of Saturday, September 20, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe still hasn’t signed HB 1, the bill for different U.S. House districts. The bill was presented to...
Alternet

'At the end of their rope': Trump-voting farmers beg president to halt his 'farmageddon' - Senate Agriculture Chairman John Boozman (R-Ark.) tells CNN that lawmakers are gathering “farmers’ feedback” on “how serious the situation is in rural Am...
Portside

Oct 18 No Kings Day #2 - Oct 18 No Kings Day #2 Dave Sat, 09/20/2025 - 16:32
OpEd News

Three LAUSD Incumbents Running For Re-election - In 2026, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voters in even-numbered districts will decide who controls the board - and possibly the future of char...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: September 14th – 20th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the first phase of the TikTok fight resolved with Oracle getting a lucrative hosting deal instead of buying the company i...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Mother Jones

Colin Kaepernick Pays for Autopsy of Black Student Found Hanging From Tree - NFL star and noted activist Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent second autopsy for a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tr...
First Draft

Caturday: Just Being My Magnificent Self - Meow from Finn.
Axios

Scoop: Qatar requests Israeli apology to resume Gaza mediation efforts - Qatar wants an apology from Israel for its strike in Doha before it resumes its mediation on a Gaza peace deal, according to two sources familiar with th...
The Root

13 Black Women Celebs Who Had Babies After 40 and Beyond - From first-time moms like Da Brat to those who followed long journeys like Gabrielle Union, their stories inspire motherhood after 40. Read more...
Angry Bear

The AI stock price bubble and consumer spending Ponzi loop? - – by New Deal democrat One of this things that has puzzled me for the last few months is why consumer spending has remained so strong in the face of so ...
Election Law Blog

“Drawing the Lines: Gerrymandering and Election Law” - Ruth Greenwood was the guest on the Touro Law Review podcast. The post “Drawing the Lines: Gerrymandering and Election Law” appeared first on Election La...
Futurism

Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions - A robotics company in China has shown off a humanoid robotic head that can express emotions through extremely subtle movements of its facial features. A...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's Michelin-recognized Tex-Mex joint expands and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with new locations for an acclaimed Tex-Mex restaurant and favorite t...
See You In 2020

The global workers struggle has changed, but the KKE’s camp doesn’t want to recognize this - Above: a rally by the participants in Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution. One of the most famous critiques by Michael Parenti is from Blackshirts and Red...
Undernews

Best airports - *Nice News - *If you’ve had enough of disappointing terminal facilities and dismal food court options, a new report from J.D. Power is here to direct yo...
Trivial Knot

Confession - I left Catholicism when I was 18, so I literally have a child’s understanding of the Catholic practice of confession. It was a ritual that did not make muc...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 15 - 19 at Seeking Alpha - *- by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Along with the continuing resilience of consumer spending, which I wrot...
San Antonio Current

How Texas localities have (and haven’t) spent funds to fight the opioid crisis - [image: Demonstrators gather in Washington, D.C., to raise awareness of the opioid crisis.] Experts say that how the opioid funds are used in these early ...
Reform Austin

Senator Ted Cruz is Outraged No One Honored Charlie Kirk at Emmy Awards - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… After the 77th Emmy Awards Ceremony concluded, Texas Senator Ted Cruz wrote on X: “Hollywood cl...
Glasstire

A Tale of Two Gibsons: Bicoastal Jeffrey Gibson Shows Celebrate Community in Color - When I think of Americans in Venice, my mind conjures John Singer Sargent, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jeffery Gibson. Sargent’s connection to Venice is evi...
Mondoweiss

As Israel faces increasing international isolation, BDS becomes more crucial than ever - [image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a Cabinet meeting, on December 17, 2023. (Credit Image: © Menahem Kahana/EFE via ZUMA Press APA Im...
Consortium News

Targeting Venezuela - Alan Macleod assesses Trump’s claims regarding Venezuelan drug trafficking and assesses the history of U.S. efforts to overthrow the Venezuelan government....
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: The cleaning crew scoured the office! - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2025* *Fox & Friends Weekend holds forth: *We'll start today with something puzzling—with an apparent look at the puzzling way B...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Side Effects May Include FDA Crackdowns - Misleading ads get muted, universal child care is here, a tech company gets caught cheating, and tenants step up.
Grist

Trump DOJ seeks to kill Vermont law that makes Big Oil pay for climate harm - The Justice Department asked a judge to shut down the "Superfund" law that requires major polluters to pay for carbon emissions.
ArcaMax

This Is Not Funny - "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told a right-wing podcaster, "this" being ...
Skeptophilia

Mysterious mosaic - I've mentioned before how much I love a good mystery, and there's a hell of a good one underneath the town of Margate, Kent, England. It's called the "Shel...
The AltWorld

Is Zionism Collapsing? w/ Historian Ilan Pappé - What we’re witnessing in Gaza is not just another chapter of Zionism — it’s the final stage. […] The post Is Zionism Collapsing? w/ Historian Ilan Pappé ...
World Socialist Web Site

Privatised phone system failure causes deaths in Australia - At least three people, including an eight-week-old baby, died on Thursday because of a breakdown in the Triple 0 emergency phone system, caused by a failur...
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration urges Supreme Court to uphold tariffs - The Trump administration on Friday urged the Supreme Court to uphold President Donald Trump’s power to impose sweeping tariffs on virtually all goods imp...
El Paso Matters

$165 billion Project Jupiter data center campus to move forward after tense vote - Project Jupiter will be among the biggest private investments ever made and could reshape the regional economy around El Paso and Las Cruces. Not everyo...
ProPublica

Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case - by Hannah Allam ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Environment Texas

Dallas Budget Passes with Environmental Wins - Environmental funding preserved and expanded under FY26 budget The post Dallas Budget Passes with Environmental Wins appeared first on Environment Texas.
Wolf Street

What It Takes to Sell Homes: Lennar Cuts Average Selling Price Below its 2019 Level, and its Home Sales Held Up - But the hot air was let out of pandemic-era gross margins, operating earnings, and net income. Sellers of existing homes should pay attention.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Sat, 09/20/2025 - 02:18 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Fascism Is Here. How Do We Fight Back?: A Conversation with Wajahat Ali - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
Workers World

Historic hotel workers strike in Houston - [image: Historic hotel workers strike in Houston] Houston, Sept. 6, 2025 Houston — Historians agree they cannot remember a strike by workers at a hotel in ...
Rallblog

Deprogram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: Guess Who’s Scouring the Dark Web? - Live 5 pm Eastern and Streaming 24-7: On Friday’s episode of DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou, where political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whist...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE REAL VIRTUE SIGNALERS EDITION. - *First woke up to her in *La Belle Noiseuse*. Lovely.* The fash frolics proceed apace. Tubby’s apparently so mad that his prosecutor won’t file false cha...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #170 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: "I'm an AG" fails to impress, some shady deals, another thing not to use AI for, and other stuff.
The Conversation

Why Jimmy Kimmel’s First Amendment rights weren’t violated – but ABC’s would be protected if it stood up to the FCC and Trump - Think you know what the First Amendment means and protects? You − and a lot of Jimmy Kimmel’s defenders − may well be wrong.
slacktivist

LBCF: Mostly dead - Yet another part of the book in which the authors completely ignore and forget about the divine slaughter of every child on the planet.
The Militant

Letters - Celebrate life of Helen Nelson On Sept. 13 some 30 people attended a celebration of the life of Helen Nelson organized by her companion, Jude Keast, and ot...
Church and State

Trump’s attack on all media against free speech deserves impeachment, indictment, and removal from office of this felony convicted president - GOP officials will do anything but disgracefully refusing to recognize the enormous step that the Kimmel withdrawal represents.
Sludge

Lutnick’s Family Firm Holds Stake in China-Tied Satellogic - Cantor Fitzgerald is a key investor in satellite imagery company Satellogic, which is angling for U.S. defense and intelligence contracts as it works for a...
Texas Standard

How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M - Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Manufactured Outrage and the Assault on Academic Freedom in Texas, by Dr. Pauline Turner Strong - *On September 18, 2025, Dr. Pauline Strong—professor of anthropology at UT-Austin and president of the AAUP chapter—published an urgent guest column titl...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Jimmy Kimmel’s Cancellation and Why We Must Break Up Big Media - On our live show, David and anti-monopoly writer Matt Stoller discuss media consolidation and attacks on free speech.
Common Dreams

The Trump administration’s chilling censorship of Jimmy Kimmel violates the First Amendment and warrants Trump’s immediate impeachment and removal - Amid political pressure from President Donald Trump and his Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, American Broadcasting Company (ABC),...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico Democrats stand against GOP federal funding plans without healthcare cost fix - Two bills to avert a government shutdown each went down to defeat in the Senate on Friday. One of the proposals, a continuing resolution that would keep ...
Independent Political Report

Working Families Party Endorses Mai Vang in California 7th Congressional Race - The Working Families Party has endorsed Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang in her campaign for California’s 7th Congressional District. Vang is chall...
Second Nexus

Jennifer Aniston Hilariously Shocked After Learning Longtime Friend Reese Witherspoon's Real Name - Even when you've known someone for more than a decade, there are inevitably things you still don't know about them, no matter how important they might be...
Capital & Main

Working While Brown Is the New Living While Black - The Supreme Court’s decision gives federal agents license to treat Latinos like second-class citizens, condoning the same racial profiling Black American...
Progressive Army

Comunicado TCA – Inconvenientes operativos portal IMPO – - Estimados socios, buenas tardes: Les hacemos llegar comunicado emitido por TCA en relación a lo graves problemas operativos que están teniendo desde la pue...
The Greanville Post

Bernie Sanders Is A Ghoulish Zionist - CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Dude goes two years refusing to call a genocide a genocide, then issues a statement which begins by placing blame for the genocide on the...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—September 2025 - Censored Press News On September 23, 2025, The Censored Press, in partnership with Seven Stories Press, will publish Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon...
Rewire

COVID, MMRV Vaccine Guidelines Have Changed (Updated) - The CDC’s vaccine panel has updated its recommendations for who should get inoculated and when. Here’s what you need to know. The post COVID, MMRV Vaccin...
Debunking Christianity

Hey, Devout Folks: Facing Reality Would Be a Smart Move! - *No god has “the whole world” in its hands*It was reported that on the Sunday following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, church attendance in the New York ar...
Space City Weather

Houston’s late summer slog continues but some signs of a humidity front continue to percolate next week - In brief: Mainly quiet, pollen-ridden weather through tomorrow in Houston, followed up by more scattered-type showers and storms Sunday through Tuesday. A ...
Texas Observer

A Wave of School District Takeovers Could Be Coming. Some Past Interventions Ended with More Failing Schools. - Recently released state school ratings reveal that five Texas school districts are at risk of a takeover by the Texas Education Agency (TEA)—the most sin...
Democracy Now!

"I'm Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home - *Democracy Now!* host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and r...
Dorf on Law

Wait! That's What Got Jimmy Kimmel Canceled? ABC Does it the Easy Way - ABC has "pre-empted indefinitely" late-night show *Jimmy Kimmel Live! *in response to network affiliate and official backlash against host Jimmy Kimmel's...
High Country News

What old growth forests have to do with your food - [image: A view of the mixed conifer forest in early fall outside Troy, Montana.] More than you might think. The post What old growth forests have to do w...
The Progressive Wing

9/19-22 News Roundup and Open Thread - More fallout from Jimmy Kimmel and Charlie Kirk. I’m in Madrid–just returned from a few days in Cordoba and Granada.
The Texas Signal

Untitled Art Gives Houston A First-Class Art Fair - Untitled has been an elegant annual celebration of art in Miami since 2012 and now has a Houston branch running this weekend
Popular Resistance

We’ll Be Back Soon - We rarely take a day off, but our director, Margaret Flowers, is getting married on the International Day of Peace and we'd like to take a short break to...
LareDOS

“The Search for Dark Matter” coming to TAMIU Oct. 8 - UT’s Dr. Timothy Aldeen presents latest research in particle physics
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

I humiliated a Trump supporting white supremacist on Thursday. How was your day? - On the risk of bragging, I embarrassed a "prominent" white supremacist today. I put the word prominent in quotes because to me, labeling a white supremac...
Antiwar.com

Dirty Wars and Endless Lies: Scott Horton’s Shattering History of America’s War on Terror - Scott Horton’s masterpiece “Enough Already” shows how the U.S. and its allies spread devastation through Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, a...
Progressive.org

This Incarcerated Journalist Is Making a Case Against Solitary Confinement - Christopher Blackwell’s new book ‘Ending Isolation’ tackles the cruel practice employed against incarcerated people in prisons across the country.
Discourse

Charlie Kirk Is Not Jesus - Hope this helps!
DeSmogBlog

Trump Ambassador’s Fortune Intertwined With Big Tech Trade Push - President Donald Trump’s UK ambassador holds investments in the companies set to develop flagship tech projects across the country. U.S. financial record...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - September 18, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: New study finds climate change responsible for two-third...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Midway to the Midterm: The Imperfect Bellwethers of New Jersey and Virginia - The NJ and VA gubernatorial races sometimes suggest what will happen in the following year's midterms, but there are many exceptions The post Midway to t...
Dissent Magazine

[NYC EVENT | October 19] Food Tour with Arun Gupta - Please join us in New York City for a food tour in support of Dissent. On Saturday, October 18, Dissent editors, staff, and donors will enjoy New York Ci...
Ecosophia

Situationism: Understanding the Spectacle - Two weeks ago we started a discussion of the Situationists, an obscure movement spawned by fringe Marxism in 1950s Europe. As I commented at the time, that...
NORML

Minnesota: Retailers Begin Adult-Use Cannabis Sales - [image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cannabis leaf symbol representing the sale of legal cannabis][image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cann...
Bracing Views

The Department of War Is Back! - But Victoryless Culture Remains Also at TomDispatch.com. BY WILLIAM J. ASTORE My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / Political Commentary / Virtually everything the Trump Administration has done to ramp up deportations has been illegal - Honk for Trump Vance. Photo by Thomas Hawk / Flickr/ Creative Commons. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / September 16, 2025 The following is an expanded...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is filling up fast. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. I turned on the TV coverage of CNN for Tyler Robinson's court appearance. ...
Crooked Timber

On the philosophical – moral implications of a 1989 Honda Civic - A trolley problem, some personal stuff, a bit of Islamic jurisprudence, and then the Honda. 1) Trolley time. Let’s start with the trolley problem. Peop...
Krebs on Security

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages - At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials fro...
Earth 911

Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden - Mulch is any material you use to cover bare soil in a landscape. But mulching... The post Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden appeared fir...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
The Grayzone

Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he a...
Idavox

Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! - Charlie Kirk does not deserve our respect or goodwill, no matter how much the mainstream... The post Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! appeared first on...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
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.
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
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...
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...
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...
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

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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.
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...
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

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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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