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

Daily Howler

BREAKING: It's the third Friday of the new cycle! - * FEIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2025* *Gabriel Conroy's thoughts:* Yes, it's the third Friday of the new and improved "every third Friday" medical cycle. Despite...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Kennedy Center ticket sales take a nosedive after Trump takeover - Prestigious Stuttgart Ballet likely to face 80% empty seats at DC’s premier arts venue as audiences ‘vote with their feet’ Ticket sales at the Kennedy Ce...
Salon.com

The cartoonist who made presidents tremble - In the new documentary "A Savage Art," Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Pat Oliphant finds history repeating itself
Daily Dot

“I ain’t never getting my pizza”: Sam’s Club worker launches food at customers—and people are on her side - [image: Left: Sam's Club employee throwing food a customers. Right: The entrance to a Sam’s club store in Buffalo, NY, USA.] A Sam's Club worker went vir...
Slate

My Husband and I Are Trying Out the Swinging Lifestyle. But I’ve Run Into a Very Embarrassing Problem. - How would I even approach fixing that?
Raw Story

'They're not talking at all!' MAGA lawmaker grimaces at CNN host's blistering fact check - CNN's Kate Bolduan fact-checked a MAGA Republican lawmaker to his face after he praised President Donald Trump's handling of foreign affairs. Rep. Randy ...
The Verge

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Edge might look like an iPhone 17 Pro - The rumor mill just churned up a purported render of Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Edge, and it only adds to speculation that the super-slim phone will look like th...
Mediagazer

The FT confirms plans to wind down The Next Web's events and media business by the end of September "following a strategic review"; the FT bought TNW in 2019 (Amy Lewin/Sifted) - Amy Lewin / Sifted: *The FT confirms plans to wind down The Next Web's events and media business by the end of September “following a strategic review”; ...
Al Jazeera English

LIVE: Ukraine vs France – UEFA World Cup qualifier - Follow our live build-up, with team news, ahead of our live text commentary stream of the qualifier for the 2026 event.
Mediaite

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Busts Trump Health Sec RFK With Brutal Receipt After Rant At Hearing - CNN's Kaitlan Collins dropped a brutal video receipt on Trump HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confident declaration at a trainwreck congressional h...
memeorandum

Xi Unites World Leaders Sick of Being Pushed Around by Trump (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *Xi Unites World Leaders Sick of Being Pushed Around by Trump* — Xi, Putin and Modi's rare show of unity holds the potential for deeper econ...
Alternet

'Very bad': CNN's data chief shows majority of Americans view Trump's economy as 'weak' - A strong majority of Americans say the Trump economy is getting worse not better, and a near-majority say jobs and the economy are on the wrong track. Th...
Political Wire

All the President’s Tech CEOs - Wired: “At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.” “One by one, Trump asked th...
Dissident Voice

Cold War 2.0 Is Against China - “Globally, all available resources are to be focused on a zero-sum increase in U.S. power and on the defeat of China as the newly arising rival.” — John ...
Eschaton

Y'all Motherfuckers Lying And Getting Me Pissed - I suppose a minor difference between reactionary centrists and the MAGA right is that the former are proud of being the smartest boys in the room, believin...
The Conversation

Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to fight crime blurs the legal distinction between the police and the military - A former FBI agent-turned-scholar says using National Guard troops to reduce crime in cities such as Chicago and Baltimore would violate legal prohibitions...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court’s upcoming criminal cases - ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Please note that the views of outsi...
CultureMap Houston

Mahjong for a Cure dazzles Houston with glamour, games, and giving - Animal print met high stakes as *Park House Houston* morphed into a mash-up of 90s runway and competitive game night for Mahjong for a Cure.
Election Law Blog

Pam Karlan: Why Section 2 Matters to *Existing* Minority-Opportunity Districts - The following is an important guest post from Pam Karlan: In a recent post describing his amicus brief in Louisiana v. Callais, Nick Stephanopoulos point...
Common Dreams

U.S. Job Market Plummets Under Trump’s Leadership: 70% Lower Job Growth, Unemployment Highest in Nearly 4 Years - The first jobs report after President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner for “rigging data” showed that regardless of who’s in charg...
Courthouse News

France’s government quivers on brink, with extreme right poised to emerge on strong footing - A confidence vote Monday is expected to topple the prime minister. Beyond an already dire debt crisis, experts caution the consequences will be far reaching.
Glasstire

Stop, Pause, and Look: “It’s All in the Details” at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas - This summer, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) celebrates its permanent collection in It’s All in the Details. The two main galleries feature a s...
Second Nexus

Rosie O'Donnell Expertly Shreds Trump After He Shares Bizarre Photoshopped Picture Of Her - Actor and comedian Rosie O'Donnell criticized President Donald Trump after he shared a bizarre Photoshopped image of her face that characterizes her as a...
Undernews

Job growth slows - *NBC News - *U.S. job growth slowed significantly in August, a sign the labor market is under increasing stress. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reporte...
naked capitalism

The British Media Again Ignores the Corbyn Insurgency - As Nigel Farage dominates headlines, Jeremy Corbyn is being overlooked by the media – just as he was in 2017
Axios

Black women's unemployment spikes amid Trump's federal workforce cuts - Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Axios Visuals The unemployment rate for Black women rose sharply in August to 7.5%, per government data released F...
The Hill

1 in 4 homes face 'severe or extreme' climate risks, study finds - Nearly $13 trillion worth of homes are exposed to "severe or extreme" climate threats, according to Realtor.com.
WhoWhatWhy

Lackluster Job Growth Continues in August as Unemployment Rate Ticks Up - [image: Donald Trump, signs, executive orders, Oval Office] Donald Trump claims the economy is booming and that America is the "hottest" country around. Ba...
Progressive Army

Solicitud de intervención urgente a IATA sobre TCA - Estimados socios, buenas tardes IMPORTANTE: En relación a los graves problemas operativos que están sucediendo en TCA desde la puesta en marcha del nuevo p...
El Paso Matters

El Paso Animal Services director retires amid criticism, Modesto Gomez Park new sports fields open - This week: Terry Kebschull retires amid criticism of Animal Services leadership; Canutillo ISD adopts tax rate; first phase of long-awaited Modesto park...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The Texas GOP is suing for a closed primary - Thursday evening, the Texas Republican Party filed suit to force the state to allow the party to close its primaries. The party signaled its desire to do...
Bonddad

August jobs report: “Recession Watch” as the leading indicators across the spectrum turn negative - - *by New Deal democrat* Even before the utter chaos of the new Administration in Washington, my focus had been on whether the economy would have a ...
San Antonio Current

The Spurs aren’t leaving San Antonio, even if the arena vote fails in November, experts say - [image: A fan holds up a cutout of No. 1 NBA Draft pick Victor Wembanyama at the Spurs’ draft watch party at the AT&T Center.] Pick up a local newspaper t...
The NM Political Report

Video: ‘Gibberish’ or ‘my New Mexico accent?’ Exchange gets heated between Luján and RFK Jr. - [image: U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján questions HHS Sec. RFK Jr. / Sept. 4, 2025 / C-SPAN] [image: U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján questions HHS Sec. RFK Jr. / Sept. 4,...
Houston Public Media

Texas Republicans in Congress scaled back town halls during summer recess amid criticism over Trump megabill - Some who did host public events were interrupted by protesters and heckled for their support of President Donald Trump and his signature legislation.
Futurism

A Quarter of Nvidia's Revenue Comes From a Single Giant Customer - In case you haven't heard, there might be a slight problem with the US economy: that it's being propped up by a tiny number of tech companies betting big...
Rewire

Why Research On Pregnancy-Safe Medications, Already Scarce, Could Soon Dwindle - "Removing or reducing ongoing investments in healthy pregnancies poses a danger to much-needed efforts to reduce excessive rates of stillbirths as well a...
First Draft

Nostalgia As A Weapon Against Democracy - How Trump is using fond memories of a time that never was against us.
Democracy Now!

Indonesia Protests: At Least 10 Killed, Thousands Arrested Amid Police Crackdown - Authorities in Indonesia have launched a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests, sparked by outrage over generous housing allowances and other perks for p...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Words That Must Be Spoken - “Don’t call me Shirley” is a funny line, but our current situation is far from it. Still, it’s an irresistible response when, day after day, we keep saying...
Deadline Politics

U.S. Added Just 22,000 Jobs In August In Latest Sign Of Slowing Economy; Movie And Music Industry Jobs Decline - The U.S. added 22,000 jobs in August, with unemployment rising slightly to 4.3%, in the latest sign of a slowing economy. The numbers, from the Bureau of L...
Space City Weather

Houston’s pre-fall fling pauses this weekend before resuming for a couple more days early next week - In brief: Houston will see more humid weather this weekend with rain chances re-entering the forecast slightly today and tomorrow and more so on Sunday as ...
Techdirt.

Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr Joins Ted Cruz In Fucking Over Poor Rural School Kids - Last year, the Biden FCC passed a new rule that would help bring Wi-Fi access to school kids who struggle to do their homework online. More specifically, t...
Crooked Media

Stop The Genocide! w/ Wael Al-Dahdouh, Jen Brister and Alexei Sayle - The post Stop The Genocide! w/ Wael Al-Dahdouh, Jen Brister and Alexei Sayle appeared first on Crooked Media.
Angry Bear

Measles in the US - Quite a few people are ignoring or are refusing to get shots to prevent things such as measles, covid, etc. They have identified this as vaccine hesitanc...
The Week

China's new weapons of war - Beijing parade was a 'direct message to us all'
Vox

Why the Trump-Modi split is such a disaster - When it comes to bromances, President Donald Trump typically runs hot and cold. Remember Elon Musk? Vladimir Putin? First they’re besties, then they’re tra...
ArcaMax

Finding Kinship in 'The Perils of Girlhood' - The worries we have as parents are tightly tethered to childhood experiences that shook us. Growing up in the latchkey days of the 1980s and '90s, without ...
NPR's Health Shots

RFK Jr. pressed on vaccine accessibility. And, a plan for Ukraine's post-war safety - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tries to defend his actions regarding vaccines in a Senate hearing. And, a European coalition announces a plan for Ukraine's post-war...
ProPublica

The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit. - by Julia Rendleman for ProPublica, Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois, and Lylee Gibbs, Saluki Local Reporting Lab This article was produced for ProPub...
Workers World

Keep Calling!!! - [image: Keep Calling!!!] Continue reading Keep Calling!!! at Workers.org
The Smirking Chimp

‘Got Somebody Inside’: Massie Says New Video Proves Epstein List ‘Not a Conspiracy Theory’ -
Skeptophilia

Mind the gap - In 1869, explorer John Wesley Powell did the first systematic study of the geology of the Grand Canyon. As impressive as it is, the Grand Canyon's not tha...
Off The Kuff

The At Large #4 lineup - Wednesday was the filing deadline for both CD18 and Houston City Council At Large #4. There are fourteen filed candidates plus one write-in. I will offer a...
Mother Jones

Beleaguered Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon Flock to Unionize - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of staff at two of Californi...
San Antonio Report

‘Gorilla housing’ and sports venues: New progressive council takes aim at TIRZ spending - Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones, one of the tools being used to fund the Spurs arena and Missions' baseball stadium, face new opposition. -----------------...
Scheerpost.com

Gaza’s Looming Cancer Epidemic - The Many Ways Bombs Can Kill.
American Prospect

Sugar Daddies - From the Havemeyer Sugar Trust to Allen Dulles to Jeffrey Epstein, the MAGA billionaire Fanjul family are the welfare barons of all time.
The Root

Young Thug Comes for GloRilla, Gets Dragged for Filth Online - Rapper Young Thug has been making waves the last few weeks and this latest update is sure to ruffle even more feathers! Read more...
OpEd News

Two Books - A poem about the value of books and reading them and writuing about them in a poem.
The AltWorld

After the Israeli Genocide and Trumpian foolishness, why is the Chinese-Russian-North Korean triad rising? - How did the big Chinese military display and the Shanghai conference reaffirm this truth? When we see […] The post After the Israeli Genocide and Trumpia...
Grist

The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters. - We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them.
High Country News

Acknowledging the hands that feed us - [image: Hollywood & Vine Ink, charcoal, gouache and acrylic on produce boxes, 97.5 x 63.5 inches, 2022. Photo by Yubo Dong.] Narsiso Martinez aims to dign...
Ian Welsh

What Is Post-Modern Thought? - Until I went back to graduate school 12 years ago, I really had little exposure to post-modern thought. Let’s just say after getting my master’s I’m very f...
Rallblog

Thinking of Beginning to Consider Reconsidering - When a war is about to begin or is just starting to kill countless combatants and innocent civilians, the American media can always be counted on to supp...
Counterpunch

All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela - President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a sma...
jobsanger

China's Useful Idiot -
Consortium News

West Asia is Lurching Toward War - Indications are that Israel with the support of Washington is spoiling for a fight with Iran as the E3 moves for snapback sanctions against Tehran, writes ...
World Socialist Web Site

GE Aerospace strikers: “There’s got to be a line in the sand—that’s what we’re doing” - Workers at GE Aerospace plants in the Cincinnati area explained the issues in their week-long strike.
Informed Comment

A Reluctant (Iranian) Exile: Minister without Portfolio - A Review of Minister Without Portfolio: Memoir of a Reluctant Exile by Hooman Majd. Detroit (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Everybody needs a home...
Duck of Minerva

Benjamin de Carvalho - Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a mother from Norway and a father from Brazil. Ben talks about h...
Ballot Access News

North Carolina Minor Party Activists Delay Implementation of New Regulations that Would Hamper Petitioning - The North Carolina State Board of Elections has promulgated some regulations that would make it more difficult for parties to petition for ballot access. T...
Wolf Street

Fed Balance Sheet QT: -$39 Billion in August, -$2.36 Trillion from Peak, to $6.60 Trillion - Compared to the size of the economy, the Fed’s assets are now down to 21.8% of GDP, where they’d first been in 2013.
Popular Resistance

The State Of The ‘State Of Palestine’ - United Nations General Assembly sessions, held each September since 51 nations convened in a Methodist church hall in London in 1946, come and go and mos...
Brad Blog

RFK Jr.'s War on the Science of Public Health: 'BradCast' 9/4/2025 - The Trump Administration is at war against science (and reality) on at least two different fronts, both of which we dig into on today's BradCast. One is th...
Antiwar.com

Manufactured Famines in Gaza Began Almost Two Decades Ago, So Why Haven’t They Been Halted? - On Friday, August 22, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the global famine watchdog, declared widespread famine in Gaza. The IPC is r...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: New federal edict weakens successful, popular, land and water conservation program - Secretarial Order will undercut locally driven conservation projects The post STATEMENT: New federal edict weakens successful, popular, land and water co...
Reform Austin

New Texas Laws Targets Hemp THC Products and Gendered Restroom Bill - On August 15, Texas lawmakers started a second special session to review and come up with a resolution concerning the Hill Country flooding, THC products...
Independent Political Report

U.S. Transhumanist Party Endorses Timothy Grady for Ohio Governor - The U.S. Transhumanist Party has endorsed independent candidate Timothy Grady in the 2026 race for governor of Ohio. Party members approved the endorseme...
Sludge

House Group Pushes for Vote to Ban Congressional Stock Trading and Ownership - Some Republicans in a bipartisan group of House lawmakers have given the speaker until the end of the month to bring a new unified bill to the floor, or th...
Claytoonz

Hoax With Sprinkles - 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...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump DOJ reportedly looking to ban trans Americans from owning guns' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Trump DOJ Reportedly Looking to Ban Trans Americans From Owning Guns *- *I am NOT a fan of guns, but I do understand the need of them for the sake of ...
Portside

Andrew Cuomo Has a Jeffrey Epstein Problem - Andrew Cuomo Has a Jeffrey Epstein Problem jay Thu, 09/04/2025 - 17:18
DeSmogBlog

Understanding Alberta’s Expensive, Ideological War on Renewable Energy - “This is what happens when ideology runs the power grid,” said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in July 2023 when asked about the province’s sky-high elect...
Texas Standard

Sirens, summer camps and weather alerts: Here’s what is changing in Texas after the special session - When the governor called the Texas Legislature into special session after July’s historic floods, he topped his priority list with passing bills to better ...
Texas Observer

Police ‘Secrecy Grab’ Dies After Senate Refuses Uvalde Compromise - Efforts to limit police transparency by shielding some complaints from public view have failed multiple times during the 2025 legislative season—most rec...
slacktivist

First things first: Biblical priorities - The books of Amos and Isaiah are likely the oldest books in our Bibles. Here we find the very first thing that God has to say to us: Seek justice.
Progressive.org

Why Grandparents Must Lead on Vaccines - Many of today’s parents, having never witnessed the devastating effects of polio or whooping cough, are being lulled into a dangerous complacency. But we g...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. What I'm following: Marco Rubio in Mexico, and his comments at a press conference aft...
Mondoweiss

The new Israeli map proposing to annex 80% of the West Bank, explained - [image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich arrive to a cabinet meeting on the state budget, at the Prime Mi...
Church and State

Mission possible − parastronaut programs can make space travel more inclusive and attainable for all - Future space exploration, particularly missions to the Moon and Mars, may prompt new standards for astronaut fitness.
The Daily Poster

Ticketmaster Just Locked You In A New Legal Prison - The entertainment giant’s new user terms block class action suits and steer complaints into corporate-friendly arbitration, potentially defying a judge’s o...
Discourse

Vile Grifters Are Taking Over Establishment Media - Paramount is reportedly set to pay between $100 and $200 million for The Free Press and will install Bari Weiss at the top of CBS News. Cool!
The Militant

‘Independence for Puerto Rico from US colonial rule!’ - NEW YORK — Supporters of independence for Puerto Rico from U.S. colonial rule demonstrated here and in several other cities Aug. 31. The actions coincided ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
NORML

Analysis: Consumers Are Twice as Likely To Use Unregulated Delta-8 THC Products in Jurisdictions Without Adult-Use Cannabis Markets - [image: delta-8 search][image: delta-8 search]"The lesson is clear: Placing marijuana products behind the counter keeps cannabis out of the hands of youn...
Dorf on Law

Who Knew That Trump's Superpower Would Be Destroying Wealth? - Before diving into the substance of today's column, sharing a bit of relevant housekeeping news will help to set the context. As many *Dorf on Law* (DoL...
Dissent Magazine

Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the ’60s, and the Tragedy of Development - Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt w...
Capital & Main

A Silver Lining in Trump’s ‘Big Ugly Bill’ - The expansion of tax credits in his signature legislation could help California meet its desperate need for affordable housing. The post A Silver Lining ...
Project Censored

Dignity Over Detention: How Immigrant Communities Are Reclaiming Media on Their Own Terms - By Elizabeth Insuasti In an age of relentless misinformation, immigrant communities in the United States are not just resisting—they are rebuilding. Whil...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Back Door to Authoritarian Rule to Put Our Fragile Democracy in Chains: Article V and the Far Right’s Constitutional Play - *The Back Door to Authoritarian Rule to Put Our Fragile Democracy in Chains: Article V and the Far Right’s Constitutional Play* *by* *Angela Valenzuela,...
The Texas Signal

Texas Passes Bill Targeting Abortion Pills - The bill allows private citizens to sue health care providers or manufacturers who mail or prescribe abortion medication to Texans
Infidel753

The victims speak - There are not many true heroes in politics these days, but they do exist. Congressmen Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna have been leading a campaign to force t...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Iowa, and Maine - Virginia to Likely Democratic, while Iowa and Maine move from Likely to Leans The post The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Io...
The Grayzone

UK funded radio show to sway Nigerian voters, leaked docs show - Amid the US refusal to provide military support to Nigeria in its fight against Boko Haram in 2014, then-President Jonathan Goodluck turned to Russia and...
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...
Ecosophia

Situationism: A Voice From The Fringes - There’s much to be learned from studying movements that thought they were the wave of the future, and weren’t. To begin with, there’s a distinctive tone of...
Greg Palast

Thom Hartmann on the Hidden History of NeoliberalismHow Reagan gutted America through a corporate coup d’etat - The brilliant historian-cum-journalist Thom Hartmann has torn back the curtain on the corporate lock-up of America which, in Trump 2.0, is reaching its arm...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear Classic: U.K. Environmental Leader Tony Juniper on Rainforest Awareness & Restoration - Tony Juniper spent a lifetime traveling the world’s rainforests and raising awareness about environmental threats.... The post Sustainability In Your Ear...
See You In 2020

Where the anti-imperialist movement’s unified strength exists, & the urgent need to build on this strength - It’s critical that we take example from the liberation struggles of the Global South, and a major recent lesson from these struggles is the importance o...
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...
Black Agenda Report

Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera - Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera bareditors Tue, 09/02/2025 - 23:00 North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Bracing Views

The Seven Habits of a Highly Defective Country - And what to do about it BILL ASTORE SEP 02, 2025 Welcome back, everyone. I hope you enjoyed Labor Day Weekend. It’s grim times in America. Perhaps grimmest...
Krebs on Security

The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft - The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interacti...
Alas, a Blog

You Only Think You Liked It! - My new cartoon collection, Why Must They Shove It In My Face?, is out! It’s about 200 pages of cartoony goodness, featuring 100 cartoons, plus text pieces ...
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
Crooked Timber

The crash of 2026: a fiction - Looking at the facts, there’s no reasonable conclusion except that US democracy is done for. But rather than face facts, I’m turning to fiction. So, here’s...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Third Trump Term? A Tipping Point?: Dispatches Mailbag - It's time to answer more reader questions and get into the issues of the time.
Trivial Knot

Hating the artist, hating the art - (Disclaimer: to the extent that this article was inspired by a specific creator, it’s not a creator you’ve heard of, and not one that I mention anywhere in...
The Progressive Wing

8/29 – 9/4 News Roundup & OT - News, Views, and Music…after the jimp.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
MintPress News

From Revolution to Revival: Russell Brand Embraces Trump and Israel - The former "revolutionary" now blesses GOP rallies, praises J.D. Vance, and defends Israel while his past allies recoil. The post From Revolution to Revi...
Democracy Chronicles

Honoring Legacy, Embracing Justice - My family's story is not only one of proud military service and enduring sacrifice but also one marked by the lasting consequences.
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 4 - *Matthew 7: A good start, then cult severity and bragging*It might be a good idea to compile a list of the *Top Ten Bible Texts that Christians Ignore*—...
Earthworks

Testimony to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning the agency’s proposed rescission of its 2009 Endangerment Finding - Hello, my name is Lauren Pagel, and I am the Policy Director at Earthworks. We work with communities impacted by … The post Testimony to the U.S. Enviro...
The Rag Blog

PAUL BUHLE / RADICAL COMICS / Anti-facism, partisan comics - By Paul Buhle / Special to The Rag Blog / August 28, 2025 The understandable fear of an American-style fascism will remind European readers and comics fans...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

New Texas Laws Taking Effect September 1, 2025 and What They Mean for You - Texas is Texas. As Texans, we invite our neighbors to enjoy our barbecue, take pictures in the bluebonnets, and help each other out when the goin’ gets t...
Lowering the Bar

DUI Lawyer Promises to Swoop in Riding Mighty Eagle - [image: long-haired lawyer riding animated eagle]Maybe not literally, but still.
Idavox

Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Serving a Warrant, Ends Up Playing Dead - Had to happen sooner or later… HOUSTON, TX – Two individuals wearing masks, body armor... The post Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Servin...
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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Socialist Alternative

The ‘Luigi Mangioni Effect’—Heroism or Dead End? - On December 4, 2024, the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” spiked in Google searches, as millions of people watched the video footage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Br...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
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.
Liberation News

La guerra de Trump contra los sindicatos del VA es una guerra contra los veteranos - El gobierno de Trump declaró el 6 de agosto que cancelaría por completo los contratos sindicales de casi 380,000 trabajadores sindicalizados del Departamen...
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...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
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...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
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...
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...
Land Destroyer

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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