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

jobsanger

The Greatest "Own Goal" In Modern Foreign Policy -
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Blindsided by Trump, Modi is learning hard lessons about India's place in the new world order | Mukul Kesavan - New Delhi spent decades cosying up to the US. The truth is, Washington doesn’t have allies outside the west – it has clients - Sign up for our...
The Week

Codeword: September 6, 2025 - The Week's daily codeword puzzle
Al Jazeera English

LIVE: Israel kills more than 50 people as Gaza City endures deadly night - Israeli forces subjected the major urban centre in northern Gaza to another night of deadly bombing raids.
Informed Comment

Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than 500 mem...
Mediaite

Trump Accuses Harry Truman of Going ‘Woke’ for Renaming Department of War - President Donald Trump accused those responsible for renaming the Department of War of going "woke." The post Trump Accuses Harry Truman of Going ‘Woke’ ...
World Socialist Web Site

Amid French government crisis, neo-fascist RN bids for capitalist oligarchy's support - As Trump sets up a billionaire’s dictatorship in America and the RN courts French business, workers voting for the far right must be warned: they are being...
memeorandum

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic) - Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic: *America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars* — The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments ...
Krebs on Security

GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work - The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google's CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republica...
Political Wire

RFK Jr.’s Family Calls on Him to Resign - “Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sister and nephew called on the secretary to resign Friday after he questioned the safety of vaccination while te...
Workers World

Thousands attend ‘People’s Conference for Palestine’ - [image: Thousands attend ‘People’s Conference for Palestine’] Detroit Over 4,000 Palestinians and allies took part in the second annual People’s Conference...
The Hill

Makary on reports of RFK Jr. linking Tylenol, autism: ‘We’re still in our discussions’ - Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Marty Makary on Friday said the agency has not finalized a forthcoming report about autism after the Wall S...
Raw Story

Expert reveals why this simple anti-Trump tactic is so effective: Really broken through' - One arena in which President Donald Trump's administration has been consistently stymied is the federal judiciary. And an attorney currently leading a pr...
Courthouse News

Portland inmates win step forward in class action over jail tear gas - The class action stems from Portland's monthslong downtown protests in 2020 in which law enforcement deployed tear gas near the county jail.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Vlog on my Speech at an SDS Rally yesterday at the UT Tower in Austin, Texas - *Friends,Happy Friday. From my new Vlog (video-blog).I delivered this talk yesterday at an Austin SDS rally in support of the rights and fair treatme...
Techdirt.

Light Pollution From Elon Musk’s Starlink Continues To Harm Astronomy - For years, scientific researchers have warned that Elon Musk’s Starlink low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband constellations are harming scientific res...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | September 5, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | September 5, 2025 barry Fri, 09/05/2025 - 22:12
Alternet

Pentagon employees express 'anger and downright confusion' over Trump's rebrand: report - President Donald Trump's executive order (EO) instructing the Department of Defense (DOD) to use the name "Department of War" on all official signage and...
Mediagazer

How YouTube prepared to stream, for free, the Brazil NFL game globally: it partnered with NBC for production, ran multiple tests, and set up backup plans (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass) - Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: *How YouTube prepared to stream, for free, the Brazil NFL game globally: it partnered with NBC for production, ran multiple te...
Eschaton

Friday Night - Rock on.
Wolf Street

Bessent Blast’s the Fed for QE, its “Perverse Incentives” for Fiscal “Irresponsibility,” “Wealth Effect” Policies, “Class and Generational Disparities,” Failure on Inflation… Oh I So Agree - “This harmful cycle concentrated national wealth among those who already owned assets”: Bessent.
CultureMap Houston

Austin Simmons' new Woodlands restaurant will showcase beef from his ranch - Chef *Austin Simmons* has a lot to say about his new restaurant, *Charolais by Chef Austin Simmons*, but he wants to make one thing abundantly clear about ...
San Antonio Report

‘In light of new information’ Mayor Jones calls for DWI censure for Meza Gonzalez - Jones called the vote in light of "new information" and told the council that Meza Gonzalez's committee assignments would be suspended. --------------------...
Houston Public Media

Crypto Trump, Guard Everywhere & 1,000 Texas Laws Later - Co-hosts Brandon Rottinghaus and Jeronimo Cortina delve into the latest news in politics
Daily Dot

“50K in LA is diabolical”: David Dobrik’s job listing for a content manager sparks backlash - [image: david dobrik no time for teaching job listing] David Dobrik may have made millions as one of YouTube’s biggest stars, but critics say his latest ...
Axios

Trump breaks from RFK on vaccines: "Pure and simple, they work" - President Trump said he's supportive of vaccines on Friday, breaking with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. *Why it matters:* Kennedy has faced wide...
The Verge

Silicon Valley’s most powerful alliance just got stronger - Eddy Cue deserves a raise. As the executive overseeing Apple's services division, he's highly incentivized to protect the tens of billions of dollars a yea...
See You In 2020

Hitlerism despises the rural & working masses the same way that radical liberalism does - Hitler is anti-popular anarchism in disguise. He and his movement were nothing more than a rebranding of the individualistic, nihilistic, and idealistic ...
El Paso Matters

YISD Trustee Kathryn Lucero to resign for position in Maine - The YISD school board will need to decide whether to appoint a replacement for Trustee Kathryn Lucero or call for a special election. The post YISD Trus...
OpEd News

Start by believing the women - Jeffrey Epstein's victims say they can provide a list of his clients if the White House won't. It's time to believe them.
San Antonio Current

A rare and secluded dome home is now for sale in San Antonio - [image: A rare dome home for sale in San Antonio.] A rare geodesic dome home has hit the market in a wooded area north of Stone Oak, and the unusual dwell...
Progressive.org

Nowhere to Run: I Am Choosing Death at Home Over Forced Evacuation - When ‘the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end.’
Vox

What the new jobs report tells us, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
The Texas Signal

Houston Maritime Museum Reopens Where City’s History Began - The Maritime Museum is incredibly elegant, easily the fanciest of Houston’s little quirky museums (or maybe the quirkiest of the fancy museums)
Slate

Texas’ New Abortion Bounty Law Has a Fatal Flaw - Texas just passed what the anti-abortion movement hopes will be the next big blow against abortion access.
NPR's Health Shots

Early treatment is now advised for hypertension — before blood pressure gets too high - New recommendations for early treatment for millions of people with hypertension come at a time when a new experimental medication is shown to lower blood ...
Daily Cartoonist

Oliphant Documentary Gets Love from Print Media - During the heyday of Pat Oliphant‘s career editorial cartoonists numbered in the hundreds, down from a high count of thousands, today the population of sta...
Futurism

Attention Writers: Anthropic Might Owe You $3000 (or More!) If It Was Trained Using Your Work - Writing: Famously, a wildly wonderful profession...in writers' dreams! In reality, it's a grind that's comically unprofitable for the vast majority of wr...
Counterpunch

Replace the State! w/ Sasha Davis - In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Sasha Davis about his new book, Replace the State: How to Change the Wo...
SCOTUSblog

Lawyers ask Supreme Court to allow transgender boy to use boys’ bathroom - Lawyers for a 14-year-old transgender boy on Friday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a ruling by a federal appeals court that requires a South C...
Election Law Blog

“The Secret Bundlers Behind Eric Adams’ Campaign Fundraising Revealed” - The City: In October 2023, Mayor Eric Adams showed up for the opening of a new office of a big personal injury law firm, Morgan & Morgan, smiling and pos...
Mother Jones

Baltimore’s Mayor Slams Trump Troop Threat: “What We Want From the President Is Very Simple.” - President Trump is planning to ramp up his federal reach into local enforcement after first flooding the streets of DC with National Guard troops, and this...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Will Eric Adams Get His Biggest Bribe Ever?” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Tune in for hard-hitting analysis on the DeProgram show with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleb...
Lowering the Bar

Yet More Aquatic Escape Attempts - [image: pond standoff]People show no signs of stopping, even though these show no signs of working.
slacktivist

LBCF: Episode IV - Wherein we contemplate the effects of the Rapture, the Great Tribulation, and the Rise of the Antichrist on the business model of suburban chain restaurants.
Claytoonz

Department of Bone Spurs - 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...
The NM Political Report

Special session won’t include ban on ICE private prisons after all - Although an adviser to Lujan Grisham told lawmakers a few weeks back that Lujan Grisham might put such a proposal on her call for a special session, Mich...
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: It gets on your nerves - I do these occasional posts about science papers. Some are just for fun. But sometimes — honest! — there’s an underlying connection to the greater Crooke...
First Draft

You’ve Got A Friend - Cheers to Carole King.
Deadline Politics

Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit - AI firm Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund as part of a settlement of litigation brought by a group of book authors...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Politics and Policy of AI - On our live show, David talks with Bryan McMahon and Dylan Gyauch-Lewis about the limits and hazards of the current state of artificial intelligence, and w...
Ballot Access News

Ballotpedia Shows 2026 Primary Dates, and Deadlines for Filing for Primaries - Ballotpedia has compiled the 2026 primary dates, and the deadlines for candidates to file for the primary. See it here. However, the chart only lists 38 st...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Would you like a free tree? - The City of Dallas will be handing out free trees on Arbor Day, which falls on November 8. You can choose from American Elm, Bald Cypress, Chinquapin Oak...
Capital & Main

California Bill Aims to Crack Down on Predatory Labor Traffickers - Lawmakers poised to expand protections to hundreds of thousands of temporary migrant workers. The post California Bill Aims to Crack Down on Predatory La...
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...
Greg Palast

Bobby, you are sick, physically and mentally…but don’t make everyone else as sick as you. - RFK fils, my (former?) friend and co-author is, no doubt, threatening my life, your life and your not-yet-born great-grandchildren’s lives by blocking mRNA...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Barking Owl - Headphones on. Volume all the way up.
Popular Resistance

West Asia Is Lurching Toward War - There is extremely alarming news about the situation around Iran. In consultations with the Trump administration — rather, in deference to the command fr...
ProPublica

New Uvalde Records Reveal How the School District Changed Course on Supporting Police Chief - by Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses...
Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence: The State of the ‘State of Palestine’ - The upcoming United Nations General Assembly may show whether those nations who have pledged to support a Palestinian state really mean business. By Patric...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Make Polio Great Again, CDC, Institutions and Civilization, and How Animals Emerged - Part the First: Make Polio Great Again! And measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, bacterial meningitis, chickenpox/shingles, cervical cancer, hepa...
Environment Texas

Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? - More algae blooms in Florida’s waters means less food for its struggling manatees. The post Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? appeare...
Dorf on Law

Who Knew That Trump's Superpower Would Be Destroying Wealth? Part 2: Mindless Chaos and Economic Pain - Yesterday, I inaugurated this new "Who Knew That Trump's Superpower Would Be Destroying Wealth?" series. Admittedly, the titular question might seem rhe...
Second Nexus

Channing Tatum Reveals The Huge Toll Losing 65 Pounds For His Latest Role Took On His Mental Health - *Heads up, dearest readers: this article includes discussion of weight loss, body image, and extreme dieting for film roles.* While promoting his upcomin...
WhoWhatWhy

What Does a Sunk Swedish Galleon Teach Us About the Perils of Ignoring Science? - [image: science, physics, facts, history, sunken Swedish galleon, perils of ignoring proven principles, U.S. leaders] PICKS are stories from many sources, ...
Texas Observer

Embattled Texas Oilfield Waste Company Fined After Worker’s Death - Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy, and the e...
Undernews

Trump renames Defense Depatment as Department of War - *NBC - * President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday that will formally make the "Department of War" the secondary title of the Departmen...
The Root

Black Folks Know to *Never* Pull What the Eagles’ Jalen Carter Did to the Cowboys’ Dak Prescott On the Field… - Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter was ejected for this utterly disgusting move toward Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. Read more...
Earthworks

In the Race to Build the Country’s First Deepwater Port, the Bluewater Texas Terminal is in Last Place - It’s been five years since the Port of Corpus Christi granted lease approval and pipeline easement for Phillips 66 and … The post In the Race to Build t...
Mondoweiss

Trump administration sanctions Palestinian human rights groups - [image: Secretary Marco Rubio meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Israel, February 16, 2025. (Official State Department phot...
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...
Glasstire

ACLU of Texas Artist-In-Residence to Join Houston Poets Laureate for Advocacy Event - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas will hold an event, Poets and Advocates Against Cash Bail, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, September 6, at Alle...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party Begins Taking Early Reservations for 2026 National Convention - The Libertarian Party has opened early registration for its 2026 National Convention, launching a website this week for volunteers, attendees, and exhibi...
Angry Bear

Firing our way to full employment - Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a jobs report signaled a slowing jobs market, and larger-than-normal revisions for the previous two m...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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...
Scheerpost.com

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

Labor Day reflects growing working-class resistance - Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working...
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...
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...
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...
Church and State

ToolAI will be more than just a tool – it will be a new kind of intelligence - When AGI matures into Superintelligence, it will give birth not only to the self-created new species, but it will also begin our own evolution.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 – 9/7 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*—...
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...
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...
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...
Salon.com

We need to talk about Andy: The best “Alien: Romulus” character has glitches - David Jonsson's work lends weight to the new "Alien" chapter. His android also evokes an unfortunate movie cliché
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

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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