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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Trump administration to review status of all refugees admitted under Biden (NBC News) - NBC News: *Trump administration to review status of all refugees admitted under Biden* — The decision would potentially affect more than 200,000 refuge...
Al Jazeera English

FBI probes Democrats who urged US troops to defy illegal orders - US lawmakers who warned military against following illegal orders slam 'intimidation, harassment', face FBI interviews.
The Hill

Trump says he’d ‘rather not’ extend Affordable Care Act subsidies - ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Trump on Tuesday said he would prefer not to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the...
Raw Story

Eric Swalwell files civil rights lawsuit against Trump's housing chief - Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Bill Pulte, the Trump administration's Federal Housing Finance Agency director, allegi...
Portside

Unionized Starbucks Baristas Bring ‘Red Cup Rebellion’ to CEO’s Newport Beach Office - Unionized Starbucks Baristas Bring ‘Red Cup Rebellion’ to CEO’s Newport Beach Office Greg Tue, 11/25/2025 - 20:03
NPR's Health Shots

Louisiana's top health official, a critic of the COVID vaccine, will be CDC deputy - Louisiana's surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary and called COVID vaccines "dangerous," wi...
Mediaite

Jimmy Kimmel Reacts to RFK Jr’s Alleged Dirty Messages About ‘Gross’ Sex Act: ‘So Vile’ - Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel reacted to Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy's alleged dirty messages, refusing to even spell out one of the "gross" sex...
Political Wire

Trump to Review All Refugees Admitted Under Biden - “The Trump administration is ordering the review of all refugees admitted to the U.S. during the Biden administration,” NBC News reports. “It is the latest...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: Pete Hegseth increases administration’s attacks on senator Mark Kelly - Trump’s defense secretary orders US Navy secretary to investigate ‘potentially unlawful comments’ made by Kelly – key US politics stories from 25 Novembe...
Axios

Louisiana vaccine skeptic gets No. 2 CDC job - The Trump administration has tapped a former Louisiana health official who ordered a stop to promotions of mass vaccination events last winter to be the ...
The Conversation

Pentagon investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly revives Cold War persecution of Americans with supposedly disloyal views - President Donald Trump and his supporters cast their domestic opponents as disloyal, traitorous or worse, rather than seeing dissent as part of democracy.
Mediagazer

Plex starts to enforce a rule requiring users to pay for a Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass to stream from a remote server on Roku; other platforms follow in 2026 (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica) - Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: *Plex starts to enforce a rule requiring users to pay for a Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass to stream from a remote server...
San Antonio Report

Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones asks City Council to move municipal elections to November - San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones sent a letter to City Council on Tuesday asking to move the city's elections from May to November. ----------------------...
Techdirt.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech Spotlight: Building Better CSAM Detection With Resolver’s George Vlasto - Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on...
Vox

The CDC’s troubling new second in command, 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 ...
Daily Cartoonist

Call For Entries: Scholastic Herblock Scholarship Award - The deadline for teenagers to enter the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards may be as little as one week away. Though January 6, 2026 is the deadline for my Zi...
The Verge

Campbell’s promises its soups are not made with 3D printed meat - Campbell’s is insisting that its soups aren’t made with 3D-printed chicken, lab-grown chicken, or bioengineered meat. The food giant issued the explanation...
Election Law Blog

Texas Files Its Reply in Supreme Court in Re-Redistricting Stay Request; Expect an Opinion from SCOTUS Any Time (Maybe Before the Thanksgiving Break?) - Here’s the reply. The post Texas Files Its Reply in Supreme Court in Re-Redistricting Stay Request; Expect an Opinion from SCOTUS Any Time (Maybe Before ...
San Antonio Current

Bar Gimme Gimme, Amor Eterno co-founder Aaron Peña reveals he’s cancer-free - [image: Bar owner Aaron Peña shakes up a cocktail.] San Antonio's close-knit bar and restaurant community rallied around Peña after his cancer diagnosis i...
Courthouse News

First Indigenous cabinet member urges more Native participation in law, politics - Native Americans make up only 0.7% of Congress, and only 0.5% of practicing lawyers and judges, despite accounting for more than 2% of the population.
Slate

A Beloved Sitcom Actor Went Conservative. Her Memoir Tries to Explain Why. - Her new memoir, Unscripted, is an interesting and often frustrating look into the actress’s life, work, and relationship with RFK Jr.
Houston Public Media

State investigates Harris County for allegedly registering P.O. boxes as voter addresses - In a statement to Houston Public Media on Tuesday, Ramirez said that the office is reviewing the records associated with the two addresses at the center of...
Alternet

Nicolle Wallace shuts down key Trump claim about the economy - President Donald Trump's administration has continued to maintain that the economy during Trump's second term has been strong, even as prices for basic n...
Daily Dot

Pokimane bought herself an engagement ring. Now, the internet debates whether the move was empowering or embarrassing - [image: pokimane buys engagement ring for herself] Imane Anys, the Canadian gaming streamer better known as Pokimane, drew mixed reactions by getting her...
The Greanville Post

Ages in Turmoil (A Recommended Read) - BRUCE LERRO—Any complex human society has a number of specialized positions that go with the functions they perform to manage the state. In a prosperous so...
Futurism

Thanksgiving Dinner Headed for Tragedy as Disastrous AI Recipes Devour Internet - Home cooks beware. The post Thanksgiving Dinner Headed for Tragedy as Disastrous AI Recipes Devour Internet appeared first on Futurism.
Mother Jones

Can the World Address Climate Change Without the US? - For many environmental advocates, the COP30 climate negotiations ended this weekend in disappointment. The annual United Nations conference, which brought ...
Reform Austin

US and Ukraine Edge Closer to Peace Framework - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… US and Ukrainian negotiators say they have completed work on an “updated and refined peace fram...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's IAH expected to be 15th busiest airport this holiday season - Houston travelers should budget extra time if they're flying from George Bush Intercontinental Airport. IAH is expected to see the 15th highest passenger n...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
The Texas Signal

What It Means When Texas Counties Partner With ICE - Local partnerships with ICE, a relic from a nineties immigration bill, have turbocharged in Texas
Sludge

Jeffries Misleads on AIPAC PAC Money - Though Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said that AIPAC PAC gives him only the per-cycle maximum, the group has flooded his campaign with more than a million dollars i...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Should the Democratic Party Six... - *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2025* *...have issued that now-famous taped statement?* Should the Democratic Party Six have issued that now-famous statement? T...
Space City Weather

At least two tornadoes have been confirmed on the northwest side of Houston from Monday’s storms - In brief: A high-end EF-1 and a low-end EF-2 tornado were confirmed today from damage surveys conducted by the National Weather Service northwest of Housto...
Popular Resistance

The Truth About the ‘Gen Z’ March In Mexico - A youth march with the notable absence of youth. A march against violence that ended with deliberately provoked violence. A nonpartisan march with one of...
Second Nexus

Scott Bessent Blasted Over His Bonkers Suggestion For How To Bring Your Own Inflation Rate Down - Continuing to follow the example of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on *Meet the Press* Sunday to blame...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Silence Is Not Neutral: UT, the Compact, and the Fight for Fair Admissions in Texas Higher Education by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Silence Is Not Neutral: UT, the Compact, and the Fight for Fair Admissions in Texas Higher Education* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *November 25, 2...
Ballot Access News

Libertarian Party of Arkansas Completes Petition Drive for 2026 Election - The Libertarian Party of Arkansas (LPAR) today submitted 13,238 total signatures to the Arkansas Secretary of State’s office, needing 10,000 valid signatur...
Progressive.org

‘It Is Sacred Work’: Abortion Clinics Are Stepping Up After the Fall of Roe - Organizations across the country are ensuring people continue to have access to reproductive care.
Discourse

Do You Think Trump Saw "Wicked: For Good" Yet? - Let's look at the evidence.
El Paso Matters

‘Each of us can make a difference’: El Paso trailblazer Alicia Chacón dies at 87 - Alicia R. Chacón broke many barriers during her life of service, which included serving on the YISD school board, City Council and as county judge, as w...
Church and State

Climate Talks End With ‘Empty Deal’ That Fails on Forests, Finance, and Fossil Fuels - COP30 concluded on Saturday in Belém, Brazil with a deal that does not even include the words “fossil fuels”.
OpEd News

The Order Trump Dreams of Being Able to Enforce - This is the latest of my ongoing (since 2015) Trump and fascism series, in general, and in particular, the latest very well-known episode in it, concerning...
Scheerpost.com

FBI in the Crosshairs: Trump Considers Axing Loyalist Patel as Agency Targets ‘Traitor’ Democrats - In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay...
The Week

The 8 best sci-fi series of all time - Imagining — and fearing — the future continues to give us compelling and thoughtful television
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (11.25.25) - Featuring Michael Woolf, Pema Levy and Ari Berman, Spencer Ackerman, Stuart Hall, Tatiana Schlossberg, and Bill McKibben.
Undernews

Labor market shows more signs of weakening - *CNBC - *The U.S. labor market is showing further signs of weakening as the pace of layoffs has picked up over the past four weeks, payrolls processing fi...
Ian Welsh

By The People? For the People? - The simplest measure of a government’s legitimacy is whether or not it works for the benefit of the people. Democrats also believe the government should be...
See You In 2020

Zionism’s agents want us fatigued over Gaza, but Palestine’s resistance shows us how to keep fighting - The recent strategic gains of Palestine’s resistance, and of the global movement that’s aligned with it, give us the lessons we’ll need to keep fighting...
Environment Texas

Forever chemicals foul the traditional Thanksgiving turkey hunt - Why has Maine issued a ‘do not eat’ order for wild turkeys in certain areas? And what else does this mean for our environment? The post Forever chemicals...
MintPress News

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons - The world’s seven richest men now double as media barons, buying up platforms from CNN and CBS to Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. Alan MacLeod charts how t...
Wolf Street

PPI Inflation Bounces Back - Food and energy prices spiked in the delayed Producer Price Index for September.
First Draft

The Mark Kelly Mishigas - Senator Mark Kelly has the right stuff. Pete Hegseth has the stupid stuff.
Consortium News

Bill Gates & the Hot Tub of Death - Juan Cole on Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa and the pro-billionaire high-tech sector. By Juan Cole TomDispatch.com In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that ...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – RAND Alarms the China Hawks - In late 2025, a major RAND Corporation study on U.S.–China strategy was quietly withdrawn from public view less than two weeks after publication. The unusu...
Socialist Alternative

Justice For Amber Czech: We Need A Socialist Feminist Movement To Beat Back Misogyny - Hannah is a sign painter and member of LiUNA #1058. On November 11, in a small town in Minnesota, 20-year-old welder Amber Czech was bludgeoned to death by...
ProPublica

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters - As the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet intensified in June, a nurse in Portland, Oregon, left work one midafternoon and drove to a nearby dete...
WhoWhatWhy

‘Go Generate a Bridge and Jump Off It’: How Pros Are Navigating AI - [image: tech, AI tools, images and video, controversy, backlash, artistic expression] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recom...
Mondoweiss

Sarah Hurwitz and liberal Zionism’s hail mary - [image: Sarah Hurwitz speaking in May 2017 (Photo: Thor Brødreskift / Nordiske Mediedager/Wikimedia)]Sarah Hurwitz’s now-viral appearance at the Jewish Fed...
Liberation News

COP30 sees highest participation from Indigenous groups, still falls short of addressing climate crisis - Official Indigenous representation at this year's COP30 was overshadowed by the 1600 or so lobbyists for industries tied to fossil fuels, many of them U.S....
The Daily Poster

Pay No Attention To The Chipmaker Behind The Curtain - AI’s wicked secret is getting harder to keep.
Dorf on Law

Where is the Higher Education Gold Rush? - With a major holiday in the US only two days away, this column will be uncharacteristically brief (slightly more than half the usual length of one of my ...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Ohio Condemns Effort to Ban Ranked-Choice Voting - The Libertarian Party of Ohio is pushing back against legislation passed by the Ohio Senate that would bar the use of ranked-choice voting and impose fun...
The Root

Do You Know the Story of Doug E. Fresh, the Human Beat Box Known for Shaping Hip-Hop’s Golden Era? - Known as the human beatbox, rapper Doug E. Fresh created a signature style that dominated hip-hop in the mid-1980s. Read more...
Texas Observer

In Tarrant County, a Grassroots Coalition Pushes Back on Christian Nationalists - Around 30 people recently gathered at a Fort Worth co-working space to discuss ways to build a more inclusive community for all of Tarrant County’s resid...
Rewire

‘Scrubs’ Alum Judy Reyes on ICE Raids, Humanity, and the Power of Storytelling (Podcast) - Reyes explains how community is keeping people whole amid federal immigration raids. The post ‘Scrubs’ Alum Judy Reyes on ICE Raids, Humanity, and the Po...
World Socialist Web Site

Turkish parliamentary delegation meets with imprisoned Kurdistan Workers Party leader Öcalan - This process, conducted through secret diplomacy, is an attempt by the Turkish and Kurdish bourgeois nationalist leaderships to reach an agreement in line ...
Dissident Voice

Gaza: Trump’s Fake Peace Plan Approved by UK - Britain is a founding member of the United Nations and pledged to uphold international law and ensure UN resolutions are implemented – many of which (in ...
Dissent Magazine

Partyism Without the Party - Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
Capital & Main

‘I’m Lost in This Country’: Non-Mexicans Living Undocumented After Deportation to Mexico - Cubans and other third-country nationals are dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa where they struggle to survive. The post ‘I’m Lost in This Countr...
SCOTUSblog

Justice Jackson’s dissents - Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the court. Please note that the vi...
Bonddad

Real retail sales for September decline slightly, but within range of trend noise - - *by New Deal democrat* With the continued delay in the official release of the more comprehensive personal income and spending report, retail sale...
Glasstire

The Spread - Art reception food is bad far too often. I don’t mean the hors d’oeuvres themselves are bad — I mean the variety is. I realize, of course, that the point...
Democracy Now!

Assassinated Amazonian Rubber Tapper Chico Mendes Tried to Save the Rainforest. Meet His Daughter - We recently spoke to Brazilian environmental activist Angela Mendes, the daughter of Amazonian forest defender and labor leader Chico Mendes, who was assas...
Skeptophilia

Ascensions and synchronicities - In the past week I've experienced a couple of strange synchronicities. In the first, I was talking with a friend about the strange Swedish musical instrum...
ArcaMax

Grace and Disgrace: Amidst the Latter, We're Reminded of the Former - In an America presently diseased by crudeness and cruelty, the scene last week at Washington's National Cathedral for the funeral of former Vice President ...
Rallblog

Pentagon Investigates Mark Kelly Over “Illegal Orders” Video | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss: • The ...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: The Dirty Truth About Clean Teeth - Millions of us do the same thing every morning and night: we brush our teeth,... The post Guest Idea: The Dirty Truth About Clean Teeth appeared first on...
The Smirking Chimp

Charlie Kirk’s Death Is Tearing MAGA Apart -
Off The Kuff

A closer look at the Cy-Fair ISD elections - Good stuff. When Lesley Guilmart’s cellphone rang Wednesday afternoon, she almost didn’t answer the unknown number. “I’ve been getting interesting calls fr...
The AltWorld

A Note Of Gratitude And Appreciation - It was a surprisingly exhilarating adventure packing up poster books and mailing them off to my readers. […] The post A Note Of Gratitude And Appreciatio...
Grist

Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers - Migrant workers return from Gulf countries with failed kidneys, victims of extreme temperatures, grueling labor, and a global system that leaves them unpro...
Crooked Media

How Many Republicans Will Follow MTG? - The post How Many Republicans Will Follow MTG? appeared first on Crooked Media.
High Country News

The big data center buildup - An AI server farm tsunami threatens to overwhelm the West’s power grid and water supplies. The post The big data center buildup appeared first on High C...
Counterpunch

Learning Little From History - When I was still shaped by my juvenile consciousness during the early Cold War and by the fact that my father was a wounded vet, I believed that he and a...
jobsanger

Consumers Likely To Spend Less In This Holiday Season -
Informed Comment

“All the Saints and Sages:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:25 - How long will sages debate if this world is eternal or created? / Once I have left it, why should I care, either way?
Deadline Politics

Rachel Maddow To Host MS NOW Live L.A. Event Tied To Latest Podcast ‘Burn Order’ - Rachel Maddow will host a live event in Los Angeles next month tied to her latest podcast, Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order. The MS NOW event will take p...
Workers World

Message to troops: Disobey illegal orders! - [image: Message to troops: Disobey illegal orders!] Six members of the U.S. Congress, all Democrats, all veterans of the U.S. military or intelligence agen...
Trivial Knot

Recent health developments - Another casual blogging event. This one is about farts. Wait, I’m being serious! A few months ago, I had COVID for the first time. I never got it before...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Culture war backlash fuels Democrat school board sweeps' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - *Editor's note - This being Thanksgiving week, I don't expect to be blogging as much as I usually do. Of course knowing the disastrous few weeks the Tru...
Antiwar.com

Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions - Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Depar...
Angry Bear

Flawed Construction of NYC Tower - An article by Lloyd Alter about the problematic construction of a tall building (NYC) that flexes and bends in the wind. The result of which are cracks i...
Project Censored

Memory Work & Culture Wars: From Palestine to Corporate Media - In the first part of the program, Palestinian-American journalist, translator, photographer, and media analyst Laura Albast joins the show to discuss jou...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
Krebs on Security

Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet? - On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to m...
The Grayzone

Funcionarios de la Casa Blanca sabían de antemano del golpe de Estado Venezolano de 2020, según archivos - Documentos publicados por una corte federal ofrecen detalles nuevos y perturbadores sobre el intento de figuras relacionadas con Trump de orquestar un go...
Debunking Christianity

The Problem of Evil Will Pulverize Theism into Oblivion Thanks To James Sterba, Paul Draper, and My New Book On Horrendous Suffering! - This latest book by Paul Draper should be very good! This should lead to a triple thumping to take place against Christian theism! It's coming from books b...
DeSmogBlog

As Mark Carney Fast-tracks Canadian LNG Projects, First Nations Face Hidden Financial Traps - A 2015 report by the Canadian pro-development group Resource Works cynically telegraphed the growing recognition by industry a decade ago that major proj...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard Thanksgiving Week: A look back on our 10th birthday travels - The Texas Standard crew is taking a breather for the holiday, but tune in to revisit some of our shows from the road this year.
Greg Palast

Larry Summers, Epstein and the “End Game” Memo - Forgive me, but I have send a little thank you to Jeffrey Epstein. The latest cache of the predator’s memos have finally brought down Lawrence Summers, onc...
Common Dreams

Quiet, Piggy - Whew. Last week was...a week. Enraging, astounding, often venomous, with flailing small dicktator energy all around. There were pigs, dogs, bonesaws, ped...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 24 November 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] Not always true, but often true. Why do people d...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Leave 'em in Stitches' Toons - ...HAPPY THANKSGIVING!... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning incr...
The Progressive Wing

11.23-30 🦃 Thanksgiving Week Open Threads - Hola, you all. These are Open Threads. So, post whatever suits your fancy (within reason). Also, 🥂here’s🥂 to a safe and Happy Thanksgiving for everyone. 🙂
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Lord Of The Files - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2.4mb With a big ol’ School Book Depository Anniversary Day salute to all you poor-ass marks who showed out for thi...
Bracing Views

Sedition! Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal! MTG Resigns! Gaza Peace Deal! - Thoughts on a busy week of news BILL ASTORE NOV 22, 2025 It’s been a busy week of news. Here are four items that stood out. A group of Democratic members o...
Crooked Timber

Musk’s last grift - The US is one big grift these days: the Trump Administration, traditional and social media, corporations, crypto, financial markets are all selling some ki...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TRUMP EMBRACES SOCIALISM EDITION. - *Where they spend their se-molians / Just to watch those cre-olians /Skippin', hippin′, doin' the uptown lowdown. (Chick Webb!)* The week was strange; f...
Alas, a Blog

Crap You Hear In A Wheelchair - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: As a cartoonist in the internet age, I’m really lucky to have access to drawing tutorials as well as...
The Militant

Author Boualem Sansal released from prison in Algeria - In a victory for human rights, 81-year-old prize-winning Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal was released from imprisonment Nov. 12 and flown to a hospital in...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What the Dictator Wants: The Normalization of Violence and Oppression - Trump is openly calling for the execution of his political enemies. We've stepped into a new chapter of this crisis
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rust on the Midterm Iron Law? Voter Expectations for 2026 - In the early parts of the Trump administration, citizens were skeptical that Democrats could retake the House or Senate, but more recent surveys indicate...
NORML

Promoting Compassionate Cannabis Policies for Vulnerable Youth - [image: a father holds up a cannabis joint and asks his teen son about it][image: a father holds up a cannabis joint and asks his teen son about it]NORML ...
Duck of Minerva

Here We Go Again: Why American Presidents Can’t Resist Regime Change - The U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean is confusing the MAGA faithful. With rumors swirling of an imminent operation to topple Venezuela’s Nicolas Madu...
The NM Political Report

Arctic Frost payout repeal put on ice, frustrating Heinrich - [image: U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich speaks on the floor of the Senate (C-SPAN)] [image: U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich speaks on the floor of the Senate (C-SPAN...
Avedon's Sideshow

Everybody's crying justice, just as long as it's business first - Here's a picture of my Second Life avatar in a sexy gown, just to spice things up. I hope no one's forgotten that *Common Dreams* is about as close as you...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 21, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 21, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/21/2025 - 05:11 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral. He did, however, sign the Epstein bill. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.
Lowering the Bar

First Alleged Space Crime … Didn’t Happen - [image: AI image of a burglar on the ISS]And when it does it won't look like this.
LareDOS

TAMIU Practicum Seminar students host exhibit opening reception Thursday, Nov. 20 - Public welcome to opening reception and exhibit
Ecosophia

Situationism: Where Domination Ends - The two interludes just past strayed some distance from the writings of the Situationists, the little clique of avant-garde Marxists in mid-20th century Fr...
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / COMMENTARY / Sleeping Giant: Thoughts on the results of the November 4 elections - Image from Pix4Free.org. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-F...
Claytoonz

Surprise - 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 Pa...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
Earthworks

Putting the Just Transition into Practice at COP30 - by Lauren Pagel and Jan Morrill This week, negotiators at COP30 have an opportunity to make history by addressing the … The post Putting the Just Transi...
Progressives Chat

Trump–ed - U.S. president *Donald Trump*’s appeal for millions, who supported him, have become Trump–ed. Among Trump’s recent achievements with his Part II presiden...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Reveal

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

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American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Field Negro

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

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
nonsite.org

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

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: “Am I not appropriating somebody’s story?” - Salon talks to the acclaimed crime novelist about true crime, newspapers and her new book "Lady in the Lake"
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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