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

Undernews

Health - *Axios - *More than 60% of Medicare enrollees with opioid use disorder are getting substandard care, according to a new study in *Health Affairs*. Opio...
Alternet

'His strategy is unmissable': How Trump is weaponizing speculation about his health - President Donald Trump has never been shy about promoting far-right conspiracy theories, but during Labor Day Weekend 2025, Trump himself became the subj...
Daily Dot

“We loved it, why did you change it?”: Subaru driver reacts to the 2026 edition - [image: 2026 subaru outback new look] Subaru’s newly revealed 2026 Outback is already drawing sharp criticism from longtime fans, who say the vehicle has...
Vox

Why kids are all posing like this in pictures - This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. My kids were posing for a pictur...
Al Jazeera English

Is Venezuela the big cocaine menace Trump claims it to be? - US president justified recent strike on boat by accusing Venezuela's president of direct links to drugs cartel.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Humpday Philosophy - Learning that the NYTimes has condemned its kid-news feature to on-line made this Dark Horse particularly stand out for me. I spent a decade editing a week...
Mediagazer

France's CNIL fines Google €325M for placing tracking cookies and ads in Gmail without users' consent; Google says it is reviewing the decision (France 24) - France 24: *France's CNIL fines Google €325M for placing tracking cookies and ads in Gmail without users' consent; Google says it is reviewing the decisi...
Political Wire

Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court - Ankush Khardori: “Donald Trump is making a last-ditch effort to salvage his beloved, beleaguered tariff policy, heading to the Supreme Court in hopes that ...
Courthouse News

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Raw Story

New South Park episode on Trump tariffs sparks MAGA fury: 'Bought and paid for!' - South Park continues to spark outrage from MAGA after its latest episode took aim at President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, igniting an online firestorm...
The Week

Why reports of Donald Trump's demise are greatly exaggerated - US president has once again brushed aside rumours that he's dead
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...
Mediaite

Joe Scarborough Shreds MAGA’s Epstein ‘Whitewash’ After Pedophile Conspiracy ‘Obsession’ - Scarborough shredded MAGA for what he called a “whitewash” of Epstein after years of making elite pedophile ring conspiracy theories their “singular obse...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters | First Thing - Children, sick and disabled people among 6,000 imprisoned without charge or trial. Plus, Portugal mourns after deadly funicular crash in Lisbon - ...
ProPublica

The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive - by Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois, Julia Rendleman for ProPublica and Lylee Gibbs, Saluki Local Reporting Lab This article was produced for ProPubl...
naked capitalism

Links 9/4/2025 -
NPR's Health Shots

California, Oregon and Washington plan to join forces to preserve vaccine acce - The Democratic governors of three Western states — California, Oregon and Washington — say they will form a new public health partnership to preserve acces...
Skeptophilia

The silent battle - Today, from the "Who Could Have Predicted This Besides Everybody?" department, we have: a study by psychologist David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College *...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Long Weekend of Humiliation -
The Verge

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976 - After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source l...
Salon.com

“Big Beautiful Bill” goes to the Dumpster: GOP now claims it’s a tax cut - Vance, Republicans roll out a messaging switchback — but for many households, there's no tax cut coming
memeorandum

CDC Turmoil Intensifies Ahead of RFK Jr. Hearing (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *CDC Turmoil Intensifies Ahead of RFK Jr. Hearing* — Agency staffers are concerned about Kennedy's vaccine policies, other changes...
Crooked Media

JD Vance and the Post-Liberal Right’s War on America - The post JD Vance and the Post-Liberal Right’s War on America appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

There’s more than one way to make voting harder - This is such a bad idea. After years of using a touchscreen machine to mark their ballots, voters in at least three Texas counties will be asked instead to...
Slate

Help! My Brother-in-Law Just Did Something Wildly Dangerous Because It’s “His Christian Duty.” I Want My Sister and Nephew Out of There. - This idiotic fundamentalism has gone way too far.
The Hill

Kennedy to take bipartisan heat in Senate over CDC turmoil - Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will come under bipartisan pressure in the Senate on Thursday to show his shake-up at the C...
Eschaton

Morning - Thirsty Thursday
Mother Jones

Has Trump Ended Staten Island’s Wind Power Dreams? - For over a decade, New York has worked to bring wind power jobs to Staten Island as part of an ambitious plan to establish the state as the biggest hub of ...
San Antonio Report

Southwest will keep fighting City of San Antonio after losing airport lawsuit - Southwest Airlines lost its year-long lawsuit to get the City of San Antonio to reconsider its gate assignments for a new $1.4 billion San Antonio Internat...
Axios

Republicans grow impatient with RFK Jr. after CDC firing - Republican senators are growing impatient with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and vowing to use a high-profile hearing Thursday to crank up overs...
Scheerpost.com

Experts Say Trump Administration’s Deadly Boat Attack Amounts to Extrajudicial Killings - “Trump is claiming the right to conduct extra-judicial assassinations,” a civil rights attorney posted on X.
Consortium News

Chris Hedges: Gaza & Fake War Reporting - The barrage of Israeli lies amplified and given credibility by the Western press violates a fundamental tenet of journalism, the duty to transmit the truth...
Progressive Army

Situación actualizada en la Terminal TCA - Debido a los atrasos significativos que hay en los procesos operativos con ese organismo desde la puesta en marcha del nuevo portal impo, en el día de aye...
American Prospect

What If There’s No AGI? - The technological struggles are in some ways beside the point. The financial bet on artificial general intelligence is so big that failure could cause a de...
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...
Grist

Waterlogged and contaminated: In rural Florida, locals suspect a mining company is to blame for their flooding troubles - Residents are trying to connect the dots between hurricanes, high radium levels, and a mineral mining giant next door.
High Country News

The messy reality of feeding Alaska - After Trump threatened Canada, a writer discovers the uncertainty of the state's food supply chain. The post The messy reality of feeding Alaska appeare...
The Daily Poster

Comrade Trump Seizes The Means Of Production - The American government now has a 10 percent stake in computer company Intel — is Trump turning into a socialist?
Counterpunch

Trump and the Post-American World - Donald Trump’s blatant campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize has a new claim for his resume—his “diplomacy” is contributing to a new world order. Unfortunate...
jobsanger

Supreme Court Has One Rule - Trump Always Wins -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2501: Nietzsche, Strauss, and Kubrick - Episode: 2501 Nietzsche, Strauss, Kubrick, and a Trilogy of Metaphor. Today, a story — in three parts.
Workers World

PDF of September 4 issue - [image: PDF of September 4 issue] Download the PDF Global Flotilla sets sail for Gaza Genoa dockworkers promise support Editorial: Why the West’s rulers av...
Portside

Trump Team’s Contentious Climate Report ‘Makes a Mockery of Science’, Experts Say - Trump Team’s Contentious Climate Report ‘Makes a Mockery of Science’, Experts Say Mark Brody Thu, 09/04/2025 - 00:16
Informed Comment

“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9 - As with stanza 1:8, the next quatrain in Edward FitzGerald’s 1859 translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám concerns the fleeting character of political ...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Receives Sixteen Amici Curiae Briefs Asking Court to Strike Down Limit on Party Spending - Sixteen amici curiae briefs have been filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in National Republican Senatorial Committee v FEC, 24-621, on the side of striking do...
World Socialist Web Site

Border Gestapo seize immigrant firefighters battling blaze in Washington state - Trump's police-state measures will not stop with immigrants, but will be extended to suppress all forms of working class opposition to the capitalist system.
Ian Welsh

Follow Up On My China Post - Someone asked me to back up my claim that since 1976 China has lifted more humans out of poverty than all of nations combined in the entirety of human hist...
Techdirt.

OK Anti-Woke Teachers Test From Prager U Is Impossible To Fail - The Ryan Walters saga of stupid continues. Walters is the Superintendent of Oklahoma, where he oversees a state education system that ranks near the bottom...
Deadline Politics

‘South Park’ Returns With Trump & Satan’s Big Announcement, Labubus, Jesus & Tariffs: Really, What More Does A Good Old American Satire Need? - “Oh yeah, Labubus are demonic.” Perhaps on any other show at this time in America, that quip from a school teachers meeting would be the takeaway. However,...
Brad Blog

Trump's 'Cook'ed-Up Mortgage Fraud Claims: 'BradCast' 9/3/2025 - On today's BradCast: With authoritarianism now having descended upon these United States, the full-throated pushback against it, at least by some, continue...
Popular Resistance

UK Police Raids Home Of Palestine Action Supporters - Counterterrorism police in the UK arrested five members of Defend Our Juries (DOJ) in dawn raids on 2 September, just hours before the group was due to a...
Election Law Blog

Amicus Brief on the Fifteenth Amendment in Louisiana v. Callais - Another ELB contributor has entered the Callais fray. Today, I filed an amicus brief in support of the Robinson appellants in this fall’s blockbuster vot...
El Paso Matters

2 El Paso County DACA recipients challenge ICE detention as families plead for justice - Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago and Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira, both DACA recipients, are fighting for their release from ICE custody as lawmakers challenge the...
Antiwar.com

Researching the Roots of War - I have spent the bulk of my career — on and off since the late Carter Administration — following the money that drives war and repression. What I have fina...
Reform Austin

Trump’s September Is Filled With Tough Deadlines - As September unfolds, President Donald Trump faces important affairs, domestic and abroad. Some of the matters he has to face include negotiations with t...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - This weekend, as with every weekend, it’s all about going outside and touching grass.
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...
OpEd News

No Time For Gerrymandering Wars - FLIP HOUSE NOW with #ProjectCarrot - With #ProjectCarrot, Dems can entice House Republicans to declare as independents, caucusing with Dems. In return they get job security and bipartisan clou...
First Draft

Proposal Or Trial Balloon? - Trump muses about sending troops to a blue city in a red state: New Orleans, Louisiana. Is it just bluster and bullshit? Stay tuned.
San Antonio Current

Bexar County sitting on 34,000 unprocessed voter registrations - Bexar County has amassed a backlog of 34,000 unprocessed voter registrations, county commissioners said at a Tuesday meeting. The backlog stems from the c...
Claytoonz

Deep Dish Homicide - 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

New Mexico DOJ challenge to Trump funding freezes helps New Mexico AmeriCorps recover $2 million for local programs - [image: New Mexico will receive $2 million for AmeriCorps, initially withheld by the Trump administration. (AmeriCorps)] [image: New Mexico will receive $...
Futurism

White House Orders Government Workers to Deploy Elon Musk's "MechaHitler" AI as Quickly as Possible - When Elon Musk's Grok AI had a Nazi meltdown the other month and started calling itself "MechaHitler," the General Services Administration — the agency i...
Angry Bear

Florida bids to be the next Wuhan - Florida is set to drop all state vaccine mandates. Look for Florida EDs to fill up with children suffering from preventable diseases. Of course, the civi...
Second Nexus

Creepy Photo From Inside Dept. Of Labor Goes Viral After Trump Hangs Giant Banner Of Himself On Building - Like a dystopian screensaver no one asked for, a federal employee spent their Labor Day staring out of the Department of Labor building, only to be greet...
Wolf Street

ON RRPs Drop to Near-Zero $17.9 Billion, Liquidity Flow into Markets Over, while TGA Refilling Drains Liquidity from Markets - Liquidity now begins to drain out of the markets for the first time since the debt ceiling.
Church and State

Brazil with its trial of Bolsonaro offers the US a lesson to follow! - Donald Trump’s presidency, with its single-minded pursuit of American advantage, may signal its demise.
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “What Next for the Economy?” - LIVE 6:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Anxiety over the economy is the focus on “DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou,” where political carto...
DeSmogBlog

Meet the UN-backed ‘green’ investors’ group that invested in fossil fuels - Launched in 2020, the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative committed its members to “supporting the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or so...
WhoWhatWhy

No Hoax: Epstein Survivors and Massie Heap Pressure on Trump - [image: Good Trouble Protest, Anti Trump, Epstein Files, DC] Congress is back... and so is an issue that Donald Trump and GOP leaders had hoped would go aw...
Common Dreams

CODEPINK Condemns Illegal U.S. Missile Strike Near Venezuelan Waters - CODEPINK fiercely condemns the illegal and reckless U.S. missile strike that killed 11 people on a vessel allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela. Even i...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: There's little sign of paralysis... - *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2025* *...from Red America's messaging persons:* Has anyone ever changed as much as JD Vance weirdly has? We're speaking about ...
Glasstire

Practice and Tradition: Contemporary Art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia - ARTJOG 2025, along with its collateral Jogja Art Weeks, is the art event of the summer for South Asia, primarily showcasing works by young artists workin...
Independent Political Report

Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts to Adopt New Platform at Special October Convention - The Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts will hold a platform convention on October 4 to review and adopt an updated party platform, which it has describ...
Mondoweiss

Amid ‘unprecedented’ rise in respiratory disease in Gaza, famine is making routine infections life-threatening - [image: Palestinian children suffering from malnutrition receive medical care at Nasser Hospital, May 5, 2025. (Photo: Doaa el-Baz /APA Images)]Local autho...
The Root

Swizz Beatz Finally Speaks On Alleged ‘Divorce’ From Alicia Keys - Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys recently celebrated their 15-year anniversary, but online chatter about their marriage was anything but positive. Let's get i...
Capital & Main

Before the U.S. Steel Explosion, a Legacy of Cost-Cutting and Broken Promises - Canceled upgrades, insufficient maintenance and political lobbying preceded deadly explosion at Pennsylvania’s aging steel plant. The post Before the U....
Sludge

Johnson and GOP Delegation Visit West Bank as Israeli Annexation Plans Loom - The Speaker and his Republican colleagues met with Israeli settlers as momentum builds for an Israeli annexation of the West Bank.
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...
Texas Observer

🎶It’s His Party and He’ll…🎶 - Every time Texas Democrats have a bad election (read: every two years), blame reasonably finds its way to a person whose title suggests quite a lot of cu...
NORML

Nebraska: State-Appointed Commission Approves New Rules Undermining Medical Cannabis Access - [image: Nebraska license plate over a background of marijuana leaves][image: Nebraska license plate over a background of marijuana leaves]The passage of ...
Texas Standard

What to expect at the voting booth as Texas officials respond to Trump’s executive order - After ban on barcodes, three counties are getting rid of the touchscreen machines they’ve long used and having voters mark their ballots by hand.
Dissident Voice

Senate Subcommittee Hearing - “Sir, are you or have you ever been member of the underground terrorist organization known as PAAP?” “Yes, senator, but PAAP is neither terrorist nor un...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Judge Blocks Trump's Late-Night Deportation of Hundreds of Guatemalan Children, Democracy Now! - *Friends,* *The images emerging from this weekend are heartbreaking. They are of children in chains, treated not as human beings but as disposable pro...
Space City Weather

SCW Q&A: Loopy radar, conflicting forecasts, rising houmidity, weather stations, sudden storms - This installment of the Space City Q&A is particularly tasty: Y’all came up with some very good questions! Keep them coming: Hit the Contact link at the to...
Greg Palast

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

The “soft landing” scenario in the JOLTS report remains intact - -* by New Deal democrat* In contrast to much other data in the jobs sector, the JOLTS reports have been very much consistent with a “soft landing scenari...
SCOTUSblog

What the Trump administration wants from the Supreme Court this term - Two months after winning a case on universal injunctions that stemmed from President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, the Tr...
Democracy Now!

Army Vet Charged with "Conspiracy" for ICE Protest as Trump Expands War on Dissent - A 35-year-old former U.S. Army sergeant, Bajun “Baji” Mavalwalla II, faces up to six years in prison for protesting against ICE deportations in what legal ...
Rewire

This Summer, Parents Stitched Together Child Care To Give Their Kids a ‘Space for Black Joy’ - Amid rising camp costs and limited options, parents built their own patchwork of child care plans with relatives, community programs and Black-led camps....
The Conversation

65,000 Pennsylvania kids have a parent in prison or jail − here’s what research says about the value of in-person visits - In-person visits in prisons and jails can strengthen family relationships and reduce recidivism.
ArcaMax

A Masterpiece Museum on the Nation's Mall - The first of September was a bright morning on the National Mall. We went to pay respects to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. O...
Dorf on Law

The Authoritarians Who Don't Trust Authority - The rhetoric of the revolt against vaccine and mask mandates during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic was strongly libertarian, even to the point that ...
Earth 911

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

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

The Whimsy And Rage Of Poet KB Brookins - That crevasse between what’s whimsical and what is so real it hurts is where poet KB Brookins shines the brightest
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the archives - Video: Children are more knowledgeable about gay marriage than some adults - Since marriage equality, or gay marriage if you will, is in the news again, I thought it would be a good time to reach into the archives and re-educa...
The AltWorld

The futility of resolutions without action - The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) is the latest to speak up about the genocide in […] The post The futility of resolutions withou...
Progressive.org

Our Liberation Is Connected - I have photographed a number of protests and rallies this year in Chicago. It’s clear to me that we will all work together to ensure that trans folks and i...
slacktivist

Just not right - The words "justice" and "righteousness" could not be allowed to remain similar in meaning by people wanting to regard themselves as righteous while avoidin...
Discourse

Oh Boy, Bari Weiss' ScamU is 'Being Honest about Inequality' - Surprise: They're huge fans!
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!
Project Censored

Venezuela, Propaganda, and the Promise (and Peril) of AI - In the first part of the program, we welcome back to the show Leonardo Flores, co-founder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network, to talk about the US’ dang...
Bracing Views

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Americans with Disabilities Act, a product of militant struggle, turns 35 - In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the ADA being signed into law, we share an excerpt from the book "Disability and Empire: Class, U.S. Imperialis...
The Progressive Wing

8/29 – 9/4 News Roundup & OT - News, Views, and Music…after the jimp.
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Council member Roth proposes eliminating funding for Dallas clean air programs - Cuts would eliminate programs that will help residents breathe easier The post STATEMENT: Council member Roth proposes eliminating funding for Dallas cle...
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*—...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism - Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book *The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer*.
Earthworks

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

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

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

Melania and Jared: They're Back - Vanity Fair's editorial staff is considering a protest walk-out if Melania Trump is put on the magazine's cover. Get ready for a deluge of mainstream me...
Reading the Pictures

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

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

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

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

First Friends: How the First Couple’s Consigliere Went From Modeling Mogul to Special Envoy - Unlimited Hangout investigates how Paolo Zampolli became a recent Trump appointee despite his past of servicing corrupt, predatory and globalist ambition...
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 Militant

Air Canada flight attendants defy gov’t, win new contract - MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to ...
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...
Duck of Minerva

Who wants AI in the classroom? - I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is...
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...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
Campaign for America's Future

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

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Media Lens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Seeing the Forest

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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