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

Common Dreams

House Caves to Crypto Lobby, Fails to Stop Trump’s Grift - Today, the House passed a package of bills to promote cryptocurrency. This includes the Genius Act, a bill dealing with a type of cryptocurrency called a...
Popular Resistance

Medicare Advantage Is Such A Threat To Workers, They Wrote A Paper On It - This past April, labor advocates for single payer health care published a white paper called, “Medicare Advantage: What Labor Leaders Need to Know.”In it...
memeorandum

Crypto Industry Reaches Milestone With Passage of First Major Bill (New York Times) - New York Times: *Crypto Industry Reaches Milestone With Passage of First Major Bill* — After a week of squabbling in Washington, the cryptocurrency ind...
The Week

The Week contest: Shoe holiday -
Raw Story

'Blindsided': DeSantis accused of 'abusing power' to build 'Alligator Alcatraz' - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) reportedly left county officials in the dark when he decided to create the 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention facility ...
Second Nexus

Artist Blasts DHS For Using His Painting Without Permission—And They Even Tried To Change The Title - Christian artist Morgan Weistling publicly denounced Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for theft and misuse of his intellectual propert...
Discourse

These Substack Kids Wouldn't Last One Shift in the Blog Mines - An unintended side effect of digital media's demise is that no one knows how to write anymore.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump officials tour Alcatraz in bid to reopen prison amid outcry from California leaders - Doug Burgum, interior secretary, and Pam Bondi, attorney general, visited island jail as Nancy Pelosi calls idea ‘lunacy’ A delegation of US officials to...
Eschaton

Thursday Happy Hour - I appreciate that our president is always incredibly open and honest about his health issues.
OpEd News

Who will win the water: computers or living creatures? - Have you noticed that electronics manufacturers, telecom access networks and data storage centers can't survive without water?
The Hill

Fight over Epstein files holds up Trump DOGE cuts bill - The fight over how the Trump administration has handled disclosures relating to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is holding up final approva...
Techdirt.

The IRS Is Building A Vast System To Share Millions Of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE - This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program...
Mediaite

Reporter Asks Karoline Leavitt if Trump is Considering a Pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt skirted right past a question about President Donald Trump potentially pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell. The post...
NPR's Health Shots

Leaving the wheelchair on the dock to row the Connecticut River - Rowing on the Connecticut River is teaching a woman with multiple sclerosis that she can get through challenges back on land, on her own.
Claytoonz

Don’t Stop Believing - 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...
Courthouse News

NRA L - MANHATTAN — On remand from the Supreme Court, the Second Circuit reversed a New York federal court’s ruling in the National Rifle Association’s freedom of ...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS McAllen recognized with an award by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association - [image: |||] STHS McAllen earns its Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Plus Gold Award for the sixth consecutive year. The post STHS McAllen recognized wit...
The Conversation

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism - Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans.
Salon.com

Sen. Wyden presses DOJ to release Epstein bank reports to Congress - The Oregon Democrat says banks flagged over $1.5 billion in suspicious Epstein transactions
Axios

Israel says deadly Gaza church strike was mistake after Trump call - Israel issued a rare statement of regret for a strike on the only Catholic church in Gaza, which killed three people, injured 10 and left the church seri...
Slate

Netflix’s Latest Stars Eric Bana Solving a Murder in Yosemite. It’s the Ideal Summer Show. - Untamed, starring Eric Bana, hits just right.
San Antonio Report

Slow down. TxDOT plans to crack down on speeders. - From July 18 through Aug. 3, TxDOT’s Operation Slowdown campaign will ramp up law enforcement presence on streets. ------------------------------ Slow down....
Al Jazeera English

Top anti-corruption group flees El Salvador amid government crackdown - The rights group Cristosal says it has evacuated staff from El Salvador amid pressure from President Nayib Bukele.
Church and State

Science PROVES There Is So a God! So There! - My basic atheistic claim is not that I can prove there’s no god, but that I am unconvinced.
Mediagazer

Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $11.08B, vs. $11.07B est., net income of $3.13B, and forecasts 2025 revenue of $44.8B-$45.2B, up from $43.5B-$44.5B (Sarah Whitten/CNBC) - Sarah Whitten / CNBC: *Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $11.08B, vs. $11.07B est., net income of $3.13B, and forecasts 2025 revenue of $44.8B-$45...
Daily Dot

“A really bad move”: Popular @SylvanianDrama TikTok account sued by company that makes the toys - [image: sylvaniadrama sued] Animal figurine company Sylvanian Families filed a lawsuit in April against a TikTok account that creates dramatic stories wi...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (July 17, 2025) - For our busy Houston commuters – we have “The Commuter Cut” – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
Political Wire

Mike Johnson May Back Measure to Disclose Epstein Files - “Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is discussing backing a measure in support of disclosing more information related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey E...
Mondoweiss

Israel’s latest bombing of Syria, explained - [image: President Donald Trump hosts a bilateral dinner for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, July 7, 2025, in the Blue Room. (Official Wh...
The Verge

Anker’s new charging station battles desktop clutter with two retractable USB-C cables - The current trend in USB chargers isn’t adding more power or ports, it’s integrating charging cables that disappear when not in use. Anker was one of the f...
San Antonio Current

Texas redistricting key to Trump's crusade against potentially looming blue wave - Texas legislators will convene on Monday for a special session to a number tackle priorities set by Gov. Greg Abbott — key among those: redrawing the stat...
Undernews

Exercise - *Study Finds * - Increasing walking speed by 14 steps per minute boosted the odds of meaningful functional improvement in older adults with frailt...
World Socialist Web Site

Britain and Germany sign “friendship” treaty centred on militarism and war - There wasn’t a single policy laid out that didn’t concern the mad rush to rearmament and war, other than the intensification of anti-immigration measures.
The NM Political Report

Heinrich introduces bill to protect DACA recipients’ data amid Trump administration information sharing - [image: U.S. Sen Martin Heinrich] [image: U.S. Sen Martin Heinrich] U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich is leading a new push to protect the personal informati...
Grist

After deadly flash floods, a Texas town takes halting, painful steps toward recovery - With an outpouring of volunteers from across the state, the riverside town of Hunt is grappling with loss and recovery.
Election Law Blog

FL Supreme Court Upholds Congressional Districts - PBS reports on the decision rejecting a challenge to the DeSantis-backed plan, which eliminated a majority-Black district in northern Florida. Here’s the...
Deadline Politics

CNBC Hires David Cho As Editor In Chief - CNBC has hired David Cho to serve as editor in chief, a position in which he will oversee editorial coverage across cable, digital and direct to consumer p...
Futurism

Anti-Exploitation Group Horrified by Elon Musk's AI-Powered Waifu - One of the weirder bits of news on the AI-front has been Elon Musk's rollout of sexually-charged animated chat bots. Officially called "companions," and ...
CultureMap Houston

'I Know What You Did Last Summer' reboot lacks energy or thrills - When the original *I Know What You Did Last Summer* came out in 1997, it was riding the coattails of *Scream*, which came out in 1996. Like that film, it f...
Vox

Who wants to be treated like a princess? - Imagine walking in on your neighbor repeatedly spraying their spouse in the face with a water hose. In real life, this would warrant some concern. On TikTo...
Independent Political Report

Yankee National Party Seeks Ballot Access in Connecticut - The Connecticut chapter of the Yankee National Party has submitted designation petitions for a wide range of local and state offices ahead of the 2025 an...
Workers World

July 26 in New York City: Defend Cuba’s Medical Missions - [image: July 26 in New York City: Defend Cuba’s Medical Missions] Commemorate 72nd anniversary of Cuba’s National Revolution Day Defend Cuba’s Medical Miss...
SCOTUSblog

The emergency docket goes quiet – for now - On Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a bid by an Ecuadorian national to stave off his extradition to that country to face sexual abuse charges. One...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: We took a look at cable news ratings! - *THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2025* *We'd say there was one surprise:* We hadn't looked at cable news ratings of late. Today, we took a look at the numbers from la...
Texas Observer

How Trump’s IRS May Unshackle Churches from Their Political Restraints - Last week, the Family Research Council’s longtime president Tony Perkins exulted over the win the Trump administration delivered to the Christian right: ...
First Draft

WV Delegate Blames Antisemitic Remark On Ungrateful Poor - A tale as old as time.
Consortium News

Chris Hedges Report: War & Iran - Former British diplomat Alastair Crooke assesses the current situation in the Middle East and what can be expected in the coming weeks or months. By Chris ...
naked capitalism

The 2016 Coup Attempt Revisited: Türkiye’s Transformation and Its Regional Impact - How the failed 2016 coup transformed Türkiye's power structure under Erdoğan and reshaped its relationshio to the US and the Middle East
Ballot Access News

United Kingdom Expected to Lower the Voting Age to Sixteen - On July 17, the British government announced that a bill will be introduced soon to lower the voting age to sixteen. Because the Labour Party has a majori...
Reform Austin

Senate Narrowly Approves Trump’s $9 Billion Spending Cut Proposal - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… In a tight vote early Thursday, the Senate approved President Donald Trump’s proposal to rescin...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - July 17, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Summer of Floods continues with deadly flash flooding in...
MintPress News

Documenting Israel’s War Crimes with Motaz Azaiza - Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza joins MintCast host Mnar Adley to recount surviving Israel’s assault on Gaza, his rise to global prominence, and why documen...
Counterpunch

From Chiapas to Gaza w/ Acción Palestina Chiapas - Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with activists in México about the parent-led response to Israeli combatants "volunteering" in Chiapas in an attempt to ...
Sludge

Trump’s WLFI Project Unlocks Trading, Paving the Way for Family Profits - An investor vote to trade $WLFI could skyrocket the token’s value, enriching Trump and his family who hold multi-billion-token stakes.
WhoWhatWhy

World’s Oldest Climate Fund Targets Wildlife Bonds for Every Country in Africa - [image: science, nature, biodiversity, Africa, wildlife conservation, $150M bond plan] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or reco...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center, Boys and Girls Clubs launch Back to School Mobile Clinic - Well-child visits, immunizations, health checks and preventative services available
Rallblog

Retrain American Workers - More than anything else, American voters worry about the economy. Specifically, they struggle to pay their bills. Those with jobs are scared they will ge...
DeSmogBlog

‘No Such Thing as a Free Lunch’: Opposition Outcry over Reform’s Secretive DOGE Unit - Councillors in West Northamptonshire last night slammed Reform UK’s plan to access council data as part of its ‘DOGE’ drive to reduce local “fraud and wa...
Mother Jones

How Trump’s Big Bill Devastates the US Food System - This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. Even before Donald Trump retook the White House, US policymakers had ...
American Prospect

Free Speech Police - Under the Trump administration, every law enforcement agency is an immigration agency. And that often means attempting to deport people for their political...
ProPublica

Former NYPD Commissioner Accuses Mayor Adams of Running “Criminal Enterprise” and Cites ProPublica Investigation - by Eric Umansky ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
The Daily Poster

Big Tech Taps Natural Gas For Its Coal Country “AI Revolution” - The nation’s biggest fossil fuel, technology, and financial firms joined Trump this week as he announced $90 billion of private investment in artificial in...
Capital & Main

Trump and Kennedy Throw Head Start Into Reverse - How the administration seeks to use the venerable children's care program as an anti-immigrant weapon. The post Trump and Kennedy Throw Head Start Into R...
Liberation News

The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ deals a big, big blow to working-class students - Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' reduces student loan options and guts student loan forgiveness programs.
Dissident Voice

Language of Domination — First Contact and Tiokasin Ghosthorse’s Intuitive Language - NOTE: Your first look at/ listen to an interview to air in October. DV readers rock! We talked for an hour, and he’s on his journey, now discontinuing N...
Alternet

'Total nonsense': Trump offivial blasted over extolling 'wonders' of life 'when illegals are gone' - White House Deputy Chief of Staff *Stephen Miller* is once again touting the “wonders” he says Americans can expect if President Donald Trump carries out...
Bud Kennedy

Greg Abbott has $86 million. Texas Democrats don’t have a candidate. Here’s why | Opinion - Gov. Greg Abbott is down to his last $86 million. In his 11th year leading the state, Abbott has wielded his power and punished political opponents like no...
Daily Cartoonist

Adam Zyglis and Steve Benson Updates - Organizations backing Zyglis’ first amendment right. And major Benson tributes and obits. AAEC Statement in Support of Adam Zyglis The Association of Ameri...
Texas Standard

Texas has funded hundreds of millions in flood projects. The State Flood Plan says it needs $54 billion. - The first State Flood Plan, published last year, identified $54 billion in flood mitigation, warning and data needs. The state has awarded around $660 mill...
The Root

Something Powerful Emerged After Black NYC Woman Was Jumped, Beaten Over a Parking Space - The message is clear: Attacks on Black women will not be tolerated. Read more...
Bonddad

Topline monthly increase in retail sales betrays weak underlying trend - - *by New Deal democrat* Consumption leads employment, and retail sales are the most timely monthly indicator of consumption. Indeed, population-adj...
El Paso Matters

Why do El Paso streets flood despite little rain, millions in stormwater projects? - It’s been a dry 2025 in El Paso, but recent rainfall flooded streets in several neighborhoods. Here’s what role our terrain, private developers and Moth...
Scheerpost.com

On Gaza, the Goal Is To Confuse Us About Where Rights End and Criminality Begins - An Israeli Jew is charged over referring to ‘Nazi Israel’. An anti-genocide protester risks arrest as a terrorist for waving a Palestinian flag. Starmer is...
Dorf on Law

There is No Original Public Meaning of Imprecise Constitutional Text: A Tribute to Professor Richard H. Fallon, Jr. - Yesterday, Mike wrote a poignant tribute to Professor Richard H. Fallon, Jr., a legendary law professor at Harvard Law School. Dick was a brilliant schol...
Rewire

I’m a Trans Teen. The U.S. Government Is Attacking My Community. - "This is not politics as usual." The post I’m a Trans Teen. The U.S. Government Is Attacking My Community. appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Glasstire

Top Five: July 17, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. M.C. Escher: Infinite Variations Arlington Museum of Ar...
Progressive Army

Pago del CASS IATA - Estimados socios buen día: En relación a algunos inconvenientes que han surgido en el momento de abonar el CASS IATA en el Banco Santander, personal de IAT...
Democracy Now!

Writer Adam Shatz on How Oct. 7 & Israel's Brutality in Gaza Reshaped the World - Israel launched airstrikes that destroyed part of the Syrian Defense Ministry and a facility near the presidential palace in Damascus on Wednesday, killing...
Space City Weather

Houston to see decent rain chances Friday before a spell of hot and sunny weather - In brief: In this morning’s post we discuss the end game for the tropical disturbance in the northern Gulf, look ahead to elevated rain chances on Friday, ...
ArcaMax

Inflation-Driven Debt Could Sink Economy - Can you hear the canary in the economy's coal mine singing her heart out? You know that we are headed for trouble when some masses start buying groceries o...
The Smirking Chimp

‘All That Is Real’: Ex-GOP Strategist Reveals Why Trump’s Epstein Problem Is Getting Worse -
Skeptophilia

Who benefits? - One of the most curious features of evolutionary biology is the *cui bono principle*. *Cui bono?* is Latin for "who benefits?" and is an idea that found ...
Crooked Media

Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere - The post Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Re-redistricting watch: El Paso in focus - Not a big surprise. President Donald Trump’s request that Texas Republicans seek to create five new congressional seats for the GOP in an upcoming special ...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Portside

Get Ready for Citizens United 2.0 - Get Ready for Citizens United 2.0 Mark Brody Thu, 07/17/2025 - 03:33
Earth 911

Three Times the Action: Build Your Own Triple Compost Bin - What’s a triple compost bin, and why might you need one? Good question. More than... The post Three Times the Action: Build Your Own Triple Compost Bin a...
jobsanger

Trump Thinks Anyone That Criticizes Him Is EVIL -
Informed Comment

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Begins Disarmament after 47 Years of Conflict with Türkiye - Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After nearly five decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ha...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2004 to 2024, Part Two: When Each State Was at its Most Republican - Over the past few decades, some states have gotten more Democratic compared to the nation as a whole, while others have gotten more Republican. This arti...
Nina Illingworth

Ominous “Solutions” to Nonexistent Problems - Now that Trump's DoJ intends to ramp up efforts to denaturalize foreign-born Americans, it's time to be frank about where this ethnonationalist nightmare...
Angry Bear

June CPI: an apparent point of transition - – by New Deal democrat We are at somewhat of an inflection point as to consumer inflation. On the one hand, the post-pandemic inflationary effects cont...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Musk’s AI firm forced to delete posts praising Hitler from Grok chatbot, Josh Taylor | July 8, 2025 | The Guardian - *Friends:We're so bombarded by news all the time, but it's important to recognize what is actually true. The short of it is that Musk's xAI p...
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, June 2025: The Price Drops & Gains in 33 Large Expensive Metros - US home prices nearly flat YoY, but fell in 21 of our 33 metros: Austin, Tampa, Miami, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas...
Antiwar.com

Israel and Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall - Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a key figure in the development of the Zionist movement, which led to the founding of Israel in 1948. After bre...
Earthworks

The Big Beautiful Lie - While we celebrated the 4th of July, Republicans passed a budget that puts polluters first—gutting protections, silencing communities, and handing fossil...
Progressive.org

The New Mason-Dixon Line: How the Ruling on Nationwide Injunctions Takes Us Back to the Past - The Supreme Court’s ruling to curb nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship cases evokes a time in U.S. history when one’s rights were determined b...
See You In 2020

Class struggle will bring Russia to final victory, & will cure the anti-imperialist movement's internal problems - In his contribution to the April 2025 issue of The Platform, the anti-imperialist Dimitrios Patelis came to a shrewd analysis about Russia’s Ukraine op...
slacktivist

There’s a lady who stands in a harbor for what we believe - Rain fade backup purgatory: Revisiting a horrible anthem of post-9/11 American chauvinism and realizing that it's too "woke" for MAGAmerica.
Infidel753

Epstein's unquiet ghost - The MAGA activist world is unhappy with the Trump administration's failure to release all the information it has on Jeffrey Epstein's clients, and they're...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life ...
Socialist Alternative

Behind Enemy Lines: Lessons For Elected Socialists - Following the surprise victory of Zohran Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, many on the left...
Texas Monthly

Texas Republicans Are Already Celebrating 2026 Endorsements. Which Ones Actually Matter? - From Trump to Abbott to Musk, not all supporters are created equal. We ranked them.
NORML

Nebraska: Omaha Tribe Approves Marijuana Legalization on Reservation Lands - [image: hand holding green bottle of cannabis oil and glass jar containing cannabis flower in front of marijuana plants][image: hand holding green bottle...
Dissent Magazine

The Painter of the Right - Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
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...
Ian Welsh

Elite Opinion In Canada Begins To Shift From America To China - The Globe and Mail is one of the two main “newspapers of the elite” in Canada, and the older of the two. (The other one is the Nation Post). So this articl...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Trump's On the List: Epstein and the Cult of Abuse and Power - Epstein's crimes are symptoms of a corrupt culture. We cannot afford to look away.
Ecosophia

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors - In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate...
High Country News

Two hotshots, two memoirs - A Q+A with outliers in fire. The post Two hotshots, two memoirs appeared first on High Country News.
The AltWorld

The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word - The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted […] The post The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Wo...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Chip and Joanna Gaines trigger conservative Christian rage by showing that religious freedom about gays go both ways - By casting a same-sex couple in their docuseries Back to the Frontier, HGTV personalities Chip and Joanna Gaines enrage conservative evangelicals and puts...
The Greanville Post

Putin Calls Trump’s BLUFF, This Move WIPES OUT Ukraine w/ Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson - DANNY HAIPHONG—Trump has come begging back to China for relief from his tariffs regime as the US's trade war backfires dramatically on its own economy. Ana...
The Texas Signal

In Texas, Bats Are Beloved And In Danger - Though hardy animals, Texas bats are seeing major upheavals to their environment thanks to man-made climate change.
Bracing Views

Appeasing the Military-Industrial Complex - Orwell’s 1984 Wasn’t Meant As a How-To Guide BILL ASTORE JUL 15, 2025 In an ever-changing world, the one constant in Universe USA is rising Pentagon budget...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
Krebs on Security

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI - Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. So...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
Project Censored

Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk - In the first part of the program, Mickey sits down with Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, founding director of the Park Center for...
The Progressive Wing

7/14-20 News Roundup and Open Thread - Mamdani has a big lead in the latest NYC poll.0
Crooked Timber

Attention is All You Need - One of my foundational theoretical commitments is that the technology of reading and writing is neither natural nor innocuous. Media theorists McLuhan, Pos...
Democracy Chronicles

Camp LeJeune Justice Act Litigation - Congress had to waste time passing a new law because DOJ and Navy JAG won when Congress didn’t want them to win.
Reading the Pictures

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
alicublog

SUNDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SAW THE NAZIS GETTIN' SLOPPY EDITION. - *I follow Robert Christgau because how can I not,but also because he catches me up on acts like this.* On the one hand, the outrages never cease; on the...
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...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: July 2025 - This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects–often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. I came away thinki...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
The Militant

‘The working class needs to take political power in our own hands’ - SWP campaign in Minneapolis goes over the top in ballot drive MINNEAPOLIS — After nine days of campaigning throughout the city, Socialist Workers Party mem...
Greg Palast

Kherson: Human Safari — Zarina Zabrisky’s haunting documentary exposes Russian war crimes in Ukraine“While the world is asleep, we are dying here.” - Kherson: Human Safari is both a frontline documentary and a work of resistance art — a powerful and poetic film created inside the war-torn city of Kherson...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 - *Are the devout in love with Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians? * When enthusiastic Christians decide they’d better read the Bible cover-to-cover...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:07 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
ROAR Magazine

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Environment Texas

How plastic in the ocean hurts animals - Plastic pollution is injuring, sickening and killing wildlife — from seabirds and turtles to seals and whales The post How plastic in the ocean hurts ani...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farías, III, longtime statewide leader in Texas higher education, appointed to two key positions at UTRGV’s School of Optometry - Dr. Fred Farías III, a lifelong advocate for higher education and a nationally respected leader in optometry and public service, has joined The University ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Stinque

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues - E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded versi...
TalkLeft

Sean "Diddy" Combs: Beats Biggest Charges But Bail Denied - Yesterday, with less than two full days of deliberations under their belt, jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial sent a note to the judge saying they had ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
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...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
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, ...
The Socialist

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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.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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