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

ArcaMax

TikTok Runs the Table: After Mamdani, Democrats Mull Picking Their Poison - In Woody Allen's iconic film "Annie Hall," protagonist Alvy Singer instructs his new girlfriend that our existence is divided into two categories: the horr...
Raw Story

'So wrong': Texas data reveals soaring number of near-deaths after miscarriage - *ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox*. Bef...
The Hill

Netflix's 'NASA Live' will show spacewalks, rocket launches - NASA+ live feeds will start being available sometime this summer on Netflix.
Political Wire

One of the Most Unpopular Pieces of Legislation Ever - Harry Enten: “You don’t have to be a mathematical genius to know that these are horrible, horrible, horrible numbers. Washington Post, -19 points, Fox News...
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-07-01 -
Mediaite

Victim’s Family ‘Beyond Furious’ After Accused Killer Bryan Kohberger Strikes Plea Deal - The family of Kaylee Goncalves slammed prosecutors after learning accused killer Bryan Kohberger is expected to take a plea deal sparing him the death pe...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Severe weather hits the US hard as key forecast offices reel from Trump cuts - This year marks the first time that local NWS offices have stopped round-the-clock operations in the agency’s history A brutal stretch of severe weather ...
Vox

Can abortion bans be made a little less bad? - By the time Republican Rep. Kat Cammack arrived at a Florida emergency room, she was facing an urgent medical crisis: Her pregnancy, then five weeks along,...
San Antonio Report

Listen: San Antonio FC expands its global reach with international connections - [image: Fans react while watching the San Antonio FC play against Louisville FC during the 2022 USL Championship final at Toyota Field Sunday.]To improve t...
ProPublica

These 5 Charts Show How Hotels Became New York’s Response to Homelessness - by Spencer Norris, New York Focus, and Joel Jacobs, ProPublica, graphics by Lucas Waldron, ProPublica This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local R...
The Week

Hotels with kitchen gardens for a foodie weekend away - Feast on seasonal produce straight from the veg patch at these country retreats
naked capitalism

Links 7/1/2025 -
Al Jazeera English

Republicans “afraid of” Trump will vote for “Big Beautiful Bill” - Bill Schneider explains why Trump’s "Big Beautiful Bill" will likely pass – despite opposition from both parties.
Daily Dot

AI-generated band “The Velvet Sundown” hits 500K Spotify listens in one month, and listeners are furious - [image: the velvet sundown ai band spotify profile] A psych-rock band called The Velvet Sundown has somehow racked up over 500,000 Spotify listeners in l...
memeorandum

Playbook: Trump vs. Musk, Round II (Politico) - Politico: *Playbook: Trump vs. Musk, Round II* — With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco — On the Playbook Podcast this morning, Jack ...
Salon.com

“Who’s to say anybody’s vote is safe?”: Trump DOJ targets North Carolina’s voter rolls - Some fear the state election board, under DOJ pressure, will disenfranchise thousands of voters
Skeptophilia

The edges of knowledge - The brilliant British astrophysicist Becky Smethurst said, "The cutting edge of science is where all the unknowns are." And far from being a bad thing, ...
Mediagazer

Cloudflare launches Pay per Crawl, a marketplace letting sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites set up with Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch) - Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: *Cloudflare launches Pay per Crawl, a marketplace letting sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites set up with Cloudflare...
The Verge

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default - The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from “accessing content without permiss...
Progressives Chat

'Jaws’ and ‘Nashville’ Turns 50 - Summer has long been embraced as a time away from school, from work, and from the usual routine. I will do some of this as I give *Progressives Chat* ...
Eschaton

Morning - Get your morning on.
Slate

My Son Won’t Stop Marking His Territory - We have a puddle problem.
Mother Jones

Ban on AI Regulations in Trump’s Tax Bill Carries a Huge Environmental Cost - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republicans are pushing to pass a maj...
Axios

Trump's clean-energy grenade rattles high-tech industries - Republicans in Congress are on the verge of knee-capping America's renewable energy boom, prompting urgent 11th-hour warnings from climate analysts, Chin...
Off The Kuff

SD09 special election set for November - This could, and hopefully will, be interesting. Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday set a special election for Nov. 4 to fill the Texas Senate seat vacated by Repub...
American Prospect

Fighting for a $20 Minimum Wage, With or Without Congress - As Republicans in Congress rip up the safety net, the quest for wages that keep pace with the high cost of living intensifies.
Angry Bear

The Brushy Mountain State Prison of the Everglades - I grew up about 20 miles from Brushy Mountain State Prison. You may remember it as the place James Earl Ray was held until, briefly, he wasn’t. He escape...
NPR's Health Shots

France bans smoking at parks and beaches in effort to protect children - France over the weekend banned smoking in public parks, on beaches and at bus stops in an effort to protect children.
Alternet

Trump touts a toxic philosophy that threatens American democracy - During a three-hour interview with the podcaster Joe Rogan some months ago, Elon Musk revealed the core of the ideology animating the richest person in t...
High Country News

Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community - [image: View of the Phoenix skyline from Laveen, Arizona.] Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert ...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 1 July 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] A simple but effective mousetrap Knowing ...
Crooked Media

Can the Big Beautiful Bill Be Stopped? - The post Can the Big Beautiful Bill Be Stopped? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Earth 911

Plan Ahead for Extreme Air Conditions - Across the United States, people are already used to thinking of wildfires as seasonal rather... The post Plan Ahead for Extreme Air Conditions appeared ...
Portside

The Alarming Rise of US Officers Hiding Behind Masks: ‘A Police State’ - The Alarming Rise of US Officers Hiding Behind Masks: ‘A Police State’ Mark Brody Tue, 07/01/2025 - 02:05
Counterpunch

Food Aid or Firing Squads - In Gaza today, hunger has a price—and for far too many civilians, that price has been death. The Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz described the Gaza Humanitari...
jobsanger

We Should Not Have Any Billionaires -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3317: Railcars - Episode: 3317 Specialized Railcars for Heavy Cargo. Today, how railroads move the unmovable.
World Socialist Web Site

Labor governments support brutal police assault on Sydney pro-Palestinian protest - The Labor governments are overseeing a crackdown on anti-war opposition, comparable to that being carried out by openly fascistic and authoritarian regimes...
Informed Comment

Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu - Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is now trying to intimidate the Israeli Judiciary into cancelling the th...
See You In 2020

How liberal Zionists spread the “Israel created Hamas” narrative, & used it to undermine the pro-Palestine movement - *This is from a book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why the Pro-Palestine Movement Failed to Stop a Holocaust, & How it ...
Techdirt.

States Need To Mimic Colorado Law Now That HHS Is A Dumpster Fire - At the beginning of this year, the Colorado state legislature introduced HB25-1097, a state law that updated the state’s disease control statutes. Eventual...
Ian Welsh

The Changing Interpretations of Gobekli Tepe - [image: The Changing Interpretations of Gobekli Tepe] The foreman in 2008 and his sons offer me tea. Before Gobekli Tepe became an internet sensation by p...
slacktivist

Millions of people dead. On purpose. - Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Marco Rubio, and their white evangelical supporters are killing an estimated 88 people every hour.
Wolf Street

Exit from the “Lock-in” Effect Slowed in Q1 as Home Sales Deteriorated Further and Supply Spiked - By the time they finally wanted to sell their home, it wasn't easy anymore because demand had plunged, and fewer of those mortgages got paid off.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Fund the Future: Support Academia Cuauhtli’s Growth at the ESB-MACC - *Friends,* *We are gathering signatures to show broad community support for continued funding—and future expansion—of Academia Cuauhtli, our beloved Satu...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Attacking a Chant, Aiding a Genocide - Israel, the U.K. government and the media are fomenting moral panic over words “glorifying violence” towards the IDF while the Israeli military inflicts ca...
Futurism

Anthropic Let an AI Agent Run a Small Shop and the Result Was Unintentionally Hilarious - Anthropic ran an experiment where its Claude chatbot was put in charge of a tiny, automated "shop" inside its San Francisco headquarters — and the result...
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games - Israel’s weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands ...
OpEd News

Opinion: Did Trumbull shape Russell Vought's vision for Project 2025? - Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's director of the Office of Management and Budget (and a key architect of Project 2025), is using his position and p...
Antiwar.com

‘New Middle East’: This is Netanyahu’s Real Goal in the Region - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persistently declares his ambition to “change the face of the Middle East”. Yet, his repeated assertions seem to ...
Undernews

Asia Warming at Twice the Global Average - *EcoWatch - *Asia is warming faster than the rest of the world, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The *State of...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

CBS News - the Trump Administration is playing 'divide and conquer' strategy against LGBTQ community - During his first term, Donald Trump pretended to like the LGBTQ community. During this, his second term, he's not bothering to play the game. Instead, ac...
Grist

What does climate change mean for agriculture? Less food, and more emissions - New research sheds light on how rising temperatures are squeezing farmers and raising prices for consumers.
Ballot Access News

Elon Musk Again Mentions Creating a New Party - On June 30, Elon Musk wrote, “If the insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day.” Also, “Our country needs an alternative t...
CultureMap Houston

Houston spa is first in Texas to offer award-winning Italian wellness treatment - This summer, *Trellis Spa* at *The Houstonian* is adding a touch of Italian flair to its treatment menu, and it comes with a beauty seal of approval. From ...
Election Law Blog

Mamdani’s electoral coalition in the primary (a revision) - Justin popping back in. Today, the NYT issued a correction to its story on Mamdani’s impact on the NYC primary electorate, and what I described yesterday...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Frédéric Bastiat Was Right About "Legal Plunder" & It's Much Worse Now! - Frédéric Bastiat is probably most famous for a quote that makes the rounds occasionally on Social Media "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group ...
Workers World

Actions in 70 U.S. cities say: ‘Hands off Iran and West Asia! Free Palestine!’ - [image: Actions in 70 U.S. cities say: ‘Hands off Iran and West Asia! Free Palestine!’] Although there is a temporary “ceasefire” in the U.S./Israeli effor...
The AltWorld

Will Trump Nuke Iran? - Will Trump Nuke Iran? The post Will Trump Nuke Iran? appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Sludge

Trump Flip-Flopped on U.S. Steel Deal After Lobbying Blitz by His Top Bundlers - Despite repeatedly saying he opposed Nippon Steel's takeover of U.S. Steel, President Trump reversed his stance following pressure from lobbyists who raise...
Environment Texas

How just a single seed can kill 80,000 bees - A common farming practice is spreading toxic pesticides into the environment: harming pollinators, wildlife and ecosystems. The post How just a single se...
Reform Austin

Supreme Court Lets Abbott, Paxton Withhold Uvalde, Jan. 6 Records - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Texas Supreme Court on Friday allowed Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton to w...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Colorado to Reschedule Annual Convention Over Notice Error - The Libertarian Party of Colorado announced Saturday that it will schedule a new state convention in the coming weeks after declaring its most recent gat...
San Antonio Current

Rep. Joaquin Castro calls for release of migrant family held at ICE facility south of San Antonio - U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro is calling for the release of a migrant family from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility an hour southwest...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Refiles Lawsuit Against Iowa Pollster Ann Selzer In State Court — Update - UPDATED: Donald Trump has refiled a lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer over a pre-election poll showing Kamala Harris in the lead in the state, in a ...
NORML

Honoring LGBTQIA+ Cannabis Trailblazers: A Pride Month Reflection - [image: A cannabis plant in front of a LGBTQIA+ Pride flag][image: A cannabis plant in front of a LGBTQIA+ Pride flag]In the struggle for cannabis legali...
Daily Cartoonist

Monday with Miss Cellany - Letters to the Editor: Praise and Religion, and The 4th of July; Government Censorship; The Ducktown Weekly; The New York Times For Kids; and more Mafalda....
The Greanville Post

Michael Hudson: War on Iran is fight for US unipolar control of world - MICHAEL HUDSON—What is at stake is the U.S. attempt to control the Middle East and its oil as a buttress of U.S. economic power, and to prevent other count...
SCOTUSblog

Court adds seven new cases to the 2025-26 term - The Supreme Court on Monday morning added seven new cases, covering issues ranging from campaign-finance regulations to the flexibility of the deadline t...
Project Censored

The Right to Criticize: Honoring Independent Journalism at the Izzy Awards - Indeed, as our first amendment rights continue to be gravely threatened, real, independent frontline journalists are more than truth-tellers, they are th...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Bacon and Carolina BBQ: Breaking Down Two Key Republican Retirements - In NE-2, Rep. Don Bacon's (R) retirement pushes the seat to Leans Democratic, while North Carolina's Senate race remains a Toss-up without Sen. Thom Till...
Church and State

New Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin Offers Both Parties Urgently Needed Fresh Ideas To Save Our Democracy - According to Slotkin, the greatest threat to the U.S. is not from abroad but instead is in the lost economic security and shrinking middle class.
Second Nexus

Beyoncé Forced To Stop After Getting Stuck In Mid-Air During Tour Performance In Tense Video - During the first night of her back-to-back concerts in Houston, Beyoncé had to hit the brakes—literally . The incident happened when she was singing “16 ...
MintPress News

Ceasefire Theater: Gaza Talks Mask Israel’s Push for Ethnic Cleansing - As Israeli leaders fly to Washington, bombs fall on Gaza and peace talks offer cover for a strategy of civilian punishment and engineered displacement. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS urges residents to be safe and take precautions to avoid life-threatening fireworks-related injuries - [image: |||] STHS urges Rio Grande Valley residents to take care during the Fourth of July celebrations. The post STHS urges residents to be safe and take...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: A certain bill keeps chugging along! - *MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2025* *But what the heck is in it? *The bill was given a silly name—The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The obvious purpose of the name is ...
Glasstire

Houston Artists: Artist INC Application Deadline Extended - Fresh Arts, a Houston-based organization supporting local artists and creatives, has announced the extension of its Artist INC applications to July 9, 20...
Mondoweiss

Democratic Party lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading lies about him in the process - [image: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries shaking hands with Benjamin Netanyahu during a trip to Israel on April 24, 2023. (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, L....
The Root

Three Friends Were Headed To A Beyoncé Concert, But One Dies On the Way. Guess What The Other Two Did Next? - A group of friends who experienced tragedy on their way to a Cowboy Carter show have sparked a viral debate about what would keep fans from seeing Queen ...
DeSmogBlog

Pathways Alliance Sponsored Science Fairs for Canadian Children - Tar sands advocacy group Pathways Alliance has been sponsoring school science fairs, DeSmog has learned. Environmentalists are questioning the ethics of ...
Claytoonz

Hang In There, Baby - 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...
El Paso Matters

Photos: Pages and Pints celebrates ‘Chuco Punk,’ punk rockers, book & brew lovers - Did you miss out on Pages & Pints at Old Sheepdog Brewery this weekend? Check out photos from the festival – book shops, authors, punk bands, cold brews...
Debunking Christianity

Me? A Religious Nutjob? - When I first saw this it seemed to be embarrassing. Me? A religious nutjob? Then I looked again. It's nice to hear.
The NM Political Report

Heinrich hails victory as public lands sales stripped from GOP bill - [image: U.S. Sen Martin Heinrich] [image: U.S. Sen Martin Heinrich] A controversial proposal to sell off large portions of America’s public lands has be...
The Conversation

Who’s the most American? Psychological studies show that many people are biased and think it’s a white English speaker - The US and other countries have a legal definition of citizenship, yet human psychology and identity politics result in ingrained biases over who truly bel...
Krebs on Security

Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security - Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contac...
First Draft

The Big Bullshit Bill Is Awfully ICE-y - Massive increases in ICE's budget in Trump's bills should alarm all of us
WhoWhatWhy

Hundreds of Fossils Reveal Squids’ Evolutionary Origins and Early Dominance - [image: science, oceans, biodiversity, evolution, octopuses, early dominance] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended ...
Texas Standard

What will be one of the world’s most powerful telescopes enters final design phase - Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of clarity to images of far-flun...
Capital & Main

Trained Volunteers Patrol L.A. Streets as ICE Raids Intensify - Neighborhood groups monitor immigration enforcement amid rising fear and federal scrutiny. The post Trained Volunteers Patrol L.A. Streets as ICE Raids I...
Bonddad

Pay close attention to real personal spending on goods - - *by New Deal democrat* This week data arrives in two batches: a smaller batch (ISM manufacturing and construction spending) tomorrow, and a huge tr...
Dissident Voice

Magical Theatricality in the Ice Age Caves: Why it Should Matter to Socialists - Orientation From the time of the Renaissance until representational art began to be challenged at the end of the 19th century, most of us think of secula...
Discourse

People Don't Like Israel Because Israel Is Committing Genocide - That's it.
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 170: “Trump’s Big Beautiful Vote” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: It’s Big Beautiful Voting Day on “The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan!” With producer Robby West filli...
Rewire

Young Workers Least Likely To Have Parental Leave, Sick Days—Report - The U.S. is a global outlier in paid time off. And the youngest members of the workforce are the least likely to get the paid leave they need. Experts sa...
Democracy Now!

Freedom for Western Sahara: Sahrawis Demand End of Moroccan Occupation at U.N. Human Rights Council - We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of Western Sahara and its Indigenous p...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our July/August 2025 Issue - Partial remarks given at the 2025 MOLLY Prize Gala on May 28: Suddenly, it’s become a bit of a sad time for the Texas Observer community. Later in the pr...
Space City Weather

July will do July-like things in Houston - In brief: Today’s post looks back at a fairly typical June in Houston, and ahead to what we might expect in July. We are confident that the first week is g...
Dorf on Law

Justice Alito's Opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor is Dangerous and Gratuitously Dishonest - I'll start by giving credit where credit is due. In *Mahmoud v. Taylor*, Justice Alito, writing for the majority, rejects the defendant school board's co...
The Smirking Chimp

The Worst Bill in History -
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games - Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who ...
Crooked Timber

The end of US democracy - I’ve held off posting this in the hope of coming up with some kind of positive response, but I haven’t got one. When I wrote back in November 2024 that Tru...
Liberation News

Trump’s budget bill: A huge gift to billionaires - There is a mad rush on the part of the GOP and Trump to get the misnamed “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed by Congress.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What They Fear is Democracy: Audio From A Collapsing State - Discourse around Mamdani and the Supreme Court shares a simple theme: the powerful cannot stomach any conversation focused on democracy
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Total Obliteration' Toons - ...IN MEMORIAM... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: School’s Out, Zohran’s In - Robots take over schools, a democratic socialist takes over New York, and more from The Lever this week.
Socialist Alternative

Workers Organize To Escalate The Fight Against Trump At Union Members Against ICE Meeting - Micaela is a co-president of GEO (AFT) Local 6297 in Chicago. On June 22, Socialist Alternative held a national organizing meeting to discuss how the labor...
Common Dreams

Bomb Bomb Iran: Idiot Mob Boss Declares Wack Victory - As evidence mounts America's reckless, illegal, peace-through-stupidity attacks on Iran's nuclear sites did not in fact "OBLITERATE" them and could inste...
Trivial Knot

Social justice and empiricism - I’ve toyed with the idea that one of the major values of social justice is basically empiricism. Social justice contains certain theories, but you can’t j...
Lowering the Bar

Authorities Question Unlicensed Beaver Releases - [image: beaver release]An "underground network" of unauthorized beaver releasers is at work.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANYTHING THAT CAN'T GO ON, WON'T EDITION. - *If I’m not mistaken I’m surely right.* Still recovering from surgery, I woke up late this morning to the smell of burning Constitution. I thought any de...
The Militant

Defend Israel’s battle to prevent another Holocaust!US troops, bases and warships out of the Mideast! - Click below for printer-friendly pdf of this statement Statement issued June 25 by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party Working people the...
Democracy Chronicles

Social Security and Medicare Reforms For Trump - Disabled people have the harshest financial situation in society. And the percentage of people disabled increases as you start adding intersectionality.
Bracing Views

Donald Trump, Insulter-in-Chief - Teenage Boys Playing “Risk” Lead America! BILL ASTORE JUN 27, 2025 When I was in high school, my friends and I would get together and play “Risk,” the game...
Progressive.org

Stop the War Now, Before It Is Too Late - A call for an immediate end to unlawful military action and a move toward peaceful diplomacy.
Earthworks

Nickel waste floods homes in Indonesia, sparking protests - From June 10 to 13, 2025, heavy rainfall hit Obi Island in Indonesia. As a result, muddy floods submerged three … The post Nickel waste floods homes in ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/27/2025 - 17:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
The Grayzone

Funcionario de Trump: el director de la CIA “toma dictado” del Mossad sobre Irán - Un funcionario de la administración Trump le cuenta a The Grayzone que el Mossad israelí está usando al director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe y al jefe del ...
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...
Bud Kennedy

A year in jail for a THC snack? Texans are unhappy with Republicans | Opinion - Texans are sick of our elected officials. But probably not sick enough to get rid of any of them. We don’t like any of our state leaders, according to a … ...
Texas Freedom Network

The Twenty-Two-Hour Hearing That Couldn’t Break Us: Texan Volunteers Fight for Democratic Process - By: Elva Mendoza and Erika Slaymaker Excitement and inspiration gave way to frustration, disappointment, anger, and aggravation. Calculations were made: ...
Ecosophia

June 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
ROAR Magazine

Proteção jurídica completa para apostadores desportivos no Frank Casino Portugal - Proteção jurídica completa para apostadores desportivos no Frank Casino Portugal Table of Contents O que é a proteção jurídica para apostadores desportivos...
Dissent Magazine

The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia - An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of *The Milk Tea Alliance*.
The Texas Signal

Marking Three Years Of Dobbs - A storyteller summit convenes dozens of advocates in the reproductive freedom field from Texas and the nation
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Sen. Juan Hinojosa successfully led efforts to require state and local governments to improve responses to public information requests or face consequences, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - FEATURED: Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, received legislative approval for House Bill 4219, of which she was the Senate sponsor, that will ...
Media Lens

‘A Short Book About Ego… And The Remedy Of Meditation’ – An Extract - Introduction – The Machine And The ‘Horse Of The Apocalypse’ Today, Media Lens co-editor David Edwards is publishing his first solo book for 27 years, ‘A S...
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...
The Progressive Wing

6.23-30 Open Threads - Hola mes amigos y amigas, 🙂 When we hit over 100 comments on here (terrific!), we have to clear the Nest and make room for new OTs. Anywho, the two big b...
Nina Illingworth

Forever At Forever War With Iran - On Saturday night US President Donald Trump bombed Iran and put the entire world in peril, but America's forever war against Iran is already decades old....
LareDOS

USDA launches New World Screwworm (NWS) sterile fly facility near Mission to protect livestock and wildlife - Once eradicated in the 1960s, NWS now detected in Veracruz and Oaxaca, 700 miles from the U.S. border
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 ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
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...
Greg Palast

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
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...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
The Rag Blog

NORMAN SOLOMON / POLITICS / When will the Democrats put up a fight? - Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action? By Norman Solomon / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2025 This arti...
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...
Land Destroyer

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestro momento de luchar por la promesa de la democracia - Ahora nos toca a nostoros luchar para defender y ampliar los derechos que los valientes de otros tiempos lucharon para ganar. Nada me llena más el corazón ...
Reading the Pictures

The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair - What's in a photo op? Trump's psychopathic corruption of American power. The post The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair appeared first on Reading The Pictures.
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...
Unlimited Hangout

Media Roots Radio - Media Roots Radio.
TalkLeft

FBI Interviews James Comey Re: Social Media Post - Former F.B.I. Director James Comey was escorted to the Secret Service offices today for a voluntary interview about a social media post he wrote: On Thur...
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...
Web of Debt

President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done? - In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest plan, acc...
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...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
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

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...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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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