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

Deadline Politics

“White House Fight Is On”: Dana White & Donald Trump Seal The Deal For UFC At America’s 250th Anniversary DC Bash Next July 4th - The art of the deal met the art of the Octagon today, and the July 4, 2026 UFC match at the White House is officially on, at least according to Dana White....
Wolf Street

US Government’s Fiscal Mess: Interest Payments on the Treasury Debt, Interest Rates, Tax Receipts, and Debt-to-GDP Ratio in Q2 2025 - An ugly situation. But capital gains taxes and tariffs helped. And the debt ceiling covered up part of the problem.
Informed Comment

Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the Destructiveness of War and the Hope that lies in Fiction - By Michelle Hamadache, Macquarie University (The Conversation) Hossein Asgari’s Desolation tells the story of Amin, an Iranian man whose life and family ar...
Axios

Judge rejects Saudi Arabia's bid to dismiss 9/11 families lawsuit - Saudi Arabia can face a civil lawsuit that alleges the kingdom helped the 9/11 hijackers, a federal judge ruled Thursday. *Why it matters: *Those impacte...
Mediaite

Pentagon Orders Reinstallation of Robert E. Lee Portrait, Complete With Slave - The Pentagon is ordering the reinstallation of a portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that was taken down at the U.S. Military Academy three yea...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Coco Gauff fights through tears and serving woes to reach US Open third round - - Gauff overcomes shaky serve in 7-6, 6-2 victory - World No 3 cries courtside before regrouping - Simone Biles’ presen...
Daily Cartoonist

Ooops…I Just Catharted! - Rupert Kinnard was a guest speaker during my freshman English course at Portland State University a decade ago. The legendary artist and former Willamette ...
See You In 2020

The liberal deep state is preparing to strike back, & Trump has weakened the people’s defenses against this - The myth about Trump 2.0 representing something genuinely anti-establishment has had a lot of damaging repercussions. One of them is that the Gaza genoc...
The Hill

Kari Lake can't fire Voice of America director, judge says - A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from removing Voice of America's (VOA) agency director Michael Abramowitz from his post. U.S. D...
Al Jazeera English

US ends tariff exemption for delivery packages valued at $800 or less - The 'de minimis' import tax exemption helped fuel home delivery and the rise of e-commerce in the US.
Raw Story

'Oh, c'mon Scott!': CNN panel erupts at GOP strategist Scott Jennings over science 'ruse' - A CNN panel erupted on Thursday night after a GOP strategist made a claim about the politicization of science. Scott Jennings, a former senior aide to S...
memeorandum

DOJ drops charges against another client of AG Pam Bondi's brother Brad (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *DOJ drops charges against another client of AG Pam Bondi's brother Brad* — A DOJ spokesperson says AG Pam Bondi “had no role” in the...
Workers World

Workers’ intifada against Microsoft - [image: Workers’ intifada against Microsoft] As the United Nations’ world food crisis authority finally declared a famine in Gaza, direct action demonstrat...
Techdirt.

Trump Administration Approves New COVID Vaccines… For Barely Anyone At All - I’m starting to think that American is suffering from some sort of collective amnesia. Look, whatever your opinions on how the government handled the COVID...
The Texas Signal

Bill Targeting Abortion Medication Advances In Texas House - Texas is already under multiple abortion bans, but a new bill specifically targets medication abortion
World Socialist Web Site

US rail companies refuse to adopt improved safety policies, prompting FRA to dissolve safety working group formed after East Palestine disaster - The Federal Railroad Administration formed the working group to discuss new safety policies in response to the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Two year...
Scheerpost.com

Reporting on War (w/ Ben Anderson) | The Chris Hedges Report - War correspondent Ben Anderson joins host Chris Hedges to detail the numbing physical and psychological elements of war reporting — and ponders whether or ...
Alternet

'Waste of time': Jen Psaki smacks down Karoline Leavitt's attack - On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt used her time on the lectern to fire a shot across the bow at MSNBC host and former White House...
Ian Welsh

Is Consciousness Reality’s Organizing Principle? (Beyond Biocentrism, by Lanza and Berman) - Quantum mechanics is seriously weird. The majority of us have a model of the world based primarily on Newtonian physics. We believe in cause and effect. Th...
Mediagazer

YouTube TV and Fox reach a new carriage deal for Fox News, local Fox stations, Fox Sports, and other channels (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *YouTube TV and Fox reach a new carriage deal for Fox News, local Fox stations, Fox Sports, and other channels* — Financial te...
Eschaton

Thursday Night - Rock on.
ProPublica

Sept. 11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Government Can Go to Trial, Judge Rules - by Tim Golden ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published....
Popular Resistance

‘Inequality In Kenya: View From Kibera’ Documentary Premieres - Poverty is an artificial creation. Join political activist and Black Agenda Report’s contributing editor Ajamu Baraka and members of the Communist Party ...
Claytoonz

Assault Sandwich Ban - 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

Meta fights to keep Israeli spyware firm off its platforms in trial aftermath - NSO Group Technologies, argued against a court order banning it from Meta platforms, insisting that having its surveillance services available to law enfor...
Portside

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Head of National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Resigns in Fiery Social Media Post - Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Head of National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Resigns in Fiery Social Media Post jay Thu, 08/28/2025 - 20:38
Crooked Media

Cash Bail Keeps People in Jail - The post Cash Bail Keeps People in Jail appeared first on Crooked Media.
Ballot Access News

Alaska Prosecutes Ten American Samoa-Born Residents for Voting in Local Elections - Alaska is prosecuting ten individuals for voting in local elections in Whittier. They were born in American Samoa, so they are U.S. Nationals, not U.S. cit...
CultureMap Houston

Crime thriller Caught Stealing is a pleasant mainstream surprise - Since his career as a feature film director started in 1998, Darren Aronofsky has been known for making intense dramas with stories that are often intentio...
Antiwar.com

The Decline of American Diplomacy - Reprinted from The Realist Review. A few years ago at a panel discussion at Washington DC’s venerable Tabard Inn, I spotted a face I hadn’t expected to se...
Salon.com

“Stop peddling bulls**t”: Smith rails at RFK Jr for linking SSRIs to mass shooting - RFK suggested a mass shooting in Minneapolis might have been caused, in part, by antidepressants
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Attempts to blame trans community for mass shootings foiled by buzzsaw of truth - On Wednesday, this country yet again experienced the tragedy of a mass shooting, Two children were killed and 17 others were wounded when a lone gunma...
Daily Dot

“Masterful job”: Wedding photographer receives request from “jealous” bride asking to be posted to social media “every three” posts - [image: voice note wedding photographer bridezilla wants to be posted more] A wedding photographer shared a bizarre voice note she received from a former...
Political Wire

2026 Gubernatorial Overview - Just for members: The latest edition of Inside Elections. This issue includes an overview of this cycle’s races for governor. Join now to continue reading....
ArcaMax

20 Years Later, The Lessons Of Hurricane Katrina Go Unheeded - It's been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, breaching New Orleans' protective levees, unleashing unprecedented destruction. ...
Sludge

Companies Blast Past $1 Trillion in Stock Buybacks - Nvidia announced a record $60 billion stock buyback, following plans by corporations like Apple and Alphabet that are likely to boost their own stock prices.
The Verge

Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus - Microsoft has fired two more employees who participated in recent protests against the company’s contracts with the Israeli military and government. The tw...
El Paso Matters

The Hospitals of Providence: El Paso’s leader in orthopedic care and innovation - With specialized technology, recognized quality care, and a full continuum of services, The Hospitals of Providence is helping El Pasoans move pain-free...
Greg Palast

Trump Fires FEMA Whistleblowers on Katrina Anniversary - Be afraid. The Trump Administration has “put on leave” — effectively fired — 35 experts from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for signing a l...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio elevated diner Cullum's Attaboy unveils new dinner menu - Popular brunch spot Cullum's Attaboy entered uncharted territory this week with an ambitious new dinner menu, and it's already racking up rave reviews. St...
Independent Political Report

Georgia Working Families Party Announces 2025 Candidate Slate at Endorsement Event - The Georgia Working Families Party endorsed 18 candidates for the state’s 2025 municipal elections, announcing the slate during a launch event this month...
Slate

Trump Uses Mortgage Fraud Accusations to Delegitimize the Fed - Whether it’s legal is all going to come down to what it means to fire someone “for cause.”
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism - Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate...
Reform Austin

FBI Probes Minneapolis School Shooting as Anti-Catholic Hate Crime - The FBI has opened a hate crime and domestic terrorism investigation into Wednesday’s school shooting at Annunciation Church and School in Minneapolis, w...
Futurism

Google's AI Is Committing a Unique Evil: Giving Gamers Tips That Are Actually False - Back in the day, getting fooled by a fake cheat code from word of mouth or early web forums was almost a rite of passage for gamers. It's been a long tim...
NPR's Health Shots

Former CDC director weighs in on leadership shakeup - The White House says CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired because she was not aligned with President Trump's mission to make America healthy again. What do...
The Week

What an all-bot social network tells us about social media - The experiment's findings 'didn't speak well of us'
SCOTUSblog

Transgender student’s bathroom case comes to the Supreme Court on the emergency docket - South Carolina asked the Supreme Court to pause an order by a federal appeals court that requires a public school in the state to allow a transgender boy...
Second Nexus

Woman Stunned After Best Friend Of 23 Years Ends Friendship Over Her 'Mom Shorts' - We will all have friends who come into our lives for a reason, for a season, or for a lifetime. There are those situational friendships, like from work o...
Alas, a Blog

At Least The Fruit Subscription Services Run On Time - For the record, it’s a myth that Mussolini made the trains run on time. From Snopes: The Italian railway system had fallen into a rather sad state during W...
Houston Public Media

Houston committee weighs giving city council more power over infrastructure projects - A Houston City Council member wants to require more transparency and public engagement from mayoral administrations before changes are made to infrastructu...
slacktivist

Un-Reformed history - The folks who claim to be mad about "the 1619 Project" or "critical race theory" are really just mad at Reformed theology. And I'm mad that these bozos are...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Hell No, Bibi, We Won’t Go!” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: The IDF wants to finish off Gaza. But they have a problem: refuseniks! Some Israeli soldiers are refusing t...
San Antonio Report

Mexican juice brand Jumex added as UTSA football sponsor - [image: UTSA Roadrunners wide receiver Chris Carpenter returns a kick against the UAB Blazers during their game at the Alamodome on Oct. 14, 2023.]Mexican ...
Progressive.org

Black History Is for Everyone, Even if You Don’t Think So - In his new book, Brian Jones makes clear that Black history is not just for Black people—and we all need to commit to learning it.
Church and State

Trump now on a fast track to Nazism! - We must act in concert with all those who believe that this is the major attack on our democracy since it was founded 250 years ago.
Mondoweiss

Airstrikes, explosive vehicles, and bulldozers cause ‘insane’ destruction in Gaza City, eyewitnesses and civil defense say - [image: Palestinians inspect the destruction of the al-Falah school in Gaza City's Zaytoun neighborhood, June 30, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)]Th...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Honoring La Raza Unida: A Third Party That Changed Texas Politics and Our Sense of What Is Possible by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Honoring La Raza Unida: A Third Party That Changed Texas Politics and Our Sense of What Is Possible* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *Sometimes you st...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: "Troubled times had come..." - *THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2025* *Mayor Scott speaks with Ana Cabrera:* We've admired Ana Cabrera's calm demeanor dating back to the CNN days. We think she p...
OpEd News

The Ozzman Goeth - From Crazy Train to his final farewell, a fan reflects on Ozzy Osbourne's wild ride, his lasting legacy, and a soulful connection with outsiders.
Mother Jones

Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender - The suspect in the mass shooting responsible for killing two school-aged children and wounding 17 others at a Catholic church in Minneapolis on Wednesday h...
American Prospect

The Idiocy (Both Moral and Strategic) of the Democratic National Committee - Today on TAP: At its meeting this week, the DNC opposed a ban on U.S. provision of offensive weapons to Israel.
Common Dreams

ACLU Comment on Trump Administration Boycott of United Nations Review of US Human Rights Record - The Trump administration will not participate in the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council tha...
Environment Texas

New law cuts red tape for rooftop solar and batteries - The post New law cuts red tape for rooftop solar and batteries appeared first on Environment Texas.
Consortium News

The Attack on Palestine Chronicle - The allegation against Ramzy Baroud rests not on proof, but on the word of a belligerent army, writes Mohamed El Mokhtar. By Mohamed El Mokhtar Common Drea...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico Land Office proposes updated geothermal leasing rules - [image: State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard at the groundbreaking of a community solar project in Valencia County.] [image: State Land Commis...
First Draft

Musical Interlude: Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus - I did some free associating with Trump's responses during Tuesday's cabinet tongue bath.
naked capitalism

Haiti Is Not a Failed Country; It Has Been Broken. Now Erik Prince Wants to Fix It. - Haiti's "manufactured chaos" is the result of foreign intervention in connivance with the country's oligarchic elites. Erik Prince's mercenaries will not f...
WhoWhatWhy

International Coalition Calls Out Three Chinese Companies Over Hacking Campaign - [image: tech, cybercrime, international coalition, hacking allegations, 3 Chinese companies] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors o...
The Root

Black Twitter Has Much To Say About The Heated Exchange Between Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko - Fans are calling tennis player Jelena Ostapenko out for ugly post-game comments she made to American Taylor Townsend at the US Open. Read more...
The Rag Blog

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

Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine - Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our September/October 2025 Issue - Texas Observer reader, Gall. We live in a state whose top leaders have entirely, vastly, monumentally too much goddamn gall. Just five days after the de...
Undernews

Poetry in journalism - *Sam Smith - *Attended last night an enjoyable program in which three journalists discussed the many ways that art and literature impact our lives. Was ...
Vox

The bigger story behind the mass exodus of CDC leadership - The simmering showdown between US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally b...
Capital & Main

A Heavier Case Load, Diminished Care - Due to Trump’s funding cuts, “having sex is about to get a lot more dangerous,” warns a Los Angeles nurse whose work helps prevent the spread of HIV. Th...
Dissident Voice

A New Foreign Policy for Europe - The European Union needs a new foreign policy based on Europe’s true economic and security interests. Europe is currently in an economic and security tra...
Progressive Army

Comunicado Aeropuertos Argentina Cargas - Estimados socios buen día: Les hacemos llegar comunicado recibido hace instantes de parte de TCA Estimados clientes, Como comunicado en anteriores oportuni...
Project Censored

Into the Uncanny Valley: Human-AI War Machines - There is a universal tendency among mankind to think of all things as being like themselves, and to transfer to every object the qualities they are famil...
Election Law Blog

With Louisiana Essentially Flipping Sides in Callais Case Before Supreme Court and Arguing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is Unconstitutional, Full Defense Shifts to Voting Rights Groups - As noted yesterday, Louisiana essentially flipped sides in the Lousiana v. Callais case. In earlier brief, Louisiana argued that its congressional distri...
Edinburg Politics

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

Trump Hijacked the Courts: Here’s How to Fix It - Conservatives have a political hold on the federal judiciary, but there’s a path to rebuilding the courts. The post Trump Hijacked the Courts: Here’s Ho...
Glasstire

Top Five: August 28, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Hung Hsien: Between Worlds Asia Society Texas (Houston)...
Bonddad

Jobless claims suggest continuing, but resolving seasonality issues - - *by New Deal democrat* Initial jobless claims have been relatively subdued for the past month. Some have suggested that this is a byproduct of the...
Democracy Now!

New Orleans Is Unprepared for Another Katrina, Warns Community Activist Malik Rahim - As part of our coverage of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we speak with longtime New Orleans activist Malik Rahim, co-founder of the Common Gro...
Bracing Views

Autonomous Killer Drone Swarms - “New Forms of Domination and Oppression” BILL ASTORE AUG 27, 2025 Just what we need: autonomous killer drone swarms powered by algorithms and AI. Part 3 of...
Space City Weather

A break in showers today before a rainy and cooler Labor Day Weekend - In brief: The next two days will feel pretty typical for Houston’s hottest and most humid month, but a front will usher in a pattern change for Labor Day W...
The Conversation

How the conservative Federalist Society will affect the Supreme Court for decades to come - Research shows that Supreme Court justices affiliated with the group are more consistently conservative than other justices, meaning they seldom deviate fr...
Infidel753

The empire of shriveled souls - Several times over the last few decades, I've read of foreign observers asking some version of this question: Given the great numbers of brilliant and ta...
The Smirking Chimp

Forget Law and Order — Trump’s Troop Deployments Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote -
Grist

How we mapped Chicago’s lead pipe problem and what we learned - Here’s what we found, how to know if you’re at risk, and how to replicate our work.
Skeptophilia

One hoax, well-toasted - One thing that *really* torques me is when people say "I did my research," when in fact what they did was a five-minute Google search until they found a ...
Off The Kuff

STAAR to be replaced with even more tests - I’m so glad my kids have graduated. The Texas House on Tuesday greenlit plans to scrap the STAAR test, clearing a path to replace the state exams with thre...
Angry Bear

Trump re-branding - In his latest effort to control the news cycle and distract from the Epstein scandal, Trump wants to re-brand the Department of Defense as the Department...
High Country News

Trump looks to suffocate public lands - The administration and Congress divert funds away from conservation. The post Trump looks to suffocate public lands appeared first on High Country News.
The Daily Poster

Trump’s Gerrymandering Plot To Steal The Election - Texas Democrats say Trump’s maps expose a nationwide attack on democracy.
jobsanger

Trump Has Signaled There Are No Limits To His Ambitions -
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Iowa Special Elections, Utah Redistricting - Iowa Democrats had another strong special election showing this week, and broke the GOP's state Senate supermajority. Some recent news out of Utah makes ...
TalkLeft

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

Can Lisa Cook Keep Her Fed Seat? That's Actually (at Least) Five Questions - A federal statute allows the president to appoint someone to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for a term of up to 14 years. President Biden appoint...
Discourse

Imagine If This Was Any Other Toy - AI is killing children, and no one seems inclined to stop it.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
NORML

30+ Attorneys General Call on Congress To Implement Cannabis Banking Reforms - [image: Cannabis Business Banking][image: Cannabis Business Banking]"Allowing access to the nation’s regulated banking system is crucial to public safety ...
DeSmogBlog

Reform Plans to Hand Fracking Windfall to Trump Donor - Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire, DeSmog ...
Ecosophia

August 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...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Earth 911

Elk Creek Notes: The Books I’m Learning from to Garden With Respect for Place - Earth911’s Mitch Ratcliffe moved with his family to the banks of Elk Creek in Southern... The post Elk Creek Notes: The Books I’m Learning from to Garden...
Trivial Knot

Selling out as a game dev - Moon Garden Optimizer is now listed on Steam. You can still play the game in browser for free on Itch.io, but the Steam version will be paid and have expan...
Crooked Timber

It’s Not Socialism–It’s National Socialism - People are wondering how Trump could get away with nationalizing 10% of Intel, with plans to acquire more corporate assets for the Federal government, whil...
Black Agenda Report

Katrina Victims: Relocated or Forced into Exile? - Katrina Victims: Relocated or Forced into Exile? bareditors Wed, 08/27/2025 - 05:38 Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Texas Freedom Network

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

Round Two Edits On My Paper Concerning Atheist Morality - I received a huge endorsement from Philosopher Jersey Flight on X. What a nice thing to hear! It happened on the same day I finished the first round of e...
The AltWorld

Resistance Unbroken - In Beirut, the government staged what it called a historic disarmament of Palestinian factions; a pickup truck […] The post Resistance Unbroken appeared ...
Lowering the Bar

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

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

All Apologies - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 4. Road Trip Update No. 4 will probably be the second to last update before the road trip begins on September 11th. It incl...
Idavox

Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Serving a Warrant, Ends Up Playing Dead - Had to happen sooner or later… HOUSTON, TX – Two individuals wearing masks, body armor... The post Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Servin...
Brad Blog

Before the Fall... - We will be off from The BradCast and Green News Report this week, for a much-needed, end-of-Summer break until after the Labor Day holiday. As always (and ...
MintPress News

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory - Chris Hedges on Israel’s destruction of Gaza City, where bombs, famine, and bulldozers are erasing Palestinians and centuries of cultural heritage. The W...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Hands off Venezuela! Hands off Latin America! - Thousands of U.S. troops on board a flotilla of warships are headed towards the waters off the coast of Venezuela in a blatant and unprovoked act of aggres...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Really, Really, Really - Oh, f’crissake, you goddamn fashy tools. You heard the sonofabitch yelling all over the goddamn place about what he was going to do if he got back into off...
The Militant

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

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Socialist Alternative

The ‘Luigi Mangioni Effect’—Heroism or Dead End? - On December 4, 2024, the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” spiked in Google searches, as millions of people watched the video footage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Br...
The Progressive Wing

8/22-28 News Roundup and Open Thread - Trump and Cuomo are true buddies.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
Duck of Minerva

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

Protected: What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Counterpunch

On Seeing the Future Too Clearly - I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

Manicfesto: Don the Fondler – definitely a hypocrite, a tin-plated narcissist, an infantile ranter, a distempered emperor - It’s not so late as it seems nor as early as rumored; but in the crenellated desire for fresh coffee and dull gossip, don’t be surprised if the roof collap...
Texas Standard

Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems. - Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
Democracy Chronicles

Short-Term Thinking - When running a democratic form of government, people have to believe that leadership is not just thinking about the next news cycle or the next election.
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Media Lens

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

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

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

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
GreenSource DFW

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

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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