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

memeorandum

Trump allies look to primaries as they escalate Indiana redistricting pressure (Politico) - Politico: *Trump allies look to primaries as they escalate Indiana redistricting pressure* … “Politics is a team sport, and they prefer to do things with...
Raw Story

'Galling': Marco Rubio gets brutal smackdown on MSNBC over Ukraine invasion remark - Secretary of State Marco Rubio told NBC News on Sunday that if the war continued between Russia and Ukraine, Americans wouldn't be impacted. However, Sue...
Mediaite

‘Thank You, Thank You’: Pam Bondi Claims DC Residents Are Whispering Their Gratitude to Federalized Police - Pam Bondi claimed that residents of Washington, D.C. are whispering their thanks when passing by federalized law enforcement officers. The post ‘Thank Yo...
Independent Political Report

Colorado Forward Party Releases Additional Details on August State Assembly Meeting - The Colorado Forward Party has shared additional details ahead of its virtual State Assembly taking place this month, publishing a full agenda for the me...
slacktivist

‘We are Christians first, Americans second’ - It's a platitude that American Christians have recited so many times we're bored by it, but it still means something.
The Hill

Gallego slams Democratic criticism of Mamdani: ‘Shrinking our tent as much as possible' - Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) pushed back against Democratic criticism of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in an interview that aired Sunday. ...
World Socialist Web Site

*Sinners*: A racialist horror show - Ryan Coogler’s film combines monster-movie antics with a racialist interpretation of history.
San Antonio Report

Rackspace dives deeper into health care with Dell Medical partnership - The deal comes as Rackspace increases its work in the health care industry while facing decreasing overall revenues. ------------------------------ Rackspac...
The Week

Schools: The return of a dreaded fitness test - Donald Trump is bringing the Presidential Fitness Test back to classrooms nationwide
CultureMap Houston

Vanderpump Rules star Tom Schwartz falls in love with Houston sushi spot - One of reality TV’s favorite restaurateurs hailed a Houston sushi restaurant. Vanderpump Rules star Tom Schwartz stopped by *Azumi* in River Oaks District ...
Courthouse News

Second trial in killing of rapper Young Dolph starts in Memphis - Young Dolph had three albums reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
Political Wire

Schweikert May Skip Re-Election and Run for Governor - Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) is considering running for governor instead of running for the House, Punchbowl News reports. Schweikert, who was first electe...
Axios

Trump calls Putin during Ukraine summit at White House - President Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seven European leaders were gathered i...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Promise to End Vote-By-Mail Is Yet Another Attack on Disabled Voters - On Monday morning, President Trump returned to a longtime fixation, posting on Truth Social that he was “going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BAL...
Slate

Two Music Stars Are Unexpectedly Feuding. The Beef May Go Back Years. - Lana Del Rey and Ethel Cain’s vendetta, explained.
Futurism

Trump's Limbs Are Looking Awfully Swollen - It appears that president Donald Trump's years of fast food and snack-guzzling have finally caught up to him — and the entire world can tell. During a re...
Salon.com

In Zelenskyy meeting, Trump jokes about starting a war to halt 2028 elections - The president made a crack about calling off the next presidential election during his meeting with Zelenskyy
Al Jazeera English

Hamas agrees terms for Gaza ceasefire, source tells Al Jazeera - A Hamas source told Al Jazeera the group has agreed terms for a ceasefire in Gaza, as a step towards ending the war.
Daily Dot

Man’s self-declared war on Amazon involves shipping back 100-pound anvils, one at a time - [image: Left: Man in a gold chain and backwards cap speaking into the camera. Right: Amazon Orders screen showing returned anvils. Caption overlay reads ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Ukraine, Now 22% Off!” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Same gold chair, different tone—Zelensky is better dressed and gets a friendly reception at the White House...
OpEd News

Britain's Energy Footprint in the Caspian: Profit Over Ecology - The story continues as experts voice concern over British energy giants in the Caspian, accusing them of driving ecological degradation while hiding behind...
Mediagazer

ESPN and Spike Lee say ESPN will no longer air Spike Lee's docuseries about former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, citing "creative differences" (Reuters) - Reuters: *ESPN and Spike Lee say ESPN will no longer air Spike Lee's docuseries about former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, citing “creative differen...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (August 18, 2025) - For our busy Houston commuters – we have “The Commuter Cut” – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
Progressive.org

Israelis in the West Bank - Activists use their bodies to protect Palestinians from settler harassment.
Techdirt.

Policy Building Blocks: Preliminary Injunctive Relief - Few areas of law have lately been as relevant, and the focus of so much dispute, as preliminary injunctive relief. Because the subject has come up so many ...
San Antonio Current

House Democrats unable to move freely after return to Texas capitol. So one democrat refuses to move. - Texas Democrats who returned to the House floor Monday are being required to sign "permission slips" and seek a personal Department of Public Safety escor...
Second Nexus

'And Just Like That' Creator Defends Graphic Toilet Scene In Series Finale After Fan Outrage - We've all been let down by the end of a TV series, but imagine putting months, if not years, into a favorite show, only for it to wrap with a literal toi...
Workers World

Memories of Cleo Silvers - [image: Memories of Cleo Silvers] Cleo Silvers The following obituary is for Cleo Silvers, born Nov. 24, 1946, who died Aug. 11, 2025. I first met Cleo Si...
Liberation News

U.S. and oil producers block a treaty to clean the world of plastic pollution - Oil producers oppose sustainable solutions because they don't generate profits.
Daily Howler

MONDAY: The Great I-Am has struck again! - *MONDAY, AUGUST 18, * *Also, the cluelessness of NAME WITHHELD:* By the time he was 12 years old, President Trump was already being mocked for his grandi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

All smoke but no fire as Zelenskky emerges unbruised after Trump meet - Ukrainian president faced a less combative US leader, who was busy exaggerating his exploits as global peacemaker If there was a sign that Volodymyr Zele...
Mondoweiss

United Methodist Church divests from Israel bonds - [image: Pastors, students, laity, and delegates have a silent protest against the violence in Palestine during the 2024 United Methodist General Conference...
Vox

The serious trend behind MSNBC’s silly new name - Goodbye MSBNC, and hello “MS NOW.” In an announcement that has triggered widespread befuddlement and mockery, the progressive cable news network is getting...
Election Law Blog

“The collapse of Common Cause’s vision for US democracy” - Steven Hill: No organization has led the effort for redistricting reform more than Common Cause. I have known many Common Cause leaders, both nationally ...
ArcaMax

Why Trump will fail - Monica Crowley, a former Fox News personality who is now Trump’s chief of protocol, apparently left behind in a public area of an Alaskan hotel documents d...
Texas Standard

State health officials: The West Texas measles outbreak has ended - After eight months, the Department of State Health Services reports the West Texas measles outbreak is over.
Church and State

Announcement of Sally Epstein’s Death - It is with great sadness that we share with you the news that Sally Epstein died on Sunday night, August 17.
The Verge

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is upgrading to RTX 5080 GPUs and opening a floodgate of new games - It’s been two and a half years since Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service got a big boost in graphics, latency, and refresh rates — this September, Nv...
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, July 2025: The Price Drops & Gains in 33 Large Expensive Metros - Home prices fell YoY in 20 of our 33 metros: Tampa, Austin, Miami, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, San Antonio, Dallas, Phoenix, Orlando, Atlanta, Denv...
The Daily Poster

How Private Equity Thrashed Skateboarding’s Soul - Private equity firms systematically bought up and sold out skateboarding companies, killing the counterculture.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A Win for DEI in the Courts as Texas Doubles Down on Censorship - *Friends:* *A Trump-appointed federal judge has just handed down a major defeat to the Trump administration’s ongoing war on diversity, equity, and inclusi...
The NM Political Report

Vasquez slams proposed $102M cut to New Mexico drug-fighting program - [image: U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez.] [image: U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez.] U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez is pushing back against a White House proposal to slash funding...
Ballot Access News

City Journal Article on the Growing Power of the Working Families Party of New York - City Journal has this article about the growing political power of the Working Families Party of New York. The piece is by Joseph Burns. City Journal leans...
Deadline Politics

Networks Go To Special Reports On Trump-Zelensky Meeting As POTUS Expresses Hope For Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal - Broadcast and cable networks went to special reports on Monday as Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to journalists in the Oval ...
Alternet

'Perfect storm of screw-ups': Bill Barr set to answer Congress about 'highly unusual' Epstein case - During his second stint as U.S. attorney general — Bill Barr served under the late President George H.W. Bush in the early 1990s and under President Dona...
Unlimited Hangout

Meet Trump’s CDC Director: Susan Monarez - A closer look at the CDC director’s history and connections reveal that her government career is closely linked to the intersections of re-branded eugeni...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: 2025 Gubernatorial Races Provide Preview for 2026 Mid-term Elections - The New Jersey and Virginia 2025 gubernatorial elections provide a preview of the 2026 midterm elections occurring in the shadow of Trump.
First Draft

Are We REALLY Getting Played By Republicans Again? - How in the hell do people keep falling for the same old GOP trick? It's NEVER about what they say it is.
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: The Neocolonial Trap - Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history – can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré fo...
Angry Bear

Alas, Cybertruck, we hardly knew ye - A Cybertruck passed us this morning on the way back from the south shore of Rhode Island. My wife remarked that it looked like a rolling dumpster. I’ve c...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Minority Voters Moving Right - Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.
The AltWorld

US defeat in Ukraine will turn Trump to Iran, China wars | Ep. 105 - US defeat in Ukraine will turn Trump to Iran, China wars | Ep. 105 The post US defeat in Ukraine will turn Trump to Iran, China wars | Ep. 105 appeared f...
Project Censored

From the Frontlines: Media, Colonization, and Resistance in Palestine - In the first part of the program, we’re joined by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a journalist, author, and editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Dr. Baroud discusses cul...
DeSmogBlog

The Peak Numbers Canada’s Oil-Friendly Newspapers Keep Ignoring - Canadians have been bombarded with media stories promoting a common and simplistic theme equating more oil production with greater Canadian prosperity. B...
Texas Observer

Is a Strong Latino Candidate Texas Democrats’ Only Hope? - Thirteen years ago, a young mayor of San Antonio gave the keynote speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in North Carolina. At that point, the...
Common Dreams

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Must Immediately Release Months-Delayed 2024 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report - In a letter sent today to the director of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Public Citizen called for the immediate release ...
See You In 2020

The two breeds of today’s right-wing grift, & how they both advance liberalism’s schemes - *This is from the 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 I...
Crooked Media

Shadow Kingdom Season 2: Coal Survivor (coming August 25) - The post Shadow Kingdom Season 2: Coal Survivor (coming August 25) appeared first on Crooked Media.
El Paso Matters

Most El Paso school districts see gains in TEA accountability scores - All but one El Paso school district saw improvements in the state's A-F Accountability scores between 2024 and 2025. The post Most El Paso school distri...
WhoWhatWhy

Prompted by Putin, Trump Plans Illegal Election Power Grab - [image: Mail-in Voting, Ballot, Everett, WA] Donald Trump on Monday revealed a wholly unconstitutional plan to rig the 2026 midterms by eliminating mail-in...
The Root

This Imprisoned Mass Murderer Claimed His Wife ‘Fainted’ During a Conjugal Visit, But the Truth is Far More Ominous - The death of Stephanie Dowells has now been ruled a homicide as officals continue their investigation. Read more...
Dissident Voice

Oregon Black Pioneers: Exclusion Laws, Sundown Provisos, Racism in the Oregon Trail State - I had Zachary Stocks on my radio show, which will air Sept. 17. He’s a busy man, working as ED of this non-profit, covering the state of Oregon discussin...
Glasstire

Illuminating the Dystopia: Manuel Zamudio’s “Return to Neon” at Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia - Since 2019, Manuel Zamudio has dedicated himself to a full-time career as an artist. Born in Mexico City and raised in McAllen, Texas, where he continues...
Rewire

This Is the Supreme Court Petition That Could End Same-Sex Marriage - Plus, troops patrol D.C., UCLA wrenches some money back, and Trump’s "baby bonus" excludes stillbirth. The post This Is the Supreme Court Petition That C...
Undernews

What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means - * Jacobin- * Last week, pursuant to President Donald Trump’s March 27 executive order, the federal government unilaterally voided the collective bargainin...
Bonddad

The muddied historical picture of PPI vs. CPI - - *by New Deal democrat* Forecasting has always been hard, and moreso since the supply chain issues of 2021-22 made reading the interest rate signal...
NPR's Health Shots

Researchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies' lives. And it's not medical - To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massiv...
Greg Palast

“His arm slid off like a chicken wing.”Trump plan to kill FEMA will drown small town America - Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans. He ...
SCOTUSblog

The dissent that became a constitutional amendment - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. Please note that the views of ...
American Prospect

Putin’s Poodle - Today on TAP: One silver lining: new unity and resolve on the part of democratic Europe
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Gavinmander: How We Would Rate the New California Democratic Map if Voters Approve It - California Democrats aim for a five-seat gain in a new gerrymander--IF voters approve it The post The Gavinmander: How We Would Rate the New California D...
Discourse

Bari Weiss Is Doing Nazi Shit - The heinousness of the Gaza stories her website is putting out cannot be overstated.
The Conversation

Data-driven early intervention strategies could revolutionize Philly’s approach to crime prevention - Juvenile incarceration creates worse outcomes for young people and costs more than community-based treatment. So why does Philadelphia spend so much on it?
Democracy Now!

"Whitewashing of History": Harvard Historian on Trump's Targeting of School Curricula, Smithsonian - The White House has called for a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions in order to ensure they align with President Trump’s interpretation ...
Space City Weather

Taking stock of the Atlantic hurricane season as we enter crunch time - In brief: In today’s post we discuss our increasing rain chances for this week, with a wet period most likely from Thursday through Saturday. We also dig d...
Claytoonz

MAGA KISS - 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...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Optical Aleutians - Mellor sets the stage for last week’s Alaskan summit meeting with an homage to David Low’s classic Rendezvous. There are differences between Hitler and Sta...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Author Kelsey Timmerman’s Journey to Find Farms Regenerating Earth - The scale of agriculture’s environmental impact is staggering. According to the EPA, agricultural runoff is... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Autho...
Dorf on Law

Mourning Chief Justice Roberts' Twenty-Year Anniversary: The Ten Worst Constitutional Law Cases of the Roberts Court - We are close to the twentieth anniversary of John Roberts taking office as the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (September 2005). His Cou...
The Smirking Chimp

Why Trump Will Fail -
Skeptophilia

Scamalot - I'm too trusting sometimes. I think it comes from the fact that I try my hardest to treat people kindly and fairly, so I make the mistaken assumption tha...
Scheerpost.com

Trump and Putin’s Summit in Alaska Explained (w/ Ray McGovern) - By Ray McGovern and Robert Scheer / Original to ScheerPost Welcome to another compelling edition of the Bob and Ray Show, where insightful journalism meets...
Off The Kuff

July 2025 campaign finance reports – HCC - PREVOIUSLY: Harris County Senate and Congress City of Houston HISD And we wrap up our look at July campaign finance reports with a check-in on the HCC Boar...
Progressive Army

Exportaciones aéreas: Menos controles de ARCA - La Agencia de Recaudación y Control Aduanero (ARCA) simplificó controles a exportaciones aéreas para agilizar trámites. El organismo introdujo modificacion...
ProPublica

Trump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care - by Maya Miller and Jeremy Kohler ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as...
Grist

After the Texas floods, when is the right time to ask what went wrong? - The rare window to ask tough questions opens after a disaster. Too often, it closes before accurate answers can emerge.
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 18 August 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] (Source) Back story here if you're no...
jobsanger

There Won't Be A White House Ambush This Time -
Informed Comment

Now the New Year is Reviving old Desires: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:4 - The fourth quatrain in Edward FitzGerald’s 1859 first edition of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is: IV Now the New Year is reviving old Desires, The thoughtf...
Counterpunch

Birthday, 2025: a Glyph - The post Birthday, 2025: a Glyph appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Portside

Sunday Science: For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible - Sunday Science: For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible Ira Mon, 08/18/2025 - 00:02
Crooked Timber

If something can’t go on forever, it will stop - A book review from Inside Story: After The Spike by Spears and Geruso The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the...
Popular Resistance

Gazans Go On Hunger Strike In The Midst Of Famine - Wadea Abu Soud, a reporter for Yemen TV in Gaza and father of four, declared his hunger strike on July 20 alongside two of his colleagues. He says his hu...
Antiwar.com

Europe Reveals Itself as Ridiculous in Ukraine - By Donald Trump’s transactional criterion, NATO has been a costly failure that needs fixing or needs to be cut lose. Europe has failed to pay the price and...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 17, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 17, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump...
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.
Bracing Views

For Putin, It’s Business–For Trump, It’s Fame - Reflections on the Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska BILL ASTORE AUG 16, 2025 I’m glad President Donald Trump met with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin,...
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...
Trivial Knot

What is identity? - I run an annual survey, and we’re always asking about sexual identity. We include some options that are more obscure than most people are used to. Somethi...
Reform Austin

Influencers and Podcasters Drive Huge Spike in Live Event Ticket Sales - Social media personalities, podcast hosts, and authors are turning online influence into in-person fan engagement and it’s paying off in a big way. Ticke...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Super Stable Genius' Toons - (If you didn't get it, look again.) SMITHSONIAN: SHARPIE CLEAN UP ...NEXT WEEK!... ...THE WEEK AFTER?... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sher...
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 Texas Signal

Texans Rally Against “The Trump Takeover” - Thousands attended rallies nationwide, where community and labor leaders denounced the attempt to radically redraw the congressional districts of Texas
LareDOS

Award winning VMT drama students return from Edinburgh Festival Fringe with “Beast of the Fringe” accolade for Lord of the Flies - VMT was one of 35 U.S. schools invited to perform at the world’s largest theater festival
The Militant

‘Fight for a workers gov’t to prevent another world war’ - MONTREAL — Campaigning together here Aug. 8-9 were Katy LeRougetel, Communist League candidate for mayor of Montreal; Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for ma...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: ‘Back to School’ advice for 2025-26 - How parents, teachers, kids can spend less; have safer, healthier, greener school year. The post RESOURCE GUIDE: ‘Back to School’ advice for 2025-26 appe...
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...
Krebs on Security

Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme - Cybercriminal groups peddling sophisticated phishing kits that convert stolen card data into mobile wallets have recently shifted their focus to targeting ...
The Rag Blog

CARL DAVIDSON / COMMENTARY / Trump as big-city crimefighter? - Cartoon courtesy of LeftLinks. By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / August 15, 2025 This article was originally posted on August 15, 2025, as a weekly editori...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD EDITION. - *Ah, that's a bit of the old pepper.* I’m on my way out the door for vacation but I can still get mad at stupid shit. Tubby’s seizure of the DC Police De...
MintPress News

Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide - Israel’s PR machine is pushing sexualized images of its soldiers to appeal to young men, from social media thirst traps to sex-driven Birthright trips. T...
The Progressive Wing

8/15-8/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - We’re at the Ides of August. Join us for news, music, and commentary after the jump.
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 9 - *A sorry mix of superstition, cult bragging, and bad theology* Baptist preacher William Miller predicted that Jesus would return on October 22, 1844. Th...
Capital & Main

Measles Is Making a Comeback — and California Isn’t Immune - Vaccination gaps in 16 counties leave some communities exposed as children return to school. The post Measles Is Making a Comeback — and California Isn’t...
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...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Sludge

DNC Chair Moves to Confront Corporate and Dark Money in 2028 Primaries - Here is the new resolution from DNC Chair Ken Martin targeting unlimited corporate spending and dark money, starting with the 2028 presidential primary.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: There's No Such Thing As Society - A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part I: The individualization of society through capitalism created a vast and seemingly inescapable loneliness
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Kindness of Strangers - OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sapp...
High Country News

Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future - Saguaros are struggling to cope with extreme weather, monitoring studies reveal. The post Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future appeared first o...
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...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Lara Loomer repeats claim about Lindsey Graham being gay in deposition' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Sen. Lindsey Graham. Is he or isn't he? Lara Loomer says he is. *'It's well-known!' MAGA activist repeats salacious claims about GOP senator in depositio...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Hominis - At this point in our exploration of Yeats’s great occult synthesis A Vision, it will help to step back and glance at an earlier work of his that provided t...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Denzel Washington has Cowboys takes - One of our finest living actors is a lifelong Cowboy fan despite growing up in New York, and as he made clear on ESPN’s First Take, he’s just as frustrat...
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...
NORML

Will Trump Reschedule Marijuana? - [image: Donald Trump][image: Donald Trump]President Trump said that his administration is considering changing marijuana's federal classification The pos...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Edinburg Politics

Public given more time to see agendas, proposed budgets before local governments take action under new state law coauthored by Rep. Janie López, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new Texas law, coauthored by Rep. Janie López, D-San Benito, will increase transparency in local governments by requiring agendas and proposed annual bud...
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...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
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...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
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...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
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, ...
The Socialist

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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