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

Mediaite

Salvadoran President Posts Photos of Kilmar Abrego Garcia ‘Sipping Margaritas’ With U.S. Senator - El Salvador President Nayib Bukele posted photos of Kilmar Abrego Garcia meeting Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and "sipping margaritas" in "tropical parad...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas House Approves Multi-Billion-Dollar Discriminatory Voucher Scam—IDRA Statement on the Passage of Senate Bill 2 - *Today is a sad day for public education in Texas.* *After 12 hours of intense debate, the Texas House granted preliminary approval to two of the most sc...
memeorandum

Conservative judge blasts Trump administration's 'shocking' conduct in Abrego Garcia case (Erica Orden/Politico) - Erica Orden / Politico: *Conservative judge blasts Trump administration's ‘shocking’ conduct in Abrego Garcia case* — Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson's rulin...
Mediagazer

IAB and PWC: online ad spend hit $258.6B in 2024, up 15% YoY, with 39.8% going to search, 28.7% to display, 24% to video, and $2.4B to podcasts, up 26.4% YoY (Paul Hiebert/Adweek) - Paul Hiebert / Adweek: *IAB and PWC: online ad spend hit $258.6B in 2024, up 15% YoY, with 39.8% going to search, 28.7% to display, 24% to video, and $2....
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, March 2025: The Price Drops & Gains in 33 of the Largest Housing Markets - Metros with YoY price drops double to 14: Austin, Tampa, San Antonio, Phoenix, Dallas, Orlando, Atlanta, Miami, Denver, Raleigh, Houston, Birmingham, Charl...
The Hill

Trump says Carter died 'happy' because he 'wasn't the worst president' - President Trump said his predecessor, former President Carter, died “happy” during a Thursday presser in the Oval Office. Carter died in December of 2024, ...
Salon.com

US-born citizen was held by ICE in Florida jail for entering state as "unauthorized alien" - ICE demanded a judge keep a Florida man behind bars after he presented his birth certificate in court
World Socialist Web Site

Measles outbreak in Ontario underscores spread of infectious diseases across Canada - Canada is just emerging from another winter wave of multiple infectious diseases only for the population to be confronted with a growing measles outbreak, ...
Courthouse News

City’s camping ban an overstep - OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Supreme Court struck down Spokane’s ballot initiative banning homeless camping near schools, parks and childcare facilities...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: president takes aim at Harvard, threatening tax-exempt status - The IRS is reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax exemption, a move that would cost the university millions – key US politics stories from Thursday ...
Scheerpost.com

Vietnam/China: ‘Dominos’ That Didn’t Fall - By Ray McGovern and Robert Scheer / Original to ScheerPost In this week’s edition of Scheer Intelligence, Robert Scheer and CIA veteran Ray McGovern dissec...
Alternet

'Reckless disregard': Trump’s FDA to end routine food inspections - President Donald Trump's administration recently made a major announcement that could impact the United States' food supply in a significant way. CBS New...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trans 'Drag Race' queen gets last laugh on MAGA bully who harassed her' & other Thur midday news briefs - Before you read the news briefs, check out the above nonsense which someone sent to me on Twitter. Of course it pisses me off. For one thing, I would ...
Axios

Luigi Mangione indicted on federal charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO - Luigi Mangione was indicted by a New York grand jury Thursday on federal charges including stalking, a firearm offense and murder through the use of a fi...
Raw Story

Republicans launch probe into top US university Harvard - by Joseph PREZIOSO Republicans in the US Congress announced an investigation into Harvard University on Thursday, accusing it of flouting civil rights la...
Techdirt.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Why Can’t We De-Friend - Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on...
Al Jazeera English

Man Utd reach Europa League last four with Maguire’s 121st minute winner - Manchester United score twice in the final minutes of extra time to turn quarterfinal against Lyon at Old Trafford.
The Rag Blog

BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE & POLITICS / The dumbest climate plan in history - By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / April 17, 2025 The title of this article is not solely meant to highlight the level of knowledge of this current administr...
The Verge

CFPB workers are receiving mass layoff notices - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is sending out mass layoff notices that appear to be in defiance of a court order blocking further layoffs ...
Portside

Tidbits – Apr.17 – Reader Comments: First They Came for Kilmar; We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid; New Resource: Immigrants and the Economy; Lots of Cartoons As We Struggle To Make the World Better; and More; - Tidbits – Apr.17 – Reader Comments: First They Came for Kilmar; We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid; New Resource: Immigrants and the Economy; Lots of Carto...
CultureMap Houston

Star Wars actor Hayden Christensen flies into Houston for Comicpalooza - Crank the "Imperial March" and may the Force be with you. Comicpalooza announced this week that Hayden Christensen, famous for playing Darth Vader in multi...
Vox

Will the courts break up Google? The tech giant’s big problems, briefly explained. - Google just lost a huge antitrust case. A federal judge in Virginia ruled on Thursday that the search giant illegally maintained a monopoly in the online a...
Claytoonz

Incarcerated Rabbit - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
SCOTUSblog

Justices clarify pleading rules for retirement-plan litigation - [image: Justices clarify pleading rules for retirement-plan litigation] [image: Justices clarify pleading rules for retirement-plan litigation] Share *Cun...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Has Extended Deadline for Federal Election Cmmission to File Response in Campaign Finance Case Five Times - All year, a case has been pending in the U.S. Supreme Court on the federal law that limits how much political parties may spend on the campaigns of their o...
Deadline Politics

Associated Press Is Expected To Receive A Spot In Print Pool By Sunday, White House Official Says In Court Filing - An Associated Press print reporter is expected to have a spot in the White House pool by Sunday, following a court order to end Donald Trump’s ban on the w...
Political Wire

FDA Plans to End Routine Food Inspections - “The Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work and effectively outsource this oversi...
Futurism

Oops! It Appears There's a Striking Flaw in That Claim About Detecting Alien Life - A team of astronomers recently announced that they've detected a possible sign of life on an exoplanet 124 light years away using the James Webb Space Te...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- king Arthur and the French castle - From Monty Python's golden age. A classic, and still funny.
Houston Public Media

University of Houston students, professors gather to protest immigration enforcement, funding threats - As international students at UH, across Texas and across the United States are having their visas revoked by the federal government -- in some cases in res...
Consortium News

Chris Hedges: American Concentration Camps - El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, to which U.S. deportees are being sent, is the harbinger of more to come. By Chris Hedges Schee...
San Antonio Report

‘Thanks to the taxpayers,’ San Antonio ISD makes headway on 2020 bond projects - When San Antonio ISD voters approved a $1.3 billion bond in 2020, they greenlit 17 major renovation projects. ------------------------------ ‘Thanks to the...
Undernews

- * JD Vance: "The professors are the enemy"*
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges: American Concentration Camps - Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, ...
Mother Jones

A Conservative Judge Just Issued a Dire Warning About the Abrego Garcia Case - A conservative federal judge just issued a dire warning: The government must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States after he was illegally de...
El Paso Matters

SISD incumbent, former trustee face political newcomers for East, Lower Valley seats amid conservatorship, layoffs, budget deficits - Six candidates are vying to represent District 4 and 5 in the Socorro ISD May 3 school board elections. The post SISD incumbent, former trustee face pol...
Texas Standard

A new documentary explores the interconnection of water and energy and how essential they are to our survival - “We need water for life and energy for quality of life,” UT professor and author Michael Webber said. The film is available on PBS and is based on his book...
Daily Dot

Bernie Sanders’ private jet expenses fuel hypocrisy claims as he crosses the U.S. to ‘fight oligarchy’ - [image: Photo collage of Bernie Sanders and a private jet behind him.] Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is being called out by conservatives for spending almo...
Second Nexus

Lynda Carter Has Iconic Reaction To Black Cosplayer Who Was Told She Shouldn't Dress As Wonder Woman - Actor Lynda Carter, best known for her role in the 1970s live-action television series *Wonder Woman*, has gone viral after she praised a Black cosplayer...
Workers World

Nicaragua in CELAC: There neither was nor is consensus - [image: Nicaragua in CELAC: There neither was nor is consensus] The following are excerpts from the statement of the Nicaraguan government on April 9, 2025...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
Slate

Harvard Fights Back After Trump Pulls No Punches - Political schoolyard bullies take note.
Capital & Main

The Crackdown on Campuses Is a Crackdown on Unions - Many students losing visas and research funding are union members. Some in the labor movement are pushing back. The post The Crackdown on Campuses Is a C...
Progressive.org

‘Warfare’ Isn’t an Anti-War Movie, And It Isn’t Trying to Be - Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s new film recreates Mendoza’s experience in Iraq—as he remembers it.
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS launches new robotic surgery program - STHS has now acquired the da Vinci 5 Robotic Surgical System. The post STHS launches new robotic surgery program appeared first on Rio Grande Guardian.
The Week

The Week contest: Robot melodrama -
The Root

Tina Knowles, Beyoncé Mama, Just Posted A Bunch of Heart-melting Videos Of Her and Blue Ivy - Whether it’s going to church, eating a favorite dish or hearing some spot-on words of wisdom, if you grew up with a Black grandma, you undoubtedly have s...
The NM Political Report

Photos: Hundreds protest ICE at UNM - University of New Mexico students and others voiced their outrage over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions during a campuswide walkout Thur...
slacktivist

Holy Saturday - Seriously, just look around. Does it look like the meek are inheriting the earth? Does it look like those who hunger and thirst for justice are being fille...
OpEd News

The Cross and the Pieta. The Passion of Palestine - In every parent cradling a lifeless child, we see the Pieta. In every bombed home, a new Golgotha. All of Palestine is a children's graveyard as Gaza suffe...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Did Bondi make an accurate statement? - *THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2025* *Here's what Judge Kessler said:* Did Pam Bondi shock the world by making an accurate statement? We've been kicking that ques...
Texas Observer

Ending 30 Years of Resistance, Trump and Abbott Break the ‘People’s House’ - The morning of the Texas House vote on school vouchers Wednesday included, among other last-minute maneuvering, a phone call from President Donald Trump....
Common Dreams

AFT’s Weingarten on Florida State Shooting - AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after a mass shooting today at Florida State University, following other incidents this wee...
MintPress News

Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data - Google’s $32 billion purchase of Wiz hands its global data security to an Israeli firm founded and staffed by ex-military cyber spies from the IDF’s noto...
American Prospect

Come Saturday, We Should Reclaim the American Revolution - Today on TAP: The 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord is a good time to resist mad kings old and new.
Sludge

As Activists Rally, Jeffries Rakes in Finance Industry Cash - A new FEC filing covering Q1 reveals the finance industry executives, and a Palantir government affairs lead, cutting large checks for Minority Leader Hake...
Eater Houston

The Best Tex-Mex Restaurants in Houston - [image: Sizzling steak fajitas with tortillas and a side of sour cream, guacamole, and pico de gallo.] Home to the American birthplace of fajitas, Houston...
First Draft

Meet The New Nancy Mace - Riley Moore is a pathetic man who is desperate for presidential attention.
NORML

Republican-Leaning Poll Finds “There Is No Demographic Group that Doesn’t Believe Cannabis Should Be Legal” - [image: Majority Support][image: Majority Support]"[The] electorate ... is clearly ready for cannabis to be legalized for adult use." The post Republican...
Mondoweiss

‘They told my brother I was dead’: inside Israel’s psychological warfare against Palestinian prisoners - [image: Demonstrators carry posters and portraits of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails during a gathering to commemorate Palestinian Prisoners' Day in...
Dissident Voice

Democracy or Plutocracy? - Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocrac...
Liberation News

NYC public housing residents say: ‘We’re fighting to save our homes and our neighborhood!’ - They fight demolishing public housing and use public land, paid for by taxpayer dollars, for private development.
See You In 2020

The global communist resurgence, capital’s great crackdown, & the era of civil wars that we’ll need to navigate - We are in the transitional stage between when the USA started off its own demise, and when the global working class has won its final victory. Washingto...
Debunking Christianity

Evangelical Apologist Daniel Ray Objects To Atheism, Part 1 - It's not unusual for apologists to argue with me. But I have met and talked with Daniel Ray and his objections are real. I'll let him introduce his 3-Part ...
Discourse

The Blue Origin Flight Was the Worst Thing I've Ever Seen - This gross display of wealth and egomania threw me into a tailspin.
The Daily Poster

Defunding The Big Tech Police - The Trump administration has ordered antitrust prosecutors to shut down their San Francisco field office as the president’s Silicon Valley allies seek to a...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Administration Escalates Campaign Against ‘Maryland Man’ - [image: Terrorism Confinement Center Tecoluca, CECOT, Tecoluca, El Salvador] The Trump administration is trying extremely hard to cast Kilmar Abrego Garcia...
Southeast Texas Record

Texas bill takes aim at inflated medical damages - AUSTIN – Texas’ reputation for doling out nuclear verdicts may fizzle somewhat if Senate Bill 30 is enacted – a piece of legislation aimed at letting the...
Ian Welsh

Harvard Decides To Fight And America’s Elite War is ON - [image: Harvard Decides To Fight And America’s Elite War is ON] So, Trump sent a bunch of demands to Harvard, which basically amounted to “we run this uni...
Rallblog

DeProgram: “Trump’s Deportation Chaos” - LIVE 2 pm Eastern + Streaming After: Buckle up for “DeProgram,” where hosts John Kiriakou and Ted Rall rip into the Trump administration’s explosive depo...
Reform Austin

Elon Musk’s Lawyer Runs For Texas AG As Ken Paxton Eyes Senate - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… John Bash, former U.S. attorney and current legal counsel to Elon Musk, has officially launched...
ProPublica

White Supremacist Terrorgram Network Allegedly Inspired Teen Accused of Killing Parents and Plotting Trump Assassination - by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica and FRONTLINE, and James Bandler, ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up ...
Election Law Blog

Travis Crum Primary ELB Blogger Next Week - Please send your tips to Travis, and wish him luck on his first full week handling the blog as an ELB contributor. The post Travis Crum Primary ELB Blogg...
Project Censored

Framing the Feed: How Social Media Shapes Our Interpretation of Reality - By Shealeigh Voitl In 2024, Project Censored introduced Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames to critically analyze narrativ...
Daily Cartoonist

15 Year Old Baldo is 25 - Baldo By Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos debuted 25 years ago on April 17, 2000. On Tuesday morning, the Dallas County Commissioners Court honored N...
Glasstire

This and That: Sula Bermúdez-Silverman and Marshall K. Harris - “This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. See past “This and That” posts here. – Ed. Today: Saddles (as seen at the Dallas Art Fair...
Texas Monthly

Two Pitmasters Aim to Bring Out-of-This-World Barbecue to Southeast Houston - Ben Muths and Aaron Timmons serve creative dishes, such as Thai potato salad and house-made Moon Pies, at their Space Craft BBQ trailer.
Bonddad

Housing permits and starts remain rangebound, while construction declines further; expect employment to turn down soon - - *by New Deal democrat* The housing market has historically been led by mortgage rates. And since those have been relatively rangebound for most of...
Rewire

What’s Happening to Kilmar Abrego Garcia Could Happen to Any of Us - This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. The post What’s Happening to Kilmar Abrego Garcia Could Happen to Any of Us appeared first on Rewire News Group.
The Texas Signal

School Voucher Bill Passes Texas House - Ahead of the vote, the rotunda of the Texas Capitol was awash in red on Wednesday. That’s because hundreds of public education supporters descended on Austin.
Democracy Now!

"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This": Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity - We speak with the award-winning author and journalist Omar El Akkad, whose new book about the war on Gaza is titled *One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Bee...
The Conversation

Why deregulating online platforms is actually bad for free speech - At first glance it might seem contradictory that restricting some speech can preserve free speech, but research shows that online content moderation protec...
Space City Weather

Easter Sunday still appears to be a bit rainy; looking ahead to two major sporting events next weekend - In brief: Today’s forecast looks ahead to warm and windy weather for the next couple of days, followed by a potentially rainy Easter Sunday. With two major...
ArcaMax

Trump's War Against the Ivy League Is All Smokescreen - Let's cut to the chase. Most of Donald Trump's threats against Ivy League colleges are an attempt to divert attention away from an economy heading into cri...
Angry Bear

March manufacturing production also shows evidence of tariff front-running - – by New Deal democrat The former King of Coincident Indicators, industrial production, has faded ever since the “China shock” at the beginning of the M...
NPR's Health Shots

JAMA study finds young women binge drinking slightly more than men of same age - A study in JAMA says young women, age 18 to 25, are binge drinking slightly more than men the same age. The good news: Drinking is down for both young men ...
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Part 15: Trump's Threat to Revoke Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status - On Tuesday, President Donald Trump threatened to revoke Harvard's tax exempt status, posting on Truth Social: Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt ...
naked capitalism

Bye-Bye Passport? The Hi-Tech, “Ultra-Efficient”, Dystopian Future of International Travel - The past week has seen a flurry of articles in the UK about how biometric technologies are about to revolutionise international travel, making it a far mor...
Bud Kennedy

She suggested Amber Alerts. Now, this Texas grandmother says they need to change | Opinion - A mother’s call to a North Texas radio station almost 30 years ago has helped rescue 1,200 children. But her 1996 suggestion for the Amber Alert now often ...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Three Unwinnable Wars: China, Harvard, and the Supreme Court -
Skeptophilia

The tapestry of lies - In my novel *Sephirot*, the main character, an ordinary guy named Duncan Kyle, finds himself lost in an interlocking maze of worlds, each of which seems to...
Crooked Media

Zuck Takes the Stand, ChatGPT Turns on Lovett, and the Surprising Ties Between Our Biology and Our Politics - The post Zuck Takes the Stand, ChatGPT Turns on Lovett, and the Surprising Ties Between Our Biology and Our Politics appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Houston can defer the drainage settlement spending - Can successfully kicked down the road. Mayor John Whitmire and plaintiffs in Houston’s drainage lawsuit have reached a deal on how the city will fund futur...
Grist

The ‘king of poisons’ is building up in rice - Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden.
High Country News

El poder subversivo de la radio en español - Durante décadas, las comunidades inmigrantes han usado las ondas para educarse y protegerse. Bajo la administración de Trump, lo están haciendo de nuevo...
LareDOS

Earth Day screening of Common Ground documentary set for Aprill 22 at TAMIU Student Center Auditorium - Register at bit.ly/CommonGroundLaredo
Counterpunch

The Meltdown of the United States - In less than 90 days, the United States under Trump has become a very different country. It is not an exaggeration to say that the United States is faci...
Crooked Timber

The point of no return:Only days left to stop a totalitarian state in the US - Back in November, when I concluded that Trump’s dictatorship was a fait accompli lots of readers thought I was going over the top. In retrospect, and with ...
jobsanger

Trump Is Creating A New Golden Age Of White-Collar Crime And Financial Fraud -
Informed Comment

French President Macron demands Immediate Gaza Ceasefire, Resumption of Civilian Aid, Palestinian State - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – French President Emmanuel Macron spoke by telephone Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Paris’s p...
Antiwar.com

Trump’s National Security Team Is a House Divided Against Itself - Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. Only three months into his second term, Donald Trump’s national security team looks to be seriously divi...
The Greanville Post

Worst Case Scenario: Trump’s Tariffs Walling US Off Ahead of Wider World Conflict - • "The US is preparing to subject its own population as well as those of its supposed “allies” to immense long-term economic, social, and political pain. T...
Nina Illingworth

Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American Dictatorship - Author’s note: sometimes, I write essays. Want more? Click here to subscribe to NIDC today. I also blog about fascism and The post Fascist Word Games and ...
The AltWorld

“Israel Has A Right To Defend Itself” Is A Genocidal Slogan - Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase “Israel has a right to defend itself” on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with […] The post “Israel H...
DeSmogBlog

No, Canada’s So-called ‘No Pipelines Bill’ Didn’t Block These 16 Energy Projects - U.S. President Donald Trump famously bragged on the campaign trail that he would end inflation and the war in Ukraine “on day one.” Simplistic claims som...
Church and State

Hello, Holy Week - While Pontius Pilate’s actions stemmed from cowardice, we must also recognize an underlying malice in Trump’s behavior.
ExChristian.Net

The Resurrection as Myth: A Rational Look at Christianity’s Central Claim - The Resurrection of Jesus stands as the linchpin of Christian theology. Without it, the religion’s salvific framework falls apart. As Paul famously write...
Earthworks

Improved Monitoring Data – Will It Lead to Meaningful Action? - Misleading the Public In February, the Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) adopted new rules that include revisions to Colorado’s pre-production … Th...
Ecosophia

Lords of the Fall - It’s been nine months now since I set aside the other preoccupations of this blog and launched a project I’d had in mind for many years—a discussion of the...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check-In w/ Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording of the first episode of The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton
Bracing Views

The DOGE Is All Wrong - W.J. Astore You can’t do a wrong thing the right way During World War II, the Nazi system of extermination camps was fairly efficient. Relatively small dea...
Countercurrents

Israeli Defense Minister: No Humanitarian Aid Will Enter Gaza - Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israel will not allow any humanitarian aid into Gaza to pressure Hamas, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said o...
Earth 911

Earth Day: 23 of the Greatest Environmental Quotes - In honor of Earth Day, I’ve put together this list of some of my favorite... The post Earth Day: 23 of the Greatest Environmental Quotes appeared first o...
Krebs on Security

Funding Expires for Key Cyber Vulnerability Database - A critical resource that cybersecurity professionals worldwide rely on to identify, mitigate and fix security vulnerabilities in software and hardware is i...
TalkLeft

Trump's Illegal Runaway Train - Will the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for Trump voters? When they protest in...
The Grayzone

El robo electoral de Daniel Noboa consolida el control de cárteles y corporaciones sobre Ecuador - El presidente Daniel Noboa parece haber robado las elecciones de Ecuador. Ahora se dispone a consolidar el control de un sistema que ha beneficiado a los...
Idavox

Trump, Bukele, and the Battle Over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Deportation - Americans who still believe in that we should live by the Constitution – and even... The post Trump, Bukele, and the Battle Over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s ...
Progressives Chat

Flashbacks 1975 and 1995: Karen Ann Quinlan … Oklahoma City Bombing - This week marks two milestone Flashback anniversaries of past historic events which had impact on many people here in the United States. The calendar was...
Media Lens

Global Charade: Israel, Palestine And The ‘Rules-Based Order’ - The post-WW2 ‘international rules-based order’ that supposedly underpins global affairs in the interests of peace, democracy and prosperity has always been...
The Progressive Wing

Open thread April 14-16 Tax Daze - When we pay our taxes the government should use them to help us. The clowns in power at this time are without a clue.
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Zero Day' Toons - The spokesperson for Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China is trolling Trump. [image or embed] — Hoodlum ???? (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 10...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

An Open Letter To Jay Bhattacharya, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and J.D. Vance - I appear to be on a bit of an open-letter spree these days. This one is not one I wanted to write. It isn’t satirical, or particularly funny. And the timin...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

GOP + DNC = ZFG - If you’re a Liberal or Progressive who, at this point, is still furiously bitching about why the Democrats won’t “do something” about all this, then you’re...
The Militant

Quebec gov’t mounts new attack on religious freedom - MONTREAL — A new Quebec government draft “secularization” law imposing an even more far-reaching and divisive dress code on teachers and other school worke...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Respecting the Decision - This cartoon was co-written by me and Grace, drawn by me, and colored by Frank Young. Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! This one is...
Lowering the Bar

U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Decide Who Owns Banana Taped to Wall - [image: banana taped to wall]Well, the concept of a banana taped to a wall, at least.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DISAPPEARING JUSTICE EDITION. - *A little light for the dark,* How are you liking Life in These (Former) United States? I’m keeping tabs on Judge Xinis hearing an assistant U.S. Atto...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio April 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/11/2025 - 19:24 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
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 ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: April 2025 - Conspiracy | Contrapoints (video, 2:40 hours) – Back in 2016, Contrapoints got a reputation for “deradicalizing” people who fell down the alt-right pipelin...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The House: Democrats Favored on What Starts as a Small Battlefield - History suggested Democrats would be favored to flip the House in 2026 as soon as Donald Trump clinched the presidency in 2024, Little that’s happened ov...
Web of Debt

McKinley or Lincoln? Tariffs vs. Greenbacks - President Trump has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Republican President William McKinley, highlighting his use of tariffs as a model for economic ...
Texas Freedom Network

Public Schools Matter: How Texas Families’ Stories Are Fighting Voucher Schemes - We recently put out a digital call for stories from teachers, students, parents, and community members who have been positively impacted by public educat...
Unlimited Hangout

The Katie Halper Show - The Katie Halper Show.
Duck of Minerva

Unreal climate ‘realism’ - It’s hard to keep track of the problems confronting Americans these days. But, just in case a reminder is needed, climate change is still a thing. Casual o...
Seeing the Forest

China Didn’t Take American Jobs - Trump says other countries took advantage of the US. He says they “took” manufacturing and jobs from thee US. This is just not what happened. American Comp...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not trying to pretend - Hydra VIII by Sebrina Seck is from a collection of Iconic Muse Women by European artists. So, this was the part where I fell and broke my hip, which rathe...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2025 - Walmart had another eight shootings related to their business, most if not all on their property in March 2025 with two people killed in two incidents i...
Campaign for America's Future

¿Qué hace falta para que gane la resistencia? - Una ola de resistencia se levanta. ¿Qué hará falta para que ganemos? Dondequiera que miremos, una ola de resistencia se levanta. Mi corazón se llena de ale...
Reading the Pictures

Signaling Strangelove: The New Yorker Cover’s Brilliant Take on SignalGate - Barry Blitt’s masterpiece perfectly captures the essence of the Trump administration. It’s a visual terror warning worthy of Kubrick himself. By Michael ...
Dissent Magazine

The Degradation of Big Law - By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administra...
Reveal

Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A White female doctor, wearing glasses, a gray jacket, and blue scrubs, sits at her desk. Children's hand drawings hang on the wall.] Hospitals ro...
nonsite.org

The Man Who Would Be King: Method in Trump’s Madness, Contradictions in Trump’s Method - Trump can meet the expectations of those looking for a hard line on immigration and can grant his corporate backers the tax cuts and deregulation they gree...
Field Negro

"The Death of Outrage" - William Bennett wrote that book, the Death of Outrage, back in 1999. In it, he lamented about how Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair was an "a...
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...
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
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...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
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, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia - *This piece originally appeared in **The New York Review of Books. * We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to d...
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
GreenSource DFW

Even as more DFW cities promote water-wise landscaping, homeowner fears reprisal for nontraditional yard - *Grapevine resident Tim Yatko has been fighting citations for his native plant landscaping for nearly two years. Above, Cyril Yatko and pet chicken enjoy...
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 Reality-Based Community

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

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

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

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

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
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...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
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.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
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 ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
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...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
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...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
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...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
Talking Points Memo

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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