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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

jobsanger

Trump Thinks Anyone That Criticizes Him Is EVIL -
memeorandum

Spurned U.S. Attorney Clings to Job by Being Appointed His Own Assistant (New York Times) - New York Times: *Spurned U.S. Attorney Clings to Job by Being Appointed His Own Assistant* — District judges recently denied John Sarcone, who was inte...
The Week

Codeword: July 17, 2025 - The Week's daily codeword puzzle
Informed Comment

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

White House says U.S. fentanyl overdose programs will be funded 'in increments' - CDC staffers worry $140 million in grants could fail to reach state and local overdose programs. The White House officials say the dollars will arrive but ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

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

Is There Anybody Out There? - As children roam empty streets Their eyes dried of tears As the mentally challenged Find no solace, no help As single mothers Ask in vain for food Depriv...
Mediaite

CNN’s Elie Honig Explains Why Appointing an Epstein Special Counsel ‘Makes No Sense’ - CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig ripped the idea that President Donald Trump should appoint a special counsel to oversee the Jeffrey Epstein case and ...
Raw Story

Supreme Court has become 'willing accomplices' to Trump's 'lawlessness': expert - President Donald Trump appears to have found six accomplices in his quest to dismantle the federal government, according to one lawyer. Michael Waldman,...
Al Jazeera English

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,239 - Here are the key events on day 1,239 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
World Socialist Web Site

Social crisis deepening in New Zealand - Falling real wages, higher living costs, increasing unemployment and homelessness are all intensifying amid growing class inequality.
The Hill

WSJ editorial board urges Trump not to fire Powell - The Wall Street Journal editorial board on Wednesday urged President Trump not to follow through on his threat to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell,...
Techdirt.

‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds An Ally In An EU Politician - We just talked about Ross Scott’s Stop Killing Games initiative, started last year, which has found new life recently due to an online back and forth with ...
Mediagazer

Leaked all-hands: Mathias Döpfner said Axel Springer employees must use AI, opposed disclosing to readers whether AI was used in the reporting process, and more (Oliver Darcy/Status) - Oliver Darcy / Status: *Leaked all-hands: Mathias Döpfner said Axel Springer employees must use AI, opposed disclosing to readers whether AI was used in ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump rescinds $4bn in US funding for California high-speed rail project - White House says no viable path forward for planned 800-mile system aiming to connect San Francisco to LA Donald Trump said on Wednesday the transportati...
Popular Resistance

European Union Refuses To Sanction Israel Over Genocide In Gaza - The EU has decided against imposing sanctions on Israel over its war crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, which have continued unabate...
Crooked Media

Trump v The Federal Reserve Chair - The post Trump v The Federal Reserve Chair appeared first on Crooked Media.
Salon.com

Epstein, Maxwell prosecutor Maurene Comey fired - Maurene Comey was terminated from her position as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, per reports
Angry Bear

June CPI: an apparent point of transition - – by New Deal democrat We are at somewhat of an inflection point as to consumer inflation. On the one hand, the post-pandemic inflationary effects cont...
Daily Cartoonist

Art Spiegelman Awarded NCS Caniff Lifetime Achievement - The National Cartoonists Society is honored to announce that Art Spiegelman will receive the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his extr...
Axios

House breaks record for longest-ever vote — again - House Republicans broke the record Wednesday for the lower chamber's longest vote in history — for the second time in as many weeks. *Why it matters: *I...
Political Wire

Maureen Comey Fired From SDNY - “Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been fired from her job in the Southern District...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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

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

Feds face lawsuit over ICE arrests at immigration courts - The suit follows an internal ICE memo indicated it could summarily deport immigrants to Mexico and South Sudan without any further process, based on assura...
Daily Dot

“Facebook aims to be a place where original content thrives”: Meta announces new rules to combat reposted content. Here’s what that means - [image: meta demonetized reposted content] One of the worst things about Facebook, Instagram, and really any Meta platform right now is its relentless st...
Antiwar.com

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

State Rep. Steve Toth to challenge Congressman Dan Crenshaw in Republican primary - Crenshaw’s sparring with fellow prominent conservatives has invited backlash from the right, but his past primary opponents have failed to capitalize at th...
Mother Jones

Emil Bove and Jeanine Pirro Won’t Condemn January 6. GOP Senators No Longer Care. - Despite vociferous objections by Democrats, the Senate Judiciary Committee looks set as of Thursday to approve Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Emil B...
Deadline Politics

Trump Fires Top Sean “Diddy” Combs & Jeffrey Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey - It’s always personal with Donald Trump. Eight years ago, Trump fired James Comey, and on Wednesday he fired the ex-FBI director’s daughter. In a move that ...
Ballot Access News

Petition for Michigan Citizens Initiative for Ranked Choice Voting to Start Circulating on Thursday, July 17 - Tomorrow (Thursday, July 17, 2025), RankMIVote will start circulating a citizens initiative petition to amend the Constitution of Michigan to adopt Ranked ...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - This weekend, it’s all about music, comedy, celebration, and getting free chicken.
The Verge

Subnautica 2’s creators sue their publisher for ‘severely’ damaging the game’s release - The battle between Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton and the three former executives at its developer Unknown Worlds continues. Ted Gill, Charlie Cleveland, a...
Undernews

Ex police commissioner filed a lawsuit alleging NY Mayor Adams and other top officials ran NYPD as a criminal enterprise. - *Wall Street Journal - *Thomas Donlon accused them of engaging in racketeering, wire fraud and obstruction of justice; he wants a federal takeover of the...
San Antonio Report

City shows plans for new Father Roman Community Center on South Side - City officials released plans for rebuilding the Father Manuel Roman Community Center as part of a review process. ------------------------------ City shows...
Mondoweiss

In the latest massacre, 15 Palestinians seeking food at GHF site die from suffocation after Israeli forces fire gas at aid seekers - [image: A Palestinian child mourns a loved one killed on Wednesday while seeking aid in Khan Younis, at Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on July ...
Portside

Red Channels: America’s Lasting Legacy of Repression - Red Channels: America’s Lasting Legacy of Repression Geoffrey Wed, 07/16/2025 - 19:02
Futurism

Millions Of Americans Are Being Advised Not To Go Outside - With wildfires raging in Canada's Manitoba province, `
Eschaton

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Earthworks

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

Lights, camera, borderland: Plaza Classic Film Festival returns with star power, timeless stories - More than 100 films, special guests and free events will take over the Plaza Theatre in Downtown El Paso during the Plaza Classic Film Festival, returni...
The NM Political Report

Sen. Heinrich’s HALT Fentanyl Act signed into law, boosting law enforcement powers - [image: Heinrich] [image: Heinrich] U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) announced Wednesday that his Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act has...
Sludge

Defense PACs Fund Calvert Against Dem Takeover Attempt - Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), who shepherded through a defense budget increase, is getting a stream of donations from Pentagon contractor PACs in his swing dist...
Progressive.org

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

Fed TACO - 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...
See You In 2020

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

The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word - The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as ...
Common Dreams

Progressive Caucus Launches New Task Forces Aimed at Reclaiming a Democratic Majority in 2026 - Today, the *Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC)*announced four newly constituted Task Forces aimed at helping Democrats reclaim the House majority in ...
slacktivist

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

Trump, Cornered on Epstein Files, Has Decided to Involve … the Unabomber - It’s called playing chess when your enemies are playing checkers.
OpEd News

Richest 1% people have enough new wealth to end annual poverty 22 times over - Please consider the below article. A recent Oxfam report shows that since 2015 the top 1% people in the world have amassed US$ 33.9 Trillion in new wealth ...
Second Nexus

GOP Rep. Leading Biden Autopen Probe Caught Using Digital Signature On Investigation Documents - Back in June, MAGA Republican President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into Democratic President Joe Biden’s actions as President. Trump, whose fr...
Consortium News

Israel’s ‘Humanitarian City’ Plan - This is not a negotiating tactic to strengthen Israel’s position in ceasefire talks, writes Medea Benjamin. It is the next phase of a nearly two-year long ...
Workers World

The National Education Association says ‘Drop all ties to the Anti-Defamation League’ - [image: The National Education Association says ‘Drop all ties to the Anti-Defamation League’] Portland, Oregon, July 5, 2025 — On the last day of the Nati...
San Antonio Current

Legal fight over Fred's Fish Fry's trademark infringement claim could be coming to a close - It’s been two years since San Antonio restaurant chain Fred’s Fish Fry embarked on a legal battle against more than a dozen defendants for their alleged r...
Infidel753

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

Climate Change Fueling ‘Most Widespread and Damaging’ Droughts in History: UN Report - Climate change is driving “some of the most widespread and damaging drought events in recorded history,” according to a new report.
Alas, a Blog

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

Grady Names Andrea Neutzling as Running Mate in Ohio Independent Gubernatorial Bid - Timothy Grady named army veteran and advocate Andrea Neutzling as his running mate in his independent campaign for Ohio governor this week. The ticket wi...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Eggs are down and coffee is up! - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2025* *Slowly the New York Times turns:* Good news! According to* The Hill*, the price of eggs is down: *US egg prices fall for thi...
Socialist Alternative

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

Why They’re Protecting Jeffrey Epstein’s Secrets - Journalist Julie K. Brown broke open the cover-up of Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme — and she says the government is still hiding the truth.
Alternet

'Go into a fit': Republican senator warns Trump to not fire top economic official - A three-term Senate Republican is now publicly urging President Donald Trump to leave Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in his role — and warned tha...
American Prospect

Gutting the Student Loan Program - Today on TAP: The budget bill’s assault on universities, students, parents—and gift for Wall Street
Texas Monthly

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

After Decades in Solitary, Texas Death Row Prisoners Find a Glimmer of Humanity - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Rudy Medrano is one of a dozen Texas death row inmates taking part in a quiet but groundbreakin...
SCOTUSblog

Taking stock of Trump’s immigration requests on the emergency docket - Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal ...
Texas Observer

Robert Roberson Faces New Execution Date in Controversial ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ Case - Attorneys for Robert Roberson and for the State of Texas went toe-to-toe in a Palestine courtroom Wednesday, arguing over the fate of the man whose 2024 ...
Rewire

Trump Hasn’t Forgotten About Abortion—Amidst ICE Raids, The Comstock Act Looms Heavy - Analysis: If Republicans dust off an 1873 law to stop doctors from mailing abortion pills, the grim effects of the 'big, beautiful bill’ will get infinit...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Elon Musk to Squeeze Tesla Shareholders to Juice xAI? - Elon Musk, Earth's wealthiest human, is leveraging his business empire to invest in xAI with SpaceX and possibly Tesla putting in billions.
WhoWhatWhy

Molecular Fossils Offer First Glimpse of How Life Survived Snowball Earth - [image: science, astronomy, Snowball Earth, life, survival, molecular fossils] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended ...
ProPublica

FDA Inspectors Again Find Dangerous Breakdowns at an Indian Factory Supplying Medications to U.S. Consumers - by Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon a...
Glasstire

A Treat for the Senses: “Feeling Color” at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - I am a sensory seeker. I crave bold color, immersive environments, and visuals whose impressions leave riotous phosphenes dancing across my eyelids. So, ...
Progressive Army

AGENCIA DE RECAUDACIÓN Y CONTROL ADUANERO – Resolución General 5725/2025 – - Estimados socios, buenas tardes: Adjuntamos RESOG-2025-5725-E-ARCA-ARCA – Procedimiento para el registro y trámite en el Sistema Informático MALVINA (SIM) ...
NORML

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

Lupita Nyong’o and Other Black Celebs Suffering From Fibroids - July is Fibroids Awareness Month and more famous faces are starting to open up about their journey with the uterine disease. Read more...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS Heart named Center of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery - [image: |||] Optum has named South Texas Health System Heart a Center of Excellence in bariatric surgery. The post STHS Heart named Center of Excellence i...
Texas Standard

Scams are rampant after natural disasters. Here’s how to protect yourself. - Both victims of the Texas flooding and those who want to donate to help should keep an eye out for possible scams.
Dissent Magazine

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

Inside the movement to recognize nature as an artist - Musicians have long sampled nature sounds. Now, they have a way to share credit — and share their royalties with conservation efforts.
Seeing the Forest

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

Elite Opinion In Canada Begins To Shift From America To China - The Globe and Mail is one of the two main “newspapers of the elite” in Canada, and the older of the two. (The other one is the Nation Post). So this articl...
Election Law Blog

Redistricting for National Partisan Fairness - With mid-decade re-redistricting on the horizon in Ohio and Texas, I wanted to re-up this Slate column I wrote with Aaron Goldzimer a few years back. Ove...
MintPress News

MAGA Embraces Forever Wars With Foreign Policy Flip - Trump’s MAGA movement has shed its anti-war stance and embraced the neoconservative foreign policy consensus, backing sanctions and military escalation w...
Bonddad

June industrial production: a mild coincident positive for the economy - - *by New Deal democrat* Industrial production is much less central to the US economic picture than it was before the “China shock,” since so much p...
Discourse

Gavin Newsom Is a Garbage Person - He will not stop talking to fascists about how maybe trans kids don't deserve equal rights. Please go away!
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 181: “Trump Always Chickens Out to Kiev” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Program! Program! You can’t tell where Trump stands on Russia and Ukraine without a program! Here’s that prog...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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

Been Caught Stealing - Meet Alex Mooney, my former House rep, who is now a lobbyist despite the rule against it.
Democracy Now!

"Farmworkers’ Voices Are Not Being Heard": UFW President Teresa Romero on ICE Raids & Workers’ Lives - The Trump administration’s mass deportation machine continues to shatter families and communities with violent, indiscriminate raids on schools, homes and ...
Ecosophia

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

Apparently TikTok is convinced a hurricane will hit Houston this weekend - In brief: In today’s post we take a quick temperature check on TikTok, which seems hot and bothered about the possibility of a hurricane hitting Houston. I...
ArcaMax

A Review: Six Months in the Trump White House - We have a madman in the house, the White House. By that I mean Donald Trump is a bit insane, drunk with power and revenge, and full of fury, at the one-eig...
Vox

The Trump administration’s fundamental misunderstanding about deportations - The Trump administration has offered little consolation to American businesses worried about losing undocumented workers to deportations. US Agriculture Se...
Dorf on Law

Remembering Richard Fallon - Richard H. Fallon Jr., the Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, died on Sunday. Dick was an exemplary scholar and teacher of constitutional law ...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Doesn’t Realize Why MAGA Needs the Epstein Files -
Skeptophilia

Tense situation - In my Critical Thinking classes, I did a unit on statistics and data, and how you tell if a measurement is worth paying attention to. One of the first thi...
Off The Kuff

The long haul of recovery - We only really have a best guess as to how many people are still missing from the Hill Country floods. More than 10 days after catastrophic July Fourth flo...
Scheerpost.com

Renowned Genocide Scholar Says ‘I Know It When I See It’—And He Sees It in Israel’s Assault on Gaza - "My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."
High Country News

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

Trump IRS Agrees to Allow Churches to Endorse Political Candidates. Are All Nonprofits Next?: 'BradCast' 7/15/2025 - On today's BradCast: Like everywhere else in the federal government, the Trump Administration's IRS seems determined to undermine decades of the rule of la...
The AltWorld

Here’s How Trump Was Manipulated Into Mission Creep - Zelensky, anti-Russian US hawks, Melania, and the Mainstream Media each exploited in their own way his false […] The post Here’s How Trump Was Manipulate...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

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

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

Oil Advocate Behind Anti-Suzuki Complaint a Nameless ‘BC Resident’ in National Post Story - A well-connected lobbyist and advocate for fossil fuel resource development is one of eight applicants alleging the David Suzuki Foundation used misleadi...
The Conversation

Florida is fronting the $450M cost of Alligator Alcatraz – a legal scholar explains what we still don’t know about the detainees - Alligator Alcatraz represents a significant departure from past Florida policy regarding immigration.
The Texas Signal

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

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

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
Earth 911

Everything Your Child Needs for a Waste-Free School Year - Remember that crisp excitement of September mornings when choosing fresh notebooks and sharpened pencils would... The post Everything Your Child Needs fo...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: Our Genocide and the Limits of Pretend - With recent news that the US sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, it's time for everyone to admit we're watching an American genocide in ...
Krebs on Security

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

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

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

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

Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers Least Able to Pay - With wage garnishments expected later this summer, low-income Americans brace for impact. The post Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers L...
Media Lens

Burying Genocide – The BBC, Gaza And The Role Of The UK - One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person ...
Crooked Timber

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

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

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

The latest billionaire attacks on public education and how to fight them - Students need full funding of public schools, not privitization.
alicublog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s not evil to ask why Texas flood warnings failed Kerrville | Opinion - We’re all heartbroken. It’s our job to write about why. It isn’t wrong or evil to write about how officials failed to anticipate the Kerrville flooding, or...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation presents The Price of Admission, solo exhibition of Jorge Javier López - Opening reception July 11 at Casa Daphne
Web of Debt

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

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Environment Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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