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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Consumer prices rose 3.3% in March, as energy prices spiked due to Iran conflict (Jeff Cox/CNBC) - Jeff Cox / CNBC: *Consumer prices rose 3.3% in March, as energy prices spiked due to Iran conflict* — Consumer prices spiked in March as the Iran war s...
Mediagazer

Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the "For you" section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appeared on the Google News homepage (Frank Landymore/Futurism) - Frank Landymore / Futurism: *Google News is showing Polymarket bets alongside news articles in the “For you” section; in tests, Polymarket bets also appe...
Mediaite

‘I Call BS!’ Ex-Trump Official Cracks CNN Anchor Up With Take on Melania Bombshell - Stephanie Grisham drew guffaws from CNN anchor Phil Mattingly with her take on First Lady Melania Trump's bombshell press event. The post ‘I Call BS!’ Ex...
Techdirt.

Court Blocks Republican Push To (Further) Dominate And Destroy Local Broadcast News - Last month FCC boss Brendan Carr illegally ignored remaining U.S. media consolidation laws to rubber stamp Nexstar’s $6.2 billion purchase of Tegna. It’s p...
The Verge

Fear and loathing at OpenAI - Sam Altman's tenure at OpenAI has been… messy. Messy to the point where Altman was briefly fired from his role as CEO, only to be reinstated days later, at...
Novara Media

Spain First Western Nation to Reopen Embassy in Tehran - Spain will reopen its embassy in the Iranian capital of Tehran – after closing it temporarily amid US-Israeli attacks – as part of efforts to achieve peace...
Raw Story

MAGA exodus support group soars as Trump devotees walk away: 'One lie too many' - The Epstein files. Tariffs. Deaths at the hands of federal immigration enforcement agents. Skyrocketing gas prices. The slashing of federal jobs. A “...
The Progressive Wing

4/10 News Roundup & Open Thread - In his first sit-down interview with Al Jazeera since taking office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani reflects on his first 100 days in office. He disc...
NORML

How Free Do US Cannabis Consumers Really Feel? - [image: woman smoking a joint outdoors in a field of cannabis plants][image: woman smoking a joint outdoors in a field of cannabis plants]"In some jurisd...
Space City Weather

Will Houston actually get the forecast rain over the next several days? - In brief: Daily rain chances will remain for Houston over the next several days, but admittedly on most of those days it seems unlikely we’ll cash in. Whil...
The Hill

Trump: Iran 'better not be' charging tolls in Strait of Hormuz - President Trump condemned Iran's plans to charge oil-carrying vessels a fee to traverse the Strait of Hormuz, a day after he proposed a “joint venture” to ...
Rallblog

Target: The Far Left | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Al Jazeera English

Cuban president defiant despite Trump pressure to resign - Miguel Diaz-Canel vows to resist US pressure as Trump escalates threats, tightens oil blockade on the island.
Mother Jones

California Bill Aims to End Spraying of Crops With Toxic “Forever Chemicals” - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. California Assemblymember Nick...
ArcaMax

In a World of War and Wonder, Attention Is Your Greatest Power - Watching the Artemis II space flight has filled my days with awe and wonder. From pilot Victor Glover's poignant Easter message and mission specialist Chri...
The Week

Quiz of The Week: 4 – 10 April - Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
WhoWhatWhy

AI Is All Humans, All the Way Down - [image: AI, Sergey Brin, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis.] The inside s...
Houston Public Media

Artemis II returning home (April 10, 2026) - On Friday's show: We preview this evening's planned re-entry and splashdown of the Artemis II astronauts after their historic lunar mission. And we break d...
naked capitalism

Links 4/10/2026 -
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “I don’t really know if I do consider myself one right now. I would say I’m definitely leaning more calling myself an independent… I haven’t changed yet. B...
Salon.com

The Christian right’s victim complex fuels Trump’s Iran war - For evangelicals, there's no limit in defending the president's cruelty
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Epstein survivors criticise Melania Trump after surprise statement – US politics live - First lady had called for a public hearing for survivors but a group of those affected say they have ‘done their part’ and reiterate calls for Pam Bondi ...
Countercurrents

Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Schoolgirl Inside Tent Classroom in Front of Classmates in Gaza - Gaza (QNN)- Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian schoolgirl on Thursday while studying in a tent classroom in northern Gaza, in front of her classm...
Vox

Why you should keep your therapy session even when you don’t have anything to talk about - Most weeks when I meet with my therapist, she triages some aspect of my life that is actively bursting at the seams — my inability to rationally talk about...
Skeptophilia

Finding the right search parameters - I was making dinner last week, and the recipe called for soy sauce. I knew we had a bottle of it -- and I was pretty sure it was somewhere in the door she...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD – Weekend Wrap - I suppose it’s hardly surprising that someone called “First Dog on the Moon” is somewhat excited about the Artemis II mission, though if you’ve seen his ca...
Scheerpost.com

Anti War Action Network Calls For National Day Of Action On Tax Day - By Fight Back! News Say NO to Trump’s war on Iran! The Anti War Action Network (AWAN) called for a national day of action on Tax Day, April 15, to protest ...
Media Lens

Nuclear Genocide – The Threat And The Ceasefire - Given the ‘mainstream’ structural filters that reflexively whitewash the crimes of ‘The Good Guys’ – ‘us’, by doctrinal fiat – we have often wondered how t...
Off The Kuff

Dan Patrick has the blues - Not the sort of thing our boy Danno usually says. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Wednesday said Texas Republicans are “going to have a tough time” holding onto th...
Eschaton

Morning - Get your morning on.
San Antonio Report

Up next for Project Marvel: Consultant hires and downtown land purchase - Since January, key aspects of Project Marvel are said to be progressing, including the hiring of consultants and negotiations over the land purchase. ----...
Axios

How the Iran war could create a new global order in oil - The energy shock from the Iran war may drive long-lasting change in how the global multitrillion-dollar oil market operates — turning a relatively open a...
NPR's Health Shots

More ambulances are carrying blood for transfusions. Experts say it will save lives - More and more ambulances carry blood when responding to trauma scenes. Officials say transfusions before patients arrive at the hospital will save lives.
Grist

How the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up - There's an old argument that protecting the environment hurts the economy. It's wrong for a lot of reasons.
High Country News

Opting out could be the thing that sets you free - How a bison inspired me to set boundaries and just say no. The post Opting out could be the thing that sets you free appeared first on High Country News.
Crooked Media

Trump Blasts “Third Rate Podcasts” - The post Trump Blasts “Third Rate Podcasts” appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Roaming Charges: Mad Mouth, Bad Man; Mad Man, Bad Mouth - + If, in fact, the war is over (don't count on it), then Iran wins by surviving two massive bombing campaigns by the US and Israel (both nuclear-armed st...
Courthouse News

Military families argue injuries from Hawaii jet fuel water crisis weren’t service-related - A 1950 Supreme Court ruling prohibits service members from suing the federal government for injuries arising from military service.
jobsanger

The Damage Has Been Done To NATO -
World Socialist Web Site

Trump’s selective service filing prepares for activation of US military draft - A Trump administration filing reveals preparations to activate a military draft for men aged 18 to 26 as Washington readies wider imperialist war.
OpEd News

beautiful sunny day and sleeless nights in Iran - The so-called ceasefire as always is violated by Israhell which continued its genocide and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon and Gaza. Hundreds of civilians were...
Informed Comment

Iran: You cannot Destroy a Civilization - Like many Iranians, I was glued to the TV and the nonsense that was spewed by the most powerful man in our hemisphere
Portside

Democrats Are Badly Failing To Hold Trump Accountable Over Iran - Democrats Are Badly Failing To Hold Trump Accountable Over Iran jay Fri, 04/10/2026 - 00:13
Wolf Street

US Government Interest Payments, Tax Receipts, Average Interest Rate on the Debt, and Debt-to-GDP Ratio in Q4 2025 - It’s ugly, but slightly less ugly.
Alternet

Author dismembers Trump supporter defending 'psychotic' president’s Iran disaster - Author Leigh McGowan had no patience with National Review Senior writer Noah Rothman's characterization of President Donald Trump as a Middle East savior...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel or Peace - Israel is a genocidal apartheid state whose entire existence is premised upon a strategy of unceasing violence and abuse in the middle east. As long as tha...
Ian Welsh

America Profits Are One Of The Causes of American Decline - Stumbled upon this chart of US corporate profits vs. corporate taxes. The important part isn’t the taxes, it’s the profits. (Note that this is nominal and ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

ANNOUNCEMENT: "First They Came for My College" Documentary - *A new documentary, First They Came for My College, is drawing national attention for its powerful portrayal of the transformation of New College of Florid...
Ballot Access News

Candidate Seeking Gubernatorial Nomination of Arizona Independent Party is Challenged - Hugh Lytle, a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination of the Arizona Independent Party, is facing a challenge to his primary ballot position because he ...
Brad Blog

MAGA Buckles: 'BradCast' 4/9/2026 - On today's BradCast: Finally, even MAGA is beginning to notice. Or, at least they are finally admitting they've noticed. [Audio link to full show follows t...
Claytoonz

Bazookas For Bibi - Read the blog at my Substack, and please subscribe. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to “...
Popular Resistance

Dialectics, Iran And The Long Durée Of Anticolonial Revolution - Dialectical and historical materialism cannot be understated as critically important in understanding the “war on Iran”. The framework is indispensable f...
Crooked Timber

Cosmic Alchemy - The New South Wales gold rush began more than 400 million years ago. It was an age of fire, that ended with ice. Australia was part of the super-continent ...
Antiwar.com

Why Trump’s Cuba Plan Won’t Work - It is clear that the US wants to conduct some kind of regime change operation in Cuba, egged on by Republican and Democratic hawks, though polling indicate...
Undernews

Trump vs. the Pope - *New Republic - *The Trump administration threatened Pope Leo. Pentagon officials told Vatican officials in a closed door meeting, “The United States has t...
Environment Texas

Supporting PennEnvironment is a statement of hope. - The post Supporting PennEnvironment is a statement of hope. appeared first on Environment Texas.
See You In 2020

The Epstein regime’s preparation for social breakdown, & the struggle that will decide who gains control next - As our government continues to escalate the Iran conflict, and preemptively cracks down on the people, we must account for the “war behind things.” For ...
Election Law Blog

ELB Podcast 7:5: Myths and Facts About Contesting the 2026 Midterm Elections (Foley, Green, Muller) - Season 7, Episode 5 of the ELB Podcast: How will federal and state court handle post-election disputes in connection with the closely contested 2026 midt...
San Antonio Current

Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones again urges feds not to proceed with San Antonio ICE lockup - [image: An ICE officer monitors a detention facility in Buffalo, New York.] Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones sent a letter Tuesday asking the Trump White House’s ne...
Deadline Politics

Judge Says Pete Hegseth Can’t Impose New Set Of Pentagon Press Restrictions: “The Curtailment Of First Amendment Rights Is Dangerous At Any Time” - A federal judge said Thursday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his team have flouted his order striking down a set of Pentagon press access guidelin...
Progressive.org

Women’s Experiences Dominated Book Bans Last Year - Here’s what these banned books mean to young women across the country.
Futurism

AI-Powered Drug Marketer Medvi Responds After Allegations About Fake Doctors and Patients - We have questions. The post AI-Powered Drug Marketer Medvi Responds After Allegations About Fake Doctors and Patients appeared first on Futurism.
Daily Howler

ILLNESS: "Who talks like this?" David Remnick had said! - *THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2026* *And then, we had Megyn Kelly: *And then, we had Megyn Kelly's reaction to the president's recent threats. To view the tape, ...
CultureMap Houston

The 11 best restaurants of 2026 showcase Houston's world-class status - With the *Tastemaker Awards* ceremony only a week away, the time has come for our final two categories. We begin with the 11 nominees for Restaurant of the...
Slate

The Only Good News is that Trump Didn’t Pull the Trigger - Iran just learned exactly how much leverage it has.
slacktivist

‘One of the good ones’ obscures a dangerous lie - Never accept the monstrous distinction between "amazing immigrants" and "criminal immigrants."
The NM Political Report

CYFD, governor dispute DOJ findings, say reforms already underway - [image: CYFD] New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham pushed back on a damning state Department of Justice re...
MintPress News

Iranian Jewish Association Describe Israel as “Ominous Zionist Regime” After Israeli Strikes Destroy Historic Synagogue on Passover - “We are Iranian Jews and we are always ready to sacrifice our lives for our homeland,” Bihdad Mikhail, managing director of the Tehran Jewish Association...
El Paso Matters

Podcast: The story of how a beaver made an El Paso wetlands park home - We talk to El Paso Matters reporter Priscilla Totiyapungprasert about how she came about the story and what she learned about the Rio Bosque beaver. The...
Church and State

Christian Nationalists in US Government Push Attacks on Iran as Holy War - Over the last few years, the slogan has spread from far right provocateurs like Nick Fuentes to Trump’s cabinet and the military.
The AltWorld

“Lebanon Will NOT Be Left Behind!” Iran Issues Fierce Warning to US and Israel | Ep. 200 - Live coverage of the war on Iran. Updates, analysis, and the latest developments as the conflict escalates […] The post “Lebanon Will NOT Be Left Behind!...
Texas Standard

‘We need new blood’: Texas voters look for leadership changes, fresh faces this election year - Some vocal Texas voters say they want to get rid of politicians who’ve served the state for decades. Much of that sentiment can be boiled down to a prefere...
Bonddad

Very low jobless claims continue - - *by New Deal democrat* Jobless claims, along with stock market prices and upscale consumer spending (and recently, manufacturing orders) are one o...
First Draft

That’s A Nice Vatican Ya Got There - JD Vance is lying when he says he knows nothing about any of this. The fact is has an ongoing personal feud with the Vatican because he has been called out...
ProPublica

“A Slap in the Face”: Trump’s DOJ Plans to Settle Predatory Lending Case Without Compensating Victims - The post “A Slap in the Face”: Trump’s DOJ Plans to Settle Predatory Lending Case Without Compensating Victims appeared first on ProPublica.
The Root

New Report Shows Less Support for Black Nonprofits Since 2020 Racial Reckoning - According to a new report, promised funding for Black-led nonprofits ended sooner than expected, and the consequences are alarming. Read more...
Angry Bear

Recessionary signals in February? - “Recessionary signals in February personal income and spending, but some bright spots as well” – by New Deal democrat Personal income and spending are a...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Workers World

Iran’s drones, the Strait of Hormuz and the new world order - [image: Iran’s drones, the Strait of Hormuz and the new world order] On April 8, the people of Iran celebrated. And as Iran’s government announced, their m...
Sludge

AI Super PACs Are Unleashing Millions to Tilt Primaries in Their Favor - So far, the industry groups have won nearly all the races they’ve thrown their money at, helping to advance allies who could help shape AI legislation in t...
The Texas Signal

Texas Democrats Broach Removing Trump From Office - For many Texas House Democrats, the last few days have cemented a clear objective: that President Trump must be removed from office. Options for action are...
Capital & Main

Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs - UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices. The post Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food ...
Mondoweiss

The Iran war will end only when the U.S. finally decides to rein in Israel - [image: Donald Trump is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after disembarking Air Force One at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel...
Project Censored

We Need ‘More Muckrakers and Fewer Buck-Takers’ - Mickey Huff Fifty years ago, Carl Jensen founded Project Censored because he knew that journalism was the lifeblood of democracy. He argued that the news...
Independent Political Report

Independent Candidate Outraises Leading Democrat in Idaho Governor Race - *This article was originally published by Idaho Education News on March 27, 2026. It is republished here with permission. Any views expressed are the aut...
Texas Observer

How Teach for America Helped Set Up James Talarico’s Political Rise - Fifteen years ago, in May 2011, dozens of newly inducted Teach for America (TFA) corps members gathered at Trinity University in San Antonio to prepare f...
Common Dreams

Humanitarian Scorecard: Six Months In, Gaza Ceasefire is Failing - The Trump administration’s Gaza ceasefire plan – as endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2803 – is failing, according to a progress scorecard relea...
SCOTUSblog

Legislative history lives on – in secret - Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state. Rumors of the textualist trium...
Glasstire

Top Five: April 9, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Les SembrantesStanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the V...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Empire is Bleeding Out: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Democracy Now!

Can Gulf States Rely on U.S. Security Guarantees? How the War Empowers Iran & Remakes the Region - As Iran destroyed energy facilities and infrastructure in all six of its Persian Gulf neighbors and blocks their shipments of oil through the Strait of Hor...
Rewire

I Live in Colorado. Conversion Therapy Destroyed My Life - A Supreme Court decision could overturn my state’s conversion therapy ban. That would be tragic for many LGBTQ+ kids. The post I Live in Colorado. Conver...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Republicans Need Their Situation to Improve. Right Now, Trump isn’t Helping - While it would not be accurate to say Donald Trump’s approval rating is collapsing, he has suffered additional erosion since launching attacks on Iran at...
The Smirking Chimp

The Nixon Trick Trump Is Using Didn’t Work for Nixon Either -
Dorf on Law

AI Legal Research and Thoreau's Warning - During my Federal Courts class earlier this week, a student asked me a question about a point I had made that appeared to contradict a sentence in the ca...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- a sound in the woods - Yeah, it's a (old) cell phone ad, as you'll see at the end. But the Japanese are generally more classy about these things.
Earth 911

Efficient Dishwashers for Tiny Kitchens - Washing a full load of dishes by hand can use up to 27 gallons of... The post Efficient Dishwashers for Tiny Kitchens appeared first on Earth911.
The Daily Poster

Why Is AI Afraid Of This One Guy? - Big Tech’s problem child is running for Congress — and AI super PACs are spending big to stop him.
Seeing the Forest

What Can Be Done? - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. America’s “system” brought THIS to the world. What can be done and h...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Author of Finnish study on trans youth has ties with anti-trans 'medical' group SEGM & history of anti-trans activism - The credibility of a controversial Finnish study on trans youth by Riittakerttu Kaltiala (seen here speaking at a 2023 conference held by anti-trans 'medi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Capitalism: 404 - 12×18 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb When I first got the word going around that the Citibank building in Dubai had been bombed, my first thought ...
Socialist Alternative

Iran Ceasefire—Trump’s Biggest TACO - Less than an hour and a half before Trump’s apocalyptic threat that “an entire civilization will die tonight, never to return” risked becoming a horrific r...
The Conversation

Presidential words can turn the unthinkable into the thinkable − for better or for worse - For years, Donald Trump’s rhetoric has relied on insult, ridicule, threat and contempt. But the scale of violence in his words during the first week of Apr...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Moon is Full - With this post we continue our survey of the Great Wheel of the 28 lunar phases, the central symbolic mandala of Yeats’s A Vision. In last month’s episode ...
Earthworks

Colorado State Action to #CutMethane - This blog is part of a series covering methane regulations at the federal and state level. Read our first blog, … The post Colorado State Action to #Cut...
Duck of Minerva

The Scripts We Perform: Militarized Masculinity and the Gendered Order - Over the past month, U.S. President Donald Trump has shifted from misogynistic jabs to full‑scale performances of militarized authority, an evolution entir...
Texas Environmental News

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Dissent Magazine

[EVENT | May 14] Decline and Fall: Know Your Enemy and Revolutions - A live podcast event.
Krebs on Security

Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens - Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft...
Discourse

Trump's Genocidal Threats Can't Hide the Fact that He's Losing This War (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: Pam Bondi's ouster, who we think Trump will fire next, and Jenna Bush Hager's book club
Bracing Views

Trump Threatens Mass Murder Yet Again - W.J. Astore Preventing Mass Death Isn’t a Partisan Issue BILL ASTORE APR 07, 2026 From Trump’s Truth Social Account: This is madness. Unhinged madness. Ima...
The Grayzone

Senior BBC Iran reporter exposed as opposition activist - After a top reporter at the BBC drew outrage for publishing a quote demanding Iran be nuked, she’s been revealed as a dedicated regime change activist wh...
Trivial Knot

Rock Paper Scissors and variants - Rock Paper Scissors is a game where two players simultaneously pick one of the three things in the title. Rock beats Scissors, Scissors beats Paper, Paper ...
Greg Palast

Trump, the Pirate of Hormuz - It was a mere 500 years ago that Europeans realized that the Strait of Hormuz was a trade choke point, when Portuguese Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque seized...
The Greanville Post

Test from NH - Good Day. This is a test page created by NH side to see contents…
Liberation News

Declaración del PSL: Por qué Trump fracasó en su guerra criminal contra Irán – y por qué no podemos ceder ahora - Ante la firmeza del pueblo iraní y la indignación del mundo, la administración Trump se ha visto obligada a dar un paso atrás, al menos por ahora, ante el ...
Alas, a Blog

Don’t Call Them Concentration Camps! - This comic is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: What’s a better challenge than drawing a period piece? Drawing a period piece where the reader is supp...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in March of 2026, with one of them fatal and at least one more injury, which is few deaths or injuries than us...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Educators on why Social Studies Rules - With the Texas State Board of Education poised to massively overhaul K-12 social studies curricula this year, we want to take a step back and spotlight t...
The Militant

Refuse strikers remain defiant despite fine on union - BIRMINGHAM, England — “We will not be pushed aside,” strike leader Danny Taylor told an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds of striking refuse workers at the At...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE THE OTHER ONE EDITION. - *The original orchestrations are grand, but this is just irresistible.* Pam Bondi’s departure is meaningless — Tubby has a huge crabbucket of equally loat...
Lowering the Bar

Still Illegal to Drive (a Horse) Under the Influence in Kentucky - [image: riding a horse backwards]One of the few states where this is pretty clear.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales to help fight decision by Trump Administration to cut $7.4 million from HOPE for Small Farm Sustainability in the Valley - The non-profit Holistic Organic Practical Education (HOPE) for Small Farm Sustainability, headquartered in Harlingen, on Monday, March 30, 2026 announced t...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Socialist

Roger Williams Net Worth 2026: The $74.66M Auto Dealer’s Fortune - Table of Contents The Foundation: Williams Auto Group’s Enduring $34.2 Million Value and Legacy Real Estate Empire: A $33 Million Portfolio Rooted Deep in ...
Debunking Christianity

The World’s Most Dangerous Cult Continues to Thrive - *The Catholic church qualifies for this title* Is it really fair to call Catholicism a cult? Or does this reflect my growing up in a mostly Protestant ...
LareDOS

Laredo Center for the Arts vandalized: the violent disarray of so tranquil a place for the arts bespoke a disconcerting rage - Person of interest in custody
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 3, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio April 3, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/03/2026 - 04:37 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
TalkLeft

Pam Bondi Fired, Todd Blanche to Replace Her - The rumors are true. Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi. Todd Blanche, one of his personal lawyers from his criminal trial in New York and a former federal...
The Rag Blog

JAN LANCE / RETIREES / Senior Solidarity - By Jan Lance /The Rag Blog / April 2, 2026 Protecting Retirement Now and for the FutureThe Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) wants you! Jan Lance...
DeSmogBlog

Eight Things You Should Know About Reform’s Policy Chief James Orr - James Orr, until recently a relatively obscure academic theologian, now ranks among Reform UK’s most influential politicians, having been appointed as th...
Progressives Chat

The 2026 MLB Season Begins - The new 2026 Major League Baseball season is now in its first full week. I was sorry Milwaukee Brewers, which has been in only one World Series, as the A...
Consent Factory, Inc.

No Robots - This will be a very brief update on my health and legal battles for subscribers. There won’t be any opining on Iran or Epstein or Trump or anyone or anythi...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - The House Negroes have been very active of late. As a result, the House Negro power rankings have to be constantly updated. Here goes. 10. *Tim Scott:...
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well you know it's a shame and a pity - The Rising Son Records account (Arlo Guthrie?) on Facebook posted this photo and said, in the first person, that in September of 2013, "As I watched the cl...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Idavox

A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous immigrant - Don’t just be an ally. Be an effective one. Dear Vermont, With everything going on... The post A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous...
Campaign for America's Future

El poder se construye una conversación a la vez - Ninguno de nosotros, por sí solo, puede detener la violencia ni construir un futuro mejor. Para lograrlo, nos necesitamos unos a otros. Para construir un p...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - 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 ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
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...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

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

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