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

Mediaite

NBC Host Asks Blockbuster Scribes Haberman, Swan: Was Losing to Biden ‘The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Trump?’ - NBC's Ryan Nobles asked Maggie Haberman and co-author Jonathan Swan if losing to Joe Biden in 2020 was "the best thing that ever happened" to Trump. The...
Al Jazeera English

Sudan’s el-Obeid: Life on the edge of collapse - Sudan's el-Obeid faces mass atrocities, like el-Fasher in 2025, the UN warns.
Scheerpost.com

Iraqi Forces Storm Green Zone, Arrest Politicians For Corruption - News Desk, The Cradle. The arrests come ahead of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s visit to Washington next month. And as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragh...
Houston Public Media

One year after Texas Hill Country floods, UGRA and Kerr County roll out flood warning system - Central Texas residents got an update on a new flood warning system, but some still have questions about who will be responsible for it.
Futurism

AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them - Data centers "have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating." The post AI Zillionaires Are S...
First Draft

Bill Cassidy: YOLO No Mo - Bill Cassidy is a weakling.
SCOTUSblog

The home stretch - We are expecting eight opinions in argued cases.
Texas Standard

Texas Democrats leave convention united in effort to end GOP’s 30-year hold on Texas - Texas Democrats spent their 3-day convention in Corpus Christi rallying party activists, training volunteers and making the case for Democratic policies an...
Angry Bear

Do You Need a SS Number to get ACA Healthcare Insurance? - Tweedle-di and Tweedle-Dum (Oz and Kennedy) believe you do and of course they will say illegals were applying for ACA healthcare insurance in the past. (...
Space City Weather

So, like, is our weather going to change much this week in Houston? - In brief: In today’s post we discuss Houston’s ongoing hot weather this week, and whether there will be any changes. We also dig into the forecast for the ...
ArcaMax

We All Stand to Lose in Hegseth’s War on Diversity - Is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth resegregating the military? I hear that question a lot since the news broke that our nation’s current secretary of defens...
The Hill

3 firefighters killed as wildfires stoked by heat, wind rage across the West - The National Weather Service said wildfire conditions “remain critical” across the Southwest, with risk high in the Four Corners region where Arizona, Colo...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Shareholder Democracy and Causeway Impact Founders on Building Shareholder Influence - If you hold a 401(k), an IRA, or a single index fund, you own a... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Shareholder Democracy and Causeway Impact Founder...
Dorf on Law

SCOTUS End-of-Term Opinions Today: Blog Post Coming This Afternoon - Good morning! This morning the Supreme Court will hand down opinions in some or all of the merits cases remaining on this docket from the OT 2025 Term. W...
Duck of Minerva

How Russian economic policy is gender - Every year I make my third year Bachelor students read Carol Cohn’s article “Sex and Death in the rational world of defense intellectuals” and they are gen...
WhoWhatWhy

Clean Energy Tax Credit Cutoff Drives Project Rush With Prices Set To Soar - [image: climate crisis, global warming, clean energy, tax credit cutoff, project acceleration, looming price hikes] PICKS are stories from many sources, se...
Texas Environmental News

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The Smirking Chimp

What If a Nation Gave a Birthday Party And Nobody Came -
Off The Kuff

The public ed angle - Gina Hinojosa is finding some new supporters with a tried and true issue. Gina Hinojosa’s recent campaign swing felt more like a public vent session than a...
memeorandum

Why resisting Trump has galvanized Black Democrats as the midterms approach (Gregory S. Schneider/Washington Post) - Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post: *Why resisting Trump has galvanized Black Democrats as the midterms approach* — High primary turnout among Blac...
ProPublica

Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal. - The post Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal. appeared first on ProPub...
Novara Media

Andy Burnham Wants Places to Feel Loved Again - [image: Andy Burnham in Downing Street in March. Photo: Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire]As we all sweltered last week, British politics broke every thermomete...
High Country News

People are betting on wildfires. Should they? - Fire survivors say “it’s morally reprehensible,” and experts worry the wagering could lead to arson. The post People are betting on wildfires. Should th...
Rallblog

Hasbara - Israel’s “hasbara” online goon squads flood online spaces with specious remarks, distractions, whataboutism, ahistorical claims, religious arguments, and...
LareDOS

Next Stories of Laredo: Community Journaling program set for July 14, 6 p.m. at the Joe A. Guerra Library - Be part of enriching Laredo's cultural history!
Counterpunch

A Lost War, a Bad Agreement and a Possible Good Outcome - One thing is certain. The U.S. lost its war of choice against Iran. Trump and Netanyahu failed to eliminate the perceived Iranian nuclear threat, despite...
jobsanger

Speaking Truth To Right-Wing Idiocy -
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Permanent jobs under attack at Smith’s Brisbane chip factory - Global food and beverage manufacturer PepsiCo is seeking to impose significant cuts to working conditions in a new enterprise agreement, to step up its use...
Informed Comment

Netanyahu’s War on Humanity: Ethnically Cleansing the Palestinian West Bank - The grand design is to blow up the Oslo Accords, and ethnically cleanse the West Bank one sector at a time, in preparation for annexation
Mediagazer

An interview with Brian Stelter about the Murdoch family's moves to boost their political influence in California, including the launch of the California Post (Emily Dreyfuss/The San Francisco Standard) - Emily Dreyfuss / The San Francisco Standard: *An interview with Brian Stelter about the Murdoch family's moves to boost their political influence in Cali...
Popular Resistance

America’s ‘Independence’ Celebrates 250 Years Of Jingoism And Genocide - merican jingoism remains the ruling ideology of the United States, on the right as well as the left and centre. The upcoming 250th anniversary of indepen...
Deadline Politics

What Bill Maher Said About Trump And The Left As He Received Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize: “You Want To Not Get Mocked? Stop Being Funny” - Bill Maher celebrated his ability to anger the right and the left as he received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize, with a message to those who complai...
Political Wire

The Supreme Court Builds Its Own Massive Police Force - Politico: “It’s often said that the Supreme Court has no army. Yet, with little fanfare, the size of the Supreme Court’s police force has begun mushrooming...
Raw Story

Supreme Court signaling willingness to test Trump's 'wildly illegal' order: expert - A legal expert warned on Sunday that the Supreme Court seems willing to test the limits of America's constitutional multiracial democracy by approving a ...
Slate

This Was the *House of the Dragon *Episode Rhaenyra Finally Became Queen - An aftermath, a conspiracy, a takeover, and several deaths on Episode 2 of House of the Dragon’s third season.
Daily Cartoonist

Summer Sunday #2 - Mike Peterson’s Comic Strip of the Day brings up a sore spot with me: the quickly vanishing sources where one can find the Sunday Doonesbury title panel. A...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: Biden says Trump has ‘diminished’ US standing in the world as he attacks his successor - Former president calls Trump ‘a loser’ and criticizes his attempted makeover of Washington. Key US politics stories from Sunday 28 June at a glance Joe...
The Week

The push to protect your fingerprints - Experts have devised a way to update your fingerprints and iris data
The Root

BET Awards 2026: All the Best Moments, Surprises You Missed! - From Janet Jackson's surprising pop-up to Lauryn Hill's insanely good tribute, the 2026 BET Awards were filled with great moments! Let's get into it! Re...
The Greanville Post

End of Empire: A Report to America - JMH—America is not facing an ordinary downturn, an ordinary war, or an ordinary foreign-policy failure. It is approaching a systemic breaking point in whic...
Claytoonz

Fave Refugees - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Axios

Tension with unions shadows Moore's run-up to 2028 - Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has cast himself as a champion of workers, but behind the scenes his relationships with some labor unions are increasingly rocky....
Salon.com

“What a loser”: Biden mocks Trump over Reflecting Pool - The former president said Trump "has no shame" and is "embarrassing"
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
Mother Jones

Trump’s Sons Stand To Profit From The Critical Minerals Arms Race - Donald Trump’s network of family businesses—and network of US government deals with those businesses—is mind-bogglingly wide. A New York Times investigatio...
The Verge

Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine - Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their ne...
Courthouse News

NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission - The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
San Antonio Report

Ted Cruz bill to regulate college sports in NIL era advances - The Texan said he hopes the proposed changes, written with a Democratic senator, can save athletics from a stark separation between the haves and have-nots...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a reply to another comment about the charges against the guy who just got 30 year...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Texas SBOE’s Bible mandate is Not Religious Literacy. It is State-Sponsored,Taxpayer Funded, Religious Favoritism, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *The Texas SBOE’s Bible mandate is Not Religious Literacy. It is State-Sponsored, Taxpayer Funded, Religious Favoritism* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.*...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 28, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 28, 2026 by Tony Wikrent Trump administration begins mass layoffs at ODNI Drop Site Daily, June 23, 2026 The Tru...
Ballot Access News

Iowa Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate Files Ballot Access Lawsuit - On June 24, the Iowa Libertarian nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor filed a ballot access case in state court. See this news release. … Continue...
Undernews

Word - *Jon Ossoff: “*They worked harder burying the Epstein Files than they ever worked to lower your grocery bill. And while you pay more for everything, the Tr...
Independent Political Report

American Solidarity Party Names Lori Solyom Communications Director - The American Solidarity Party has named Lori Solyom as its new communications director, originally announcing in late spring that she will help coordinat...
Brad Blog

Sunday ‘A Quack in the Case’ Toons - …FRIENDLY REMINDERS… …Meanwhile, In Europe… …NEXT WEEK!… * * * As The BRAD BLOG’s former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: “With editorial c...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: En Plane Air: Talking with Jess Tedder - William Sarradet speaks with North Texas artist Jess Tedder about her nonlinear path as an artist and how her work as a flight attendant fuels her practi...
The AltWorld

Why must Hezbollah leave the Lebanese government immediately? - This document is not a Lebanese-Israeli agreement, but rather Zionist deception, and the Lebanese government merely stamps […] The post Why must Hezbolla...
Mondoweiss

Israel strips the Hebron municipality of its planning powers, threatening to further erode the city’s Palestinian identity - [image: A Palestinian child sits on a barrier blocking a street in the middle of the West Bank city of Hebron that Palestinians are prevented from using wh...
The Daily Poster

Lever Weekly: Is It Getting Socialist In Here? - Phantom highway robbers, a Mamdani miracle, and more from The Lever this week.
Grist

Cow manure could be the next data center fuel - The manure-to-energy field has a new sales pitch. Critics warn it could mean even more factory farms.
El Paso Matters

SNAP enrollment declines in El Paso after policy changes - As grocery and fuel costs skyrocket, fewer households in El Paso are receiving food stamps. The post SNAP enrollment declines in El Paso after policy ch...
Alternet

Trump’s unprecedented corruption is actively destroying America: report - President Donald Trump is breaking precedent in an important way, according to two experts — he is unprecedented in his corruption. “Past presidents of b...
Vox

Four easy ways to live longer - My grandmother lived to be 97. For decades she was active in her church, had long friendships with her sorority sisters, and she even got to see all six of...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: wall, Collioure - [image: Wall, Collioure]
NPR's Health Shots

These church members disagree on politics. Together they're wiping out medical debt - Trinity Moravian Church, a politically diverse congregation in Winston-Salem, N. C., has been raising money to retire medical debt in the surrounding commu...
naked capitalism

Links 6/28/2026 -
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admir...
Crooked Media

The MAGA Supreme Court’s Assault on America - The post The MAGA Supreme Court’s Assault on America appeared first on Crooked Media.
Election Law Blog

Removing a federal candidate like Dan J. Sullivan from the ballot who is not bona fide is acceptable under U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton - The line between manner rules for ballot access, which are acceptable for states to do, and qualifications rules, which states may not add to, can be a c...
Portside

The World Cup Is Undressing the Myth of Trump’s American Homogeneity - The World Cup Is Undressing the Myth of Trump’s American Homogeneity Dave Sat, 06/27/2026 - 17:49
See You In 2020

Democrat entryism always fails. Socialist patriotism is the class struggle’s only path forward. - Marxist Unity Group, one of the DSA factions that identifies with communism, has put forth a plan that can supposedly let them overcome the pro-bourgeoi...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for June 22 - 26 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Unsurprisingly, the most significant high frequency indicator of the we...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 4: THE CLARITY ACT AND THE STABLECOIN WARS - As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that...
The Progressive Wing

6/27-28 Weekend News Roundup and Open Thread - Happy Gay Pride weekend everyone!
CultureMap Houston

Killen to close Michelin-rated Houston restaurant and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston stories of the week, from a major closure announcement to big news for Texas hockey fans. Read on ...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s ¡Viaje! vinyl nights find a home at Pearl cocktail spot Jue Let - ¡Viaje!’s Summer Vinyl Series has settled into its groove at Jue Let, the innovative Pearl cocktail bar opened by Best Quality Daughter’s Jennifer Hwa D...
Consortium News

WATCH: TWTW — ‘Europe & Russia Stare at War’ - Europe trash talks war. Putin says Russia is ready. The U.S.-Iran ceasefire breaks down again and does NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s victories really signal a...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Trump never fails to say "Hussein!" - *SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2026* *A tool pretends to explain: *The meltdown came from various directions in the course of this past week. In one venue, the me...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 27 June 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. Reminder: If you like a blog post I link to here, leave a supportive comment *on th...
Seeing the Forest

Imagine - This post was first published at Imagine Democracy – Imagining government of the people, by the people and for the people. Imagine a government run to do g...
Lowering the Bar

Nicholas Rossi Finally Extradited From Earth - It took a lot longer to get him out of Scotland.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

There’s No “P” In Our Ool - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb When I first peeped that aerial shot on Reuters, it wouldn’t leave my mind. On the one hand, it’s another bucke...
Workers World

Letter to the editor - [image: Letter to the editor] June 6, 2026 Depiction of the first vote by African American men under Reconstruction in 1867. Dear brothers and sisters, I a...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EYE ON THE SPARROW Y'ALL EDITION. - *DANCE PARTY!!* It seems the closer we get to the big two-five-oh -- that is, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence -- the stupider t...
Capital & Main

As Cold Storage Company Became Global Titan, Fire Risks Piled Up - Lineage transformed food supply chains and made its owners rich. Now it’s hired a crisis team in the wake of East L.A. warehouse fire. The post As Cold S...
Dissent Magazine

The New York Left’s Super Tuesday - The Democratic Party establishment was not happy about Zohran Mamdani’s election, but most did not treat it as an existential threat. The results of the ...
IVN

He Ran as a Democrat Once. Brian Bengs Says Never Again. - His campaign website frames the entire race around one premise: that Big Money has corrupted both parties to the point where regular people who play by the...
Progressive.org

You Can’t Pray the Gay Away - I know firsthand that conversion therapy doesn’t work. SCOTUS’ decision to protect it only hurts LGBTQ+ people.
Sludge

Trump's $88B Iran War Supplemental Would Reward the Contractors Funding His Fourth of July Bash - Lockheed Martin, RTX, and other Freedom 250 sponsors stand to profit from the skyrocketing Pentagon budget and replenishing of missiles fired on Iran.
Common Dreams

Court Upholds Life-Saving National Soot Air Quality Standard - Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the national, health-based limit on fine particulate matter (PM2.5), also known as soot, tha...
The Militant

US, Tehran deal means no peace in the Mideast - Washington and Tehran signed a 14-point “Memorandum of Understanding” June 17. But this is not a “peace” agreement, it’s a move by Washington to work with ...
Environment Texas

Senate panel advances bill to fund repairs to national parks - Legislation would provide long-term funding to repair aging roads, trails, campgrounds and water systems in national parks. The post Senate panel advance...
The Conversation

In 2 landmark decisions, the Supreme Court expands gun rights for concealed carry holders and casual drug users - Two recent Supreme Court rulings suggest the high court is so pro-gun it has decided it must also be pro-drugs.
Earthworks

Indigenous Council Files Complaint Over Indonesian Mine’s Responsible Producer Certification - Copper Mark awarded PT Freeport Indonesia a renewed certification claiming that their Grasberg facility “fully meets” all but one of its 33 criteria for ...
Rewire

Planned Parenthood Endorses Graham Platner for Maine Senate Seat - Plus, medical records of trans kids in New York are safe for now, and family planning organizations fight Trump on Title X overhaul. The post Planned Par...
Democracy Now!

Bayer/Monsanto Wins Roundup Case as Supreme Court Blocks Suit over Link Between Herbicide & Cancer - The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 to restrict thousands of lawsuits claiming Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto, had a duty to warn consumers about potential ...
Texas Observer

Portrait of Us, 2019-2023 - The post Portrait of Us, 2019-2023 appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Socialist Alternative

AI IPOs: Next Stage Of The Bubble? - While we pay through the nose for shortages stemming from Trump’s war on Iran, his billionaire friends are gambling trillions on the AI bubble. Elon Musk’s...
Antiwar.com

War and Constitutional Indifference - Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Flashback - That time when an anti-LGBTQ pastor claimed that gay men have sex with gerbils and cell phones - *(Editor's note - This flashback post piggybacks on my last two posts (which I hope you have read and shared) about how negative images and narratives pl...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report June 26, 2026 - Black Agenda Report June 26, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/26/2026 - 03:28 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Wolf Street

Inflation in “Core Services” Surges, plus AI’s Impact on Electricity & Goods: Inflation beyond Gasoline - The 6-Month "core services" PCE price index jumped 4.2% annualized, pushed the 6-month core PCE to 4.1%, worst since June 2023.
Discourse

Super PACs Are No Match for Zohran Mamdani (w/Jack Crosbie) - Plus: Big wins in the New York primaries, ranking NYC avenues, and Taylor and Travis' cursed wedding at MSG
Project Censored

Frame-Checking Generative AI’s Role in Transmitting News - Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth As large language models (LLMs), a new generation of AI chatbots, and other forms of generative AI (artificial intellig...
The NM Political Report

Top New Mexico Republican official charged in fatal hit and run, months after being charged with street racing and speeding - [image: Kimberly Skaggs] Las Cruces Police used traffic cameras, GPS and old fashioned detective work to track down the vehicle and driver witnesses photo...
Church and State

A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations - It is painfully apparent that nearly every major abuse and usurpation by King George III has been replicated by Trump.
Liberation News

What Texas’ roots of repression can teach us about the Prairieland sentences - The message this ruling sends is unmistakable: the state will deploy the full machinery of repression in order to crush dissent and maximize its control ov...
The Grayzone

Leaked emails reveal British intel instigated riots in occupied Ireland with twisted ploys - Leaked emails expose how British military-intel officials deliberately provoked riots among occupied Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities, which...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Surveillance is Driving a Corporatization of Police Departments - What are the implications of having for-profit companies at the heart of American police departments?
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Democratic Reality Check: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Primary Season: 2026 Already Surpasses Average Number of Incumbent Losses, and a Low Number of Incumbents are Running - After this week's primaries, 7 House incumbents have been denied renomination. This is above the postwar average of 6.5 losses, and there are some other ...
MintPress News

Hezbollah Hunts Down Hind Rajab’s Killers & Crushes Israeli Offensive - More than two years after six-year-old Hind Rajab was killed alongside her rescuers in Gaza, Hezbollah is systematically targeting commanders linked to t...
Bracing Views

The Real Enemy Is War - For Democracy to Prosper, America’s Wars Must End BILL ASTORE JUN 24, 2026 To democracy, the real enemy is war. Almost any excess, any use of power, any ab...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Ecosophia

June 2026 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Media Lens

Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy - On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. ...
Land Destroyer

US Cements Political Capture of Armenia as it Advances “Extending Russia” Strategy - *June 15, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and...
Idavox

Promoter of NJ Neo-Nazi Show Doubles Down on Beliefs While Two Bands Bow Out - UPDATE: about an hour after we posted this article, the Wisla Club where Vengeance Fest... The post Promoter of NJ Neo-Nazi Show Doubles Down on Beliefs ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Most Effective Research To Prevent Violence Is Buried For Ideological Reasons! - The academic world has been steadily improving research about how to reduce violence and solve many other social problems for decades, if not well over ...
Krebs on Security

Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial - Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the...
The Texas Signal

Celebrating Pride In Caldwell County - Pride of Caldwell County rekindles the original community spirit of Pride. Rather than a highly organized one-day affair, the town spreads out events in lo...
NORML

Virginia: Lawmakers Approve Budget Language Regulating Adult-Use Cannabis Sales in 2027 - [image: A uniform pattern of preroll marijuana joints on a green background][image: A uniform pattern of preroll marijuana joints on a green background]Un...
TalkLeft

Happy Father's Day and Open Thread - Happy Father's Day to all. A day of tribute and for many, remembrances. My dad passed away at age 81 in 2001. Something reminds me of him every day. His ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not another one, aw, no - "Girl With Mug" is a painting by Iranzy Art. Not sure where we are in any given minute with the Iran ceasefire deal, during which, as usual, Israel has ...
Trivial Knot

Thoughts on maintaining a game diary - I’ve been maintaining a video game diary since 2021. I post it publicly on my pillowfort. It is not the only media diary I maintain, I also review books ...
Field Negro

No exit in sight. - I few months ago I was driving down to Louisiana to play golf with some friends of mine. I had a craving for a bag of those pecan nuts that they serve...
Alas, a Blog

Fox Goggles - It took me a few tries to write this strip. It’s the most vexing question of the Trump era, for me: How can so many people support Trump? I’ve known a bunc...
Edinburg Politics

Edinburg Cable Network earns 2026 Silver Telly Award for holiday video “The City of Edinburg Catches the Grinch,” reports Mayor Omar Ochoa - Christmas 2025 memories came flashing back in May 2026 when South Texans learned that the Edinburg Cable Network was named a 2026 Silver Telly Winner by th...
Progressives Chat

Mamdani. Platner. El–Sayed. - In the Democratic Party, three men have been greeted with opposition. From Democrats. But also from the supposed mainstream. One of these men, beginning...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Rise of the New Normal Reich (Redux) - So I’ve got some good news and some bad news. I’ll give you that news in just a minute, but, first, I need to do a recap for any readers just now tuning in...
The Rag Blog

SUSAN VAN HAITSMA / CULTURE / Down on the Drag: Austin Music History - By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / June 15, 2026 I love learning about the place, people and history of where I live. I often wonder about the people w...
Debunking Christianity

An Interview on Atheist Morality - > > Dear Dr. Loftus, >> >> I am a secondary school student currently researching the historical >> change in morality and its link to the rise in secular...
Greg Palast

Trump’s Cage Fight GeniusHow ‘bout a cage rematch? Don “The Bovine” Trump v. Sen. Jon Ossoff? - Just when the Democrats thought they had it clinched because of high gas prices from the “little excursion” in Iran, Trump pulls off one of the most brilli...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: June 14, 2026 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: June 14, 2026 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Two Party Opera

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Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Texas Freedom Network

Five Ways Education Vouchers are Already Harming Texans - By Andrew Freeman Governor Abbott and his far-right cronies pushed for vouchers for more than a decade. It took millions of dollars, countless special se...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestra hora de defender la democracia - Nos están arrebatando el derecho a votar. Es nuestro deber restaurar la salud de nuestra democracia, mientras aún podemos. En una democracia sana, tenemos ...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 2 - In Part 1, we dissected how the “Praxians”—the Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—have seized control of the second Trump administration....
OpEd News

Stephen Colbert Deserves to Be Whistleblower of the Year - So I will say it plainly. Stephen Colbert deserves to be named Whistleblower of the Year.
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
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 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...
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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....
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

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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...
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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