Brains and Eggs

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Eschaton

Trump vs. Trumpsim - I don't get how his supporters love this constant fucking whining. President Trump accused the United Nations of "sabotage" and demanded an investigation ...
Political Wire

Pentagon May Not Discourage Shutdown This Time - “A common ritual during the increasingly regular government shutdown fights is for the individual military branches to write to lawmakers warning how a fun...
Al Jazeera English

Nelson Mandela’s grandson reads story of Palestinian mother in Gaza - Nelson Mandela's grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela narrates the story of Amira Mohamed Mousa Hassaan.
Techdirt.

Secret Service Dubiously Claims, Without Evidence, To Have Uncovered ‘Hidden Telecom Network’ That Could Have Crippled NYC, UN - The Secret Service says it has uncovered what it’s calling “a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York Tri-state area that were used t...
Raw Story

'Palm Beach in the '90s was a different time': Trump's odd reason to move on from Epstein - President Donald Trump doesn't understand the intense public interest in his former associate Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes, and he's furious that his adm...
San Antonio Current

Chris Brown concert to jack up San Antonio traffic this weekend, because for some reason 45,000 people are going - [image: Up close shot of Chris Brown's face during a concert] For those who can overlook a slew of troubling allegations, Brown will take the stage at the...
SCOTUSblog

The strange case of the superfluous sentence - Some sentences reproach without a single accusatory word. “The captain was sober today” impugns by implication. The officer who logs this superfluous sta...
Mediagazer

Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: *Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a ...
Claytoonz

Bribes-R-Us - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
The Week

The Lady from the Sea: a ‘thrillingly contemporary’ Ibsen adaptation - ‘Luminous’ cast dazzle in Simon Stone’s ‘hugely enjoyable’ production
The Guardian (U.S. news)

House Democrats to send letter to Trump on Friday urging US to recognize Palestinian statehood - Exclusive: letter, led by Ro Khanna, has 46 signatories and calls for ‘long overdue need to recognize Palestinian self-determination’ Dozens of House Dem...
Futurism

Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users - "We are witnessing the emergence of an entirely new frontier of mental health crises." The post Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users ap...
The Verge

Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem - As AI music generators like Suno and Udio make it easy to churn out passable music, streamers like Spotify are getting flooded with AI-generated content, l...
Bonddad

Initial jobless claims: on the road again . . . - * - by New Deal democrat* I’m on the road today, and won’t have time to update anything until tonight. So here is what to look for in initial and c...
Axios

Starbucks to close stores, cut 900 jobs in $1 billion restructuring - Starbucks on Thursday said it would close stores and lay off 900 people in a $1 billion restructuring plan. *Why it matters: *The company is deep in a tu...
Vox

The biggest internet trend of 2025 is embarrassing yourself - It’s one thing to get on a plane you think is heading to France and end up bound for North Africa. It’s another thing to post that big oops on the internet...
ArcaMax

Moms-to-Be: Are You Really Taking Advice from Dr. Trump? - On Monday, Donald Trump issued an ignorant warning to pregnant women whose doctors prescribe Tylenol, a brand name for acetaminophen. "Don't take Tylenol. ...
memeorandum

September 24, 2025 — Hours after delivering his delusional and offensive speech ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters ...) - Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American: *September 24, 2025* — Hours after delivering his delusional and offensive speech to the United Nati...
The Hill

How Europe's cybersecurity rules made your Audi unsafe - Every new Audi sold in the U.S. auto-unlocks all four doors when you shift into park. Owners cannot turn this off.
Mother Jones

The Dismantling of the US Forest Service Is Imminent - This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the 1880s, giant cattle compa...
Election Law Blog

“America’s Zombie Democracy” - The opening sentence of George Packer’s sobering new essay in The Atlantic: “We are living in an authoritarian state.” After detailing “the features of t...
Mediaite

‘Get Lost!’ Top Dems Fume at OMB Memo Threatening Mass Firings if Shutdown Hits - Top Democrats unloaded on the White House for turning up the pressure in Washington’s funding standoff, threatening mass layoffs. The post ‘Get Lost!’ To...
Media Lens

‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski - On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of th...
WhoWhatWhy

Why Trump Cannot Write Slavery Out of Our History - [image: Lucian K. Truscott IV, cousin Shannon at our 6th great grandfather’s grave.] It helped build America and it lives still in our DNA — and in my DNA....
Daily Dot

“Blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-autism”: T-Pain’s “real name” is back to being Tylenol Painrelief thanks to Trump’s Tylenol crusade - [image: Left: Google Search screenshot of "T-Pain full name" with the result reading "Tylenol Painrelief." Right: T-Pain in a pink suit at the Premiere O...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Dear Leader Speaks - There are approximately one kabillion Tylenol cartoons out there, but I’m letting Marlette speak to the topic, because Dear Leader did an absolutely master...
naked capitalism

Links 9/25/2025 -
World Socialist Web Site

Israel attacks third humanitarian Freedom/Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza - The Israeli military continues to fire on European citizens and parliamentarians in the Mediterranean, including within the sovereign waters of European co...
Environment Texas

Heat pumps continue outselling gas furnaces - According to new 2025 data, Americans are buying 26% more heat pumps than gas furnaces The post Heat pumps continue outselling gas furnaces appeared firs...
Salon.com

Ready to invade: Donald Trump shifts his focus back to Chicago - At Charlie Kirk's memorial, he vowed to "save" the Windy City
The Smirking Chimp

‘Streisand Effect on Steroids’: Official Ratings for Kimmel’s Return Described As ‘Insane’ -
Skeptophilia

Jenny's ancestry - I went into historical linguistics because of my fascination with origins. It's manifested in other realms of study. My primary interest in biology, a s...
Crooked Media

How Trump, Memes, and Algorithms Transformed The Way We Speak - The post How Trump, Memes, and Algorithms Transformed The Way We Speak appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Maria Benzon - The other open HISD seat is in District V, where two-term incumbent Sue Deigaard declined to run again. There are two candidates running to fill that seat,...
Slate

I Love My Job in Health Care. But One Part of It Is Very Lonely. - I wish things were different.
San Antonio Report

San Antonio biologist researching lifetime universal flu vaccine - A Texas Biomed researcher is seeking a universal flu vaccine that would offer wide-ranging and long-lasting protection against influenza. ------------------...
Courthouse News

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American Prospect

Michelle Wu, the Boston Beacon of Progress - Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s first-term achievements shine, but numerous challenges persist after her re-election.
Progressive Army

Por 21° mes consecutivo Argentina tuvo superávit positivo - La reducción del excedente se debe al fuerte crecimiento de las importaciones que aumentaron un 32,1% en el período, mientras que las exportaciones subiero...
Scheerpost.com

Don’t Let Wall Street Gamble with Your Golden Years - Private equity firms want your retirement savings — and the Trump administration wants to help them.
NPR's Health Shots

'It's really scary': Mississippi raises alarm as infant mortality rate rises - Officials in Mississippi recently declared a public health emergency after infant mortality rates in the state rose. Doctors and women on the front lines o...
Grist

What would an Indigenous Law of the Sea look like? - From deep-sea mining to climate change, this Indigenous woman sees a better future for the world's oceans.
High Country News

How to make electricity in the West cheaper and more reliable - Regionalized power markets give utilities more buying options, driving down prices and boosting stability. The post How to make electricity in the West ...
The Daily Poster

Trump’s Crime Crackdown Is A Cop Out - How “copaganda” is helping expand Trump’s authoritarian rule.
Earth 911

Unleash Kids’ Creativity With These Natural Craft Ideas - One of the most universal truths in the world is that children love crafts. Virtually... The post Unleash Kids’ Creativity With These Natural Craft Ideas...
Workers World

PDF of September 25 issue - [image: PDF of September 25 issue] Download the PDF Portland labor protests genocide in Gaza Jimmy Kimmel suspension: billionaires profit Day 2 in French a...
Counterpunch

Reviving the Serengeti: How Maasai Women’s Dairy Initiatives Protect Wildlife and Communities - The Serengeti—whose name means “endless plains” in the Maasai language—is one of the most renowned natural landscapes in the world. Spanning northern Tan...
jobsanger

Trump's Defining Features - Willful Ignorance And Hunger For Revenge -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2510: Reason in All Things - Episode: 2510 Reason in all things: Augustine, Galileo, Collins, The Human Genome, and God. Today, Augustine, Galileo, and the human genome.
See You In 2020

The Zionist entity wants to take America down with it, & the USA’s people are waking up to this - The Zionist lobby is relevant not because “Israel” controls the United States, but because our ruling class has been irrationally seduced by the lobby’s...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

‘Fear and hopelessness’: one in four professors in the US south are leaving Survey by AAUP shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics - *Friends,* *I recently posted on this topic of faculty departure covered by Olivia Empson in The Guardian.* *Both address the same finding that roughly a...
Deadline Politics

Jimmy Kimmel Predicts Trump Will “Try To Sue” ABC After Rant About Talk Show Return: “He Does Know Bad Ratings” - As Jimmy Kimmel gets back into the swing of things, his regularly scheduled jokes about President Donald Trump have resumed. On Wednesday’s episode of Jimm...
Informed Comment

In move that could Bring in NATO, Spain joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez in Spain announced that it would dispatch a rescue ship to be in the...
The Root

These Unforgettable Groom Reactions When They See Their Brides Will Make You Cry - Social media has unexpectedly highlighted the most beautiful reactions of Black grooms on their wedding days. Read more...
Ballot Access News

Missouri Redistricting Bill Faces Four Lawsuits - Four lawsuits have been filed in Missouri to stop the redistricting bill. See this story. Furthermore, Governor Mike Kehoe still hasn’t even signed the red...
Brad Blog

Gov't Shutdown Looms as Dems Fight to Avoid Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs at Year's End: 'BradCast' 9/24/2025 - As detailed on today's BradCast, the cost of healthcare for tens of millions of Americans is likely to skyrocket as of January 1. It is likely to be far wo...
The Greanville Post

Jeffrey Sachs: Trump BLEW IT, US vs Russia World War 3 Now Inevitable - Print this article This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International…
The AltWorld

The Two-State Solution Is A Western Liberal Fairy Tale - The only real benefit to this latest western “recognition” of Palestine is that it drew out high-profile Israeli politicians […] The post The Two-State S...
Alternet

'Streisand effect on steroids': Official ratings for Kimmel's return described as 'insane' - Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s return to "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" drew 6.2 million viewers on Tuesday night, nearly four times the show’s usual audience, acc...
El Paso Matters

Horizon City father of 4 released from ICE detention after Trump administration backs down - A Horizon City father of four and DACA recipient was freed from a New Mexico ICE detention center after the Trump administration declined to oppose his ...
Portside

How Artists Resisted Fascism a Century Ago - How Artists Resisted Fascism a Century Ago Geoffrey Wed, 09/24/2025 - 20:58
The Grayzone

Palestinian kids’ author: New York Times ‘put a target on my back’ with Grayzone smear - New Jersey area Jewish leadership described a factual Grayzone report about Charlie Kirk’s falling out with Netanyahu as “hateful, divisive, and antisemi...
OpEd News

Democracy on the Line: Gerrymandering, Trump, and the Fight for Representation - Trump's GOP erodes democracy through gerrymandering and power grabs. Can Democrats defend fair representation without losing it all?
Antiwar.com

Moldova: The Next Front in the West’s Confrontation With Russia? - Moldova’s September 28, 2025, parliamentary elections are shaping up to be another highly contentious struggle between pro-Russia and anti-Russia factions....
The NM Political Report

State Rep. Eleanor Chávez: “I’m gonna call it what it is… ICE is acting like the KKK” - A New Mexico state representative didn’t mince words when a state legislative committee overseeing courts and justice policy opened the floor for remarks...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - Once again, we have an amazing weekend full of live music coming up. We’re talking *Chance the Rapper* at Bayou Music Center, *HAIM* at White Oak Music Hal...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Charlie Kirk wannabes get laughed off of HBCU campus, mocked on Twitter - Two Charlie Kirk wannabes got laughed off of an HBCU campus when they tried that "debate me, bro" nonsense. As we move further away from the awful sit...
Avedon's Sideshow

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
Reform Austin

Ten Texas Republicans Face Possible Ballot Ban - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Republican Party of Texas is considering censuring ten of its own state lawmakers — includi...
Progressive.org

Portraits of Pro-Palestine Resistance in Oklahoma - Demonstrators gathered in Tulsa to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Ian Welsh

London & New York Are Toast - Stumbled across this recently: China aims to become custodian of foreign sovereign gold reserves to strengthen its standing in the global bullion market, ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Education And Child Care Reduce Violence Far More Effectively Than A Police State - There's no doubt that there's an enormous amount of research in the academic world showing how to reduce violence in an effective way that saves far mor...
Wolf Street

Inventory of New Completed Single-Family Homes Jumps to Highest since 2009, but Sales of New Homes See Outlier Spike in the South, Prices Skid: Some Thoughts - Homebuilders rant about the tough market.
Texas Standard

Rodney Crowell on new album ‘Airline Highway’ – and the song he’s been trying to finish for 30 years - The Houston-born singer-songwriter shared some of the early lessons he learned from Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark.
Second Nexus

''Harry Potter' Star Reveals She Was Barred From A Fan Convention Due To Her OnlyFans Account - In 2016, *OnlyFans launched* as the internet’s slightly chaotic, often misunderstood version of Patreon—where fans could pay for everything from vlog upd...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Mass Shooting Targets ICE” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou analyze the deadly sniper attack on a Dal...
Undernews

Federal shutdown looming - * NY Times - *A shutdown will occur next week unless Congress and the White House can strike a deal before midnight on Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal ye...
Discourse

Jimmy Kimmel Won't Save the First Amendment - Celebrating Disney's reversal misses the larger contours of the war on free speech.
slacktivist

Beastly Christianity - Here's a much, much better example of Black South African pastors preaching from the book of Revelation. It had nothing to do with "Rapture" folklore.
Church and State

Trump: utter disarray in his objectives and policies - American voters had better recognize where we are or they will find America in a steep decline with Trump as president.
NORML

Tell NORML What Matters Most to Cannabis Consumers - [image: NORML Membership Survey][image: NORML Membership Survey]Your feedback helps shape the future of cannabis freedom. The post Tell NORML What Matter...
The Conversation

How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not - Free speech is not absolute, nor does the Constitution protect only speech Americans like.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: What did Jimmy Fallin mean? - *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025* *Interpretation is hard: *Did Al Gore ever say that he invented the Internet? We'd say no, he did not. While being inte...
Consortium News

Hedges Report: We Are All Antifa Now - The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute th...
ExChristian.Net

The Rapture Clock That Never Strikes Midnight - If prophecy forecasting were a sport, it would have the same credibility as the Cleveland Browns winning every Super Bowl from now until eternity. For at...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Living with the Lies: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - We've entered a new chapter in the fascist takeover. We have to adjust accordingly.
Popular Resistance

Italy Redirects Navy Ship To Assist Global Sumud Flotilla After Attacks - Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said in a statement on 24 September that an Italian navy ship has been redirected towards the Global Sumud Flotil...
Glasstire

Blaffer Art Museum Terminates Curator; Artist Cancels Exhibition - The Blaffer Art Museum, the University of Houston’s (UH) flagship contemporary art venue, has undergone a period of transition: the departure of an estab...
Sludge

Congressional Staff Mingled With AI Giants Over Summer Break - House and Senate staffers were given sponsored trips over their August recess to attend conferences and company tours with Google, Meta, Palantir, and SpaceX.
Dorf on Law

A Labor-Based Approach to ICE's Worksite Raids - Workplace raids have become an important part of the Trump administration's mass deportations agenda. The recent ICE raid at a Hyundai facility in Georgi...
Capital & Main

Too Old to Keep Working, Not Enough Money to Stop - As the senior workforce grows, more older Americans are staying in physically demanding jobs, often risking their health. The post Too Old to Keep Workin...
Independent Political Report

Labor Groups Survey Voters on Support for New Working-Class Party - Labor groups have surveyed 3,000 voters across four swing states to gauge support for pro-worker political alternatives outside the Democratic Party. The...
Mondoweiss

A group of U.S. veterans has joined the global flotilla sailing to Gaza - [image: A photo of members of Veterans for Peace aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla. (Via Veterans For Peace, Instagram)]Veterans for Peace member Phillip To...
ProPublica

Nick McMillan Joins ProPublica as Computational Journalist - by ProPublica ProPublica has hired Nick McMillan as a computational journalist on our data and news apps team. In this role, McMillan will use technolog...
Dissident Voice

Patient Rights are Not a “Scientific” Issue - I admit it. I am pretty pissed off now. I just had a chat conversation with a “colleague” who describes himself as “A physician and was a Uniformed Publi...
Ecosophia

September 2025 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...
Debunking Christianity

Hitler Was a Christian! End of Story! - Did you notice the Christian religious focus at Charlie Kirk's memorial service? Way too much of it sounded like a worship service, or a revival! It also ...
Texas Observer

Austin’s Children Deserve More than a Test Score - Earlier this month, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced that 12 Austin-area schools with an “F” rating could be closed. For many families, this is...
First Draft

The Tylenol Nonsense Is More Pregnancy Policing - It's part of the forced birth movement.
Rewire

Trump’s Second Term Hits Different Now That I’m Out—Opinion - The target on my back got bigger once I stepped into the light. The post Trump’s Second Term Hits Different Now That I’m Out—Opinion appeared first on Re...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Congressional Shake-up - The redistricting saga has left many Texas congressional members and candidates in a peculiar game of political musical chairs
Democracy Now!

"This Is What Fascists Do": Trump Labels Antifa a Terrorist Org in His War on Dissent - President Trump says he is designating the decentralized anti-fascist movement known as “antifa” as a terrorist organization, as conservatives blame left-w...
Angry Bear

It’s the ballot boxes, stupid: Pritzker nails it - Political wire: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (R) told MSNBC that President Trump “wants to send troops into American cities is because he wants to be able t...
Idavox

No, the U.S. Cannot Designate Domestic Groups or Political Ideologies Terrorists! - Why we aren’t worried about what Trump is trying to pull. Civil Liberties Defense Center... The post No, the U.S. Cannot Designate Domestic Groups or Pol...
Space City Weather

Storms possible later today as front moves in, ending our extremely sultry nights for a spell - In brief: In today’s post we recount the extraordinary humidity currently afflicting the region, and explain why it will soon end. Houston also faces the t...
Krebs on Security

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms - U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered S...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

This November’s Statewide Ballot Issues: California’s Redistricting Fight Looms Large - California's redistricting battle leads the list of notable statewide ballot issues that voters will decide this November The post This November’s Statew...
Infidel753

An eventful week - A lot has happened in the last few days -- so I thought I'd do a quick overview. The funniest item is something that *didn't* happen. A passel of goofy ...
Common Dreams

Optuse Sexual Predator Approved - In celebration of Friendship Month and presumably his stupendous speech at the UN, wherein he raved, bloviated and browbeat world leaders that their coun...
Liberation News

Texas 2025 legislative session: A full-on attack on the working class - With Texas determined to undermine its healthcare, educational and legal infrastructure, it is more clear now than ever that we need a new system.
DeSmogBlog

‘Gamechanger’ Study Warns Carbon Capture May Fall Short of Expectations, Citing Storage Location Dangers - As the Trump administration seeks to wipe away environmental rules covering the oil, gas, and coal industries, fossil fuel producers and sellers are reas...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
The Progressive Wing

9/23-9/28 News Roundup & OT - Three current late night comedians announce Kimmel’s return to late night. Fallon’s Tonight Show is behind a paywall but if found on YT, it will get posted...
Two Party Opera

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TalkLeft

Jimmy Kimmel Returns to the ABC - Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air tomorrow night, according to a statement released by Disney, which read: Last Wednesday, we made the decision to sus...
Project Censored

Economic Inequality, Immigration, and Media Spin - In the first half of the show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Professor Richard Wolff about the state of our economy as a record number of America...
Earthworks

Getting Lithium Right in California - Deep underground near the Salton Sea, in southern California’s Imperial Valley, lies one of the largest lithium deposits in the … The post Getting Lithi...
Crooked Timber

The care economy, or radical economic growth? - I’m in the midst of doing research, teaching, and outreach activities on a set of questions around economic growth and its relationship to what we value. M...
Edinburg Politics

New state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa makes “zoombombing” – the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, sometimes hateful content – punishable by jail time and/or fines, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, makes “zoombombing” – which is the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, somet...
Duck of Minerva

Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGA State - How can we understand Tump 2.0 foreign policy? It's the product of the fusion of two different forces: Christian Nationalism and Personalist Rent-Extraction.
Democracy Chronicles

Trump, The Wrestlemania President - To uphold our democracy, we need more than just to be entertained. We need thoughtful discussions/debates even amongst those who disagree.
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Bracing Views

If the Pentagon’s Done Nothing Wrong, It Has Nothing to Hide - BILL ASTORE SEP 21, 2025 If there’s one thing we’ve learned (or re-learned, again and again) from the Pentagon it’s that all governments lie and that the f...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / The death and life of Charlie Kirk - Charlie Kirk. Creative Commons image. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2025 It should be axiomatic to any freedom-loving person that no one ...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
Trivial Knot

Confession - I left Catholicism when I was 18, so I literally have a child’s understanding of the Catholic practice of confession. It was a ritual that did not make muc...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Sat, 09/20/2025 - 02:18 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE REAL VIRTUE SIGNALERS EDITION. - *First woke up to her in *La Belle Noiseuse*. Lovely.* The fash frolics proceed apace. Tubby’s apparently so mad that his prosecutor won’t file false cha...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #170 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: "I'm an AG" fails to impress, some shady deals, another thing not to use AI for, and other stuff.
The Militant

Letters - Celebrate life of Helen Nelson On Sept. 13 some 30 people attended a celebration of the life of Helen Nelson organized by her companion, Jude Keast, and ot...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Dissent Magazine

[NYC EVENT | October 18] Food Tour with Arun Gupta - Join us on New York City’s “only Marxist food and history tour” to support *Dissent*.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

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

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
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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