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

Raw Story

MAGA's brazen election rigging scheme is just 'tip of the iceberg': Ex-RNC chair - A former top Republican official delivered a strong warning to Democrats on Wednesday. Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National Comm...
Al Jazeera English

Brown University strikes $50m deal to end Trump administration pressure - Trump has withheld hundreds of millions in federal funds from top universities in effort to reshape US higher education.
Mediaite

Fox’s Jesse Watters Says Women ‘Let Their Emotions Get the Best of Them’ - Jesse Watters took issue with a recent floor speech by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), alleging that the senator had let his emotions control him, like a woman....
memeorandum

What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can't Stop Listening to, According to the 'Panama Playlists' (Reece Rogers/Wired) - Reece Rogers / Wired: *What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can't Stop Listening to, According to the ‘Panama Playlists’* — A new website claims to...
Mediagazer

LADbible launches Betches, the US women's media brand it acquired in 2023, in the UK aiming to fill a "gap in the market" for Gen Z and millennial women (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) - Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: *LADbible launches Betches, the US women's media brand it acquired in 2023, in the UK aiming to fill a “gap in the mark...
Ballot Access News

Axios Story Asserts That Elon Musk’s America Party Launch Looks Like a Scrub as of Now - Here is the story from Axios. Thanks again to politicalwire.com. … Continue reading →
Daily Dot

“Two sides of the same coin”: Doja Cat clowns on Sydney Sweeney’s jeans ad, but her own past haunts her - [image: doja cat mocks sydney sweeney commercial] Doja Cat mocked a controversial Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad in a Tuesday TikTok video that reminde...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - It’s time to get revved up this weekend.
San Antonio Report

Henry Cisneros honored by Japanese government for bridges built between San Antonio and Japan - Former Mayor Henry Cisneros received the highest honor Japan bestows on non-citizens in an award ceremony. ------------------------------ Henry Cisneros hon...
The Hill

Virginia city council member set on fire in workplace attack - Police in Danville, Va., said Wednesday that they were “investigating” after a City Council member was “set on fire.” According to the release, officers we...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US to impose 15% tariffs on South Korea as part of trade deal, Donald Trump says - President Lee Jae Myung says deal puts South Korea on an equal or better footing than other countries President Donald Trump has said the US will charge ...
Election Law Blog

UCLA Voting Rights Project Experts Argue, Wrongly in My View, that the California Legislature Could Engage in Re-Redistricting California’s Congressional Districts without Voter Approval - What a difference half a day makes. Contrary to the earlier reporting from Politico that California Democrats might try to call a special election to get...
Courthouse News

Patrick Byrne escapes default trial loss to Hunter Biden in defamation case - A federal judge concluded that public policy requires that Biden's defamation claim should be decided on its merits rather than by default judgment.
Popular Resistance

Seattle Organizations Unite To Say ‘No!’ To Billionaire Bailout Bill - Seattle, WA – On July 26, a crowd of over 100 gathered at Seattle Central College for a rally and community action fair organized by the south Seattle-ba...
The NM Political Report

Sen. Luján leads Democratic push to reverse health care cuts affecting 89,000 New Mexicans - [image: Sen. Ben Ray Luján led Senate Democratic leadership Wednesday in introducing the "Protecting Health Care And Lowering Costs Act" to overturn prov...
Alternet

MAGA podcasters' focus on Epstein 'grew more than eightfold' in spite of Trump: WSJ - Despite President Donald Trump’s public plea for MAGA supporters to “drop the issue,” mentions of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in conservative pod...
DeSmogBlog

Who Are the Climate Deniers Fighting the Endangerment Finding? - In late July, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced at a trucking facility in Indiana that the Trump administrati...
Claytoonz

Goons of Justice - 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...
Axios

Trump says U.S. strikes trade deal with South Korea - President Trump said Wednesday the U.S. has struck a trade deal with South Korea, matching the structure of pacts with Japan and the European Union. *Why...
Techdirt.

ICE Claims Officer Was ‘Assualted’ During An Illegal Search Of A Hospital But The Recording Shows Something Else - For weeks, ICE and DHS have been claiming there’s been an outsized outbreak in violence against ICE officers. The government preferred to use a misleading ...
Houston Public Media

Texas Senate passes THC ban that would leave CBD and CBG on the market - The Texas Senate has once again passed legislation that would ban THC. But this time, the sponsor of the bill says he addressed the concerns Gov. Greg Abbo...
The Verge

All of your international packages are about to get more expensive - President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that will suspend the de minimis exemption — which allows packages with goods valued less tha...
Political Wire

Donald Trump’s Long History of Fake History - Daniel Dale: “Trump’s imaginary story about these events nine years ago might be considered trivial compared to his lies about pressing topics like inflati...
WhoWhatWhy

Republicans Hail GDP Growth, Trump Completes Takeover of US Economy - [image: Donald Trump, podium] Now that he has claimed full credit for the economy after it grew 3 percent in the second quarter, Donald Trump and his allie...
Daily Cartoonist

Racist AI-Generated Cartoon Targets GOP Lawmaker - A local news website run by a disgraced former state lawmaker who has faced child sex charges and espoused racist views is taking fire for posting racist A...
Vox

Why Trump is picking a fight with Brazil - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Mother Jones

“It’s Abhorrent”: A Whistleblower Contractor Speaks Out as Gaza’s Famine Spreads - On June 6, Anthony Aguilar, a retired 25-year US Army veteran and Green Beret, found himself facing a daunting logistical problem. He had been recruited as...
slacktivist

Innocence, identity, and blood libel (part 2) - It's all about pride and moral anxiety and Satanic baby-killers.
Slate

Why Trump Is Failing on Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran - He bragged he’d bring peace soon after taking office. Here’s what happened instead.
Deadline Politics

As Kamala Harris Forgoes California Governor Race, The Democratic Field Offers Praise (Likely With A Sense Of Relief) - Kamala Harris’ announcement that she would not enter the race for California governor was quickly followed by a burst of praise from Democrats who’ve alrea...
San Antonio Current

Central Texas county confirms year's first case of West Nile Virus - Hays County, located north of San Antonio, on Wednesday confirmed its first human case of the potentially deadly West Nile virus for the 2025 season. The ...
Futurism

Head of Russian Space Program Touches Down in Texas - As US-Russia relations deteriorate, with president Donald Trump escalating his economic policy threats to force a ceasefire deal with Ukraine, the respec...
The Week

The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939 - Wrightwood 659, Chicago, through Aug. 2
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
Rio Grande Guardian

Logan: Valley Metro will start its microtransit bus system in rural Hidalgo County and then spread out - The idea for a microtransit share-ride bus system came out of a Hidalgo County Prosperity Task Force meeting. The post Logan: Valley Metro will start it...
Second Nexus

Nancy Mace Reveals One Of Her 'Favorite' Things To Watch Online—And The Cruelty Is Almost Comical - South Carolina MAGA Republican Representative and perpetual "pick me!" girl Nancy Mace told Fox News she watches videos of Immigration and Customs Enforc...
The Greanville Post

ORANGEUTAN: Mass m*rder in the golf bag - MOATS—Trump’s golf trips, particularly to his Turnberry course, are condemned as extravagant and funded by British and American taxpayers. Despite claims o...
OpEd News

The Peril of Spectacle, Especially Jeffrey Epstein's - Makes the case to stay focussed on civil resistance to Trump, and not be distracted by the Epstein scandal.
NPR's Health Shots

What to know about CTE, which the Manhattan shooting suspect claimed to have - The suspect in the recent New York City shooting had a note in his pocket, which claimed he has chronic traumatic encephalopathy. But that neurological con...
SCOTUSblog

Mississippi urges court to uphold restrictions on children’s access to social media - Mississippi on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place restrictions on access by young people to major social media sites like Facebook, Inst...
Common Dreams

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Whales in California From Ship Strikes - The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth sent a notice today of their intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S...
World Socialist Web Site

Stalinist provocateur goes unchallenged at Socialist Workers Party’s “Marxism 2025” Russia Course - A Stalinist who denounced Leon Trotsky as an “agent of the Gestapo” was shielded from criticism by SWP speakers.
Capital & Main

Private Equity in Hospice Care Spurs Workers to Strike - After 29 months without a contract, a new hospice union resists the financialization of end-of-life care. The post Private Equity in Hospice Care Spurs W...
Reform Austin

Cruz’s Latest Bill Could Make Organizing a Protest a Federal Crime - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has introduced new legislation that would expand the federal Racketeer Infl...
Independent Political Report

Larry Gillis Seeks At-Large Seat on Libertarian National Committee - Larry Gillis, a director-at-large on the Libertarian Party of Florida’s executive committee, is seeking one of the two vacant at-large seats on the Liber...
Church and State

‘New Era of Climate Accountability’: ICJ Says Nations Have Legal Duty to Combat Planetary Crisis - The International Court of Justice has said that countries have a legal obligation to take cooperative action against the climate crisis.
Progressive.org

Editor’s Note: A Terrifying Boomerang - A note from Features Editor Alexandra Tempus on fascism, colonialism, and the 'American' project.
Glasstire

Five-Minute Tours: “Declarations of Freedom” at Fort Works Art, Fort Worth - Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artist-run...
The Daily Poster

Wall Street’s Top Cop Scores Tax Break For Mysterious “Pre-Bribe” - Trump’s SEC chair just sold his financial services firm for more than $25 million to an unknown buyer — and is set to receive a massive tax break on the pr...
Undernews

Beloved national parks hit by Trump - *Washington Post - *The National Park Service, like other federal agencies, has been hit hard by President Donald Trump’s government reorganization. Fir...
Texas Standard

When it comes to state rules, some Texas politicians have decided they like it California-style - From food labels to lawsuit-friendly policies, lawmakers have charted a forceful path for state government.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Texas Republicans Aim for Five-Seat Gain in New Proposed Gerrymander - A proposed Republican gerrymander of Texas could allow them to gain five extra seats, although not all of these gains are guaranteed. The post Texas Repu...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Finally, the Times explains tariffs! - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2025* *Shannon Bream takes a dive:* President Trump's threats and proposals concerning tariffs have been in the news since basically...
American Prospect

Tom Lehrer and Mort Mintz, RIP - Today on TAP: Both challenged American smugness, one with satire and the other with great journalism.
The Texas Signal

First Redistricting Map Revealed - The new congressional districts would potentially net Republicans five more seats by carving out districts in North Texas, Austin and Houston
El Paso Matters

Dental student creates Smiles For All program for special needs patients - Hunt School of Dental Medicine initiative transforms dental care through innovative desensitization approach that replaces sedation The post Dental stud...
Krebs on Security

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites - Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people wit...
Wolf Street

The Fed, Torn by Two Governor Dissents, Sticks to Wait-and-See, Keeps Rates at 4.25%-4.50%, Frets about Uncertainty - “Uncertainty about the economy outlook” is back in full force in today’s statement, after it had “diminished” at the last meeting. QT continues.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Authoritarianism as Clarity: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The masks have come off
Mondoweiss

Lawmakers pressure Trump on Gaza aid, as support for Israel craters among Democrats - [image: Senator Chris Van Hollen outside the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, January 6, 2022 (Photo:6 January 2022 by Elvert Barnes Photography/Wikiped...
Workers World

No to fascist austerity! No pride in genocide! - [image: No to fascist austerity! No pride in genocide!] Workers World Boston contingent at 35th anniversary of passage of Americans with Disabilities Act, ...
Consortium News

How Palestine Action Was Banned - The discrepancy between Home Office press briefings and official intelligence reports on the direct-action group raises the prospect of a state-linked disi...
Scheerpost.com

Ellen Brown: The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - Designed to regulate stablecoins, a category of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value, the Act is highly controversial.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Amway Oligarchy and Trump’s Willing Figureheads - Certain high profile appointees in the Trump administration, think Pete Hegseth or Kash Patel, function as figureheads to distract from the increasing powe...
The Root

The Story Behind the Mysterious Disappearance of Imani Vanzap, Social Media Influencer and ‘World’s Auntie’ - Beyond the laughter and viral moments, we explore Imani Vanzap's legacy, the silent struggles and where her journey has led her. Read more...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Texas Republicans release proposed congressional map - As expected, the first stab at redistricting from the GOP legislators in Austin would give (presumably) the party five additional seats in the U.S. Congr...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buen día: Les hacemos llegar copia del acta numero 915 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva.-
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “UK To Recognize Palestine” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Get insider CIA dish on a pair of stories on today’s “DeProgram show with political cartoonist Ted Rall and...
Sludge

AIPAC-Funded Reps Propose Bill to Block Financial Aid at Colleges Boycotting Israel - A new bill from Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) would strip federal aid to universities that engage in the BDS movement or limit ...
Dissident Voice

A Needed Realization - What should one do after a required realization? The post A Needed Realization first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Bonddad

The bottom line in Q2 GDP; front-running, payback, and contrasting long leading indicators - - *by New Deal democrat* Today’s GDP report for Q2 was pretty much as we expected, i.e., payback from the front-running of import tariffs in Q1. But...
Rewire

Missouri’s Abortion Rights Amendment Fell Into the Fetal Viability Trap. Let’s Talk About It. - The viability standard failed us under *Roe v. Wade*. It doesn’t have to be the future of reproductive freedom—just ask Colorado. The post Missouri’s Ab...
Crooked Timber

“Reciprocal” Digital Sovereignity - Tech regulation raises some of the thorniest questions of our time — about free speech versus hate speech, copyright versus fair use, truth versus manipula...
First Draft

Why Are American Christians Such Babies? - Now they are allowed to annoy federal government coworkers.
Democracy Now!

"The Most Peaceful Man": West Bank Mourns Odeh Hadalin, Palestinian Activist Killed by Israeli Settler - Family and friends are reeling after an Israeli settler shot and killed Palestinian activist Odeh Muhammad Hadalin, an athlete, teacher and father of three...
The Conversation

More than 50% of Detroit students regularly miss class – and schools alone can’t solve the problem - Detroit has one of the highest chronic absenteeism rates in the nation, which can have devastating effects on student success.
Space City Weather

Sizzling heat (with a bit of dry air) for a bit longer before rain chances increase this weekend - In brief: Houston will see one more very hot and sunny day before rain chances return to the forecast. The best odds for rain come this weekend, but even t...
ArcaMax

Just Sayin' -- Obama's Tracks Led to Trump - Happy 64th birthday (Monday) to the 44th president, Barack Obama. Effortlessly cool, the first Black president proved a soaring speaker up there with John ...
Dorf on Law

Trump's Motion to Depose Rupert Murdoch Before He Dies - I have written some of my own posts (e.g., here, here, and here) and published others by my co-bloggers (e.g., here and here) either delving into or obli...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Jaw Dropping Thing To Say’: Trump Blasted After Saying Epstein ‘Stole’ Girl From Him -
Skeptophilia

A glimpse of the surreal - Haruki Murakami's odd and atmospheric short story collection *First Person Singular* looks at those moments in our lives where something inexplicable hap...
Off The Kuff

Redistricting roundup - While we wait for maps, we can ponder whether or not there will be a quorum break. As Republicans in Texas move full steam ahead with a plan to redraw the ...
ProPublica

Now That They’re Free - by Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, Melissa Sanchez and Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, Ronna Rísquez, Alianza Rebelde Investiga, and Adrián ...
Angry Bear

Boring - Musk’s tunnel drilling company, The Boring Company, has announced a privately funded plan to build a 10-mile underground people-mover connecting the conv...
Grist

Trump’s EPA is attacking its own power to fight climate change - The decision could have far-reaching consequences — including for the fossil fuel industry, which may find itself exposed to a flood of new litigation.
High Country News

An Oregon law tries to tackle garbage gases - Surveys of U.S. landfills showed emission rates were, on average, 40% higher than reported. The post An Oregon law tries to tackle garbage gases appeare...
Earth 911

Creative Repurposing of Gift Cards, Credit Cards, & Rewards Cards - Plastic cards are a convenient, ubiquitous source of plastic waste. You’re probably sporting a few... The post Creative Repurposing of Gift Cards, Credit...
Crooked Media

Netanyahu Gaslights While Gaza Starves - The post Netanyahu Gaslights While Gaza Starves appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

“Pull a Baby Out of Your Bag?” The Question That Exposes a Genocide - “What are you going to do now, pull a baby out of your bag?" The guard's voice echoed through the marble halls of Capitol Hill, his words hitting me like...
Informed Comment

US Green Beret: Israeli “Hunger Games in Gaza” (h/t Sen. Chris Van Hollen) - Senator Chris Van Hollen interviews Anthony Aguilar, former Green Beret and former contractor in Gaza, on what Aguilar witnessed there. Warning: Graphic la...
jobsanger

Trump Is Just Making The Controversy Worse (But He Can't Help Himself) -
Brad Blog

A Pu Pu Platter of Trump Corruption: 'BradCast' 7/29/2025 - News is coming in from every direction on today's BradCast, though there does seem to be a recurring theme throughout: a wholly corrupt Presidency. [Audio ...
Trivial Knot

Waking up, past tense - Do you like waking up? Yeah, me neither. I prefer that all my waking be done strictly in the past tense, i.e. to be woke. I’m looking at my drafts bin and ...
Antiwar.com

Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers - When, in his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the unwarranted influence wielded by a partnership between the ...
Portside

US Workers Say Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Causing Labor Shortages: ‘A Strain on Everybody’ - US Workers Say Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Causing Labor Shortages: ‘A Strain on Everybody’ Greg Tue, 07/29/2025 - 19:54
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump-vangelical pastor Kenneth Copeland want angels to go after those calling Trump out' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - *Kenneth Copeland Calls On Angels To 'Pull Those Devils Down That Are Attacking Our President' *-* Unlike some of my LGBTQ brothers and sisters, I belie...
See You In 2020

Russia’s long march to victory over Ukrainian fascism, & the test it’s created for all anti-imperialists - The start of Russia’s military operation against the Ukrainian fascist regime represented a test for the communist movement. This test has compelled the...
Texas Observer

ICE ‘Task Force’ Agreements Expand to Galveston, Beaumont - Nearly 1.5 million Texans now live in jurisdictions where sheriffs or police chiefs have agreed to train some of their officers to act as immigration age...
Alas, a Blog

Comic: We’ve Got Nothing Against Immigrants, Except the Immigrant Ones - I’m chuffed to again collaborate with R.E. Ryan, whose last cartoon with me was “Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless” over a year ago. I love the way his drawing r...
Discourse

How Old Does This Man Look To You - Let's judge a terrible book by its alarmingly worn cover.
Black Agenda Report

Trump SMASHES EU, Threatens Ibrahim Traoré, Putin and BRICS w/ David Hundeyin, Ajamu Baraka Margaret Kimberley - Trump SMASHES EU, Threatens Ibrahim Traoré, Putin and BRICS w/ David Hundeyin, Ajamu Baraka Margaret Kimberley bareditors Wed, 07/30/2025 - 00:00 Danny Hai...
Project Censored

Project Censored’s 2025 Summer Reading List - With temperatures soaring, the team at Project Censored believes nothing is cooler than reading a good book. The following titles are helping us stay inf...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
Ian Welsh

Real Time Iraq War Death Estimates Were Wildly Off - During the Iraq War, we were fed very low death estimates: The Iraq War Death count had an upper estimate of 43,000 by the end of 2006. The Iraqi Ministry ...
The Progressive Wing

7/28-31 News Roundup and Open Thread - Finishing off July. Summer is flying by.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 29 July 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the music post, click here.] ...
Nina Illingworth

A Schutzstaffel of His Own - Although it didn't register much in American corporate media, the budget bill Republicans just passed transforms ICE from Trump's Gestapo, into the Regim...
Liberation News

ICE and local cops join forces: How to fight back against the 287(g) program - [image: Immigration activists protest the 287(g) program in Knoxville, Tennessee. Photo credit: NDLON (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)]The 287(g) program essentially turn...
Unlimited Hangout

Bad Faith Podcast - Bad Faith Podcast.
The AltWorld

El papel de EE. UU. en el conflicto entre Tailandia y Camboya - Brian Berletic es un exmarine estadounidense, autor y experto en relaciones internacionales. Berletic analiza la influencia intrusiva […] The post El pap...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Masculinity: On "How to Be a 'Real' Man" with Lilly Sing and Guest Nikhil Taneja - *I am happy to learn about vlogger, Lilly Sing, whose body of work includes her powerful and timely conversations, including this one with Nikhil Taneja ...
MintPress News

GAMAAN: The Polling Op That’s Gaslighting the West About Iran - An investigation reveals how the influential Dutch group GAMAAN uses flawed polling methods and collaborates with U.S.-funded organizations pushing regim...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / THE BOMB / The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years out - The bombings of Hiroshima, left, and Nagasaki. Photos in the public domain. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / July 27, 2025 I have lived now for 80 years i...
Stinque

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

Honoring Cannabis Trailblazers in the Disability Community: A Disability Pride Month Reflection - [image: The Disability Pride flag flying against a background of cannabis leaves][image: The Disability Pride flag flying against a background of cannabi...
LareDOS

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Consent Factory, Inc.

America Road Trip Project - Here we go. The slightly crazy idea I floated back on July 9 has evolved into an actual book project, which will take place on the road all across the USA ...
The Militant

SWP supports, builds union fights, campaigns against deportations - There is growing interest in the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates today, spurred by the party’s activities in support of labor battles and its wo...
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION. - * I keep the telephone beside me all the time* It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – namely, that ...
Environment Texas

From report to response: Standing up for swimmable waters - New data reveals widespread bacterial contamination at U.S. coastal and Great Lakes beaches, prompting a Congressional response. The post From report to ...
Debunking Christianity

Religion Survives Because Humans Live in Vast Bubbles of Ignorance - *Reducing your own bubble requires determination, effort, and courage* It’s inevitable actually: when we are born, we know nothing about the cosmos, and ...
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...
The Grayzone

FBI surveilled 2018 ‘Russia & Wikileaks’ panel featuring The Grayzone, files show - Russiagate hysteria led the BI to spy on a panel featuring The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil. As Blumenthal warned during the discussion, t...
Lowering the Bar

Defendant Recruited Seven Actors to “Testify” in Fraud Trial - [image: image from a "12 Angry Men" play]"Are you a real lawyer?" one of them asked defense counsel.
Ecosophia

July 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...
Bracing Views

Trinity, 80 Years Later - Haunted by Thermonuclear Nightmares BILL ASTORE JUL 22, 2025 This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic de...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Earthworks

Communities at Risk: New Barrick Tailings Dam Sparks Environmental and Human Rights Concerns in the Dominican Republic - People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights. The post Commu...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Dissent Magazine

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Greg Palast

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” stat...
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...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Seeing the Forest

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

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

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

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

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Idavox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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
Salon.com

It was Conan O’Brien’s choice to leave late night this time – and we’ve never identified more - "I have devoted all of my adult life ... to pursuing this strange phantom intersection between smart and stupid"
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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