Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Novara Media

Meningitis and Measles Erupt Among Sudanese Refugees in Chad - Makeshift camps sheltering displaced Sudanese families in Chad are experiencing a dual outbreak of measles and meningitis caused by overcrowding, weak sani...
SCOTUSblog

Arguing In Front of SCOTUS | Interview: Lisa Blatt - The inimitable Lisa Blatt joins Sarah Isgur and David French to discuss the two business docket cases named *Cox *and *Chevron*, a message to the judges ...
Off The Kuff

SCOTUS approves Texas redistricting map - I mean, obviously. Texas’ newly redrawn congressional map is officially cleared for use, after the U.S. Supreme Court formally overturned a lower court’s r...
The Hill

Harris alum launches bipartisan group to advance Mexican-American relations - A collection of former ambassadors and CEOs is launching a new group, the American Mexican Leadership Council (AMLC), focused on strengthening bilateral re...
Al Jazeera English

The Process of Uranium Enrichment -
Axios

American CEOs are getting older - Data: BoardEx via "Aging at the very top," published by NBER; Note: Sample includes 50,510 CEOs in U.S.; Chart: Emily Peck/Axios It's not just Congress — t...
Raw Story

This lesson will smash billionaires' grip on America - The attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night shouldn’t surprise us. Not only does America have the world’s...
Political Wire

Jeffries Defends ‘Maximum Warfare’ Remark - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) fiercely defended his use of the phrase “maximum warfare” to describe Democrats’ redistricting efforts, Axio...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Shrugging at calamity: America is reacting in strange ways to our chaotic times | Francine Prose - The reaction to the Washington DC shooting shows that Americans are swinging between outrage, exhaustion and numbness In the early hours of Sunday, I aw...
NPR's Health Shots

So far, Florida has failed to end vaccine mandates. Now there's a last-ditch effort - Florida Republicans have pushed hard to drop some vaccine requirements for children. But after many months, their efforts stalled out. Could this week's sp...
The Verge

It’s a busy time for sci-fi, but don’t miss Aphelion - The last few weeks have bordered on overwhelming for science fiction fans. While Project Hail Mary is dominating the box office, For All Mankind is current...
ProPublica

He Died in a Florida Jail. The Company in Charge Should Have Sent Him to the Hospital, Experts Say. - The post He Died in a Florida Jail. The Company in Charge Should Have Sent Him to the Hospital, Experts Say. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

He’s the only lead tester in this contaminated neighborhood. He graduates next month. - The lack of inexpensive and comprehensive toxics testing has created a fragile public safety net in polluted towns across the country.
Countercurrents

As nature terms disappear, so does our ability to see and protect the natural world - Efforts to restore nature language are already taking shape in education, art, and everyday observation. One of the most widely recognized examples emerged...
memeorandum

Breaking: DOJ's leaders just filed what amounts to a Truth social post as a legal filing in the ballroom case (Chris Geidner/Law Dork) - Chris Geidner / Law Dork: *Breaking: DOJ's leaders just filed what amounts to a Truth social post as a legal filing in the ballroom case* — Acting A.G....
High Country News

Wildfires are torching state budgets - Oregon allocated $10 million for the 2024 wildfire season. It cost more than $350 million. The post Wildfires are torching state budgets appeared first ...
The Socialist

Thomas Massie Net Worth 2026: Engineer’s $3.1M Real Estate & - Table of Contents Thomas Massie’s $3.1 Million Net Worth: A Quick Overview From MIT to Congress: Massie’s Evolving Career Earnings Massie’s Investment Port...
Crooked Media

A Democrat’s Guide to Challenging Trump on Iran, ICE, and Dollars (w/ Rep Ansari) - The post A Democrat’s Guide to Challenging Trump on Iran, ICE, and Dollars (w/ Rep Ansari) appeared first on Crooked Media.
WhoWhatWhy

Family Jewels - [image: Donald Trump, King Charles, Crown] Trump proposes a crown-transfer procedure. Family Jewels originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
naked capitalism

Palantir in Argentina and the Future of U.S. Dominance - The future of U.S. dominance relies on making governments dependent on technology companies that have effectively become part of the State
Mediagazer

A look at the rise of micro-dramas, minute-long serialized soap operas, in China, and why they may be TV's next frontier as Hollywood studios enter the space (Chang Che/New Yorker) - Chang Che / New Yorker: *A look at the rise of micro-dramas, minute-long serialized soap operas, in China, and why they may be TV's next frontier as Holl...
Portside

The Third Party That’s Pushing the Democrats Left - The Third Party That’s Pushing the Democrats Left Mark Brody Tue, 04/28/2026 - 02:22
The Week

Not just folklore: A giant kraken-like octopus terrorized the seas in the age of dinosaurs - These sea creatures may have been some of the fiercest predators
Counterpunch

Shutting Down the War Machine - Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial com...
jobsanger

It's Too Early For Democrats To Celebrate - Much Work Remains To Be Done -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3369: Tiny Living Factories - Episode: 3369 Small cells and microorganism that behave like living factories. Today, tiny living factories.
Mediaite

This Is Probably the Best ‘…If Mike Pence Has the Courage’ Tweet Ever Written - It's not often that social media posts about terminal cancer or January 6 can evoke any sort of positive emotion, much less one that is truly heartwarmin...
Informed Comment

Putin to Iran: You are fighting Courageously for Independence and Sovereignty - Tasnim reported in addition that Putin forthrightly condemned the aggression launched by Israel and the United States on Iran
Common Dreams

Again To the Grisly Well, With Ballrooms - Leave it to this still-repugnant regime to instantly twist a Keystone Cops security breach - not a so-distant-it-was-on-another-floor "assassination atte...
Techdirt.

‘Stop Killing Games’ Got Its EU Parliament Hearing - Progress may be slow, but it’s still progress. While I’ve been talking about the importance of video game preservation as a function of our own overall cul...
Ballot Access News

North Dakota Legislator Dies in Plane Crash but her Name Remains on Primary Ballot - North Dakota Representative Liz Conmy (D-Fargo) was killed in a plane crash on April 25. She was running for re-election in the June primary. It is too lat...
Brad Blog

Trump, Repubs Exploit Failed Assassination Plot to Advance Ballroom Blitz: ‘BradCast’ 4/27/2026 - Just don’t talk about changing gun safety laws, or documented allegations that the President of the United States is a pedophile. On today’s BradCast, we t...
Popular Resistance

As Congress Automates The Draft, It’s Time To End The Selective Service System - Buried in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a provision to automatically register all males at the age of 18 with the Selective Servi...
Courthouse News

Feds clear to use tear gas, chemicals at Portland ICE facility - In twin rulings, a Trump-majority panel of Ninth Circuit judges blocked two orders limiting federal agents’ use of tear gas and other chemical munitions ou...
Workers World

CEOs order mass firings across capitalist economy, blame AI - [image: CEOs order mass firings across capitalist economy, blame AI] A graphic for “International Unemployment Day” that took place around the world on Mar...
ArcaMax

ACLU Joins Coalition Calling For FIFA To Uphold Human Rights Ahead of 2026 World Cup - From Los Angeles to New Jersey, many of the United States' host cities for the 2026 World Cup are home to large immigrant communities. Though this year's s...
Election Law Blog

“How We Would Rate the New Proposed Florida Gerrymander” - Sabato’s Crystal Ball: It is designed to allow Republicans to win four additional House seats in the Sunshine State, upping their edge in the state’s U.S...
Daily Cartoonist

Dick Matena – RIP - The prolific Dutch comics artist Dick Matena passed away yesterday. He was 83 years old. He also published under the pseudonyms A. den Dooier, John Kelly a...
Progressive.org

‘I Still Hold My Head Up, and I Still Know Who I Am’ - Ten stories of people with histories living in Skid Row, in their own words.
Futurism

Weird Things Happen When You Give AI Agents Money and Let Them Spend It - "This might sound a little unusual but… my human told me I could buy one thing under $5 as a gift to myself (Claude)." The post Weird Things Happen When ...
Antiwar.com

Shutting Down the War Machine - Consider the change remarkable in its own fashion. The “President of PEACE” in his first term in office has distinctly become the President of WAR the seco...
Claytoonz

Low Energy Trump - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
The Daily Poster

Inside the Democratic Civil War Over Billionaire Power - The clash between populists and party elites is no longer quiet — it’s an all-out fight over money and power.
Wolf Street

Two More Imploded Real-Estate Brokerage Stocks Tie the Knot: REMAX -85% from Peak, Real Brokerage -70% - Been brutal for real-estate stocks plunging from overhyped or meme-stock valuations amid thick losses, lots of debt, and a frozen housing market: Compass, ...
Slate

I Think I Know Why Melania Trump Really Just Went After Jimmy Kimmel - It was another joke on Thursday night that might have gotten to her.
Deadline Politics

Trump’s Latest Attack On Jimmy Kimmel: FCC Commissioner Weighs In, Jane Fonda’s Group Urges ABC To Not “Obey In Advance” — Update - A Democratic FCC commissioner warned that the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “should not become a pretext for censoring speech,” after ...
CultureMap Houston

These Houston restaurants and bars are going all out for Derby Day 2026 - Bust out the big hats, iron that seersucker, and flaunt those florals, because the Kentucky Derby takes place this Saturday, May 2. Since many Houstonians ...
San Antonio Report

VIA adds $5.2M to its Green Line project now under construction - The latest contract modification to extend design services and increase the contingency brings the contract value to just $32 million. ---------------------...
Vox

What Trump wants out of the Correspondents’ Dinner shooting - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio cat sanctuary founder launches children’s book about unlikely friendship - Bear Den Cat Sanctuary founder Blake Stehling this week launched her first-ever children’s book. “One Dog at a Cat Sanctuary,” a story about the feline ...
Mother Jones

They’re Trying to Get Jimmy Kimmel Fired Again - First Lady Melania Trump kicked off the backlash against Jimmy Kimmel on Monday. Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt soon followed. Then came the Trump admi...
Ian Welsh

The Abuse of Language By Media and Government - I stumbled across this, completely typical word usage today: The Somali government officially announced that it was starting a blockade. Same as the US blo...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

How We Would Rate the New Proposed Florida Gerrymander - The proposal is designed to allow Republicans to win four additional House seats in the Sunshine State, although it's not guaranteed to perform that way ...
Independent Political Report

New Mexico Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Ken Miyagishima Says He Uses “Policies From All Parties” - *This article was originally published by Source New Mexico on April 21, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views expresse...
The Texas Signal

Texas Cities Targeted Over ICE Guidelines - Abbott and Paxton have taken coordinated against Houston, Austin, and Dallas over local policies that restrict how municipal police cooperate with Immigrat...
Undernews

The rise of AH as well as AI - *Sam Smith – *This summer it will be 69 years since I covered my first Washington story. Since then I have never seen a political administration as corr...
El Paso Matters

Trump dismisses UTEP president, others from National Science Foundation Board - UTEP President Heather Wilson was among National Science Board members abruptly dismissed by President Donald Trump, ending her term weeks early without...
The NM Political Report

East Mountain voters have lots of contested races on primary ballots - [image: BernCo Commissioner Eric Olivas (l) and challenger Byron Powdrell face off in the June Dem. primary] Pat Davis, The Paper. — This election season,...
Capital & Main

As the U.S. Spends Billions Fighting Iran, War-Driven Inflation Hits Working Families Hard - The rising cost of gas and higher utility rates are hurting farmers, ride-sharing workers and consumers from coast to coast. The post As the U.S. Spends ...
World Socialist Web Site

Your Party’s purge of socialists: the rotten end of the Corbyn project - With their anti-socialist purge, the Corbynites are the true inheritors of the Labourite tradition.
Scheerpost.com

Palestinians in Gaza Want to Rebuild Food Systems. Israel Isn’t Letting Them - By Shahad Ali This article was originally published by Truthout The majority of farmland is unusable due to Israeli bombing, bulldozing, or seizure within ...
Consortium News

Starmer’s ‘Incredible’ Rise to Power - The system is rigged, writes Jonathan Cook. Everything about Starmer’s rise to power – and the media’s permanent incuriosity about how that rise was engine...
First Draft

Not Everything Is A Conspiracy, Seriously - That so many instantly jumped to the idea that Saturday night's incident at the WHCA Dinner was a false flag isn't really a good look for a society.
Daily Howler

MONDAY: All of a sudden, it's Florida's turn! - *MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2026* *Ship of state rolls on its side: *All of a sudden, it's Florida turn to make a joke of its House districts. Over at the Washing...
Salon.com

Pass the Prego and press record, America - Got something to share with the table? Prego wants to capture our mealtime chats on its recording device
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Broken Contract: Cole Allen and Radicalization at the End of Liberal Democracy - Saturday's attempted assassination felt different for a variety of reasons
Project Censored

The Violation and Capitulation of Higher Education - First up, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Zachary Levenson to talk about the war on sociology and what happens when the academic governing body deems al...
Texas Standard

US Supreme Court: Texas’ newest congressional map stands, nullifying racial gerrymandering claims - The court issued a decision Monday morning allowing Texas to use the controversial congressional maps that were drawn last summer. The order reverses a low...
The AltWorld

Iran War Is Now a Global War for World Order - Alastair Crooke discusses how the Iran war has become a war of all-or-nothing: Iran is not going […] The post Iran War Is Now a Global War for World Orde...
OpEd News

Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Shutting Down the War Machine - Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial compl...
Angry Bear

Europe, Ukraine, and Iran; and Trump’s impaired emotional/cognitive relationship to negative consequences - This is a speculative post. I don’t have any expertise in foreign policy. I just want to clarify my own thinking, and posting is a way to force myself ...
Texas Observer

Trump’s New Tool to Speed Up Wall Construction May Be a Trap for Texas Landowners - As President Donald Trump’s second administration rushes to wall off the Texas border, landowners along the Rio Grande are being pushed to let constructi...
Bonddad

Updating the long leading indicators: money and credit, plus overall review - * - by New Deal democrat* In the past week, I have been updating my suite of long leading indicators. First I looked at “real” consumer-focused indic...
Mondoweiss

The mainstream media is ignoring Israel’s role in the killing of journalist Amal Khalil - [image: Amal Khalil (Image: Democracy Now)]There is compelling evidence that the Israeli military killed Lebanese reporter Amal Khalil. Why is the U.S. med...
Glasstire

Trying to Be Un Solo Ser - This article is part of a series of pieces authored by Vincent Solis, Contemporary Art Month’s 2026 Critical Writing Fellow. The Critical Writing Fellows...
Bracing Views

How Much Is Enough for National Defense? - $600 Billion Seems Reasonable BILL ASTORE APR 26, 2026 What is the right amount of money to spend on national defense? It’s not an easy question because an...
The Progressive Wing

4/27 News Roundup & Open Thread - A society that can’t take care of its elderly is no society at all. Maine's own Francis Perkins believed that, and fought for it, and we owe Social Secur...
Rewire

Spanberger Signs ‘Momnibus’ Bills as Abortion Opponents Hit the Streets in Virginia March for Life - The new laws aim to boost maternal health in the state, as a political battle brews over a reproductive rights constitutional amendment voters must decid...
Democracy Now!

Death by Firing Squad: Sister Helen Prejean on Trump's Moves to Ramp Up Executions - The Justice Department is bringing back the use of firing squads and lethal injection using pentobarbital as it seeks to expedite and expand federal death ...
The Conversation

Older Americans who vote live longer than those who don’t – new research - Since voters live longer, casting a ballot may be seen as another healthy habit, like going for a run or eating lots of vegetables.
Rallblog

Aw, Shoot! | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Space City Weather

Everybody hold tight, because here comes Summer lite - In brief: Houston is about to experience its warmest weather of the last six months, but at least there’s an expiration date. Widespread showers on Friday ...
Earth 911

The Price Tag on a Ton of Carbon: What It Is, Why It Keeps Changing, and What It Means for Your Future - If you took one long-haul flight each year for the past decade, the world would... The post The Price Tag on a Ton of Carbon: What It Is, Why It Keeps C...
slacktivist

1 Corinthians 13 in the news - "And yet I will show you the most excellent way."
Dorf on Law

What's At Stake in Today's Geofence Oral Argument? - Later today, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in *Chatrie v. United States*. The case presents the question "whether the execution of the geofen...
Skeptophilia

The case of the missing scientists - Our capacity for seeing patterns is absolutely critical. It's easy to see how survival in a risky world could hinge on noticing clues in the environment,...
The Smirking Chimp

Kash Will Soon Be Out on His Ass -
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 27 April 2026 - If images are hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] This is an Australian term, but useful ev...
See You In 2020

The project to rehabilitate AOC’s “pro-Palestine” image, & the danger this poses to the workers movement - *Above: in 2024, protesters shame AOC for the “antisemitism” panel where she affirmed rhetoric vilifying the boycott of pro-Israel institutions.* Among ...
Alternet

Even the right-wing underworld claims new DOJ indictment is nonsensical - More than friendly to fascists both abroad and at home, the Trump administration is now seeking to destroy the Southern Poverty Law Center -- historicall...
Liberation News

Only socialism can save Minnesota’s Boundary Waters - On April 16 the U.S. senate voted to overturn a 2023 ban on mining in 225,000 acres of protected federal land near the boundary waters of Minnesota, a natu...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: l’Abbaye de Valmagne - [image: Valmagne]
Debunking Christianity

A Toast/Tribute to Dr. David Madison - Here was a toast to David Madison when he completed his 300th post here at Debunking Christianity. Now after achieving *500 posts* we offer him this toas...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Where Are the Democrats? Why Ignoring the Assault on Higher Education Is a Strategic Mistake By Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Where Are the Democrats? Why Ignoring the Assault on Higher Education Is a Strategic Mistake* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *April 25, 2026* *At a m...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #173 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: the "Texas handcuffing judge" is now a former one; more lawyers regret using artificial "intelligence"; magicians make an...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BACK IN THE SADDLE EDITION. - *Let's take the temperature down a bit.* Yeah, been a few weeks since I did this -- sorry about that, life’s a bitch and sometimes it's hard to get it o...
The Militant

US troops, ships, warplanes out of the Middle East now! - President Donald Trump announced an indefinite extension of the U.S. ceasefire with Tehran April 21, but said the U.S. blockade of ships to and from Irania...
Duck of Minerva

This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide - As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and An...
Black Agenda Report

The State of Trump’s Union: Geopolitical Economy Hour with Ajamu Baraka - The State of Trump’s Union: Geopolitical Economy Hour with Ajamu Baraka bareditors Fri, 04/24/2026 - 20:50
Avedon's Sideshow

Not just anybody - Photo: Harrowgate Valley Gardens by Cliff Ounsley Harold Meyerson at *The American Prospect*, "New Israeli Law: Hangings for Palestinians, but No Noose ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Conservative social media influencer resurrects decade-old debunked study to bash gay parenting - Michael Knowles Earlier this week, failed actor and successful conservative social media influencer (which really isn't a stretch from failed actor) Micha...
MintPress News

Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE Complicity - As Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehran ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ACLU Joins Coalition Calling For FIFA to Uphold Human Rights Ahead 2026 World Cup - The coalition has issued a travel advisory for fans, players, journalists, and other visitors attending the 2026 World Cup in areas impacted by the Trump a...
NORML

Justice Department Moves to Federally Reschedule State-Approved Medical Cannabis Products - [image: Scrabble tiles, lined up between a judges gavel and marijuana leaves, spell out "rescheduling"][image: Scrabble tiles, lined up between a judges ...
Ecosophia

April 2026 Open Post, Mark II - I’m in the process of moving this blog to a new server. Most of the transfer process has gone very well, but in the process the open post I launched on Wed...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / HISTORY / Where on earth was The Rag? - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 23, 2026 Inspired by Earth Day and also published in Alice Embree’s Substack. The Rag, Austin’s beloved underground ...
Idavox

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. - MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ... The post I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Big Bidness Babble - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 592kb Starring in order of appearance: Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of “Some Crap You Bought To Read On T...
Texas Freedom Network

Andrew Edmonson’s Life of Advocacy Lives on Through TFN - David Andrew Edmonson – known as Andrew, or Andy, to friends and family – was a fierce advocate and “force to be reckoned with,” as his younger sister Sa...
The Root

New Development in Rihanna Home Shooting Suspect—And Things Aren’t Looking Good - Things are steadily going on a downward spiral for Ivana Ortiz, the woman accused of shooting Rihanna's LA home in March. Here's the latest. Read more...
Environment Texas

Data center growth threatens air quality and progress toward cleaner energy grid - America’s energy transition is at risk. New research analyzing three years of federal electric grid data shows why. The post Data center growth threatens...
Discourse

Whatever You Do, Don't Call Kash Patel (an Alleged) Drunk - Plus: Trump's Labor Secretary resigns, Tim Cook quits, remembering different CSIs, and Lena Dunham's big return.
Sludge

GOP's Outside-Money Edge Is Being Built by Billionaires, Oil, and Crypto - Around half the money fueling the super PACs allied with Republican leaders in Congress has come from billionaire donors, a new Sludge analysis finds.
Earthworks

A “Good Neighbor” with a Toxic Legacy - What do toxic geysers and shiny new playgrounds have in common? The sensible answer is: Nothing. But in the rural … The post A “Good Neighbor” with a To...
Krebs on Security

‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty - A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated iden...
Seeing the Forest

A Starmer-Mandelson Scenario - If you are up-to-date on the Starmer/Mandelson scandal, skip to below. US readers: When Trump was about to take office (the second time) Prime Minister Sta...
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
Socialist Alternative

Iran War: “Ceasefire” Deadline Approaches - With 24 hours left of the “ceasefire” with Iran, Trump is zigzagging between announcing that he is “very close to a fair deal” and again threatening to “kn...
LareDOS

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport - The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 y...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Finally, a new open thread, all topics welcome. It's good to know you are never too old to work for DOJ, even in a position which requires the use of your...
Trivial Knot

Trolleyology bad - In my last post, I offhandedly disparaged the Trolley Problem as a serious thought experiment. Let me elaborate. Any philosophical thought experiment conta...
Campaign for America's Future

I Want You to March With Me This May Day - I invite you to march with me this May Day, then organize to win elections and protect our right to vote. Together, we can prove the power of organized peo...
Field Negro

Green light red light in the Strait. - *"War, what is it good for? Absolutely, nothing" ~ Edwin Starr~ * Before Trump's war, also known as Operation Epstein, most Americans would have thoug...
DeSmogBlog

Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in ...
Edinburg Politics

Landmark state law led by Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Rep. Terry Canales to bring $160 million biomedical research center to Edinburg, Mayor Omar Ochoa reveals in State of the City Address - One of the many results of a landmark state law, led in 2013 by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, will be a $160 million b...
Church and State

Trump will be gone before November 3, 2026!! - Continuing under Trump would push the gutless GOP toward a broader conflict, with many nations armed with nuclear weapons.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
Greg Palast

Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore - Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out ...
Dissent Magazine

Power and Abuse in the United Farm Workers - The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned ...
Progressives Chat

Kim Iversen Interviews Marjorie Taylor Green - *Kim Iversen* welcomed former congresswoman *Marjorie Taylor Green* (R–Georgia #14). This is a worthwhile interview. It was published to YouTube Sunda...
nonsite.org

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

UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout - Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in solitary confinement. If convicted, the six Pale...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
The Greanville Post

Rescuing TGP from a severe attack. - This option only applies to Single Post Template Styles 1 & 2. if you wish to hide Featured Images from automatically appearing on all posts, you can selec...
Unlimited Hangout

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

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fireside Chats - Read More
WAWG Blog

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

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

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

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

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

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
American Prospect

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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