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

'Colossal mistake': Sen Mark Kelly doesn't hold back with attack on GOP - Congressional Democrats have wasted no time in going after Republicans who voted for the federal tax and spending bill that will cut health insurance and...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump administration ordered to halt indiscriminate immigration stops in California over racial profiling concerns - Judge issues temporary block in seven counties including Los Angeles after lawsuit accuses government of systematically targeting brown-skinned people A ...
memeorandum

Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids (Miriam Jordan/New York Times) - Miriam Jordan / New York Times: *Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids* — A federal judge temporarily halted the administ...
Mediaite

Raskin Calls on Jim Jordan to Haul Bondi and Patel Before Congress Over Epstein Fiasco - Rep. Jamie Raskin, who is the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, said he will demand that Chair Jim Jordan subpoena Attorney General Pam Bo...
Political Wire

The Secret Double Life of Trump’s Would-Be Assassin - CBS News “punctures Thomas Crooks’ secrecy to reveal the broadest portrait yet of the lonesome young student who tried to kill President Trump.”
Daily Dot

“Project Hail Mary” trailer breaks record with 400 million views in one week: “Rarely been this excited to see a movie” - [image: project hail mary trailer breaks records] The first trailer for *Project Hail Mary* just became the most-watched trailer for an original movie. E...
Courthouse News

Trump defends flood response during Texas visit - When asked by a reporter about flood victim’s families’ concerns that alerts didn’t go out in time, Trump said "only an evil person would ask a question li...
Techdirt.

Oregon Appeals Court Says Bullet Cartridge Matching Is Just More Junk Science - This isn’t the first state court to reach this conclusion, but so few courts bother to examine the science-y sounding stuff cops trot out as “evidence” tha...
The Greanville Post

Gaslighting: Trump, Epstein, and Soros - KIM PETERSEN--This led me to a 1998 60 Minutes interview, where George Soros openly admits that as a 14-year-old boy he helped Nazis dispossess Jews of the...
Portside

A New Far-Right American Party? - A New Far-Right American Party? barry Fri, 07/11/2025 - 22:17
The Hill

Senate Democrats join fired State Department employees to rally against layoffs - Senate Democrats on Friday joined State Department employees in protest of the Trump administration’s decision to layoff 1,300 employees this week. "This i...
Alternet

Political neuroscientist pinpoints 4 psychological markers of extreme ideologues - Psychologist/author Leor Zmigrod is known for her expertise on extremism and rigid mindsets — a topic she explores in her book, "The Ideological Brain: T...
The Verge

The 55-inch Hisense U7 is a great 4K TV under $600 for Prime Day - Amazon Prime Day’s best deals may not last for much longer, since the sale ends later tonight. This includes a big discount on the 2025 Hisense U7, a midra...
Al Jazeera English

US State Department begins layoffs in Trump’s shake-up of diplomatic corps - Mass layoff came days after the Supreme Court cleared the way for US president to gut entire government positions.
World Socialist Web Site

Trump visits Texas flood disaster: The perpetrator-in-chief at the scene of the crime - At a press conference, his first significant public response to the tragedy, held a full week after the flood, Trump refused to address multiple facts impl...
Election Law Blog

Preliminary Injunction Against Maine Foreign Influence Initiative Upheld By First Circuit - A panel of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a district court’s preliminary injunction against a Maine ballot initiative that prohibite...
Mediagazer

David Gergen, a frequent political commentator on CNN and PBS who helped shape the public images of four US presidents, has died at 83 from Lewy body dementia (Clyde Haberman/New York Times) - Clyde Haberman / New York Times: *David Gergen, a frequent political commentator on CNN and PBS who helped shape the public images of four US presidents,...
Wolf Street

Inventory of Homes for Sale Blows Out in Texas, Price Cuts Spike - The situation in Texas and its four big metros, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio.
Axios

Exclusive: Most states allow jails and prisons to charge inmates for own incarceration - Data: Campaign Zero; Cartogram: Jacque Schrag/Axios Almost all states allow jails and prisons to charge incarcerated people medical and "room and board" fe...
Popular Resistance

Who Says A Chicken Feather Can’t Fly Up To Heaven? - In 1957, Mao Zedong oversaw the publication of Socialist Upsurge in China’s Countryside, a three-volume collection of articles compiled by the Communist ...
Houston Public Media

Did fiscal conservatism block plans for a new flood warning system in Kerr County? - In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to government overspending.
Ballot Access News

Ninth Circuit Says No Labels Can’t Keep Individual Party Members from Filing to Run in its Primary for Office Other than President - On July 11, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in No Labels Party of Arizona v Fontes, 24-563. It reversed the U.S. District Court and said that No Label...
El Paso Matters

ICE, Escobar clash over access to El Paso migrant detention center, oversight policy - ICE says it followed new DHS regulations when it denied Rep. Veronica Escobar from entering an El Paso migrant detention facility. The congresswoman say...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: July 2025 - This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects–often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. I came away thinki...
Deadline Politics

David Gergen Dies: CNN Political Analyst & Presidential Adviser Was 83 - UPDATED with CNN statement: David Gergen, a political analyst for CNN and frequent political commentator who was an adviser to four U.S. presidents, has di...
Futurism

Trendy New Startup Makes You Pay to Tour Apartments When You're Looking for Housing - Back in the stone age, landlords would have to go through the ridiculous process of meeting prospective tenants, showing them their potential homes, and ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
San Antonio Report

Our Lady of the Lake partners with Laredo College for seamless transfers - The partnership aims to provide underserved students with an easier pathway from the two-year college to the four-year university. -------------------------...
slacktivist

LBCF: Fizzbinsationalism - Rapture Christianity claims the Bible it true for YOU, but that it wasn't true for every Christian who ever lived and died before special, oh so special, you.
The Daily Poster

The Abundance Plan: Cut Red Tape With More Paperwork - Abundance Democrats are adding more red tape to fight affordable housing efforts — to the benefit of corporate monopolists limiting new home construction.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: Ten arrests, but no reports? - *FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2025* *Segregation by viewpoint:* In all honesty, we'd already begun to wonder about it. The shooting occurred on the Fourth of July. ...
Grist

Inside New Orleans’ plan to fix its energy-hogging buildings - The city's climate goals include cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035.
Scheerpost.com

Nearly 80% of Americans Think Immigration Is Good for the Country, Poll Show - A new Gallup poll reveals stark differences in American attitudes post Trump’s inauguration.
SCOTUSblog

Federal employees urge Supreme Court to keep order in place preventing their firing - Three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission who were fired by President Donald Trump in May urged the Supreme Court on Friday to leave in pla...
CultureMap Houston

New Superman movie forges into the future while honoring the past - When the character of Superman was invented in 1938, it was perhaps easier to see the world in good and bad terms. Fascism was already on the rise in Germa...
Daily Cartoonist

Eulogies for a Missing Friend – Steve Benson has Left Our World - Some of Steve Benson‘s friends have written about him on the occasion of his passing. From editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman, like Steve a former president o...
First Draft

Sara Smile - Cheers to Daryl Hall and John Oates.
Slate

I Make a Ton of Money. I’m Afraid of What I’m Doing to My Girlfriend. - I'm basically forcing her to be a Stepford wife.
Mondoweiss

As Trump and Netanyahu meet in Washington, Israel unveils a concentration camp in southern Gaza - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak privately in the Vermeil Room before a dinner, Monday, July 7, 2025, at ...
The Week

Trump uses tariffs to upend Brazil's domestic politics - By slapping a 50% tariff on Brazil for its criminal investigation into Bolsonaro, the Trump administration is brazenly putting its fingers on the scales of...
Progressive.org

Firing Line: Robert Greenwald Chronicles the Killing of Combat Correspondents and Children in Gaza - ‘Gaza: Journalists Under Fire’ takes viewers beyond the censorship inside the occupied inferno where unprecedented numbers of war reporters have died.
OpEd News

The Syrian Green-Footprint Initiative - This article talks about the latest developments on the forest fires in the suburbs of Latakia Syria
Consortium News

The Chris Hedges Report: Zohran Mamdani & the Working Class - Kshama Sawant weighs her fellow democratic socialist’s triumph in the New York City mayoral primary and the obstacles to fulfilling his campaign promises h...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Consumer Protection Undone - On our live show, David, Maureen Tkacik, and James Baratta discuss the transforming of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau into an agency in name only.
The Militant

‘The working class needs to take political power in our own hands’ - SWP campaign in Minneapolis goes over the top in ballot drive MINNEAPOLIS — After nine days of campaigning throughout the city, Socialist Workers Party mem...
Claytoonz

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

15 Crazy and Magical Things About Atlanta - From strip club chicken wings to Water Boy scams and Lake Lanier, there's absolutely no other place like Atlanta, Ga. Read more...
The Conversation

How citizenship chaos was averted, for now, by a class action injunction against Trump’s birthright citizenship order - The Supreme Court can still invalidate the newest national injunction and allow the order to go into effect anywhere it is not currently barred from doing ...
The NM Political Report

Sen. Luján warns against public broadcasting cuts amidst deadly flooding - [image: U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media, delivered a Senate floor speech Wedn...
San Antonio Current

Bill Nye the Science Guy calls for fossil fuel ban as death toll from Texas flood continues to rise - TV host and science-education advocate Bill Nye on a Thursday CNN appearance warned that extreme weather events, including last weekend's deadly Texas flo...
Reform Austin

Senator Angela Paxton Files for Divorce from Attorney General Ken Paxton, Citing Adultery - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As Texas Republicans prepare to redraw congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms, experts w...
Capital & Main

Tortured by the Taliban, Locked Up in the U.S. - The increasingly opaque path for protection adopted by Trump leaves those who fled their homeland with little hope. The post Tortured by the Taliban, Loc...
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 209: “Ambiguous Grief: Steve Benson Dead at 71” - LIVE 2:30 pm Eastern, and then streaming whenever you wanna hear it: Steve Benson, former cartoonist for the Arizona Republic, a fierce critic of the Mor...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: AI in Healthcare and Science, the Nature of Charisma, and a Cure from a Mouse to a Patient - Part the First: Algorithmic Intelligence in Clinical Medicine. From the article This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here’s how it ...
Independent Political Report

Former Gary Johnson Campaign Manager Open to Working for America Party - Ron Nielson, a longtime adviser to former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and the campaign manager behind his 2016 Libertarian presidential bid, said in...
Angry Bear

Recognizing Propaganda as Opposed to Reality - There is a constant tenor that people can do better by investing their funds elsewhere other than contributing to Social Security. In the short term that...
Glasstire

Pop Art in the Age of AI - The arrival of Pop Art in the late 1950s coincided with astonishing changes in American society: the postwar production boom, expanding middle class, int...
ProPublica

Some Texas Officials Didn’t Respond to Flood Alerts, Echoing the Tragedies of Hurricane Helene - by Jennifer Berry Hawes ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrong...
Second Nexus

Bride Mocked For Posting 'Cringe' Dance Performance For Her Husband in Front Of Her Religious Parents - The bride and groom generally put a lot of effort into planning a wedding that they will love and that will represent who they are as a couple. But there...
Mother Jones

Watch: A Mother’s Journey Through a Devastating Adoption System - In the fall of 2018, Tia Goins was a new mother in crisis, facing eviction, unable to find room in a shelter, and confronting the prospect of homelessness ...
Church and State

The Dangerous Distraction of Population Decline Alarmism - According to the UN Population Division, nine countries are on track to at least double their populations by 2054.
WhoWhatWhy

One Small Thing: A Time for Action - [image: No Kings Day Protest, Bath, Maine] A good activist will still make mistakes. How you handle those mistakes is what matters. One Small Thing: A Ti...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS will host a community celebration to commemorate the 10th anniversary of its robotic surgery program - [image: |||] On July 17, 2025 South Texas Health System Edinburg will have its Robotic Surgery 10th Anniversary Celebration. The post STHS will host a com...
Salon.com

“Sinners” and “KPop Demon Hunters”: a double feature that slays through song - Two very different movies use music to highlight stories about resistance, community and cultural resilience
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Know What This Is: ICE and a War Against the People - Now is a time of choosing. And we must choose to fight the authoritarian threat before it overtakes us
Sludge

House GOP Plans ‘Crypto Week’ to Pass Deregulatory Bills on Digital Assets - The bills are backed by crypto industry lobbying groups whose funders spent tens of millions last year to help elect pro-crypto lawmakers.
Texas Standard

How to talk to your kids about the Hill Country floods - When tragedy hits so close to home, how can parents help young people process their pain and fear?
Dorf on Law

The Buchanan Rule: Every Person -- Except Buchanan -- Who Propose Simplistic Rules Is a Hack or (and?) a Fraud - Although the chaotic news cycle moves inexorably forward, the sheer cruelty of the Trump budget law that congressional Republicans are celebrating deserv...
Dissident Voice

When Fate Knocks at the Door, Take It by the Throat - It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged furiously, the lightning, thunder, rain, ...
Undernews

Word - [image: Image] Via Devin Duke
Bonddad

Putting markers down: what will it take for my forecast to activate a “recession watch”? - - *by New Deal democrat* Our data drought won’t end until next Tuesday. In the meantime, let me follow up on a theme from my analysis of the economi...
Greg Palast

Kherson: Human Safari — Zarina Zabrisky’s haunting documentary exposes Russian war crimes in Ukraine“While the world is asleep, we are dying here.” - Kherson: Human Safari is both a frontline documentary and a work of resistance art — a powerful and poetic film created inside the war-torn city of Kherson...
Democracy Now!

U.N. Human Rights Chief Slams Trump's Anti-Immigrant Policies, "Militarized Response" to Protests - *Democracy Now!* recently interviewed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The wide-ranging conversation touched on ...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 - *Are the devout in love with Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians? * When enthusiastic Christians decide they’d better read the Bible cover-to-cover...
Texas Observer

Poem for the Guadalupe River from a previous Mystic camper - I remember the river, flowing so peacefully and slowly you could almost miss its motion I remember the river, mirroring the vastness of the starry sky s...
Vox

Grok’s MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to come - From the beginning, Elon Musk has marketed Grok, the chatbot integrated into X, as the unwoke AI that would give it to you straight, unlike the competitors...
Rewire

Data on Maternal Death Is Being Distorted or Hidden, Experts Say - Pregnancy and childbirth have become more deadly in states with abortion bans, especially for Black people. But the state committees whose job is to stud...
ArcaMax

Why Scientists Are Hellbent on Helping the Hellbenders - When I first heard about eastern hellbenders, I thought they sounded like a motorcycle gang, not large salamanders the color of river rocks. I also had no ...
Space City Weather

Rain chances persist through the weekend before proper summer heat next week - In brief: Houston has enjoyed a relatively mild start to July, thanks to daily rain chances helping to keep a lid on temperatures. That pattern will persis...
Socialist Alternative

Horrors of Abortion Bans Reach New Heights - Three years ago, the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion in the US. There are now partial abortion bans in 41 states, with total bans...
The Smirking Chimp

‘I Know the Names’: Former Trump Advisor Alan Dershowitz Accuses Trump of Suppressing Key Epstein Documents -
NPR's Health Shots

Next time you see a vulture picking over a carcass, say 'thank you!' - Large scavengers like vultures and hyenas do an important job in protecting human health. But studies show these creatures are on the decline, allowing for...
Crooked Timber

Cultural theory was right about the death of the author. It was just a few decades early - There’s a great anecdote about Roman Jakobson, the structuralist theorist of language, in Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan’s book, Code: From Information Theory...
Skeptophilia

Dream weavers - In Ursula LeGuin's amazing and disturbing novel *The Lathe of Heaven*, a very ordinary guy finds that he has a completely unordinary ability. When he dream...
Off The Kuff

Hill Country flood roundup - Just some articles of interest, no real thread. Climate Change Helped Fuel Heavy Rains That Led to Devastating Texas Flood Climate scientists said the torr...
High Country News

In stressful times, what do the plants and animals have to say? - The time-honored tradition of humans looking to the natural world can help us survive difficult times. The post In stressful times, what do the plants a...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: You Can’t Talk Energy Without Addressing the Climate - This week’s quote is from journalist Chris Hayes: “Having an energy conversation without talking about... The post Earth911 Inspiration: You Can’t Talk E...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Flailing Goon Squad - The post Trump’s Flailing Goon Squad appeared first on Crooked Media.
Workers World

Ten years after her lynching – Sandra Bland: still ‘Say her name!’ - [image: Ten years after her lynching – Sandra Bland: still ‘Say her name!’] Sandra Bland If Sandra Bland were alive today, she would be 38 years old. This ...
Counterpunch

Summer Lovin’ with the Bachs - Summer is the time of family reunions. The big Bach family and had big family reunions, full of fun and music. So reported Johan Sebastian Bach’s first b...
jobsanger

Trump Claims A Power Even King George Didn't Have -
Informed Comment

Albanese Sanctions: Marco Rubio now Acting just Like Putin, Charging Human Rights Officials - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday slapped personal sanctions on United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestini...
Ian Welsh

Equal Tests For Men and Women in Front Line Combat Roles: Progress or Regression? - [image: Equal Tests For Men and Women in Front Line Combat Roles: Progress or Regression?] There has been a lot of back and forth about men and women bein...
Nina Illingworth

The Skinny: Staggering On Fumes - The Skinny returns after a brief hiatus due to a pet death in the author's family to find that things are not improving in Trump's emerging Fourth Reich....
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:07 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Brad Blog

Democracy is STILL Our Best Way Out of This Mess --- And Republicans Know It: 'BradCast' 7/10/2025 - Yes, we are under a fascistic, authoritarian takeover of the United States. Yes, it can be frightening. But our wannabe authoritarians also happen to be cl...
Antiwar.com

I Love America – Now It’s Bombing My Family in Iran - Originally published at TomDispatch. In a world where so much else is happening including, only recently, savage American and Israeli strikes against Iran,...
Liberation News

Florida builds ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to escalate Trump’s deportation war - Determined to expand its assault on immigrants, the Florida state government has completed construction of a massive immigrant detention facility deep in t...
MintPress News

Tiger Teams to Concentration Camps: ICE and its Connections to Israeli Intelligence - This week on State of Play, Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot and Robert Inlakesh to expose how ICE is targeting student protesters using Israeli s...
Common Dreams

Sierra Club: “Make America Beautiful Again” Greenwashes Most Anti-Environment Administration in History - Days after its Congressional allies sought to privatize vast swaths of public lands across the country, the Trump administration is launching a new commi...
Krebs on Security

UK Arrests Four in ‘Scattered Spider’ Ransom Group - Authorities in the United Kingdom this week arrested four alleged members of "Scattered Spider," a prolific data theft and extortion group whose recent vic...
Bracing Views

“Jew-Hater” - Strange Days in America BILL ASTORE JUL 09, 2025 I didn’t know I was a “Jew-hater” until I suggested in a comment that giving Bibi Netanyahu everything he ...
The AltWorld

Trump in SHOCK: Putin, China & Iran DEVASTATE His War Plan - Donald Trump has unloaded in an unprecedented escalation against the rising multipolar world, but he wasn’t expecting […] The post Trump in SHOCK: Putin,...
Bud Kennedy

Texas floods didn’t have to be so deadly. It’s not wrong to ask why | Opinion - When we are all sitting around heartbroken, it is our job to write about why. It is not wrong to write about what officials do to protect us from flash … C...
Discourse

What the Fuck Are We Doing - Our country's descent into an unnecessary measles pandemic is a new level of maddening.
Project Censored

The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy - Nolan Higdon and Sydney Sullivan This Dispatch is informed by our forthcoming 2025 article, “Media Literacy in the Crosshairs: NATO’s Strategic Goals and...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation presents The Price of Admission, solo exhibition of Jorge Javier López - Opening reception July 11 at Casa Daphne
Earthworks

New Leadership for Earthworks’ Mining Program - Ellen Moore is stepping into a new role as Earthworks’ Mining Program Director. The post New Leadership for Earthworks’ Mining Program appeared first on...
Democracy Chronicles

Why Trump Should Step Down - We’ve lost credibility, and our integrity has been compromised under this administration. Time for Trump to step down.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Nebraska Senate, Upcoming Special Elections - In Nebraska, independent Dan Osborn's entrance into the Senate race makes it more of a contest; given their recent overperformances, an upcoming special ...
See You In 2020

The empire's false "peace" promises, & the destruction it will unleash unless we stop its next schemes - Above: Trump with Erdogan at the 2018 G20 summit, photo by AFP The only way the hegemon’s next efforts to create catastrophe will get thwarted is if ...
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...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Transphobia takes a back seat as MAGA rages at AG Bondi over Epstein files debacle - California officials are failing to protect girls on the playing field and in the locker room. The Department of Justice has filed suit. pic.twitter.com/...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- uncomfortable realities - This video, and what I have to say about it, will make some regular readers unhappy. (At 33 minutes it's also longer than I would have preferred, but sti...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends - Perhaps the most important thing that sets A Vision apart from other works of occult philosophy in its time is that its author was one of the greatest writ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Shock poll shows Trump's approval rating savaged by key group—Gen Z - *Friends,* *Trump’s rapidly declining approval among Gen Z—a generation born roughly between 1997 and 2012—is a glaring warning sign for his campaign. De...
NORML

Johns Hopkins University Study: Cannabis Initiation Associated With Significant Reductions in Anxiety, Depression - [image: man smoking a legal cannabis joint][image: man smoking a legal cannabis joint]"Initiation of THC-dominant medicinal cannabis was associated with ...
Media Lens

Israeli Massacres Of Starving Palestinians Seeking Food Aid – Comparing The BBC And Haaretz - On 27 June, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article that demolished many of the conceits held by ‘mainstream’ journalists about Israel’s assault...
ROAR Magazine

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DeSmogBlog

UK Advertising Regulator Dismisses a “Disinformation” Complaint Against Saudi Oil Giant - The UK advertising watchdog today dismissed a complaint against a series of ads for Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, 16 months after climate campaign...
Environment Texas

How plastic in the ocean hurts animals - Plastic pollution is injuring, sickening and killing wildlife — from seabirds and turtles to seals and whales The post How plastic in the ocean hurts ani...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farías, III, longtime statewide leader in Texas higher education, appointed to two key positions at UTRGV’s School of Optometry - Dr. Fred Farías III, a lifelong advocate for higher education and a nationally respected leader in optometry and public service, has joined The University ...
The Progressive Wing

July 7/7-11 News Roundup and Open Thread - More from Bernie
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: A Complicated Man - Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.
The Texas Signal

The Flooding In Texas - As the search continues for missing Texans, many are asking why such a tragedy occurred in the first place, with different leaders casting blame elsewhere.
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...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SO FAT DON CAN READ IT WITHOUT HIS GLASSES EDITION. - *If you hate us, you just don't know what you're sayin'.* A lot of people are gloomy this Independence Day, so right out of the gate here's today's *Roy ...
Stinque

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
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 ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues - E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded versi...
TalkLeft

Sean "Diddy" Combs: Beats Biggest Charges But Bail Denied - Yesterday, with less than two full days of deliberations under their belt, jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial sent a note to the judge saying they had ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
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...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Progressives Chat

'Jaws’ and ‘Nashville’ Turns 50 - Summer has long been embraced as a time away from school, from work, and from the usual routine. I will do some of this as I give *Progressives Chat* ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
The Grayzone

Iran vs. Israel: return of the ‘Spider Web’ theory - Though it failed to achieve deterrence, Iran scored a significant political and psychological victory against Israel in June. Iran’s greatest achievement...
Avedon's Sideshow

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Idavox

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Field Negro

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Reading the Pictures

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Reveal

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Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
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Ring of Fire

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Moron Majority

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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

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Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
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

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Free & Equal

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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, ...
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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

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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 ...
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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

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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Green Pages News

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Robert Reich

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Grits for Breakfast

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Dos Centavos

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Texas Environmental News

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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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
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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.
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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.
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FiveThirtyEight.com

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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Lawfare

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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

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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Due Dissidence

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BillMoyers.com

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Downwinders at Risk

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Chicken Fried Politics

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The Contributor

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Washington Babylon

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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

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Popehat

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epic.org

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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

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INSIDER - politics news

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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

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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

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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

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TomDispatch

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Art Killing Apathy

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Defend our Movements

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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

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PERRspectives

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Progressive Army

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Austin 360

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Think 3 Institute

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IVN

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Modern Democracy

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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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