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

The Verge

Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot - Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI chatbot that lets you build AI-powered apps right inside the app. The upgrade, launching in beta, builds...
Independent Political Report

Conservative Party of New York State Responds to Democratic Mayoral Primary - The Conservative Party of New York State weighed in on Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary, accusing the Democratic Party of veering toward socialism an...
Progressive.org

Unhoused and Then Displaced, Like Me - I was one of 200 people evicted from a forest in Oregon. But with high housing prices and no shelter space nearby, where are we supposed to go?
The Hill

Sanders says Harris would be president with Mamdani's playbook - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said that former Vice President Harris would be president if she had used the same campaign playbook as Zohran Mamdani in his a...
Courthouse News

How ChatGPT and other AI tools are changing the teaching profession - By freeing up their time, many say the technology has made them better at their jobs.
memeorandum

What Zohran Mamdani's Defeat of Andrew Cuomo Means for the Democrats (Benjamin Wallace-Wells/New Yorker) - Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker: *What Zohran Mamdani's Defeat of Andrew Cuomo Means for the Democrats* — On Tuesday, the thirty-three-year-old lef...
Mediaite

Joe Rogan Slams Journalists — While Mindlessly Regurgitating Trump’s Lies - Joe Rogan trashed mainstream media but then parroted Trump’s lies, forcing Bernie Sanders to explain how press freedom actually works — and why it matter...
Daily Dot

“People are starving”: Activists float Jeff Bezos dummy in Venice Canal amid outrage over $76 million wedding - [image: jeff bezos dummy floating in venice canal holding on to amazon boxes] Video of a Jeff Bezos dummy floating in a Venice canal spread on social me...
Ballot Access News

Andrew Cuomo May Run as an Independent In November - Andrew Cuomo says he hasn’t decided yet whether to continue running for Mayor of New York City in the general election. He already petitioned under the “Fi...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's Best New Restaurant shows off at CultureMap Tasting Table dinner - Houston’s best new restaurant showed off for CultureMap readers on Tuesday night. *Leo’s River Oaks* served a meal the sold-out crowd won’t soon forget for...
Political Wire

The Democratic Party Looks to New York for Answers - Jonathan Lemire: “There are, of course, risks to drawing national lessons from a local primary election, particularly one in a city where Democrats make up...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Club World Cup: Fluminense, Dortmund advance to knockout round - - All four Brazilian clubs make last 16 - Dortmund tops Ulsan, wins Group F Fluminense completed a full Brazilian contingent i...
slacktivist

Stop asking the wrong question. Be a neighbor. - "The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor. ... Are you prepared to see them treated this way?"
Glasstire

MFAH Announces a New Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art - After a nationwide search, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced that Dr. Brittany Webb will join its staff this summer as a curator in t...
Futurism

Video Shows Tesla "Safety Monitor" Hitting Panic Button as Robotaxi Becomes Confused on Public Road - Halt! Tesla's extremely questionable Robotaxi launch has already seen some of its cars violate traffic laws. Now, new footage shows a Tesla robotaxi scre...
Slate

Will the Jury Find Diddy Guilty? An Expert Explains Why the Case Is So Tricky. - The trial is wrapping up, but the outcome is anything but clear.
Raw Story

'My God!' Experts slam Trump admin as Iranian living in US for decades detained - Experts slammed President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday for detaining an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for the last 47 ye...
Mediagazer

A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law) - Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: *A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection ...
Al Jazeera English

Death toll from rain-fuelled landslide in Colombia rises to 11 - Authorities say that rescue workers continue to search for the missing and assist residents in town outside of Medellin.
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: The BBC’s Complicity in Genocide - Armed with a report on the state broadcaster’s pro-Israel coverage of Gaza, journalist Peter Oborne in a parliamentary meeting last week eviscerated the BB...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
San Antonio Report

Bexar County shifts approach to stray dogs, animal care - [image: A stray dog at the intersection of Carney Avenue and Santa Monica Street near San Pedro Avenue is found walking along busy intersections.]Officials ...
Claytoonz

F-Bombs Over Broadway - 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...
Ian Welsh

Losing Our Asian Allies – And Fast - [image: Losing Our Asian Allies – And Fast] Ian in his last post mentioned that our Asian allies are slipping away from us. While we pretend to strategica...
Techdirt.

RFK Jr.’s ACIP Appointees Are So Terrible, At Least One GOP Senator Prefers They Not Meet At All - It’s a bit jarring to be reminded that it was only on June 10th that RFK Jr. decided to fire every member of ACIP, the CDC’s immunization advisory panel. T...
Vox

RFK’s attack on children’s vaccines, explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Church and State

Margaret Sanger was not the First - You may remember Sanger as the woman who started family planning clinics in New York; she spent time in jail for this audacious act.
Salon.com

“You have no credibility”: Lake grilled by House Committee over Voice of America cuts - Kari Lake was dressed down by representatives from both parties on her handling of government-funded media
Second Nexus

Jasmine Crockett Fact-Checks MAGA Rep's Claim That Trump's Approval Rating Is 'Soaring' - Texas Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has earned a reputation for not suffering fools gladl...
Deadline Politics

CNN Says It Stands “100% Behind” Correspondent Natasha Bertrand After Donald Trump Calls For Her Firing - After Donald Trump again attacked CNN and singled out correspondent Natasha Bertrand for her reporting on an early intel assessment of the Iran bombings, t...
Common Dreams

60+ Organizations Urge Senate to Vote No on Budget Bill that Would Raise Costs for Americans, Increase Transportation Pollution - Today, dozens of environmental, consumer, labor, and community organizations representing millions of members sent a letter to the Senate urging lawmaker...
The Week

The Week contest: Flight fraud -
Axios

Zohran Mamdani's campaign was a perfect storm - Young progressive Zohran Mamdani's historic upset in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary was made possible by a confluence of factors that have ...
El Paso Matters

Canutillo ISD adopts balanced budget after expense cuts and state funding boost - The Canutillo ISD board adopts a budget that’s not in a deficit for the first time in four years. The post Canutillo ISD adopts balanced budget after ex...
Sludge

Fossil Fuel Lobbyist Joins Thune-Linked ‘Dark Money’ Group’s Board - One Nation's newest board member is a longtime GOP political operative who led lobbying for Devon Energy and Koch Industries.
The Conversation

What is reconciliation − the legislative shortcut Republicans are using to push through their ‘Big Beautiful Bill’? - By using reconciliation, which was originally intended to rein in deficits, Republicans can pass the bill with a simple majority vote. But analysts expect ...
Texas Standard

Tesla robotaxis make a cautious debut in Austin - The vehicles currently offer driverless rides to an invite-only group. Incidents of poor driving have been reported.
Mondoweiss

Zohran Mamdani’s victory marks the end of Israel’s central place in U.S. politics - [image: Zohran Mamdani at the Resist Fascism Rally in New York City's Bryant Park on October 27, 2024. (Photo: Bingjiefu He, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0)]Z...
San Antonio Current

Pride Bigger Than Texas Festival and Parade 2025 to take place this Saturday - As the largest U.S. city to be actively led by an openly queer mayor, San Antonio deserves a big Pride bash, and the Main Strip’s annual festival and para...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: An insult like "scum" isn't even worth noting... - *WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2025* *...the second time around: *Yesterday, when he dropped the bomb in question, one news site took notice. M*ediaite *reported ...
OpEd News

With Trump, you never really know - What's Trump, you never know because he never really knows. It's all about the show.
DeSmogBlog

Louisiana’s New Bill Would Codify Gas as ‘Green Energy’ - This article by ExxonKnews is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. In a move that complicates Louisiana’s ...
NPR's Health Shots

Panel picked by RFK Jr. will scrutinize the vaccine schedule for kids - The advisory committee makes recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the nation's vaccine schedule. Any changes could affect v...
World Socialist Web Site

Kenya’s Ruto government bloodbath against Gen Z protests - President Ruto’s government has unleashed a violent crackdown on mass Gen Z-led protests across Kenya, leaving at least nine dead and hundreds injured.
Houston Public Media

Fort Bend County approves fireworks sales for Diwali for 5 years - Roughly 150,000 people celebrate Diwali across the greater Houston area.
The Greanville Post

Iran’s Calculus: The West Will Only Get Weaker Over Time - ROGER BOYD—The calculus for China, Russia and Iran is that the West is in long-term decline so they win by not being dragged into a possibly disastrous con...
Texas Freedom Network

The Twenty-Two-Hour Hearing That Couldn’t Break Us: Texan Volunteers Fight for Democratic Process - By: Elva Mendoza and Erika Slaymaker Excitement and inspiration gave way to frustration, disappointment, anger, and aggravation. Calculations were made: ...
American Prospect

Trump versus the Fed - Jay Powell refuses to bend on interest rates, but he's as bad as Trump when it comes to promoting crypto and weakening other financial regulation.
Reform Austin

Texas Grid Strengthens Ahead of Scorching Summer, Thanks to Renewables - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As triple-digit temperatures loom over Texas, the state’s power grid operator is delivering une...
Socialist Alternative

Zohran Mamdani Stuns The Establishment In NYC Mayoral Primary - This is an initial statement by Socialist Alternative on the New York City mayoral election. We will publish a fuller analysis in the coming days. In a dra...
SCOTUSblog

A blockbuster finale looms - The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is avai...
First Draft

Assholery Is Not Strength 2.0 - John Wayne meets Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Is Mamdani’s Win Over Cuomo The End of Democratic Party Neoliberalism? - Progressives in the Democratic party are declaring the ruling neoliberal class of the party leadership finished after NYC primary.
Dissident Voice

Choose a Side - Is politics a dichotomy? Or is it a political continuum? The post Choose a Side first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Rallblog

DeProgram: “A Billion Dollar Hole in the Ground” - LIVE 5 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: The political world, especially among Democrats, is reeling in the wake of the surprise upset victory of 33-ye...
Popular Resistance

The National Labor Relations Act Is 90, Under Siege, And Showing Its Age - Ninety years ago this summer, Congress passed legislation hailed at the time and for many years after as “labor’s Magna Carta” The Wagner Act—or, more fo...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: The Mamdani Upset and a Deeper Look at Virginia - In New York City, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani upset former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary. In Virginia, some interesting patterns app...
Undernews

Confessions of an old journalist - *Sam Smith *– You may not have noticed but my contributions to Undernews have significantly declined since Donald Trump took office. I’ve noticed this b...
WhoWhatWhy

Nairobi Community Offers Wildlife a Corridor Out of the City - [image: science, nature, wildlife conservation, predators, Maasai farmers, Nairobi National Park] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our edit...
The Root

DDG Scores This Rare Win in Custody Battle With Halle Bailey - Bailey and DDG have been embroiled in a legal back and forth over their child for months. Read more...
The Daily Poster

Lawmakers Reward Their Crypto Benefactors… And Iran - The president and crypto-backed lawmakers are accused of making it easier for terrorist organizations and rogue nations to deal in digital currencies.
Liberation News

PSL statement: Trump was stopped from pursuing a regime change war - The vast majority of people in the United States do not want to see another endless war.
Alternet

GOP senator 'panics and discloses' US intel sources during 'strong' interview with CNN host: analyst - A CNN national security analyst and Kennedy School professor claims Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) may have divulged U.S. spies on the ground in Iran wh...
Election Law Blog

Watching NYC results unfold - My last post yesterday highlighted the patience NYC voters might need, but it looks like the verdict was pretty clear even in the first round of results,...
Bonddad

May new home sales decline, but prices firm, more evidence suggesting rebalancing - -* by New Deal democrat* This morning gives us the last of our three measures of home sales, prices, and inventory, new home sales. These are the ...
Grist

How a 1.3-mile stretch of street became a much-needed park space in Queens, New York - “What started out as a necessity during the pandemic has really evolved into an incredible place that brings people together."
Scheerpost.com

Zohran Mamdani Delivers Stunning Blow to ‘Billionaire-Backed Status Quo’ in NYC - "The people of New York City proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires," said one Mamdani supp...
Discourse

Zohran Mamdani's Victory Is the Sweetest Thing - A good guy won. The worst people lost. Doesn't that feel nice?
Mother Jones

Zohran Mamdani’s Supporters Celebrate an Astonishing Victory - Last night, with Zohran Mamdani on the verge of an extraordinary political upset in the New York City Democratic primary for mayor, the mood outside the ca...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday – Golden Oldies - Ink Blotters Calendars are being offered for 2026, but we’re going back to 1946/47 with the Internet Archive and some Bull of the Woods ink blotters by J. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

RGV Hispanic Chamber: Tell us how the ICE raids are impacting your business - The Rio Grande Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is surveying members and non-members alike on two top issues: tariffs and immigration enforcement. Th...
Democracy Now!

"Inhumane": Marine Veteran Calls for ICE to Release His Father After Video of Brutal Arrest Goes Viral - As ICE increases its raids on immigrant communities, footage of the arrest of one man, Narciso Barranco, shows seven federal agents — all masked — pinning ...
Texas Observer

The Rio Grande Valley as Heart of LGBTQ+ Resistance and Joy - We were just about done setting up for our workshop at the San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum when Hector Ruiz, president of the South Texas Equality Pr...
ArcaMax

Campbell Keeps Capitol History Fires Burning - In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Campb...
Space City Weather

Rain and cooler temperatures will persist into this weekend before full-on summer arrives - In brief: We continue to be in an environment where showers and thunderstorms are possible, and may be numerous during the daytime. This pattern will hold ...
Rewire

LGBTQ+ Patients Stay Up-to-Date on Preventive Care When Their Doctors Are Supportive - It saves time and money. The post LGBTQ+ Patients Stay Up-to-Date on Preventive Care When Their Doctors Are Supportive appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Dorf on Law

Should Stereotyping Without Classifying Trigger Heightened Scrutiny? A Confusing Skrmetti Side-Spat - My latest *Verdict *column went live on Monday morning. In it, I offered faint praise and substantial criticism for the Supreme Court's decision in *Unite...
alicublog

YOU SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS ARE BEYOND YOUR COMMAND. - Regular readers know I lived most of my life in New York and love it in the bittersweet way of exile. So the mayoral primary victory of Zohran Mamdani ...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Chronic Disappointment’: MAGA Activist ‘Embarrassed’ She Asked People To Vote for Trump -
Skeptophilia

Curse to cure - The always-hilarious Gary Larson, whose ability to create absurd combinations of cultural references is unparalleled, had a *Far Side* comic strip showin...
Off The Kuff

Virts becomes first official Dem Senate candidate - Surely not the last. Terry Virts, a former astronaut and International Space Station commander, announced Monday he is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas...
ProPublica

A New Trump Plan Gives DHS and the White House Greater Influence in the Fight Against Organized Crime - by Tim Golden ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published....
High Country News

The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe is bridging Nevada’s healthcare gap - A new mobile clinic serves 2,000 Indigenous patients. The post The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe is bridging Nevada’s healthcare gap appeared first on Hi...
Crooked Media

Trump Fails To Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program - The post Trump Fails To Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

The Consequences of Gutting Medicaid - On June 17, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation released updated estimates of the spending cuts and tax breaks in t...
jobsanger

U.S. Should Stop Talking "Regime Change" - We Don't Do It Well -
Informed Comment

Protesting Increased Israeli Assaults on Education in the Palestinian West Bank - Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to protest the intensification of Israel’s assaults on the education sector in t...
Brad Blog

U.S. Authoritarianism Underway (But We're Still Here to Fight It): 'BradCast' 6/24/2025 - Today's BradCast is best understood --- and felt --- by listening to it. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] But, in short, here are some of th...
Wolf Street

The Somewhat Bedraggled US Dollar against the Euro, Yen, Canadian Dollar, Dollar Indices, and Soft Currencies like the Indian Rupee - No longer the cleanest dirty shirt.
Workers World

Shifting gears on Iran – U.S. war continues - [image: Shifting gears on Iran – U.S. war continues] Stay Alert! U.S./Israeli war on Iran and decades of U.S. sanctions, sabotage and encirclement continue...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From my archives - How They See Us: Unmasking The Religious Right War on Gay America - The place card for 'How They See Us.' In 2013, with the help of a few wonderful friends, I published the online booklet *How They See Us: Unmasking The Re...
Antiwar.com

Sumud: The Unyielding Heart of the Palestinian Cause in Gaza - The profound and unrelenting struggles endured by Palestinians should, by any rational expectation, have irrevocably concluded the Palestinian cause. Yet, ...
Portside

Los Angeles Tourism Industry and Labor Unions Brawl Ahead of 2028 Olympics - Los Angeles Tourism Industry and Labor Unions Brawl Ahead of 2028 Olympics Greg Tue, 06/24/2025 - 19:34
The NM Political Report

Haaland criticizes Trump budget cuts during campaign visit in Tijeras - [image: Deb Haaland] [image: Deb Haaland] By Hannah Grover Deb Haaland, a former Interior secretary and one of the Democratic Party candidates for gover...
Earthworks

By Rewriting LNG Rules, Trump Could Further Endanger the Health and Safety of Americans - People who live with liquefied “natural” gas (LNG) plants and pipelines in their communities face significant risks to their health … The post By Rewrit...
Dissent Magazine

The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia - An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of *The Milk Tea Alliance*.
Environment Texas

Right to Repair now law in Texas - Texans will gain access to spare parts, tools and documentation needed to fix household electronics. The post Right to Repair now law in Texas appeared f...
Angry Bear

The future of genomics - About six years ago, I had my genome sequenced at 30-50x coverage by Veritas. It cost me $200. For an additional $100, I purchased my variant call file, ...
Black Agenda Report

Ajamu Baraka Speaks on Israel, Iran, and Zionism - Ajamu Baraka Speaks on Israel, Iran, and Zionism bareditors Wed, 06/25/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Charisse Burden-Stelly, ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Don't Forget Who They Are: Political Amnesia in Times of Crisis - Politicians and parties are revealing who they are and what they value. We cannot afford to forget, no matter how uncomfortable it may be
The AltWorld

IRAN STRIKES TEL AVIV MINUTES Before Ceasefire – Negev Hit Too! - IRAN STRIKES TEL AVIV MINUTES Before Ceasefire – Negev Hit Too! The post IRAN STRIKES TEL AVIV MINUTES Before Ceasefire – Negev Hit Too! appeared first o...
The Texas Signal

Marking Three Years Of Dobbs - A storyteller summit convenes dozens of advocates in the reproductive freedom field from Texas and the nation
Bracing Views

The 12-Day War? - Israel, Iran, and the U.S. Theater of Death BILL ASTORE JUN 24, 2025 Last night, President Trump declared the so-called 12-Day War between Israel and Iran ...
Capital & Main

Here’s What’s Happening to the People ICE Arrests in Immigration Court - Many are fighting to keep their court cases open so that they can still request asylum. The post Here’s What’s Happening to the People ICE Arrests in Imm...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Sen. Juan Hinojosa successfully led efforts to require state and local governments to improve responses to public information requests or face consequences, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - FEATURED: Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, received legislative approval for House Bill 4219, of which she was the Senate sponsor, that will ...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Air Pollution Impacts Conumers Need to Know About Companies - With the rise of modern technologies and growing carbon emissions, air quality has become a... The post Guest Idea: Air Pollution Impacts Conumers Need t...
Media Lens

‘A Short Book About Ego… And The Remedy Of Meditation’ – An Extract - Introduction – The Machine And The ‘Horse Of The Apocalypse’ Today, Media Lens co-editor David Edwards is publishing his first solo book for 27 years, ‘A S...
Crooked Timber

Peaceful Terrorism? - The UK government has signalled its intention to “proscribe” the protest group Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation. This will place it in the...
Infidel753

The Israel-Iran war - Twelve days into the current hot war between Israel and Iran, a clearer picture is emerging, although the ultimate outcome remains murky. Israel's priorit...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
See You In 2020

The Steve Witkoff “peace deal” psyop was what got us war with Iran. The antiwar movement must learn from this. - To understand how our government was able to start this war with Iran, we have to look at how the Trump White House sold a false promise of “peace.” An...
The Grayzone

Meet the Israeli fanatic running Ted Cruz’s office - After Ted Cruz’s humiliation by Tucker Carlson, attention has focused on a top staffer of the self-proclaimed “leading defender of Israel in the United S...
The Progressive Wing

6.23-26 Open Threads - Hola mes amigos y amigas, 🙂 When we hit over 100 comments on here (terrific!), we have to clear the Nest and make room for new OTs. Anywho, the two big b...
Nina Illingworth

Forever At Forever War With Iran - On Saturday night US President Donald Trump bombed Iran and put the entire world in peril, but America's forever war against Iran is already decades old....
LareDOS

USDA launches New World Screwworm (NWS) sterile fly facility near Mission to protect livestock and wildlife - Once eradicated in the 1960s, NWS now detected in Veracruz and Oaxaca, 700 miles from the U.S. border
Idavox

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

Texas Expands Patients’ Access to Medical Cannabis - [image: Medical Marijuana Dispensary][image: Medical Marijuana Dispensary]The new law opens the Texas Compassionate Use Program to include those sufferin...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Trivial Knot

Coming out as political action - Coming out isn’t what it used to be. Literally, “coming out” has a rich history of different meanings. Originally it referred to young women coming of age ...
Lowering the Bar

Man Forced to Concede His Lawyer Is “Not a Real Person” - [image: you tube video of man's AI trying to argue appeal]Not much intelligence was displayed here, artificial or otherwise.
Debunking Christianity

Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? - *Theological humility would be admitting profound ignorance about god(s)* When I was in seminary, Boston University School of Theology, during the 1960...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Paola Ramos explores her book 'Defectors' about right-wing Latino voters | Horizonte - *Friends:* *Paola Ramos—journalist, MSNBC correspondent, and daughter of Univision anchor Jorge Ramos—offers a timely and provocative reflection on Latin...
Project Censored

Insufficient Press Coverage on the Big Data Surveillance Complex - Mischa Geracoulis As the second Trump administration is dispatching its minions to stalk US streets, smashing citizens’ First Amendment rights, in partne...
Bud Kennedy

Were the Minnesota killings ‘spiritual warfare’? Dallas school tied to extremism | Opinion - The trail of violent religious extremism has led to Texas again, raising questions about a small Dallas school for missionaries. Christ For The Nations Ins...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“Iron” Dome - Almost as if somebody threw a switch someplace, Western media were suddenly awash in fotos and video of bombed-out buildings and people weeping for lost an...
MintPress News

The Caledonian Cousinhood: How the Zionist Movement Embedded Itself in Scottish Life - For well over a century, a small circle of Scottish Jewish families has funded and staffed a movement to defend Israel’s colonial project. This is their ...
Ecosophia

A Brief Guide to Status Panic - Yes, I know I said I was going to return to the theme of climate change as soon as I got back from my working trip to England. Regular readers will know th...
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Jose Antonio Vargas on What We Get Wrong About Immigration Reform - This Mother’s Day was the first one that Jose Antonio Vargas celebrated with his mother in person in 32 years. It was also the first one his grandmother,...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
nonsite.org

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

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the Chicago “No Kings” Protest - These were people whom I would call the salt of the earth: coaches, teachers and nurses. The everyday people who love our country.
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Progressives Chat

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

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs - Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platform...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
The Rag Blog

NORMAN SOLOMON / POLITICS / When will the Democrats put up a fight? - Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action? By Norman Solomon / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2025 This arti...
Eater Houston

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

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

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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2025 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in May of 2025, with at least four deaths from these shootings, two of those were officer involved shootings wh...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
Countercurrents

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

Es nuestro momento de luchar por la promesa de la democracia - Ahora nos toca a nostoros luchar para defender y ampliar los derechos que los valientes de otros tiempos lucharon para ganar. Nada me llena más el corazón ...
The Militant

Protest killing of Israeli Embassy staffers in DC! Fight against Jew-hatred! - SWP candidates speak out against shootings in DC The following is based on a statement sent to Consulate Generals of Israel Los Angeles and San Francisco o...
Reading the Pictures

The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair - What's in a photo op? Trump's psychopathic corruption of American power. The post The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair appeared first on Reading The Pictures.
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

Media Roots Radio - Media Roots Radio.
TalkLeft

FBI Interviews James Comey Re: Social Media Post - Former F.B.I. Director James Comey was escorted to the Secret Service offices today for a voluntary interview about a social media post he wrote: On Thur...
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...
Web of Debt

President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done? - In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest plan, acc...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
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...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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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