Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Critics blast Trump DOJ 'corruption' in approval of MAGA media deal: 'Unreal' - President Donald Trump's administration came under fire on Monday after a new report revealed that it railroaded antitrust lawyers into approving a MAGA ...
The Greanville Post

How The Western Financial System Got Here - RB—Mainstream economics did its usual job by providing a supporting BS theory of the relationship between government debt and growth (Bernhart & Rogoff 201...
memeorandum

Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Sign Preliminary Deal, but Its Terms Remain Secret (New York Times) - New York Times: *Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Sign Preliminary Deal, but Its Terms Remain Secret* — President Trump and Iran's lead negotiator ...
Al Jazeera English

Journalist hit by Israeli strike while reporting in Lebanon - A journalist for Press TV has been hit by shrapnel while filming a report on Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon.
The Verge

Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts - Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the "AI Mode" option will appear alon...
Mediagazer

In a note to partners, Disney says Disney Branded Television is rebranding itself as Disney Kids & Family to reflect the nature of the division's content (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline) - Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: *In a note to partners, Disney says Disney Branded Television is rebranding itself as Disney Kids & Family to reflect the nat...
IVN

DC Says Democracy Costs Too Much. Its Budget Says Otherwise. - The DC Council says open primaries are too expensive, but the city's budget shows the real issue isn’t the price tag — it’s whether independent voters are ...
Futurism

Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class - "Remove all the distractions and we can get our kids back." The post Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class appeared first on Futu...
Wolf Street

Government Uses Strategic Petroleum Reserve as Cudgel to Beat Down Oil-Price Mania: Worked for Second Time - A new role for the SPR. It wasn’t designed for that.
The Conversation

Trump’s US-Iran ceasefire deal is a costly return to prewar conditions – and resolving nuclear questions will run into the ‘indivisibility problem’ - Iran has emerged with its uranium enrichment knowledge intact, its stockpile buried and fresh reason to believe that only a nuclear weapon would have deter...
Church and State

Donald Trump’s ridiculous White House birthday! - The list of Trump's inequities grows so long that they are impossible for most voters to remember all of them.
The AltWorld

Post-Iran war: The end of an era, not to decline, but as a trigger to abrupt change - Trump’s chokehold on oil, tariffs, and tech backfired – forging a new era of self-sufficient economies and […] The post Post-Iran war: The end of an era,...
Courthouse News

Sealed arrest records lawsuit ends in settlement - SAN FRANCISCO — The First Amendment Coalition, its advocacy director and law professor Eugene Volokh settled with San Francisco’s city attorney and Califor...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: "Absolute trash," Tarlov says! - *MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2026* *It's on TV every night:* For better or worse, the MMA on the White House lawn is over. To her credit, the Washington Post's Mo...
San Antonio Report

Heavy rain hits San Antonio area as Flood Watch remains in effect through Tuesday evening - Heavy rain Monday morning, triggered flood warnings and road closures. Forecasters warned more storms could bring flooding through Tuesday evening. --------...
Axios

Newsom says he's under investigation by the Justice Department - California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into him. *Why it matters: *Newsom alleged in a video...
The Hill

US blockade of Iranian ports it stay 'pending execution' of Strait of Hormuz ceasefire deal - The U.S. blockade of vessels going to or coming from Iranian ports is still in place “pending execution” of a ceasefire deal between Washington and Tehran ...
The Rag Blog

SUSAN VAN HAITSMA / CULTURE / Down on the Drag: Austin Music History - By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / June 15, 2026 I love learning about the place, people and history of where I live. I often wonder about the people w...
Deadline Politics

Gavin Newsom Says He & Wife Being Investigated By Justice Department At Direction Of Donald Trump - California Governor Gavin Newsom said that he and his wife are under investigation by the Justice Department, in what he called a politically motivated pro...
CultureMap Houston

Houston nonprofit tees up tournament season with lively launch party - *What:* Jamie’s Hope Kickoff Party
Mediaite

JUST IN: Newsom Announces Trump DOJ Investigating Him And His Wife - Gavin Newsom announced that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has opened an investigation into him and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The...
World Socialist Web Site

Britain seizes Russian tanker as drumbeat for more military spending grows louder - If Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer does not succeed in meeting the demands of the warmongers, then replacements are waiting in the wings to implement th...
Consortium News

UK Appeals Court Restores Terrorist Ban on Palestine Action - The court on Monday upheld the Labour government’s terrorism proscription of Palestine Action, overriding a High Court ruling in February and setting off a...
Vox

The Iran war’s end is being greatly exaggerated - One should never underestimate President Donald Trump’s ability to use sheer obfuscation to extract “victory” from a situation where the outcome is ambiguo...
Independent Political Report

Kansas State Objections Board Strikes No Labels Party From Ballot, Along With Democrat in House Race - *This article was originally published by Kansas Reflector on June 12, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expressed are...
Eschaton

Afternoon - Busy as I often am these days.
The Week

Republicans and Democrats are going to war over their dueling fundraising platforms - Donation portals ActBlue and WinRed face intense congressional scrutiny as bipartisan campaign finance reform languishes
San Antonio Current

Kanye West suddenly announces summer show in San Antonio - Controversial rapper Kanye West will perform Saturday, July 4, at the Alamodome, according to a cryptic post shared late Sunday night by the city-owned ...
Bracing Views

It’s a Most Confusing Time to be in the U.S. Military - Who knows why we fight? BILL ASTORE JUN 14, 2026 It’s a most confusing time to be in the U.S. military. Who knows why we fight? At the top, there’s a lack ...
Slate

Slate Pears Game 305: Jun. 15, 2026 - Today's puzzle has five pears.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump announces 4 July rally in Washington after hosting UFC cage match at the White House – live - US president announces rally for 250th anniversary of the nation; fighter gave rambling interview in which he repeated false conspiracy claim about Miche...
Political Wire

Trump’s War of Whim Ends With… a Whimper? - Charlie Sykes: “The deal Trump announced amid the roar, glitz, and ignominy of his UFC spectacle was an American surrender in a war that leaves us with les...
Daily Cartoonist

Hey Kids! Comics! Mad Readers - Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for June 2026 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering ...
Capital & Main

Uprooted: A Classic American Story Finds Itself on the Wrong Side of History - Alex Haley’s masterwork *Roots* turns 50 this year. But a school board’s move to ban the book has stoked outcry, including from family members like Anne ...
Alternet

'Red meat for MAGA': GOP chair sounds alarm as 'insane conspiracy theory nonsense' spreads - Election denial has become characteristic of President Donald Trump’s political movement, with him and his allies consistently promoting conspiracy theor...
The Root

The Internet is Calling Out the Irony of Tyra Banks’ New Netflix Lawsuit - Tyra Banks isn't feeling Netflix's documentary about 'America's Next Top Model,' but her latest move has fans calling her to the carpet, and rightfully s...
Project Censored

Big Tech’s Campus Takeover, ICE’s Expanding Reach - First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with media analyst Nolan Higdon to dig into big tech's hold on higher ed - namely, their aims to surveil, extract,...
Texas Standard

Texas agency to set rules for using treated fracking wastewater on farmland - The state’s environmental regulator will hold a public hearing June 15 on its proposed rules for how the toxic wastewater can be reused. Here’s what you sh...
Mother Jones

The UFC’s Despicable Night at the White House - I had never heard of Josh Hokit until the other week. But the little I quickly learned about the immigrant-bashing, trans-hating Ultimate Fighting Champion...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Surrender—Will The Iran War Deal Hold? - On March 6, after only a week of war, Trump wrote that “there will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” [his emphasis]. Three months later ...
Liberation News

People’s Movement Passes a Data Center Moratorium in Charlotte, North Carolina - ...it’s not enough to just fight against data centers as an isolated issue. The relentless drive to build more data centers is fundamentally a symptom of a...
Scheerpost.com

Jeffrey Sachs: Peace at Last—or Just the Next Pause Before War? - Joshua Scheer For weeks, the world stood on the edge of a wider regional war as the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, threatening to ignit...
Earthworks

In Colorado, Polluting Just Got More Expensive - The headlines are inescapable: In Washington D.C., generations-long environmental rules are currently under assault. Industry-friendly officials and lawm...
naked capitalism

Silicon Valley’s AI Dreams Face a Blue-Collar Reality - AI energy needs are set to accelerate planetary damage, but in the meantime, they will generate a lot of blue-collar jobs.
Glasstire

Rivers & Memory: Two Films from the Water, Texas Film Festival - Living in San Antonio, my perceptions of water might be skewed. On the one hand, San Antonians must cope with extreme weather and its consequences: flood...
Mondoweiss

Maersk, munitions, and corporate accountability in the age of genocide - [image: A banner from the "Mask off Maersk" campaign in front of a Maersk container. (Photo: Palestinian Youth Movement)]Despite years of company denials, ...
SCOTUSblog

The dissent that became a statute - Near the end of her career, Lilly Ledbetter received an anonymous note: she was being paid far less than every man doing the same job. Ledbetter was one ...
Angry Bear

Downturn in Gold Pricing could last until end of the year - When in Thailand, I most certainly did not pay that much for several ounces of 22k gold there. From the looks of it things have changed. But then that wa...
Democracy Now!

DOJ Approves Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Amid Fears Trump Allies Will Tighten Grip on Media - The Trump administration has approved media conglomerate Paramount’s $111 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros., one year after Paramount and Skydance Media ...
Debunking Christianity

An Interview on Atheist Morality - > > Dear Dr. Loftus, >> >> I am a secondary school student currently researching the historical >> change in morality and its link to the rise in secular...
First Draft

It’s Not The Cage Fight, It’s The Corruption, Stupid - The Insult Comedian turns 80 and brings what John McCain called "human cockfighting" to the White House.
Rewire

They Never Left Pulse Behind. They Just Learned to Carry it Differently. - In 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded dozens more at a pillar of Orlando’s gay nightlife. Ten years later, the tragedy reverberates. The post Th...
Texas Observer

The Troubling Disappearance of ‘El Gallito’ - Ernesto Gonzales liked to hold court in the morning from a corner booth of El Rancho in Harlingen, a busy local eatery festooned with multicolored papel ...
Space City Weather

Although some uncertainty remains, a very real flood risk exists across the Houston region this week - In brief: Houston will face the threat of heavy rainfall every day this week, but at the same time we also have some uncertainties. It is worth paying clos...
Rallblog

U.S. Surrenders to Iran | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Greg Palast

Trump’s Cage Fight GeniusHow ‘bout a cage rematch? Don “The Bovine” Trump v. Sen. Jon Ossoff? - Just when the Democrats thought they had it clinched because of high gas prices from the “little excursion” in Iran, Trump pulls off one of the most brilli...
Novara Media

Palestine Action Ban Ruled Lawful by Court of Appeal - The government has won its appeal to keep the ban on Palestine Action, while the direct action group’s co-founder Huda Ammori has vowed to “fight proscript...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Urban Surfer’s Sifiso Gumbi on Organizing South Africa’s Recycling System - In South Africa, informal waste pickers recover between 80% and 90% of all plastic and... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Urban Surfer’s Sifiso Gumb...
WhoWhatWhy

Hoop Dreams on the D Train: A Night of Roots and Tears - [image: R68 #2704 on the D line at 50th Street, Brooklyn, NY] I never thought I’d be crying buckets. Hoop Dreams on the D Train: A Night of Roots and Tears...
slacktivist

Twitter evangelicals - Twitter is still where prominent evangelicals go to register their conformity to the required Proper Stances and thus to remain prominent evangelicals.
Undernews

Word - Via Annies
Off The Kuff

Trash fee officially adopted - We’ll see how much difference it makes. Houstonians will soon begin paying $5 a month for trash and recycling pickup under Mayor John Whitmire’s $7.5 billi...
NPR's Health Shots

Inside Ebola country: NPR reports from eastern DR Congo's outbreak zone - In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an Ebola outbreak is reshaping life, with fear spreading faster than information and hospitals turning into places...
ProPublica

Why We Changed Our Code of Ethics to Address Prediction Markets - The post Why We Changed Our Code of Ethics to Address Prediction Markets appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Even $75M from Trump may not save Oakland’s embattled coal terminal - The federal funding is the latest twist in a decade-long saga to build a terminal in Oakland, California, that can export U.S. coal overseas.
Crooked Timber

One big grift - The SpaceX IPO, valuing a motley collection of dubious business at over a trillion dollars, marks the abandonment of the Efficient (financial) Markets Hypo...
High Country News

Do chainsaws belong in designated wilderness? - The Forest Service has approved the tools for use in some protected areas to clear neglected trails. The post Do chainsaws belong in designated wilderne...
Crooked Media

The Malicious Incompetence of Trump’s DOJ - The post The Malicious Incompetence of Trump’s DOJ appeared first on Crooked Media.
Seeing the Forest

The First AI War - This could be the first AI war. My experience with AI is it’s a confirmation bias machine. This isn’t about being right, it’s about seeing responses that s...
Counterpunch

What’s Wrong With the American Left: Captured by the Professional Class - Ideas do not float free of the people who hold them, and the abandonment of class has a sociological shape. The center of gravity of American progressive...
jobsanger

A Cage Match Is A Perfect Metaphor For How Trump Sees The World -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1589: Pluto (The Planet) - Episode: 1589 Pluto: We finally reach the outer fringe of the Solar System. Today, we discover Pluto.
Informed Comment

US-Iran MOU is a mere Agreement to Keep Talking - Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court, attempted to derail Sunday's talks by bombing Beirut
Idavox

HEADS UP! We Got Ourselves a Nazi Concert Happening in NJ! - We have dealing with this event for a number of years now. Looks like the... The post HEADS UP! We Got Ourselves a Nazi Concert Happening in NJ! appeared...
Ballot Access News

Albuquerque Journal Publishes Op-Ed Criticizing New Mexico Independent Candidate Ballot Access Law - The Albuquerque Journal has published an oped by Ken Miyagishima, an independent candidate for Governor of New Mexico. See it here. … Continue reading →
Popular Resistance

The Obama Center Is A Monument To The More Effective Evil - “Barack Obama does not carry our burden, in addition to other burdens. He in fact promises to lift white-people-as-a-whole’s burden, the burden of having...
Antiwar.com

How Israel Planned the Gaza Genocide Decades Ago - [First published by Middle East Eye] The truth slowly comes to light: Israel‘s genocide in Gaza was planned decades ago. Listen to the testimonies of four ...
Claytoonz

Nazis and Trillionaires - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Brad Blog

80-Year Old President Now Underwater in Almost Every State - Marking Donald Trump’s 80th birthday today, Newsweek takes stock of the octogenarian President’s approval ratings in all 50 states. It’s not going well. He...
Dorf on Law

The Knicks of Theseus - Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself in the snippet of a standup routine that began the show in the early seasons of *Seinfeld*) poked fun at sports fans who ...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Robert Freetard with a comment on our post about AI replacing workers: Ultimately the the best ...
Election Law Blog

“Trump prosecutor in L.A. pushing unusual public search for voter fraud before count is in” - LAT: First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli — President Trump’s loyalist federal prosecutor in Los Angeles — has not been shy in recent days about his ...
The NM Political Report

Tree deaths in New Mexico tripled in 2025 as warming summers increases insects, stress on forests - [image: Spruce beetle-killed trees near blowdown in the Carson. Photo by Crystal Tischler, USFS. Over the last decade, 291,000 acres with spruce beetle-kil...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 14, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 14, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War ‘Sounds a Lot Like a Nuclear Threat’: Trump Floats ‘Ultimate Alternative’ If Ir...
Salon.com

Is Melinda French Gates menopause’s fairy godmother? - The billionaire philanthropist wants "a menopause revolution" — but can't name the real problem
See You In 2020

Nazi terror, mind control programs, & the human weapons in America’s coming civil war - By the beginning of 2026, when the Justice Department released its selective series of Epstein files, our ruling class had reached a new phase in its in...
Web of Debt

AI ABUNDANCE, PART 3: GOVERNMENT MONEY WITHOUT STRINGS ATTACHED - Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificia...
Field Negro

I need caption for this picture. - I will pick the winner after the first fifty comments. Go!
El Paso Matters

EPISD superintendents skipped evaluations of top aides for years, but gave pay raises, records show - An EPISD audit found that former superintendents Diana Sayavedra and Juan Cabrera completed only a fraction of required evaluations for top administrato...
The Daily Poster

Lever Weekly: The Octagon Of Evil - Battle royale at the White House, Caddyshack at the Capitol, and more from The Lever this week.
Workers World

Int’l Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 808 mourns the passing of Chris Silvera - [image: Int’l Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 808 mourns the passing of Chris Silvera] The following press release appeared on the Teamster Local 808 X acco...
The Smirking Chimp

Breaking News: Musk a Trillionaire, Trump’s Fucked Up, the World Is Screwed — and Ain’t We All? -
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: June 14, 2026 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: June 14, 2026 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Portside

Everyone Loves the Knicks. Everyone Hates James Dolan. - Everyone Loves the Knicks. Everyone Hates James Dolan. Marti Sat, 06/13/2026 - 22:23
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Party Without Direction: The Democratic Party's Existential Crisis - There's a reason we're fighting fascism without representation and without an actual resistance party
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SILVER LININGS PAYBACK EDITION. - *Nice cover, lovely sentiment. * Sorry for the day of delay -- still healing up from the knee thing, and carrying a full load work-wise. But I have been ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for June 8 - 12 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There was little change this week, but restaurant reservations - the fi...
TalkLeft

Moving Day and Open Thread - Today is TalkLeft's 23rd Birthday! I wish I had time to celebrate it. I am moving apartments today, same building, same size unit, great mountain view, but...
ArcaMax

Putting 'Professionals' in Charge - I'm not one to generally quote Senate Majority Leader John Thune as my authority on Cabinet appointees, but when it came to Bill Pulte -- the housing chief...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Gender-Baiting Is Dehumanizing—And It Hurts Families Across the Political Spectrum, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Gender-Baiting Is Dehumanizing—And It Hurts Families Across the Political Spectrum* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *June 13, 2026* *Elaine Godfrey’...
The Progressive Wing

6/13-14 Weekend News Roundup and Open Thread - My gardens can definitely use the rain promised later on Sunday.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 13 June 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o There are angels at work. ".....but we'd die more awesomer." Let Dave Ba...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
The Texas Signal

What Masako Miki’s Shapeshifters Say About Our World - Rooted in the Shinto animism of Japan, artist Masako Miki uses a fairytale to make comments on the modern world in her Moody Center exhibition
Progressive.org

The Anti-Defamation League Was Rotten From the Start - A new history of the 113-year-old advocacy group highlights its lifelong history of Zionist antagonism toward the left.
NORML

Maine: State Enacts Law Protecting Medical Cannabis Patients From Workplace Discrimination - [image: No Drug Testing][image: No Drug Testing]"No patient should have to choose between their medicine or their job." The post Maine: State Enacts Law ...
Common Dreams

City Electric: My Mayor Muslim, My Bagel Jewish - After the greatest comeback in NBA finals history - 29 points! - "the greatest shot in Knicks history" - Anunoby's last-second tip-in - some divine inter...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 12, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio June 12, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/12/2026 - 07:27 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Video: Fox News tries to bash Pride Month, ends up proving how fun and harmless it actually is - Fox News pundit Jesse Watters inadvertently shows the truth about Pride Month instead of the dangerous image his network was attempting to conjure up. Fr...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Hundreds at Delaney Hall Join Detained People Across Country in Hunger Strike Against Inhumane Conditions - Hundreds of people at an immigration facility in New Jersey protested spoiled food, medical neglect, and other inhumane conditions. They were joined by peo...
Environment Texas

Solar overtakes coal for first month on record - Renewable energy milestone underscores growing role that solar is playing in America’s power system. The post Solar overtakes coal for first month on rec...
MintPress News

DHS Docs: Govt Bracing for Nationwide Anti-AI Riots, Preparing to Crack Down on Dissent - As tech companies race to automate industries and build massive data centers, leaked government documents reveal growing fears of nationwide anti-A.I. un...
Consent Factory, Inc.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Normal Reich - So the German Supreme Court has ruled on my case. Their ruling is that they will not rule on my case. They sent my attorney a letter to that effect. It lit...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: The Race for the Majority is Not a Toss-up, But the Races That Will Decide It Are - We are making three Senate rating changes this week, all in favor of Democrats. North Carolina moves to Leans Democratic, and Alaska and Ohio are now Tos...
Two Party Opera

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Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Peak Liberal no. 3 - 13 x 14″ high-res color .jpg image, 1.3mb Dear Liberal Amerika: SHUT the HELL UP about the 2024 election. Just shut the goddamn hell up RIGHT THE FUCK NOW....
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Leo Strauss’s *Natural Right and History* - Matt and Sam talk to Matt Dinan about Leo Strauss’s 1953 book, *Natural Right and History*.
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Final Quarter - In this post we will complete our first pass around the wheel of the lunar phases, the central symbolic mandala of William Butler Yeats’s occult teaching. ...
Krebs on Security

Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’ - A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hack...
Discourse

The Two-Letter Difference Between 'Ha Ha' and 'Uh Oh' (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Plus: Trump at the Knicks game, Scott Pelley's dramatic NYT interview, the endless Graham Platner saga, and the CA primaries
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: June 2026 - In last month’s journal club, we talked about ace characters on TV. Why Video Games Cost So Much to Make | Jason Schreier (video, 17 min) – Schreier is a h...
Sludge

Staffers Drafting Federal AI Bill Took Industry-Funded Trip to Visit Tech Giants Pushing to Block State Rules - A dozen congressional aides—including staffers for co-chairs of the House Democrats' AI task force and a key AI subcommittee—were flown to Austin for meeti...
Texas Freedom Network

Five Ways Education Vouchers are Already Harming Texans - By Andrew Freeman Governor Abbott and his far-right cronies pushed for vouchers for more than a decade. It took millions of dollars, countless special se...
Lowering the Bar

It Was Only a Matter of Time: *Both* Sides’ Lawyers Sanctioned for Using AI - None of the four lawyers involved will be seeing the inside of this courtroom again for a while.
LareDOS

My American history - The current brand of patriotism is product and prod, exclusionary, self-serving and narrow-minded, fear-mongering
Alas, a Blog

The Kitchen Table Cycle - In the wake of the 2024 election, a poll from Blueprint found that a lot of swing voters believed that “Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues li...
The Grayzone

Soros’ OSF helped stir Indonesian rebellion, leaks reveal - Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone expose how the Soros-run Open Society Foundations plotted to “prevent the continuation” of Indonesia’s elected ...
Duck of Minerva

Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega - Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe the...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2026 - Walmart had another thirteen more shootings in May of 2026, with at least five of them killing one person and one of those killing two for a total of si...
Media Lens

Invitation To A Turkey Shoot – How To Debunk Climate Denial - We, of course, post on all kinds of emotive and controversial issues on social media: genocide in Gaza, the war of aggression on Iran, the weaponisation of...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: Martha Mitchell Dies - *Martha Mitchell* died at age 57 on [Monday,] May 31, 1976. The 50th anniversary of her death has just passed. Martha was a socialite who was also, when...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestra hora de defender la democracia - Nos están arrebatando el derecho a votar. Es nuestro deber restaurar la salud de nuestra democracia, mientras aún podemos. En una democracia sana, tenemos ...
The Militant

Build protests now to defend Cuba’s sovereignty! US hands off Cuba! - The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee....
Edinburg Politics

Robert Peña, Jr., 58, former state legislative candidate, longtime Edinburg school board trustee, economic development leader, and veteran of Operation Desert Storm, passes away - Robert Peña, Jr., 58, a former Edinburg Democratic state legislative candidate, longtime school board trustee, economic development leader, and veteran of ...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 2 - In Part 1, we dissected how the “Praxians”—the Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—have seized control of the second Trump administration....
Land Destroyer

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire? - *May 7, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US is at a juncture faced with two choices. It can either manage a transition from global hegemon to a prosper...
OpEd News

Stephen Colbert Deserves to Be Whistleblower of the Year - So I will say it plainly. Stephen Colbert deserves to be named Whistleblower of the Year.
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Avedon's Sideshow

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Skeptophilia

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DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
The Socialist

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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nonsite.org

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

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Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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Border/Lines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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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

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Due Dissidence

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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....
Chicken Fried Politics

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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Talking Points Memo

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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