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/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 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

Mediaite

Josh Allen Weeps After Another Heartbreaking Bills Playoff Loss: ‘Gonna Stick With Me For a Long Time’ - A crestfallen Josh Allen wept during a postgame press conference and said he "let [his] teammates down" in a brutal 33-30 loss to the Denver Broncos on S...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: European leaders condemn threat of tariffs over Greenland - French president says ‘no amount of intimidation’ will make EU change course; Greenlanders march against takeover threat. Key US politics stories from Sa...
Al Jazeera English

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,424 - These are the key developments from day 1,424 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Raw Story

'Bleeding from the head': Jan. 6 rioter claims to be 'stabbed' by protester in Minneapolis - Right-wing provocateur Jake Lang, who was given a pardon by Donald Trump after attacking Capitol cops with a baseball bat on Jan. 6, claims to have been ...
Popular Resistance

Gaza, Venezuela, And Enduring Relevance Of Dr. King’s Critique Of Empire - Every year in the U.S., what has emerged as a cynical ritual around the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King takes place, where the state uplifts an image ...
The Hill

Trump puts $1B price tag on Gaza peace board permanent seats: Reports - President Trump will ask countries that want to join his "Board of Peace" to oversee Gaza to pay $1 billion for membership, according to reporting from Blo...
memeorandum

Democrats' Best Hope To Rein In ICE Is Right Now (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost) - Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost: *Democrats' Best Hope To Rein In ICE Is Right Now* — Even if it's not by very much. — WASHINGTON - If Democrats in Congr...
Deadline Politics

White House Threatened Trump Would Sue CBS If Tony Dokoupil’s POTUS Interview Didn’t Air In Full On ‘Evening News’ - After Donald Trump gave a 13-minute interview to new CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt ...
Election Law Blog

“How the House Slumped to Historic Lows of Productivity in 2025” - NYT: Even by the standards of an institution that has set records for dysfunction in recent years, the Republican-led Congress in 2025 hit new lows for ...
The Greanville Post

Trump CALLS OFF Iran Attack & Makes Lindsey Graham Very Sad w/ Max Blumenthal - JIMMY DORE—In this segment, Jimmy Dore interviews journalist Max Blumenthal about U.S. and Israeli pressure for regime change in Iran, highlighting Lindsey...
Eschaton

Saturday Happy Hour - Enjoy
Dissident Voice

Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism - As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, cou...
Mediagazer

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that President Trump would sue the network if it didn't air his interview with Tony Dokoupil unedited (New York Times) - New York Times: *White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that President Trump would sue the network if it didn't air his interview wit...
NPR's Health Shots

As ACA enrollment drops, hopes for Congress to restore funding are fading - ACA enrollment is down for the first time in 5 years, and people are facing enormous premium hikes. Hopes for Congress to restore funding are fading.
Claytoonz

Hardcore Pawn - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Former lawmaker who accused trans people & drag queens of harming kids will go to federal prison for child sex abuse material charges - Former SC lawmaker Robert John May III was sentenced to 17.5 years for charges linked to child sex abuse material. Ironically, during his tenure as a lawm...
Axios

"Gaza is our show": U.S. pushes its plan over Netanyahu's objections - President Trump's advisers have little patience for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's objections as they push ahead with "phase two" of the Gaza...
Salon.com

US apologizes to student mistakenly deported - A federal apology is nice, but the US won't fix the situation for college student deported over Thanksgiving
Scheerpost.com

When the Secretary Says Observation Is Violence, ‘Get the Fuck Out of the Car’ - This is not law enforcement. It is occupation behavior.
Portside

People in Venezuela Can Oppose the Government but Still Reject US Intervention - People in Venezuela Can Oppose the Government but Still Reject US Intervention Kurt Stand Sat, 01/17/2026 - 15:38
Courthouse News

Thousands flock to US embassy in Copenhagen in protest over Trump’s takeover talk - Thousands of protesters in the Kingdom of Denmark chant against Trump’s ambition of acquiring Greenland, instigating fear and sleepless nights among its In...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Are there signs of serious problems in the economy? - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2026 The following is a version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emer...
San Antonio Report

Meet the candidates running to represent San Antonio in Congress - U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro (D) and Tony Gonzales (R) face primaries, Republicans swarm Chip Roy's seat and TX23 becomes a battleground. ---------------------...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: January 11th – 17th - Five Years Ago This week in 2021, we wrote about how critics of Section 230 should rethink their position considering their biggest allies were Senators Ha...
Mother Jones

A Wave of New Polls Shows Trump’s Support Cratering Across the Board - As President Donald Trump wraps up the first year of his second term—one marked by US aggression abroad and rising political violence at home—a wave of new...
Futurism

Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse - "She lives in fear that nude and sexual images of herself, including of her as a child." The post Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse ap...
Counterpunch

Citizen Printer, Bill Ayers w/ Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Monica Trinidad, and Chi Nwosu - In this special episode of CounterPunch Radio, Bill Ayers, friend of Pilsen Community Books and fellow podcaster at Under the Tree, introduces Amos Kenne...
The Verge

Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies - "Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!" That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with l...
Houston Public Media

NASA moving forward with Artemis II launch to moon — potentially in February - The Artemis II rocket and spacecraft were moving to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday. NASA says several criteria need to be met befor...
Undernews

Polls -
Wolf Street

US Government Sold $654 Billion of Treasuries this Week, 10-Year Yield Spikes to 4.24%, Highest since Sep 2, despite 3 Rate Cuts - The new supply: $138 billion of new 10-year Treasury notes replaced $66 billion of matured 10-year Treasury notes.
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Nine days later, Storyline rules! - *SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2026* *Everything claimed all at once:* Within our broken American discourse, do the most basic facts ever get established—the most ...
Slate

My Nephew Behaved Appallingly on Our Disney “Date.” My Sister’s Reaction Was Almost Worse. - I'm sorry, what?
Political Wire

Trump Says He’s Suing JPMorgan Chase - President Trump announced he’s suing JPMorgan Chase “over the next two weeks” — “for incorrectly and inappropriately DEBANKING me after the January 6th Pro...
Ballot Access News

Bloomberg Article Suggests Top-Two System May Result in a Republican Winning for California Governor - On January 14, Bloomberg News posted a story titled “Will California Get a Republican Governor After Newsom?” It is behind a paywall and cannot be reproduc...
CultureMap Houston

River Oaks steakhouse shutters due to dispute and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the hottest Houston news of the week, including the upcoming closures of a prominent steakhouse and a Heights wine...
Glasstire

Sarah Fox Conjures Elemental Grace & Earthy Gravity in “The Woman Under the Water & Other Stories” - Perhaps strangely, what struck me upon first entering Sarah Fox’s solo exhibition The Woman Under the Water & Other Stories at the Laredo Center for the ...
The Root

Florida Venue Allegedly Keeps Bride’s $7,600 Wedding Deposit After Her Fiancé Dies, You Won’t Believe Their Response - After Tye Hinson’s wedding dreams came to a tragic end, the venue’s response to her refund request sparked a viral debate. Read more...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #ManufacturedMartialLaw - [image: Renee Good, Death Box, ICE, Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: #Manufa...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - I just dropped the House Negro Power Rankings. So now it's only fair that I acknowledge the Field Negroes holding it down in these divided states of Am...
Consortium News

Israel Fears It Can’t Defend Against Iran - Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump to urge him to hold off on bombing Iran because, reports say, Israel feels vulnerable to Iran’s counterattack, write...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Second Nexus

People Break Down The Most Confusing Mixed Signals They've Gotten While Dating - Dating is hard. Why is that? I think mostly because of everyone's inability to communicate properly. Signals are easy to give. Say what you mean. Dat...
Daily Cartoonist

Lewiston Cop by Jorge Pacheco – New Local Comic Strip - Cartoonist Jorge Pacheco has started a comic strip in his local newspapers. The Lewiston Tribune and The Moscow-Pullman Daily News (both in Idaho) began ru...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for January 12 - 16 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. With the yield curve close to completely normal and mortgage rates at o...
ArcaMax

For Trump, Deprofessionalizing Government Is a Feature - The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in a Minneapolis suburb has prompted a familiar debate over civil disobedi...
Grist

Iran’s regime has survived war, sanctions, and uprising. Environmental crises may bring it down. - Decades of water depletion, dam building, and repression of scientists and environmentalists have driven Iran toward ecological crises that are fueling the...
Progressive.org

It’s a Police State in Minnesota - Minnesota is experiencing a state-wide police riot backed by the full authority of the federal government.
Vox

Can Congress stop Trump from trying to take Greenland? - Since the United States announced it would “run” Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration has openly floated similar inter...
naked capitalism

Links 1/17/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

Legal Experts Predict Trump’s Investigation of Minnesota Leaders Will ‘Instantly Backfire’ -
Skeptophilia

Renaissance - It's easy to get beaten down by the constant barrage of bad news. This effect is amplified if you, like me, suffer from anxiety and depression on *good* ...
Off The Kuff

Emerson primary poll: Talarico 47, Crockett 38 - Noted for the record. A new poll of Texas’ Senate primaries shows state Rep. James Talarico leading U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett by 9 percentage points among...
The Daily Poster

Why Does Trump Really Want Greenland? - Test your knowledge of arctic misadventures, Federal Reserve troubles, and other issues that really matter.
Countercurrents

On the question of ‘Lawlessness’ - In the case filed by Enforcement Directorate (ED) against West Bengal government, yesterday the Supreme court said…” We are of the prima facie opinion that...
Crooked Media

The Enshittification of the Internet (with Cory Doctorow) - The post The Enshittification of the Internet (with Cory Doctorow) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 17 January 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. Please don't try to add links to the round-up via the comments. These link round-up...
The Week

Ultimate pasta alla Norma - White miso and eggplant enrich the flavour of this classic pasta dish
World Socialist Web Site

NTSB report reveals Boeing knew of fatal defect in UPS plane that killed 14 in Louisville - Despite the pattern of repeated failures in a component that secures a multi-ton engine to the wing, Boeing ignored the danger.
jobsanger

The Trump Administration Has Still Not Released Most Of The Epstein Files (As Required By Law) -
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Alone - Welcome back my friend to the show that never ends.
Informed Comment

Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love - The federal government has threatened to starve Minnesota by cutting off SNAP, WIC and other USDA funded programs as retribution.
See You In 2020

Big tech seeks to discard the “excess” population, but the “excess” are who will overthrow the system - To defeat capitalism as it exists in today’s United States, something we’ll need to account for is just how many of the masses have been pushed out of “...
Workers World

15,000 nurses walk out on big-business hospitals in NYC - [image: 15,000 nurses walk out on big-business hospitals in NYC] Some 15,000 nurses at the biggest and richest hospital empires in New York City walked out...
Alternet

GOP congresswoman busted taking credit for funding she voted against - Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) recently celebrated the groundbreaking of a new semiconductor manufacturing plant in her upstate New York district. But in p...
El Paso Matters

ICE custody death, immigration raids in El Paso spark calls to action, pleas for enforcement without cruelty - As federal authorities face questions over a recent death inside an ICE detention facility in El Paso, community and religious leaders joined human righ...
San Antonio Current

With a roll of the dice, your meal could be free at this New Braunfels speakeasy - A recently opened speakeasy in New Braunfels is inviting guests to test their luck to win a free meal. Sidecar, located in the basement of the boutique ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FRAUDS ON PARADE EDITION. - *24 years? Really?* I was grateful, in this grim and gloomy week, for the laughs afforded by Evan Mandery’s story in Politico, “They Wanted a University ...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico lawmakers will make new push for ‘Green Amendment’ in 2026 - [image: State Reps. Joanne Ferrary (D-Doña Ana Co.) and Tara Luján (D-Santa Fe) speak about the Green Amendment in 2023 / Source: Rep. Ferrary] For the si...
The Texas Signal

Sculptures Explore Size Of Texas And The Weight Of Nostalgia - In his pieces, Ken Womack captures the looming shadow of modernity and capitalism, often transforming everyday items into cyclopean artifacts.
Texas Standard

Texas court clears path for Planned Parenthood lawsuit challenging state abortion law - The case centers on the Texas Heartbeat Act, a 2021 law that bans abortions after cardiac activity is detected and lets private citizens enforce the ban th...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court takes up four new cases, including disputes on geofence warrants and Roundup weedkiller - The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added four new cases, on topics ranging from the Fourth Amendment to federal preemption, to its Oral Argument Docke...
Common Dreams

The 'Primary Fetterman' Website Is Now Live - The Pennsylvania Working Families Party rolled out an online "hub" on Friday to support a primary challenger to the state's US senator, John Fetterman. ...
Angry Bear

Jobless claims continue to be very positive, near multi-decade lows - – by New Deal democrat First, usually the week following the employment report is very quiet, and I put up “scenes from the report” with some important ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces free event featuring acclaimed artist Tim Gonchoroff and archaeologist Edward Gonzalez-Tennant - Event at historic Treviño-Uribe Fort is free and open to the public
The Militant

Montreal protest: ‘Hands off Venezuela!’ - MONTREAL — Some 100 people came out to a picket at the U.S. Consulate here Jan. 11 defending Venezuela’s sovereignty and opposing Washington’s threats to a...
Sludge

The Companies Behind ICE - Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

They Will Lose: ICE and the Fascists are Going to Fall - Times are bleak, but we will ultimately prevail.
The Conversation

12 ways the Trump administration dismantled civil rights law and the foundations of inclusive democracy in its first year - At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open and equal democracy.
Novara Media

The Proxy War in Your Party - Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana are putting up rival slates of candidates for elections to Your Party’s executive committee. Plus: The latest on ICE’s mass...
Independent Political Report

PA Working Families Party Launches 2028 Primary Organizing Effort Against U.S. Sen. John Fetterman - The Pennsylvania Working Families Party has launched an organizing effort to recruit and support a potential Democratic primary challenger to U.S. Sen. J...
MintPress News

The Regime Change Machine Is Turning on Iran Again - From NGO casualty counts to diaspora propaganda, the same forces that destroyed Iraq and Syria are exploiting unrest inside Iran. The post The Regime Cha...
Rewire

Virginia to Put Abortion Access On the Ballot - Virginia’s General Assembly passed a constitutional amendment that would permanently protect reproductive rights in the state. Voters will decide whether...
Mondoweiss

Israel is attempting to block both aid and solidarity through its new ban on international organizations - [image: American Friends Service Committee staff distributing food parcels in Gaza. (Photo: Amjad Al Fayoumi/AFSC)]New Israeli rules will ban organizations...
Capital & Main

Homes That Survived the 2025 L.A. Fires Are Still Contaminated - Testing of homes in communities surrounding the Eaton and Palisades fires has found dangerous levels of lead and asbestos — even after remediation. The p...
The AltWorld

Will Trump next try to kidnap Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei? - The Western media are assisting the descent into barbarism through their well-honed lies and pandering to the […] The post Will Trump next try to kidnap ...
Socialist Alternative

Trump, Venezuela & US Imperialism On The Offensive - 2026 has begun with US imperialism on the offensive. The reactionary juggernaut of Donald Trump dominated 2025, shaking world relations to the core. But t...
Democracy Chronicles

Is Australia or the USA More Antisemitic? A Data Challenge. - This is your mission, should you accept: Where is antisemitism worse - the USA or Australia? Suggested paths of enquiry: google engrams of headlines, twitt...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate, by Josephine Lee, Texas Monthly, Jan. 13, 2026 - *Friends:* *In a deeply reported investigation for the Texas Observer, staff writer Josephine Lee reveals that Texas’ newly enacted school voucher program...
Democracy Now!

"All That's Left of You": Oscar-Shortlisted Film Traces Palestinian Family's Love & Loss Since 1948 - *All That’s Left of You* is a new feature film that looks at 70 years of Palestinian history through the lens of one family’s experience over three generat...
Space City Weather

A chilly weekend for the city of Houston, as we take a close look at Texans-Pats weather - In brief: Today, we tackle some colder weather for Houston this weekend, but most importantly, we look at the prospects of snow during the Texans/Patriots ...
Debunking Christianity

1. Horrendous Suffering 2. Catastrophic Superstitions 3. A Vicious God - *Christian theology is shattered by these three factors* For centuries, the devout—determined to preserve and protect their faith—have ignored reality....
Rallblog

No ICE, Please | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
slacktivist

LBCF: Antiheroes - Left Behind gives us an arch-villain with a dastardly plan to destroy the world. It also gives us a scrappy band of heroes who .. also eagerly want to see ...
Dorf on Law

The Complete Irrationality and Disastrous Effects of Life Tenure for Supreme Court Justices - The world is on fire, and we have larger issues to be worried about than life tenure for Supreme Court justices. On the other hand, the world is on fire ...
ProPublica

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With - The post Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

How pronghorn outran the ice age - Can they outrun an uncertain climate future? The post How pronghorn outran the ice age appeared first on High Country News.
Seeing the Forest

This Is America Now - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE ‘throw flash-bang at family...
The Grayzone

Detrás de la denuncia politizada de Washington contra Maduro: una “red” creada por la CIA y un testigo coaccionado - La acusación del Departamento de Justicia contra el líder secuestrado de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, es una diatriba política que se apoya significativame...
Idavox

Indigenous People and Trump Regime - You can’t say I.C.E. is only after “illegal immigrants” when they are going after those... The post Indigenous People and Trump Regime appeared first on ...
Brad Blog

'A Cornered Rat is a Dangerous Rat': Trump Terrorizes Minnesota, Menaces NATO, World: 'BradCast' 1/15/2026 - We've been arguing in various ways on The BradCast in recent months that our ignorant, thin-skinned, cruelly incompetent, man-baby clown, pedophile protect...
Church and State

‘We Are Running Out of Time’: 2025 Keeps Hot Streak Alive for Global Temperatures - For the first time global temperatures over a three-year period have exceeded the critical threshold of 1.5°C above preindustrial levels.
Antiwar.com

Venezuela – the Petroleum Fortress: Power, Profits, and the Dismantling of a Nation - The history of Venezuela is often reduced to a cautionary tale of a single charismatic leader or a sudden economic collapse, yet the reality is a far more ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 16, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 16, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/16/2026 - 03:25 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Bracing Views

Making Armageddon Great Again - A Mushroom Cloud, A Smoking Gun BILL ASTORE JAN 15, 2026 Recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists featured a fiction contest: “Write Before Midnight...
Texas Observer

In Ink and on Airwaves, Texas Media Grows Ever More Concentrated - In the realm of Texas newspapers, one media mogul now rules them all—or close to it at least. Last February, Hearst Communications acquired the Austin Am...
NORML

Study: Cannabis Beverages Associated With Reduced Alcohol Consumption - [image: a cannabis leaf sits atop a canned drink][image: a cannabis leaf sits atop a canned drink]"These consistent findings provide support for the noti...
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...
Progressives Chat

Trump Part II: One Year Later - Next Tuesday, January 20, 2026, will mark one year since *Donald Trump* returned to office. I am not going to write an assessment on Trump Part II, becau...
Trivial Knot

Margaret, the hoarder - This is a true personal story, although not quite true, and not quite a story. I have mixed in some lies to give people some privacy, and to shave off some...
Edinburg Politics

Legislative luncheon in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, featuring Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Sen. Adam Hinojosa, will showcase city’s $14 million Edinburg Arts, Culture and Events Center - Key state issues affecting the Rio Grande Valley will be discussed in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, by Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Chris...
Liberation News

Stop Trump’s war on our rights – SHUT IT DOWN! - The Trump administration continues escalating its full-scale assault on our most basic rights. The whole country watched in horror as an ICE agent gunned d...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Environment Texas

A buffalo bill reintroduced in Congress - The Indian Buffalo Management Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The loss of Rep. LaMalfa leaves a void in the House. The post A buffalo bill reintro...
Media Lens

Venezuela – ‘War Is Peace’ - After declaring his second presidential victory on 6 November 2024, Donald Trump said of his first term: ‘You know, we had no wars for four years. We had n...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
Crooked Timber

Utilitarianism: it all went wrong with Sidgwick - As part of my critique of pro-natalism, I’m looking at the philosophical foundations of the idea. Most of the explicit discussion takes place within the fr...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition - Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported software. Eight of the vulnerabil...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Alaska Senate Race Comes Onto the Competitive Board with Peltola’s Entry - Mary Peltola’s (D) entrance into the Alaska Senate race gives Democrats another credible target, even as Republicans remain favored to hold the seat. Th...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #10: COUP TALK (w/Jack Crosbie) - Cros returns to get into the huge mess in Venezuela and Minneapolis
Project Censored

Illegal Gold Rush Strips 140,000 Hectares from the Peruvian Amazon - A new report published by Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) and its Peruvian partner organization, Conservación Amazónica, found that 140,00...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: January 6, Five Years Later - Matt and Sam talk to Robert Draper about his reporting from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how the Republican Party “lost its mind” in the months th...
Greg Palast

Vigilantes Inc: Free screening and Q&ALive from Chicago: Join us online or in person on Feb 5, 2026 - Join us for a special hybrid screening and discussion of Greg Palast's award-winning documentary, Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen, n...
The Progressive Wing

1/13-19 News Roundup & OT - The European National Banks, as well as the Bank of England, sense an economic threat by Drumpt. Come join us for the conversation after the jump.
Earth 911

5 Delicious Low-Carbon Dinners - Eating for the planet doesn’t mean sacrificing flavor or satisfaction, and it can make a... The post 5 Delicious Low-Carbon Dinners appeared first on Ear...
Lowering the Bar

Get Lost, 2025 - [image: LTB logo]Hope to never see you again.
Alas, a Blog

We’d All Miss Private Health Insurance - Another collab with the terrific R.E. Ryan. “I Can’t Afford My Spleen” might be a good title for the eventual book collection. I love the way R.E. drew thi...
Duck of Minerva

How To Review Efficiently and Fairly - Instead of Dry January, I’m going review free for January after having nearly 80 review requests last year. My New Year’s resolution was to have a healthie...
TalkLeft

Sunday Night Open Thread - There's a lot to break down, from the Golden Globes to Venezuela and its Oil to Minnesota, ICE, Iran, Colombia, Greenland, and the Trump family's unstop...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Resistance Solidarity - Washington – the gangster-in-chief posing as global policeman – refuses to accept any limitations on its actions. If legal authorities, whether domestic or...
DeSmogBlog

Reform ‘Cosying Up to Authoritarian Petrostate’ - Senior figures in Reform UK have been developing close connections to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an authoritarian, monarchic state with vast fossil ...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
Two Party Opera

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Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Things are piling up very quickly for me and so I’ve decided to go on hiatus here and on my blog for the rest of January. I expect to be posting again by F...
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
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...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

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

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

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
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 ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
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 ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
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...
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...
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 Mind Unleashed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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...
Shadowproof

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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