Brains and Eggs

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

naked capitalism

U.S. Military Leaders Plan to Use the Killing of Charlie Kirk to Boost Recruitment. Will It Work? - The armed forces face much bigger problems than can be solved by a useful martyr and a catchy slogan.
The Week

UK, 3 Western allies recognize Palestinian state - Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal formally recognized the state of Palestine
Raw Story

'Stolen valor': Nancy Mace escalates war with fellow Republican Cory Mills - Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) escalated her feud with Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) by accusing him of "stolen valor" after he derailed her effort to censure Rep. Ilha...
Election Law Blog

The precondition of civic fellowship for democracy - It is often observed among scholars of democracy that an essential ingredient for the success of democracy is for political opponents to view each other,...
SCOTUSblog

The dog sniff at the center of a Supreme Court petition - The traffic stop started with a dirty license plate. Logan Camp, a police officer in Winterset, Iowa, pulled over Ashlee Mumford on March 5, 2022, becaus...
Axios

Russia's "brazen" NATO airspace violations head to UN Security Council - The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Monday to discuss Russian fighter jet incursions into NATO member Estonia's airspace, ...
Second Nexus

Trump Tells Reporters To 'Fly Safely' Before Making Bonkers Comment That's Peak Trump - President Donald Trump was criticized after he boarded Air Force One with reporters and told them to "fly safely" before making a remark that told them e...
Salon.com

Meet the White House reporter egging on Trump’s crackdown - Brian Glenn, Trump’s favorite correspondent, is on a crusade to crush free speech
Daily Dot

“All it takes is one weirdo”: Popular Twitch streamers consider not attending TwitchCon this year after safety concerns - [image: twitch streamers twitchcon] Some of Twitch’s biggest names are going viral after suggesting they might skip TwitchCon this year, citing safety co...
El Paso Matters

EPISD considers implementing school bus tracking software amid route overhaul - An EPISD student was left at the wrong bus stop. Now the district is implementing software that tracks when students get on and off the bus. The post EP...
Eschaton

I Suppose It Would - Israel’s demolition of Gaza City’s high rises has raised residents’ concerns that the intent is to permanently displace them https://t.co/RcgBRSmyuO pic....
Political Wire

‘I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley’ - Steven Levy: “Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.”
Rewire

Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Reinstate National Suicide Hotline for LGBTQ+ Youth - In July, Trump cut LGBTQ+ youth services for 988, the suicide crisis hotline that launched in 2022. The post Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Reinstate National ...
memeorandum

Republican Redistricting Is Sowing Chaos in Houston (J. David Goodman/New York Times) - J. David Goodman / New York Times: *Republican Redistricting Is Sowing Chaos in Houston* — Texas Republicans redrew the lines for House races in 2026. ...
Mediaite

Scott Jennings Flat-Out Rejects CNN Host’s Question About Trump Remark in Kirk Eulogy - Jennings flat-out refused host John Berman’s line of questioning about Trump’s crack about hating his political opponents during Kirk eulogy. The post Sc...
The Hill

1,000 kilos of cocaine seized from boat US targeted, Dominican Republic says - Officials in the Dominican Republic said they confiscated approximately 1,000 kilograms of suspected cocaine from a speedboat targeted recently in a U.S. a...
Mediagazer

As GenAI disrupts media content creation by lowering barriers and costs, value will shift to complements such as merchandise, live events, and exclusive access (Doug Shapiro/The Mediator) - Doug Shapiro / The Mediator: *As GenAI disrupts media content creation by lowering barriers and costs, value will shift to complements such as merchandis...
Futurism

Using AI Increases Unethical Behavior, Study Finds - "Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people and their actions." The post Using AI Increases Unethical Behavior, Study Finds appeared fir...
The Verge

Books that changed our lives - Here at The Verge, we try to help our readers by offering news, reviews, and analyses about tech and its relationship to how we live. But one of the things...
Techdirt.

AI Slop Startup To Flood The Internet With Thousands Of AI Slop Podcasts, Calls Critics Of AI Slop ‘Luddites’ - So look, I’m not one of these people who thinks “AI” has no useful applications. Just this week I had an efficient conversation with a Gemini chatbot when ...
Al Jazeera English

Life “precipitously” worse for people all across Sudan - “We need to see countries step up on this humanitarian issue in Sudan.”
The Conversation

Why are there so many protests? The US public is highly polarized, and that drives people to act - Anger at the other side, as represented by the political party opposing yours, is a powerful motivator to engage in protests.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Tiger fatally attacks handler at Oklahoma preserve, officials say - Ryan Easley operated Growler Pines preserve, which called accident ‘painful reminder’ of ‘unpredictability’ of nature A tiger fatally mauled its handler ...
The NM Political Report

Celebrate! Celebrate! We Can Do It! - [image: Diane Denish | nm.news] [image: Diane Denish | nm.news] Corner to Corner Diane Denish is a former lieutenant governor of New Mexico. She is a na...
Progressive Army

Inconvenientes operativos TCA nuevo portal IMPO - Estimados socios, buen día: La Comisión Directiva de la AAACI continua con gestiones permanentes ante Aeropuertos Argentina Cargas y en vista de lo lent...
Houston Public Media

Hotel workers strike (Sept. 22, 2025) - On Monday's show: We learn why striking hotel workers from the Hilton Americas-Houston plan to remain on the picket line through the middle of October. And...
Texas Observer

Officials Said They Busted a Tren de Aragua Party. Attendees Beg to Differ. - On the night of March 31, María, a 40-year-old Venezuelan mother of four who asked that her last name not be published for fear of government retaliation...
Vox

Why self-help might be making you feel worse - Peruse the self-help aisle at your local neighborhood bookstore, and you’ll likely find tomes giving you all kinds of advice. Titles that tell us to “let t...
Democracy Chronicles

Trump, The Wrestlemania President - To uphold our democracy, we need more than just to be entertained. We need thoughtful discussions/debates even amongst those who disagree.
Mother Jones

Secret Service: Meet the Posters Behind Instagram’s Federal Agency Alt Accounts - Rachel, as she puts it, is the kind of person who rushes in to help. That’s why she used to work at USAID, and why, just 10 days into President Donald Trum...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Odds and Ends (Mostly Odd) - Today’s lead-off was an odd coincidence, since it appeared the day after a conversation at the dog park with a Spanish teacher and my friend who speaks Bra...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Heather Terry’s Regenerative Journey At GOODSam Foods - Read a transcript of this episode. Introducing Sustainability In Your Ear transcripts. The global food... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Heather Te...
Dorf on Law

The Big Chill: What Can a Law Professor Say and not Say These Days? - The air has turned chilly for university academics and administrators. Just a few blocks from my house, an Emory University professor was "terminated" fo...
Scheerpost.com

Why the SanctionsKill Campaign Supports BDS - By Jill Clark-Gollub / Common Dreams The SanctionsKill campaign was formed in 2019 to raise awareness of the human cost of the “sanctions”—actually economi...
The Smirking Chimp

The Moral Bankruptcy of America’s Leadership Class -
Skeptophilia

Celestial whack-a-mole - If a large meteorite collided with the Earth, it would *seriously* ruin your day. Depending on its size and where it hit, it could ruin your next several ...
Crooked Media

Looking for Bright Spots in the Courts - The post Looking for Bright Spots in the Courts appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Felicity Pereyra - Welcome to the start of the 2025 interview season! I went into this early on thinking there wouldn’t be much, as there are no city of Houston elections, bu...
NPR's Health Shots

Rheumatoid arthritis kept her captive. This nerve stimulator set her free - A new surgically implanted device the size of a lima bean can help control rheumatoid arthritis that isn't responding to drugs.
Slate

Help! My Girlfriend Keeps Using the Same Excuse to Ditch Me at Parties. This Is Not OK. - She's being so selfish.
San Antonio Report

First Latino Census Bureau director talks West Side roots, mistrust among communities - Robert Santos, the first Latino Census Bureau director, returned to San Antonio to share his West Side roots and stress the importance of census participat...
Courthouse News

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American Prospect

Down and Out on the Crypto Frontier - In Wyoming, the Delaware of cryptocurrency, industry players celebrated their fortunes and said everyone will benefit. But workers haven’t seen it.
ProPublica

Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences. - by Eli Cahan for ProPublica This article describes attempted suicide. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to ...
Grist

The people behind America’s disaster recovery - From cleanup crews to powerline techs, these are the workers called in after catastrophe.
High Country News

For wildlife, a new bridge to nowhere - Idaho’s newest wildlife crossing didn’t need to be built. It already existed near Coeur d’Alene. The post For wildlife, a new bridge to nowhere appeared...
Two Party Opera

Sick, Dangerous, Radical Left Disaster - Read More
Rallblog

No Political Violence, Trump Says - Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, it was breathtakingly bizarre to see a president whose administration has perfected the art of violent polit...
Common Dreams

A Martyr For Truth and Faith and Memorial Plazas - The canonization of Charlie Kirk continued Sunday with a packed, jarring, often vicious memorial service - part MAGA rally, part revival meeting with fir...
Counterpunch

What Is (the) Left to Do? - So ends Marx’s keen-eyed chronicle of the events in France from 1848-1851 that resulted in the brutal crushing of the French proletariat, along with rise...
World Socialist Web Site

Ford cuts a further 1,000 jobs in Cologne - Two weeks ago, the IG Metall union pushed through the destruction of 2,900 jobs at Ford’s Cologne plant. Now, the company is starting one-shift operations,...
jobsanger

Trump Is Remaking The Country In His Image - Crude, Harsh, And Mean -
Deadline Politics

‘Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver Says Nexstar, Sinclair Had To Get FCC’s “D*** Out Of Their Mouth” To Pull Kimmel - Following his big night at last weekend’s 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, where he won Outstanding Scripted Variety Series and Outstanding Writing for a Variet...
Informed Comment

“Real Estate Bonanza:” The Sordid U.S. Plan for the Post-Genocide Gaza - When the bombing of Gaza will finally cease, the U.S. administration will push the post-genocide opportunity for property development. In this quest, Tony ...
Portside

Sunday Science: Do We Really Understand the Universe? - Sunday Science: Do We Really Understand the Universe? Ira Sun, 09/21/2025 - 23:05
The AltWorld

“Recognizing” The Rubble Of Palestine: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - UK, Canada and Australia: Never fear, Palestinians! We’re here to save the day! Palestinians: You’re going to […] The post “Recognizing” The Rubble Of Pa...
The Root

Kanye West Is Shook To The Core After Tense Backstage Moment With SNL’s Michael Che In New Documentary - If more people did what SNL's Michael Che did to Kanye West in 2018, maybe Ye would still be an artist we love instead of a man we love to hate. Read mor...
Wolf Street

Longer-Term Treasury Yields & Mortgage Rates Jump after Rate Cut, Yield Curve Steepens, Bond Market Gets Edgy - Bond market reacts to inflation expectations and supply of new bonds, not the Fed’s policy rates.
The Texas Signal

From Texas Scream Queen To Marketing Maven - A staple of Texas horror films now takes the helm of her own innovative marketing company (haunted toilets not included)
OpEd News

On day 715: genocide, use of banned weapons, climate, ACTIONS and more - No one will be safe unless we all act to stop the fascist genocidal regimes and liberate people (Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc) from the nightmare engulfi...
Antiwar.com

Smotrich’s Apocalyptic ‘Decisive Plan’ - Notorious both in Israel and abroad, yet beloved as a visionary by his constituencies, Bezalel Smotrich is the far-right leader of Israel’s National Religi...
Dissident Voice

Charlie Kirk Becomes Alive - On Wednesday, September 10, a shot was fired at a Utah college event, and Charlie Kirk became alive. Relatively unknown to the public outside of the Righ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Bracing Views

If the Pentagon’s Done Nothing Wrong, It Has Nothing to Hide - BILL ASTORE SEP 21, 2025 If there’s one thing we’ve learned (or re-learned, again and again) from the Pentagon it’s that all governments lie and that the f...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas 1653 (some more) - [image: Pézenas, "reconsitution historique" 2025]
Claytoonz

Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Undernews

Word - [image: Donald Trump with light-colored hair, facing forward. Yellow text at the top reads "ONE SIMPLE QUESTION:" and larger yellow text below asks "WHY A...
Alternet

'What could possible go wrong?' Outrage as Trump announces the Murdochs could own TikTok - In an interview on Fox News aired Sunday, President Donald Trump said that conservative media moguls Lachlan Murdoch and his father Rupert Murdoch are ex...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 21, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 21, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Tr...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / The death and life of Charlie Kirk - Charlie Kirk. Creative Commons image. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2025 It should be axiomatic to any freedom-loving person that no one ...
Ballot Access News

Virginia Sample Ballot for November 2025 Election - Here is a Virginia sample ballot for the election of November 4, 2025. Virginia has always used office-block ballots, although the state has a discriminato...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Generational Dimensions of Decolonization: What the Igbo Can Teach Us About Democracy and Belonging - *In a time when so many nations, including our own, are wrestling with questions of democracy, justice, and belonging, I’ve found myself drawn to the his...
San Antonio Current

Ted Cruz says conservatives ‘will regret’ Trump’s FCC chairman going after Jimmy Kimmel - [image: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz speaks during a conservative conference.] The Texas senator compared Brendan Carr’s threat to ABC to that of a mafia boss. The...
Angry Bear

Trump’s newest attack on rural hospitals - The Trump GOP’s Medicaid cuts will cause many rural hospitals to close. Now, Trump has come up with a way to hasten that process. “NBC News medical analy...
Mondoweiss

Why I can’t join my family in honoring our ancestors killed in the Holocaust while Israel commits genocide in Gaza - [image: Relatives and loved ones of Palestinians, who were killed in Israeli attacks, mourn after the deceased at Al-Ahly Hospital of Gaza City, Gaza on Se...
Reform Austin

Was Drake Wearing a Buc-ee’s T-Shirt? - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… During the final show at Berlin’s Uber Arena on September 14, 2025, Drake fans weren’t just tal...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Two Graves' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spe...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: Reporting from Untitled Art Houston - Brandon Zech, William Sarradet, and Nicholas Frank share insights and reflections from the inaugural Houston edition of the Untitled Art fair. “We are pr...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Late Night Meets Late-Stage Capitalism - The real reason they pulled Jimmy Kimmel, the new paramilitary contractor in town, and more from The Lever this week.
WhoWhatWhy

Outrage Over Trump’s Instructions to Bondi Shows the Naïveté of His Opponents - [image: Donald Trump, Press Conference, Bondi, Blanche] Too many Democrats, pundits, and members of the media are still treating this moment in time like a...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- sometimes a nutcase is just a nutcase - Mentally-ill sexual perverts who live in a dream-world of incoherent and unclassifiable delusions have probably always existed, but today the internet is ...
First Draft

Quiz Show (1994) - Robert Redford’s great film about a scandal ripped from the 1950’s headlines. Starring John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Payme...
The Greanville Post

GARLAND’S DISPATCH: PATRICK HENNINGSEN – NO RULES! – THE PARIAH STATE EXPOSES THE BARBARISM OF THE WESTERN ELITE - GARLAND NIXON—Patrick Henningsen describes Israel as more than just an independent actor; it is a “tool” created and sustained by Western powers, primarily...
Liberation News

A giant quantum computing center for warfare threatens the cost of living on Chicago’s South Side - [image: Feature photo: The entrance to the old U.S. Steel South Works on the South Side of Chicago. Photo credit: Vaticanus]Tech companies like these worse...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's Michelin-recognized Tex-Mex joint expands and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with new locations for an acclaimed Tex-Mex restaurant and favorite t...
See You In 2020

The global workers struggle has changed, but the KKE’s camp doesn’t want to recognize this - Above: a rally by the participants in Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution. One of the most famous critiques by Michael Parenti is from Blackshirts and Red...
Trivial Knot

Confession - I left Catholicism when I was 18, so I literally have a child’s understanding of the Catholic practice of confession. It was a ritual that did not make muc...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 15 - 19 at Seeking Alpha - *- by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Along with the continuing resilience of consumer spending, which I wrot...
Consortium News

Targeting Venezuela - Alan Macleod assesses Trump’s claims regarding Venezuelan drug trafficking and assesses the history of U.S. efforts to overthrow the Venezuelan government....
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: The cleaning crew scoured the office! - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2025* *Fox & Friends Weekend holds forth: *We'll start today with something puzzling—with an apparent look at the puzzling way B...
ArcaMax

This Is Not Funny - "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told a right-wing podcaster, "this" being ...
Environment Texas

Dallas Budget Passes with Environmental Wins - Environmental funding preserved and expanded under FY26 budget The post Dallas Budget Passes with Environmental Wins appeared first on Environment Texas.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Sat, 09/20/2025 - 02:18 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Fascism Is Here. How Do We Fight Back?: A Conversation with Wajahat Ali - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
Workers World

Historic hotel workers strike in Houston - [image: Historic hotel workers strike in Houston] Houston, Sept. 6, 2025 Houston — Historians agree they cannot remember a strike by workers at a hotel in ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE REAL VIRTUE SIGNALERS EDITION. - *First woke up to her in *La Belle Noiseuse*. Lovely.* The fash frolics proceed apace. Tubby’s apparently so mad that his prosecutor won’t file false cha...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #170 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: "I'm an AG" fails to impress, some shady deals, another thing not to use AI for, and other stuff.
slacktivist

LBCF: Mostly dead - Yet another part of the book in which the authors completely ignore and forget about the divine slaughter of every child on the planet.
The Militant

Letters - Celebrate life of Helen Nelson On Sept. 13 some 30 people attended a celebration of the life of Helen Nelson organized by her companion, Jude Keast, and ot...
Church and State

Trump’s attack on all media against free speech deserves impeachment, indictment, and removal from office of this felony convicted president - GOP officials will do anything but disgracefully refusing to recognize the enormous step that the Kimmel withdrawal represents.
Sludge

Lutnick’s Family Firm Holds Stake in China-Tied Satellogic - Cantor Fitzgerald is a key investor in satellite imagery company Satellogic, which is angling for U.S. defense and intelligence contracts as it works for a...
Texas Standard

How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M - Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say...
Independent Political Report

Working Families Party Endorses Mai Vang in California 7th Congressional Race - The Working Families Party has endorsed Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang in her campaign for California’s 7th Congressional District. Vang is chall...
Capital & Main

Working While Brown Is the New Living While Black - The Supreme Court’s decision gives federal agents license to treat Latinos like second-class citizens, condoning the same racial profiling Black American...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—September 2025 - Censored Press News On September 23, 2025, The Censored Press, in partnership with Seven Stories Press, will publish Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon...
DeSmogBlog

‘Consistently Superb’: DeSmog Wins Two Covering Climate Now Awards - DeSmog has won two awards for its work exposing the role of the advertising and public relations industry in delaying climate action at the 2025 Covering...
Debunking Christianity

Hey, Devout Folks: Facing Reality Would Be a Smart Move! - *No god has “the whole world” in its hands*It was reported that on the Sunday following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, church attendance in the New York ar...
Space City Weather

Houston’s late summer slog continues but some signs of a humidity front continue to percolate next week - In brief: Mainly quiet, pollen-ridden weather through tomorrow in Houston, followed up by more scattered-type showers and storms Sunday through Tuesday. A ...
Democracy Now!

"I'm Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home - *Democracy Now!* host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and r...
The Progressive Wing

9/19-22 News Roundup and Open Thread - More fallout from Jimmy Kimmel and Charlie Kirk. I’m in Madrid–just returned from a few days in Cordoba and Granada.
Popular Resistance

We’ll Be Back Soon - We rarely take a day off, but our director, Margaret Flowers, is getting married on the International Day of Peace and we'd like to take a short break to...
LareDOS

“The Search for Dark Matter” coming to TAMIU Oct. 8 - UT’s Dr. Timothy Aldeen presents latest research in particle physics
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

I humiliated a Trump supporting white supremacist on Thursday. How was your day? - On the risk of bragging, I embarrassed a "prominent" white supremacist today. I put the word prominent in quotes because to me, labeling a white supremac...
Progressive.org

This Incarcerated Journalist Is Making a Case Against Solitary Confinement - Christopher Blackwell’s new book ‘Ending Isolation’ tackles the cruel practice employed against incarcerated people in prisons across the country.
Discourse

Charlie Kirk Is Not Jesus - Hope this helps!
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Midway to the Midterm: The Imperfect Bellwethers of New Jersey and Virginia - The NJ and VA gubernatorial races sometimes suggest what will happen in the following year's midterms, but there are many exceptions The post Midway to t...
Dissent Magazine

[NYC EVENT | October 19] Food Tour with Arun Gupta - Please join us in New York City for a food tour in support of Dissent. On Saturday, October 18, Dissent editors, staff, and donors will enjoy New York Ci...
Ecosophia

Situationism: Understanding the Spectacle - Two weeks ago we started a discussion of the Situationists, an obscure movement spawned by fringe Marxism in 1950s Europe. As I commented at the time, that...
NORML

Minnesota: Retailers Begin Adult-Use Cannabis Sales - [image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cannabis leaf symbol representing the sale of legal cannabis][image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cann...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is filling up fast. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. I turned on the TV coverage of CNN for Tyler Robinson's court appearance. ...
Krebs on Security

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages - At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials fro...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
The Grayzone

Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he a...
Idavox

Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! - Charlie Kirk does not deserve our respect or goodwill, no matter how much the mainstream... The post Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! appeared first on...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
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...
Reveal

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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