Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Alternet

A scathing new word is suggested for Trump's particular brand of 'shambles' - Zeteo editor Martin Pengelly says the world needs a new kind of word to describe the depth of crisis in which President Donald Trump is drowning. Thankfu...
The Verge

‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future - Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has laid out a new strategy for what she describes as a "return of Xbox." In a joint memo with Xbox Chief Content Offi...
Al Jazeera English

US Senate passes ICE funding resolution after ‘vote-a-rama’: What’s next? - Republicans take first step, but long road remains to break impasse over funding Donald Trump's immigration enforcement.
memeorandum

I read 'The Camp of the Saints.' Here's why it's relevant (Jamie Sarkonak/National Post) - Jamie Sarkonak / National Post: *I read ‘The Camp of the Saints.’ Here's why it's relevant* — The novel, which was temporarily removed from Amazon this...
Eschaton

TMZ Era - I suppose having journalists who report what they see instead of covering it up would be good. I think a lot of people in D.C. are very circumspect about ...
The Hill

Democrats top Republicans on economy for first time since 2010: Fox News poll - A new Fox News poll found Democrats have the edge over Republicans on economic issues for the first time since 2010. The survey, released Wednesday, found ...
SCOTUSblog

Justices debate rights of lawful permanent residents against backdrop of Trump’s immigration crackdown - During approximately 90 minutes of oral argument on Wednesday in *Blanche v. Lau*, the justices considered a challenge to how immigration officers classi...
Courthouse News

California Coastal Commission slapped down in fight over San Luis Obispo development - The California Supreme Court found the California Coastal Commission exceeded its authority when it blocked a small housing project in San Luis Obispo County.
Raw Story

'The clock is ticking!' Trump unleashes bizarre rant on where he stands with Iran war - President Donald Trump reacted on Thursday to reports on where negotiations stand with Iran amid the ongoing Israeli-U.S. war. In a post on his Truth So...
Counterpunch

Before the Flood: A Tale From Gaza w/ Ramzy Baroud - On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome back Ramzy Baroud to discuss his new book, Before the Flood, a profound e...
Deadline Politics

Lin-Manuel Miranda To Host Virtual Fundraiser For Jon Ossoff - Lin-Manuel Miranda will host a virtual fundraising event on May 7 for Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) as he seeks reelection this year. Per an invite, the event als...
Scheerpost.com

TUCKER BAILS, LATINOS BOLT — AND A BIDEN INSIDER ADMITS HE’D HAVE BOMBED IRAN FOR BIBI TOO - Joshua Scheer We are starting to see buyer’s remorse across the political spectrum. As the AP reports—stating the obvious—polls show Latino voters breaking...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Breaking Down Virginia’s Close but Clear Redistricting Vote - A ballot measure designed to enable Virginia Democrats to gerrymander the state's congressional map passed by 3 points. This was closer than 2025's very ...
Mother Jones

Meet Paolo Zampolli, the Man at the Center of Trump’s Biggest Scandals - Paolo Zampolli epitomizes why so many people hate the Trump administration. Zampolli serves as Donald Trump’s US special envoy for “Global Partnership” and...
Mediaite

Ex-Biden Honcho Confronted Over Swalwell ‘Rumors’ By Debate Moderator - Xavier Becerra was confronted at a debate over his comments about having heard "rumors" about Rep. Eric Swalwell before multiple women came forward. The ...
The Week

How will a Hungary without Orbán impact Ukraine? - Both countries look forward to a future beyond ousted authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán
Techdirt.

France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It’s Not Working - Back in 2011 and 2012, one of the central technical objections that helped kill SOPA and PIPA was about DNS blocking. Engineers, internet architects, and c...
Houston Public Media

Mayor Whitmire vows to save Blue Santa program, says HPD officers received overtime pay for participation - Organizers for the annual holiday toy drive announced its end because it can no longer receive resources from the city, which faces a projected budget defi...
naked capitalism

Palantir’s Manifesto Is the Agenda of the New Class Reconfiguring the System’s Power Structure - Palantir’s manifesto is the stated agenda of a new class within the system’s power structure, driven by a binary worldview of 0 and 1
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - April 23, 2026 - Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!...(Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: European leaders warn of rising shortages and...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Dozens of Mexican mafia members arrested in California crackdown - Prosecutors say 43 people indicted on charges including murder, kidnapping, extortion and drug trafficking More than two dozen members and associates of ...
Undernews

Record high number of books banned by libraries - The Guardian - The American Library Association (ALA) has reported a record high in the number of books banned in US libraries. In 2025, 5,668 books were...
Salon.com

“Beef” grills capitalism’s trap for women - The Netflix hit returns with the idea that at every level of a dog-eat-dog economy, women get chewed up first
San Antonio Current

San Antonio-area Republican candidate suspended by Kalshi for betting on his own election - [image: Ezekiel Enriquez was formerly a candidate for Texas' 21st Congressional District.] Texas GOP congressional candidate Zeke Enriquez bet on the outc...
San Antonio Report

Meet the high schoolers organizing a 5K to buy running gear for San Antonio’s youth - The trio of 16-year-old varsity cross country runners at St. Mary's Hall created SevaRun, a nonprofit organization. Their first 5K is on Sunday, April 26 a...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Military Disasters and the End of Empire - Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call "micro-militarism." When...
Slate

My Son Is a Bratty Kid. My Husband’s “Solution” Is Going to Make Him Worse. - This is a bad idea.
Futurism

FBI Investigating Series of Deaths Among Top Scientists With Very Specific Specialties - Congress is looking for a "possible sinister connection between a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances." The post FBI Investigating Series of D...
Capital & Main

An Historic Strike in Southeast L.A. County Highlights Pressures Facing California Schools - The district’s teachers’ union staged its first walkout in 154 years over larger class sizes, health care costs and support for special education student...
Axios

U.S. accuses China of "industrial-scale" campaigns to steal AI secrets - The Trump administration on Thursday accused China-backed actors of running "deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns" to distill and copy American frontie...
Ballot Access News

Virginia State Trial Court Enjoins New U.S. House Maps Passed by Voters - On April 22, Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley enjoined Virginia from using the new U.S. House district boundaries that the voters had passed on Ap...
Wolf Street

Hedge-Fund Meme-Stock Short-Squeeze Queen Avis Budget [CAR] Implodes by 72% in 26 Hours - “Stairs up, express elevator down” as hedge funds sock it to each other.
Political Wire

Trump’s Enormous Gerrymandering Blunder - Russell Berman: “Trump’s move to open this new front in a centuries-old gerrymandering war between the parties looks like an enormous tactical blunder.” “R...
Novara Media

Israel Kills Top Journalist Then Attacks Rescuers Trying to Save Her - Israel bombed a prominent Lebanese journalist’s vehicle on Wednesday and then, after she survived the attack, killed her by bombing a house where she had t...
NPR's Health Shots

How mosquitoes — and malaria — helped shape the whereabouts of early humankind - A new study looks at an unexpected force that played a critical role in shaping the lives of ancient humans.
Consortium News

A Secret Act of Judicial Tyranny - The last vote of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in 2016, may have undermined the originalism that he championed in a way he could never have imagine...
Crooked Media

Mandelson, May Elections & Rosie Jones Mayhem - The post Mandelson, May Elections & Rosie Jones Mayhem appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mediagazer

Sources: DOJ officials met with broadcast-TV operators to discuss sports' migration to streaming, part of an antitrust probe into the sports-media marketplace (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *Sources: DOJ officials met with broadcast-TV operators to discuss sports' migration to streaming, part of an antitrust probe into t...
CultureMap Houston

Live Nation drops $30 tickets to dozens of Houston summer 2026 concerts - Live Nation will once again present the *Summer of Live*, a celebration of live music that allows fans to access cheaper tickets for over 4,000 shows acros...
Daily Howler

OUTRIGHT FEAR: How did it [ever] get this far? - *THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2026* *In search of the way it started:* "How did it [ever] get this far?" Within the context of modern American history, that's a...
The Socialist

Rick Scott Net Worth 2026: Healthcare Fortune & Late Disclosures - Table of Contents Rick Scott’s $516,500,000 Fortune: A Quick Overview From Healthcare CEO to Half-Billionaire: Scott’s Wealth Transformation The Senator’s ...
Project Censored

American Press Freedom on the Brink - Clayton Weimers As World Press Freedom Day (May 3) nears, it’s a good time to step back and assess how journalists and news outlets are faring in our cur...
Election Law Blog

“House Republicans, Investigating ActBlue, Ask Its C.E.O. to Testify” - NYT: House Republicans investigating the liberal fund-raising organization ActBlue have asked its chief executive to testify next month to explain how t...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / HISTORY / Where on earth was The Rag? - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 23, 2026 Inspired by Earth Day and also published in Alice Embree’s Substack. The Rag, Austin’s beloved underground ...
Daily Cartoonist

College Group Punished After Posting 56 Year Old Cartoon - Duke University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) posted an Emory Douglas anti-imperialism/anti-Zionism cartoon to its Instagram page that original...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs—Should We Be Worried? - *The short answer as to whether we should be worried about AI is—yes! And this is not because mass AI-driven unemployment is already a settled fact, but ...
Glasstire

Flowers, Figures & Fantastical Frames at the 2026 Dallas Art Fair - Jessica Fuentes (JF): This marked my fifth time attending the Dallas Art Fair (DAF). And over the last 12 months, I’ve seen my fair share of fairs, inclu...
ArcaMax

Dinner Is Served: Will Trump Be Pressed? - The White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday is the hottest ticket in town, but a tempest is brewing among journalists on Donald J. Trump's presence at ...
Common Dreams

Thousands Urge DNC to Release Autopsy on 2024 Defeat - The chair of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, publicly committed to releasing an autopsy on the 2024 defeat but has refused to do so. Suppo...
Mondoweiss

What to expect next in the fragile ceasefires in Iran and Lebanon - [image: Screenshot from a national address Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave concerning the Iran War on April 11, 2026. (Photo: Israeli Govern...
The Texas Signal

The Dallas Art Fair: A Balance Of Growth And Consistency - Since it started in 2009, the Dallas Art Fair continues to grow and find a steady niche in an art world being rocked by international events
Bonddad

Jobless claims: still the most positive datapoint in the entire US economy - - *by New Deal democrat* Let’s take our weekly look at jobless claims, recently perhaps the most positive datapoint in the entire economy. And it c...
El Paso Matters

El Paso elections chief outlines challenges ahead of May votes - El Paso County’s Elections Administrator Lisa Wise discusses challenges, transparency and what voters should know ahead of May uniform elections and pri...
Democracy Now!

Betting on War: Mysterious Traders Make Millions on Well-Timed Bets Tied to Trump's War on Iran - The rise of online prediction markets has allowed people to bet on virtually any news event. For a small group of traders, the war with Iran has been a win...
Rewire

Culture of Silence Around Abortions for Active-Duty Military Intensifies, Researchers Say - A recent study about access for servicewomen couldn’t be completed because only 3 people agreed to participate. The post Culture of Silence Around Aborti...
The Progressive Wing

4/23 News Roundup & Open Thread - Senator Bernie Sanders clashes with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a heated Senate hearing, blasting the Trump administration’s prescription ...
First Draft

MAGA’S Magical Thinking - You say psychotic state; I say magical thinking. Let's call the whole thing off.
Space City Weather

Rain chances back off some as Houston’s focus now turns to rising heat - In brief: Our rain chances are not entirely going away over the next several days, but they will take a back seat to increasing temperatures. By Sunday or ...
Angry Bear

“what Donald Trump does for his friends – the people willing to plot a violent insurrection” - Update on what Trump is doing for the remaining Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. 1500 and counting pardoned by Trump. Even though they were guilty of stormin...
Vox

Am I the bad friend? - Friendship expert Danielle Bayard Jackson recently came to a realization about her social media engagement: Any time she posts content that centers the vie...
Rallblog

DOJ vs. SPLC | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every...
WhoWhatWhy

More Crops Grown for Fuel and Livestock Feed Than for People, New Study Finds - [image: Ripe corn, on the stalk, in the field] Cutting back on beef and biofuels could help improve food security and mitigate climate emissions. More Cro...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Trapped As His Game of Chicken Backfires: Report -
Skeptophilia

It's a bird! It's a plane! No... - Thanks to my friend, the ever-sharp-eyed author Gil Miller, I now have a giant bruise in the middle of my forehead from doing facepalms. Gil's contributi...
Countercurrents

Blood for Oil, Bodies for Profit: The Imperialist Slaughter in the Middle East-No War but the Class War! - The War will end The leaders will shake hands ...
Off The Kuff

Council amends ICE ordinance - What a waste of time. Houston City Council amended its recently approved policy limiting police officers’ interactions with federal immigration agents afte...
ProPublica

“A Punch in the Gut”: After Years of Waiting, Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue Settlement - The post “A Punch in the Gut”: After Years of Waiting, Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue Settlement appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

The ramifications of record-shattering heat on the West’s ecosystems - ‘It was the worst possible way to end the winter that was already worse than normal.’ The post The ramifications of record-shattering heat on the West’s...
Grist

The ‘age of electricity’ is here. No one knows what comes next. - As the war in Iran upends global fuel markets, two new reports confirm that 2025 was a banner year for renewable energy.
The Daily Poster

Tom Steyer Opposed Single-Payer. Now He’s Running On It. - California Democrats just killed single-payer health care — again. Tom Steyer, a billionaire candidate for governor who once opposed single-payer, now says...
Earth 911

7 Retailers With Impressive Recycling Programs - Forty thousand miles of plastic waste wash through the global ocean every year, enough to... The post 7 Retailers With Impressive Recycling Programs appe...
Portside

What Is May Day Strong, the ‘No Work, No School, No Shopping’ Protests Against Trump? - What Is May Day Strong, the ‘No Work, No School, No Shopping’ Protests Against Trump? Mark Brody Thu, 04/23/2026 - 02:46
Ian Welsh

Iran For Dummies - ~by Sean Paul Kelley Between 1,000-2,000 non-Iranian born Americans visit Iran every year. In 2006 I was one of those Americans that makes up a tiny, tiny ...
Workers World

PDF of April 23 print issue - [image: PDF of April 23 print issue] Download the PDF On May Day 2026 Resist U.S. imperialism Mumia Week, April 19-25 Hezbollah in Lebanon China and Cuba R...
jobsanger

Trump's Corruption Is So Vast As To Be A new Phenomenon In American Politics -
World Socialist Web Site

“This is gaslighting. A deception”: Los Angeles school workers denounce union-backed sellout contracts - A WSWS analysis of comments on union social media found roughly two-thirds of UTLA comments and a majority of SEIU 99 comments were against the contracts.
Informed Comment

Iran Seizes Ships, closes Hormuz until US lifts Blockade - The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps said Wednesday that it had sequestered two container ships attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz
See You In 2020

The Epstein fallout, Israel’s collapse, and the inter-elite conflict that will tear the USA apart - The Epstein files didn’t start a revolution, but they did reveal that the conflicts within our ruling class could tear the U.S. empire apart, like Israe...
Idavox

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. - MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ... The post I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Big Bidness Babble - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 592kb Starring in order of appearance: Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of “Some Crap You Bought To Read On T...
Antiwar.com

The Gallows Law: Israel Moves Toward Executing Palestinian Children - According to Israel’s new death penalty law, Palestinian children, like adults, could, in practice, find themselves facing the gallows. This might take som...
Claytoonz

Foiled Again - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
The NM Political Report

Get ’em while they’re hot! Rep. Vasquez pushes to expand SNAP to cover hot rotisserie chicken - [image: Rotisserie Chickens] Technically, the hot, pre-cooked rotisserie chicken you pick up from the grocery store isn’t food; at least not for the purpo...
Progressive.org

Trump’s Vision for the Homeless Is Already Here - Forcing the most vulnerable among us into institutions only perpetuates their trauma. I know, because I’ve lived it.
Popular Resistance

Is Another Financial Crisis Brewing In The US Economy? - There are growing signs that the United States may be on the verge of another major financial crisis, one that could start in the private credit market, ...
Texas Standard

Big Bend National Park could see vehicle barriers, patrol roads under latest changes to border wall plans - U.S. Customs and Border Protection updated its map of planned border wall projects to add vehicle barriers and patrol roads to portions of Big Bend Nationa...
The Conversation

If Justice Alito resigns before the midterms, a Trump nominee to the Supreme Court is likely to sail through confirmation - If a Supreme Court justice retires before the November midterms, this is how Trump and Senate Republicans can successfully confirm a successor.
slacktivist

They got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things - I'm pretty sure I heard this one before.
Lowering the Bar

Sentences Handed Down in Bear-Suit-Insurance-Fraud Case - [image: bear suit]Turns out that WAS a guy in a bear suit.
Independent Political Report

Colorado Senate Candidate Secures American Constitution Party Nod After GOP Assembly Loss - Sean Pond, a former Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Colorado, is continuing his campaign as the nominee of the American Constitution Party after fail...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Can Have Better: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Texas Freedom Network

Andrew Edmonson’s Life of Advocacy Lives on Through TFN - David Andrew Edmonson – known as Andrew, or Andy, to friends and family – was a fierce advocate and “force to be reckoned with,” as his younger sister Sa...
The Root

New Development in Rihanna Home Shooting Suspect—And Things Aren’t Looking Good - Things are steadily going on a downward spiral for Ivana Ortiz, the woman accused of shooting Rihanna's LA home in March. Here's the latest. Read more...
MintPress News

UAE Launches Muslim Shia Crackdown Under Cover of “Iran-Linked Terror” Claims - Despite labeling the arrests of 27 individuals as part of an “Iran-linked terror threat”, UAE authorities have not brought terrorism charges — raising co...
Texas Observer

When the AI Cloud Comes for Texas Water - “What’s in the water?” state Representative Erin Zwiener asked when talking to the developers of a proposed data center in her district, which covers mos...
The AltWorld

How Trump Is Helping Normalize Israel’s Settlements in the West Bank - In February, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem announced it would provide consular services for American citizens living in Efrat, […] The post How Trump Is ...
Environment Texas

Data center growth threatens air quality and progress toward cleaner energy grid - America’s energy transition is at risk. New research analyzing three years of federal electric grid data shows why. The post Data center growth threatens...
Liberation News

Climate catastrophe isn’t inevitable, we can win a socialist future! - As workers, we collectively understand the challenges we face best because we are the class that makes society run. And in turn, we can collectively find t...
NORML

Poll: Most Americans Support “Making Marijuana Legal” Nationwide, Opinions Shaped by Personal Experience - [image: a man smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: a man smokes a legal cannabis joint]"The more familiar people are with the use of cannabis, either by...
Dorf on Law

Trump's War on Bicycles Runs Into His War Against Iran - In the 1988 film *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, *the viewer eventually learns (spoiler alert!) that the villainous Judge Doom (played by Christopher Lloyd) i...
Infidel753

Developments in Iran -- unconfirmed but interesting - I should start by noting that the source site for this information, Turbulent Times, is not a source I'd normally rely on for news about Iran -- first, it...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the HB & HM archives - All of the 'evil and dirty' things that the gays do - If the LGBTQ community actually had the time to "recruit children" in addition to all of the other nefarious things we are accused of doing, maybe we shou...
Discourse

Whatever You Do, Don't Call Kash Patel (an Alleged) Drunk - Plus: Trump's Labor Secretary resigns, Tim Cook quits, remembering different CSIs, and Lena Dunham's big return.
Sludge

GOP's Outside-Money Edge Is Being Built by Billionaires, Oil, and Crypto - Around half the money fueling the super PACs allied with Republican leaders in Congress has come from billionaire donors, a new Sludge analysis finds.
Earthworks

A “Good Neighbor” with a Toxic Legacy - What do toxic geysers and shiny new playgrounds have in common? The sensible answer is: Nothing. But in the rural … The post A “Good Neighbor” with a To...
Krebs on Security

‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty - A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated iden...
Seeing the Forest

A Starmer-Mandelson Scenario - If you are up-to-date on the Starmer/Mandelson scandal, skip to below. US readers: When Trump was about to take office (the second time) Prime Minister Sta...
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
Debunking Christianity

My Article Appeared in "Free Inquiry" Recently. - My article was published on how to change the minds of believers. You can see the pic here, and follow this link to read it: How to Change the Minds of Be...
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: Inconstant moon - I said a while back that nobody’s going to Mars any time soon. Which is true. But that doesn’t mean Mars isn’t interesting! Mars is very interesting. So to...
Socialist Alternative

Iran War: “Ceasefire” Deadline Approaches - With 24 hours left of the “ceasefire” with Iran, Trump is zigzagging between announcing that he is “very close to a fair deal” and again threatening to “kn...
LareDOS

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport - The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 y...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Finally, a new open thread, all topics welcome. It's good to know you are never too old to work for DOJ, even in a position which requires the use of your...
Trivial Knot

Trolleyology bad - In my last post, I offhandedly disparaged the Trolley Problem as a serious thought experiment. Let me elaborate. Any philosophical thought experiment conta...
Duck of Minerva

What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate - I have a new open-access article out in Global Studies Quarterly, “What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate,” in which I argue against historian Pek...
Campaign for America's Future

I Want You to March With Me This May Day - I invite you to march with me this May Day, then organize to win elections and protect our right to vote. Together, we can prove the power of organized peo...
Field Negro

Green light red light in the Strait. - *"War, what is it good for? Absolutely, nothing" ~ Edwin Starr~ * Before Trump's war, also known as Operation Epstein, most Americans would have thoug...
DeSmogBlog

Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in ...
Edinburg Politics

Landmark state law led by Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Rep. Terry Canales to bring $160 million biomedical research center to Edinburg, Mayor Omar Ochoa reveals in State of the City Address - One of the many results of a landmark state law, led in 2013 by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, will be a $160 million b...
Church and State

Trump will be gone before November 3, 2026!! - Continuing under Trump would push the gutless GOP toward a broader conflict, with many nations armed with nuclear weapons.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
The Militant

End Washington’s war for plunder in the Middle East - The Donald Trump administration is alternating between arrogant threats to restart bombing and flattery of current Iranian officials — calling them “smarte...
Bracing Views

The Social Media Echo Chamber - When the Rabbit Hole Becomes an Information Silo BILL ASTORE APR 16, 2026 If you’ve spent time on social media, you know it can be quite unsocial. Profane...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 17, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio April 17, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/17/2026 - 02:48 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Greg Palast

Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore - Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out ...
Dissent Magazine

Power and Abuse in the United Farm Workers - The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned ...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Art of the Dérive - Our explorations of Situationism, that eccentric twentieth-century offspring of a drunken amour between avant-garde European art and radical post-Marxist p...
Progressives Chat

Kim Iversen Interviews Marjorie Taylor Green - *Kim Iversen* welcomed former congresswoman *Marjorie Taylor Green* (R–Georgia #14). This is a worthwhile interview. It was published to YouTube Sunda...
nonsite.org

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

UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout - Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in solitary confinement. If convicted, the six Pale...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
The Greanville Post

Rescuing TGP from a severe attack. - This option only applies to Single Post Template Styles 1 & 2. if you wish to hide Featured Images from automatically appearing on all posts, you can selec...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Texas Environmental News

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in March of 2026, with one of them fatal and at least one more injury, which is few deaths or injuries than us...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE THE OTHER ONE EDITION. - *The original orchestrations are grand, but this is just irresistible.* Pam Bondi’s departure is meaningless — Tubby has a huge crabbucket of equally loat...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

No Robots - This will be a very brief update on my health and legal battles for subscribers. There won’t be any opining on Iran or Epstein or Trump or anyone or anythi...
The Mind Unleashed

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

Well you know it's a shame and a pity - The Rising Son Records account (Arlo Guthrie?) on Facebook posted this photo and said, in the first person, that in September of 2013, "As I watched the cl...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Dissident Voice

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

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

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

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WAWG Blog

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

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

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

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

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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