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

Eschaton

Our New Problem - Whatever their personal opinion of him, elite Dems are currently panicking about Zohran. Republicans are determined to make him the "face of Democrats" and...
Courthouse News

Armenia PM says foiled ‘sinister’ coup plot by senior cleric - The cleric, who leads the opposition movement Sacred Struggle, last year accused the leader of ceding territory to Azerbaijan and led mass protests that ul...
memeorandum

Trump downplays U.S. intelligence report on Iran strikes at NATO presser (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC) - Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: *Trump downplays U.S. intelligence report on Iran strikes at NATO presser* … President Donald Trump on Wednesday doubled down on...
Slate

The Supreme Court Just Revived One of the Worst Anti-Woman Rulings of All Time - Skrmetti revives a reviled decision that, until this week, the court had barely mentioned—until Dobbs.
San Antonio Current

Fitness influencer called 'Liver King' arrested for challenging Texas resident Joe Rogan to a fight - A fitness influencer who calls himself the "Liver King" has been arrested for challenging podcaster, comedian and fellow meathead Joe Rogan to a fight. Th...
naked capitalism

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

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez to change wedding venue after protestors threaten to fill Venice canal with inflatable crocodiles - [image: jeff bezos lauren sanchez wedding venice canal protest crocodiles] Plans for *Jeff Bezos* and *Lauren Sanchez’s wedding* celebration in *Venice* ...
Mediaite

Mike Pence Sends Letter to Jan. 6 Rioter Sharing His ‘Genuine Respect’ for Her Decision to Reject Trump’s Pardon - Pam Hemphill, the Capitol rioter nicknamed "MAGA Granny" after she was arrested, gained new fame after she publicly denounced President Donald Trump and ...
Techdirt.

Corporate Deal Making Made Easy: Just Give Donald Trump Personal Power To Approve All Strategic Decisions - Here’s a fun corporate governance puzzle for you. Suppose you’re a foreign company trying to buy an American steel producer. The previous administration bl...
The Week

'Alligator Alcatraz will be a blight on the Everglades' - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Popular Resistance

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

Inside Ron Johnson’s Megabill Talks - “Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Wednesday he’s not ready to support Donald Trump’s signature domestic policy bill. But the Wisconsin Republican said that the...
Vox

Why the US just can’t quit Middle East wars - In April 1980, President Jimmy Carter authorized Operation Eagle Claw, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the American hostages held at the US embas...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

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

The Architects of Project 2025 Are Suddenly Very Concerned About AI Safety - The Heritage Foundation — the group behind the infamous Project 2025, the conservative policy plan that outlined ____ — is suddenly really, really down w...
Raw Story

'Trying to have it both ways': Democrat asks why Emile Bove can't square stories - Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, confronted President Donald Trump's judicial nominee about conflicting sto...
Houston Public Media

House shelves Houston Congressman Al Green’s effort to impeach Trump over Iran strikes - Green, who had filed earlier articles of impeachment against the president this year, has been a consistent voice speaking out against Trump's actions, whi...
Deadline Politics

Judge’s “Fair Use” Ruling In Favor Of Anthropic Is Likely Just The Start Of Lengthy Copyright Battles Over AI Training Models - A judge’s decision that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its AI models is a “fair use” is likely only the start of lengthy litigation to resol...
World Socialist Web Site

Britain’s National Security Strategy prepares militarisation of society - The document’s release comes just days after Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a commitment to lifting military spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035, a...
Al Jazeera English

Did the US and Israel really obliterate Iran’s nuclear facilities? - A leaked intelligence report has cast doubt on Trump and Netanyahu’s claims about destroying Iran's nuclear programme.
Second Nexus

'Cobra Kai' Star Kicked Out Of Fan Event After Allegedly Biting Costar 'So Hard He Nearly Drew Blood' - Actor Martin Kove is in hot water after allegedly biting his *Cobra Kai* costar Alicia Hannah-Kim on the arm. Kove plays Sensei John Creese in the Netfli...
The Hill

Lawmakers press Trump administration on nuclear sub deal with Australia, UK - A group of bipartisan lawmakers sent a Monday letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressing support for the trilateral security partnership known as ...
Axios

Scoop: Trump to limit sharing classified info with Congress after leak on Iran bombing damage - The Trump administration plans to limit sharing classified information with Congress after someone leaked an internal assessment suggesting that Saturday'...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Protesters rally at US sheriffs meeting to oppose partnerships with immigration authorities - Protesters call on police to prioritize local community safety over assisting with Ice under Trump’s deportation agenda US immigration rights advocates r...
Mondoweiss

‘It’s proven that Zionism is a paper tiger in Democratic politics’: breaking down Zohran Mamdani’s stunning New York victory - [image: NYC Assemblymember and mayoral candidate Zohran Kwame Mamdani (Mamdani campaign website)]Mondoweiss talks to political consultant Peter Feld to bre...
The Verge

The photographer using AI to reconstruct stories lost to censorship - Video screens glow softly from the floor, looping footage of salt lakes, steppe villages, and decaying nuclear test sites. Suspended above them is a large ...
The Greanville Post

MAGA NEIGHBORS: WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SWAMP! - P. FARRUGGIO—You who voted and continue to support that mindset, ask yourself what will happen to you or a loved one when someday (maybe very soon) you wil...
The Daily Poster

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

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

DMZ America Podcast Ep 208: Zohran Mamdani’s Shocking WIn in NYC - In a stunning upset, 33-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani clinched the Democratic primary for New York City’s mayoral race, defeating former G...
Alternet

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

Culture Minister Chris Bryant says UK's high-end TV tax credits are very competitive with the rest of the world, after calls to increase them from 25% to 40% (Max Goldbart/Deadline) - Max Goldbart / Deadline: *Culture Minister Chris Bryant says UK's high-end TV tax credits are very competitive with the rest of the world, after calls to...
OpEd News

Moth - A minimalist attempt to express the unspeakable. A true story.
Independent Political Report

Working Families Party Issues Statement on Zohran Mamdani’s Projected NYC Mayoral Primary Win - The Working Families Party issued a statement Tuesday night following Zohran Mamdani’s projected win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. S...
Consortium News

UK Labour’s Defence Review Doomed to Fail - Keir Starmer’s defence plan avoids two fundamental issues, writes Paul Rogers: Britain’s actual recent experience of wars and the real game-changer, global...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs - [image: banded, bald eagle] Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health a...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: To protect the Constitution, we must stand up to Trump administration - From waging war to lining his family’s pockets, President Trump’s administration is a threat to centuries of constitutional order. The post Opinion: To ...
Ballot Access News

Vermont Legislature Passes Bill Banning “Sore Losers” and Requiring Write-in Candidates to File a Declaration - On June 16, the Vermont legislature passed HB 474. It says someone who loses a major party primary may not then qualify as the nominee of a minor party, or...
Undernews

Word - *Greta* Turns out they just nicked the nuclear site.
Election Law Blog

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

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

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

More Transparency on US Forces in Australia - It was a blast to a past wiped out by amnesia, social media and mental decrepitude. Andrew Hastie, Australia’s opposition minister for home affairs, had...
Scheerpost.com

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

6 Houston fashion experts on what to wear to Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter tour - She may have debuted her *Cowboy Carter* era at the 2024 Grammy Awards, but Beyoncé left the real rodeo for Houston. The hometown queen is saddling up for ...
Discourse

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

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

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

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

THE PLAYERS: Furious president does it again! - *WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2025* *The New York Times calmly reports:* For the record, *Men's Health* magazine isn't a medical journal. That said, it seems to ...
The Root

Father Accused of Doing The Unthinkable To His Own Daughter Might’ve Just Experienced Karma - Andrew Wiley will never answer for his horrid allegations. Read more...
First Draft

Riley Moore and the DC Five (Fetuses) - Why is Riley Moore such a weirdo?
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, June 25 - Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Coming up: Tomorrow...
Democracy Now!

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

What happens next in US-Iran relations will be informed by the two countries’ shared history - Negotiations are possible between the US and Iran, but they will neither be easy nor likely to produce more than limited outcomes.
Texas Observer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spurs boast long history of drafting community-minded players who give back - [image: Tim Duncan and San Antonio Food Bank work together to bring the Tim Duncan '2:1' Holiday Challenge to those in need.]From David Robinson to Victor ...
ProPublica

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

Senate Republicans’ Climate-Wrecking Corn Ethanol Payout - This version of the Big Beautiful Bill would hand vast subsidies to a toxic industry, all while gutting wind, solar, and green hydrogen.
NPR's Health Shots

RFK Jr.'s picks for CDC vaccine advisers meet this week amid controversy - For the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all the members of the vaccine committee, it is meeting in Atlanta.
High Country News

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

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

All Politics Is Global: The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s Insurgent Victory - Andrew Cuomo’s attempt at a comeback served as a case study in civic fragility, hypocrisy, party loyalty, and political amnesia. Aside from the credible ...
jobsanger

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

Gestapo: You Guys Look Like Fucking Criminals - New war hysteria looms, yet still armed, masked, unnamed stormtroopers roam the land, keeping us safe from "the worst of the worst illegal alien criminal...
Informed Comment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Federal Court Rules Against Louisiana Ten Commandments Law - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Three federal appeals judges on Friday unanimously ruled that a Louisiana law mandating the dis...
Earthworks

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

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

Bombs Over Norway - 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...
Church and State

Why Do Environmentalists Avoid “Population”? - It seems that the word “population” has bad connotations for many people now, including environmentalists.
Environment Texas

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

Too hot to blog - Some Delco history and Chesco blogging and a happy failure from Idaho.
Angry Bear

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

Ajamu Baraka Speaks on Israel, Iran, and Zionism - Ajamu Baraka Speaks on Israel, Iran, and Zionism bareditors Wed, 06/25/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Charisse Burden-Stelly, ...
Ian Welsh

Iran Screws Up & Gaza Death Toll - [image: Iran Screws Up & Gaza Death Toll] So, Iran has accepted the ceasefire offer. Iran was, as best I can tell, winning. The Iron Dome could not stop t...
Progressive.org

The Original Abortion Bans - Catholic hospitals have denied lifesaving care to pregnant patients since long before Dobbs—and their presence is expanding.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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

Turtle nesting triumph: ‘A legacy I’m leaving to all of you and your future generations’ - As a record number of Kemp’s ridley sea turtle nests appeared this year on Padre Island, a longtime turtle protector reflects on how far these marine repti...
Sludge

Members of Congress Bought Defense Stocks, Then Watched Them Rise as the Bombs Dropped - Here are the lawmakers who have purchased stocks in defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and RTX since President Trump's election win.
The AltWorld

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

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

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

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

Three Years Post-Dobbs, Just Texas is Building Reproductive Justice Power in Faith Communities - Learn more about abortion access in Texas and our Just Texas program's reproductive justice work this Dobbs Decision Anniversary. [...] Read More... The...
Glasstire

Book Review: “Border Documents” by Arturo Soto - The U.S.-Mexico border has been a site of great tension and controversy for a long time. Often characterized as a place of random violence, drug traffick...
Edinburg Politics

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

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

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

Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report - Dozens of companies and trade bodies were involved in an effort to water down key sustainability legislation in the EU, according to a new report publish...
Crooked Timber

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

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

"The 12 Day War": Trump says Israel, Iran have reached tentative ceasefire agreement - The president shared the news of a possible ceasefire on Truth Social
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fight The Rich, Not Their Wars: NO War With Iran - On June 21, US warplanes dropped its “bunker buster” bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites, including one heavily fortified site, Fordo, that is critical to...
Trivial Knot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Media Roots Radio - Media Roots Radio.
TalkLeft

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

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
Web of Debt

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

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

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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