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

Futurism

Climate Scientists Shake Their Heads as First US City Running Completely Out of Water - "We have no precedent to follow. There's no manual, there's no video." The post Climate Scientists Shake Their Heads as First US City Running Completely ...
The Hill

The midterm mirage: Democrats shouldn’t get high on their own supply - Democrats are confident about winning the midterm elections, but must be careful not to get complacent and must instead focus on challenging party interest...
San Antonio Report

AI is changing how Texas universities teach computer science as job market slows - Admissions to Texas computer science programs are down roughly 20%, professors said, but they still see a future for their students. -----------------------...
memeorandum

Trump to Dine With Reporters He's Been Roasting All Week (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times) - Shawn McCreesh / New York Times: *Trump to Dine With Reporters He's Been Roasting All Week* — President Trump has boycotted the White House Corresponde...
Political Wire

Trump to Dine With Reporters He’s Been Roasting - “When President Trump makes his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night, he will be addressing a roomful of people he s...
Raw Story

Speculation swirls as Trump cancels Iran talks: 'He is just trying to save face' - President Donald Trump has cancelled a planned diplomatic mission to Pakistan involving senior envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who were scheduled...
Al Jazeera English

Reported US CIA agents killed in crash not authorised to operate: Mexico - Mexican government says it is seeking details after incident raises questions about US activities on its territory.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Texas camp where 25 girls died in 2025 flood may not be allowed to reopen - Camp Mystic must make changes to its emergency notification processes to receive its operating license The Texas Christian summer camp where 27 girls and...
Salon.com

Appeals court says no: Trump’s asylum restrictions hit another legal barrier - An appeals court says the administration can't rewrite who gets protection, setting up a fight in the Supreme Court
Mondoweiss

Palestinians are holding local elections, but hardly anyone is running. Here’s why that matters. - [image: Palestinians cast thier ballot at a polling station during municipal elections in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, April 25, 2026. )(Photo: Tariq Moham...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #MassiveEncryptionThreat - [image: WolfSSL breakin, cyber security, encryption] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: #MassiveEncryption...
Novara Media

You Can’t Have Billionaires and Democracy. Ancient Collapse Proves It. - It’s the question that will come to define our lives: is our society going to collapse? But the field of collapse research is fragmented, chaotic, and ofte...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Another Communist / Bolshevik spotted! - *SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2026* *Also, Gotham crime runs rampant: *This very morning, we were surprised to learn what Mayor Mamdani has done. How will his...
Mediaite

Trump Critic Larry Wilmore Offers Rare ‘Credit’ to President on CNN Over Marijuana Move - Comedian and political pundit Larry Wilmore offered rare praise for President Donald Trump on his rescheduling of medical marijuana. The post Trump Criti...
Axios

Trump cancels envoys' trip to Pakistan for Iran talks - President Trump has canceled the trip by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad due to the Iranian position in peace negotiations, he to...
Scheerpost.com

From the 1953 Coup to Today: Jeffrey Sachs Explains America’s Endless War on Iran - Joshua Scheer Jeffrey Sachs doesn’t raise his voice — he doesn’t have to. In this wide‑ranging conversation with Tucker Carlson, Sachs lays out a devastati...
Eschaton

FIELD TRIP CANCELLED - Steve and Jared's trip to Pakistan was canceled. I suspect it was always fake - that all of this is just delaying to make time for putting things in place ...
Wolf Street

US Government Sold $524 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week. Inflation to Surpass T-Bill Yields. Brutal Bond Math - The effects of Tax Day. The 10-Year Treasury yield rose to 4.31%, 30-Year Treasury yield to 4.91%.
The Socialist

Susie Lee Net Worth 2026: Controversial Stock Trades Revealed - Table of Contents Susie Lee’s $9.2 Million Financial Foundation From Non-Profit Leadership to Congressional Paychecks: Susie Lee’s Career Earnings The $2.0...
Mediagazer

Union representatives for media in the US, Philippines, and Greece share how their groups are trying to protect members from job changes due to AI (Gretel Kahn/Reuters Institute) - Gretel Kahn / Reuters Institute: *Union representatives for media in the US, Philippines, and Greece share how their groups are trying to protect members...
The Verge

Researchers say we’re talking less than ever - Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Arizona say that between 2005 and 2019, the number of words we speak out loud t...
Mother Jones

Why Maine’s Governor Just Killed a Pioneering Data Center Moratorium - Until yesterday, it looked like Maine would enshrine the country’s first state-level hyperscale data center moratorium into law. But late on Friday, Democr...
Undernews

Jerome Powell - *The Hill - *White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday sought to signal that the legal pressure was not off Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powel...
Bracing Views

The Bloody Awful Waste of War - Insanity on a Mass Scale BILL ASTORE APR 25, 2026 Courtesy of NBC News, here’s a brief summary of the butcher’s bill of the latest wars in the Middle East:...
Glasstire

Review: “Maya Blue” at the San Antonio Museum of Art - The distinctive, often enchanting, blue pigment that one finds in ancient Maya architectural embellishment, murals, codices, sculpture, and other cultura...
Courthouse News

Trump’s disdain for wind projects creates a political storm for Republicans in coastal Virginia - Trump’s push to halt major offshore wind projects is sparking backlash from Republicans in coastal Virginia, where the issue has become a political flashpo...
San Antonio Current

As contract negotiations drag on, Texas Starbucks workers have learned the power of organizing - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or...
Daily Cartoonist

Satire on Standby - Garry B. Trudeau biographer Joshua Kendall for The Boston Globe (or here) compares the attitudes of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton with the current residen...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: The Onion’s Last Laugh - A satirist moves in on a conspiracist, a utility stumbles in Nevada, security guards could score protection, and a real doctor goes to Washington.
Grist

Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns - The American Lung Association report comes amid the EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections.
Progressive.org

Treat Violence As a Workplace Safety Issue - This Workers Memorial Day, April 28, let's commit to curbing on-the-job harassment and abuse.
ArcaMax

The Perniciousness of Centrism - The Left is extreme, the Right is extreme. In the middle lies truth and reason. None of this is true -- but it is taken for granted, even by many of those ...
NPR's Health Shots

How the fight over glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is creating tensions - The fight over an ingredient in weedkiller has pitched MAHA activists - those aligned with the beliefs of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kenn...
Vox

Why colleges are going out of business - Higher education is in crisis. Last week, Hampshire College — a private liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts — announced it will shut down after t...
Houston Public Media

METRO’s Red Line to briefly pause as Main Street pedestrian redesign for World Cup nears completion - As work continues on a $12 million project to make the downtown thoroughfare more pedestrian-friendly, light rail service on Main Street is being suspended...
naked capitalism

Links 4/25/2026 -
Consortium News

WATCH: The World This Week – ‘War on Hold’ - Former C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern and ex-U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter join The World This Week to discuss the latest developments in the Iran war a...
Skeptophilia

The Black Monk of Pontefract - One of the difficulties with discouraging bogus claims of the paranormal is the profit motive. A lot of it, of course, is that the money that stands to b...
Countercurrents

Where convictions go to die – The great Indian turncoat Bazaar - This is not politics in motion; this is conviction in decay – stage-managed, monetised, and performed without shame. “Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram” (literally “Ram h...
Crooked Media

God In The Machine - The post God In The Machine appeared first on Crooked Media.
Brad Blog

The BRAD BLOG Reborn… - I will keep this short for now, as the transition took a whole bunch more hours than I had hoped. Best laid plans and all, but… As you are probably noticin...
Off The Kuff

The Book-Loving Texans’ Guide to the May 2026 elections - More valuable insights from Franklin Strong. GCISD Parents PAC has gotten the message: Book-banning and attacking students from marginalized groups won’t w...
Slate

Kash Patel Knows His Atlantic Lawsuit Will Fail. Here’s Why He Doesn’t Care. - Journalists should ditch dining with an administration committed to hobbling the press and the constitution.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 25 April 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o This dancer has acquired quite an audience. A daring explorer crosses a r...
The Week

Spring meatballs, pasta and peas - This light, lemony recipe is a great way to pack greens into your meal
jobsanger

Right-Winger Says Trump Is Not A Moral Man -
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Cloud Nine - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Informed Comment

Iran seeks Omani, Russian mediation in addition to Pakistan - The Omani FM has also intimated that Witkoff and Kushner were not knowledgeable enough to recognize how big Iran's nuclear concessions were
OpEd News

Surprising truths about America's tax history - If you think taxes are unfair, I've got news for you: they sure are, and things have gotten progressively worse (make that "regressively worse") for roughl...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | April 24, 2026 - Friday Nite Videos | April 24, 2026 barry Fri, 04/24/2026 - 22:51
Techdirt.

RFK Jr. & White House Appear At Odds Over Attempts To Rein Him In - Amidst all the other chaos and damage RFK Jr. is doing in his current role as Secretary of Health and Human Services, we noted a few weeks back that he was...
Alternet

Republican flames out on-air after blaming Biden for Trump’s inflation - Conservative political strategist and CNN pundit Scott Jennings failed to make his case for blaming President Donald Trump’s inflation problems on former...
Popular Resistance

A Dialogue Across Civilisations, For Now - During some of the worst days of the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran, I was talking to friends who were in the civilian areas being bombed. Some of them a...
El Paso Matters

El Paso Water didn’t assess a now-failing dam before acquiring Cement Lake property last month - El Paso Water bought a 300-acre tract last month without inspecting a 117-year-old dam on the site that is now in danger of breaching. The post El Paso ...
See You In 2020

The MAGA base’s split from Trump, & how this precludes the rescuing of American civilization - When liberals have compared Trump to Caesar, they’ve unintentionally admitted to the doom of their own social system. Today, this comparison isn’t used ...
Election Law Blog

“Voter ID ballot measure qualifies for California’s general election ballot” - LADN: When Californians cast their ballots in the fall, they may get to decide whether they’ll have to bring a form of ID with them the next time they v...
Claytoonz

Prediction Markets - 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...
CultureMap Houston

Staple downtown Houston bar announces imminent closure - One of downtown Houston’s favorite casual bars will serve its last drink this weekend. *Dean’s* will close after service on Sunday, April 26.
Texas Standard

Camp Mystic, other Texas camps may not reopen this summer due to ‘insufficient’ emergency plans - The camp has 45 days to revise its emergency plan.
slacktivist

LBCF: Why doctors hate healthy people - Wherein Jerry Jenkins lays out his weird, inhumanly dumb conspiracy theory about how health care only exists because "it's a money thing."
Dorf on Law

Updates: Column re Stealing/Ignoring the Midterms Delayed; New Dorf Column on Verdict Today - To Dorf on Law’s readers: Yesterday, I wrote that I planned to “return[] tomorrow with some additional thoughts” about the various ways in which Trumpist...
Ballot Access News

Newspaper Story About California Lawsuit on Top-Two - The Black Chronicle has this story about the April 13 decision Peace & Freedom Party v Weber, the minor party case against the top-two system. … Continue r...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #173 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: the "Texas handcuffing judge" is now a former one; more lawyers regret using artificial "intelligence"; magicians make an...
World Socialist Web Site

Turkish miners’ struggle continues under a police siege - Miners’ struggle demonstrates the social power that must be mobilized for the social and democratic rights and against imperialist war.
Angry Bear

Medigap Coverage by Race, Income, Health Status, and Age - This commentary is a breakdown of Figure 1 detailing each of the results and purposes of Medicap. I favor graphs as it is far easier to understand than r...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BACK IN THE SADDLE EDITION. - *Let's take the temperature down a bit.* Yeah, been a few weeks since I did this -- sorry about that, life’s a bitch and sometimes it's hard to get it o...
Deadline Politics

California Governor Hopeful Tom Steyer Slams “Corrupt” Trump & WBD-Paramount Merger, Talks Uncapping Tax Credits, “Crazy” Steve Hilton - EXCLUSIVE: “As governor, I will do whatever it takes to preserve and advance California’s leadership as the artistic and creative powerhouse of the world,”...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Winning the Case, Losing the Ground: How Policy Threats Still Govern—Especially Through Proposed Funding Cuts, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Winning the Case, Losing the Ground: How Policy Threats Still Govern—Especially Through Proposed Funding Cuts* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *April ...
Independent Political Report

Indiana Libertarians Look to Maintain Ballot Access Through Secretary of State Race - *This article was originally published by the Indiana Capital Chronicle on April 20, 2026, and is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any v...
The Conversation

What to know about sex trafficking as Pittsburgh hosts the NFL draft - The NFL draft will bring increased demand and risks for trafficking. Here’s what Pittsburgh needs to know, from warning signs to local prevention efforts.
Common Dreams

Jewish New Yorkers Welcome Mamdani's Veto of Anti-Palestinian Buffer Zone Bill, Call on City Council to Stop Attacking Protest - The right to protest is sacrosanct. That is why thousands of New Yorkers spoke out when Council Speaker Julie Menin and Councilmember Eric Dinowitz intro...
The Militant

US troops, ships, warplanes out of the Middle East now! - President Donald Trump announced an indefinite extension of the U.S. ceasefire with Tehran April 21, but said the U.S. blockade of ships to and from Irania...
Capital & Main

A Grieving Afghan Man Says He Tried to Get Medical Care for His Brother Who Died in ICE Custody - Naseer Paktiawal just returned from burying his brother in Afghanistan. “I didn’t want to bury him here.” The post A Grieving Afghan Man Says He Tried to...
Duck of Minerva

This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide - As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and An...
Black Agenda Report

The State of Trump’s Union: Geopolitical Economy Hour with Ajamu Baraka - The State of Trump’s Union: Geopolitical Economy Hour with Ajamu Baraka bareditors Fri, 04/24/2026 - 20:50
The Texas Signal

With LGBTQ+ Speakers, Baylor University Makes History - The nation’s largest Baptist university held an event called "All Are Neighbors" on campus, organized by several student groups, that featured LGBTQ+ speak...
Rewire

Federal Judge Blocks Kennedy’s Anti-Trans Policy - Plus, Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules abortion is a "fundamental right," and Idahoans could soon vote on an abortion ballot measure. The post Federal J...
Bonddad

Updating the long leading indicators: interest rate levels and duration spreads - * - by New Deal democrat* As I noted earlier this week, I haven’t updated my suite of long leading indicators in awhile, mainly because they have bee...
SCOTUSblog

Digital location data heads back to the Supreme Court - On Monday, April 27, the Supreme Court will hear *Chatrie v. United States,* a case about police access to geofence data, a digital record of a person’s ...
Texas Observer

LATE SPRING ENDING WITH LUNAR ECLIPSE - Fine thread nearly invisible in the early lightkept getting caught again and again in our mouths.We gave up after walking through the fourth web,turned a...
Democracy Now!

"Muskism": Author Quinn Slobodian on How Apartheid South Africa Inspired Elon Musk's Worldview & More - In the new book, *Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed*, authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff look at the worldview that shaped Elon Musk and the ideology...
The Progressive Wing

4/24-26 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, etc. in the comments.
Debunking Christianity

Profound Ignorance about Christianity Fuels Its Success - *“We trust our clergy”—and that’s enough * In fact, one of the primary roles of the clergy is to divert attention from blunt realities. They don’t want ...
Space City Weather

Pre-summer arrives in Houston with a chance at our first 90-degree day this weekend - In brief: Houston firmly ramps into pre-summer this weekend with several chances at 90 degree highs between Saturday and Tuesday. Lower-end chances for a c...
Rallblog

German Militarization: What Could Go Wrong? | 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...
The Smirking Chimp

Operation Epic Failure -
ProPublica

Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash - The post Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash appeared first on ProPublica.
The AltWorld

Podcast: Oh, Christian Zionists - Caitlin and Tim discuss Christian Zionism, Israel, authentic spirituality, and Jesus statues. The post Podcast: Oh, Christian Zionists appeared first on ...
High Country News

Emergency plans for the Colorado River buy time, not solutions - The federal government ordered Flaming Gorge water released and cuts to Lake Powell releases, to prevent collapse. The post Emergency plans for the Colo...
Crooked Timber

On Reinforcing Cynicism in the Academy - “I admire the many federal prosecutors across the country who have chosen to resign rather than carry out illegal or immoral orders. To my knowledge, no de...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: The Greatest Danger to Our Future Is Apathy - Earth911 inspirations. Print them, post them, share your desire to help people think of the... The post Earth911 Inspiration: The Greatest Danger to Our ...
Counterpunch

Sound History - The History of Sound, directed by South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus from a script by American Ben Shattuck that adapts his short story of the same ...
Ian Welsh

The Extension of the Iran War Truce Works To Iran’s Benefit - Let’s keep this simple: every day the Strait of Hormuz is closed, more damage is done to the world economy. The US is not immune to this as it needs ammoni...
Workers World

From Philadelphia to Palestine – Free all prisoners! - [image: From Philadelphia to Palestine – Free all prisoners!] Philadelphia Credit: Cindy Lu On April 18, a clear, warm spring afternoon, over 50 people ral...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not just anybody - Photo: Harrowgate Valley Gardens by Cliff Ounsley Harold Meyerson at *The American Prospect*, "New Israeli Law: Hangings for Palestinians, but No Noose ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Conservative social media influencer resurrects decade-old debunked study to bash gay parenting - Michael Knowles Earlier this week, failed actor and successful conservative social media influencer (which really isn't a stretch from failed actor) Micha...
The NM Political Report

Bregman pitches no income taxes for seniors 65+ - Sam Bregman has a bold idea that he says will make aging easier for New Mexicans. In a new policy pitch announced today, Bregman says he will ask the le...
Antiwar.com

The Teenage Bully Boy Who Got the War Toys - Here he goes again. The phony “cease fire” is expiring Wednesday. So the Donald is back on the keyboard promising to obliterate what remains of Iran if the...
MintPress News

Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE Complicity - As Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehran ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ACLU Joins Coalition Calling For FIFA to Uphold Human Rights Ahead 2026 World Cup - The coalition has issued a travel advisory for fans, players, journalists, and other visitors attending the 2026 World Cup in areas impacted by the Trump a...
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 ...
NORML

Justice Department Moves to Federally Reschedule State-Approved Medical Cannabis Products - [image: Scrabble tiles, lined up between a judges gavel and marijuana leaves, spell out "rescheduling"][image: Scrabble tiles, lined up between a judges ...
Ecosophia

April 2026 Open Post, Mark II - I’m in the process of moving this blog to a new server. Most of the transfer process has gone very well, but in the process the open post I launched on Wed...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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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

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The Contributor

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

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

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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