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

memeorandum

Senate plunges into do-or-die moment on "big, beautiful bill" (Stef W. Kight/Axios) - Stef W. Kight / Axios: *Senate plunges into do-or-die moment on “big, beautiful bill”* — Senate Majority Leader John Thune is about to make GOP holdout...
World Socialist Web Site

Cracks opening in long-term bond market - The move out of long-term US bonds is the most significant since the crisis of early 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Al Jazeera English

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,220 - Here are the key events on day 1,220 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Political Wire

Don Bacon Won’t Run Again - Rep. Don Bacon, the five-term Nebraska Republican who represents a centrist district in a deeply red state, will not seek re-election, handing Democrats a ...
Daily Dot

“End of an era”: Microsoft is killing off the legendary “blue screen of death” - [image: microsoft blue screen of death] The times, they are a-changing—at least over at Microsoft, that is. The universally shared Windows user experienc...
Mediaite

James Comer Demands Karine Jean-Pierre Come Before Congress On Alleged ‘Usurping’ of Biden’s Presidential Authority - James Comer demands Karine Jean-Pierre testify before Congress over alleged “autopen scheme” and accusations Biden aides “usurped” his presidential autho...
Axios

Senate plunges into do-or-die moment on "big, beautiful bill" - Senate Majority Leader John Thune is about to make GOP holdouts decide if they're *really* willing to torpedo President Trump's signature legislative age...
Raw Story

Vulnerable House Republican won't seek re-election: report - A centrist Republican who has a history of pushing back on President Donald Trump won't seek re-election, and may have opened the door for Democrats, acc...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US Senate votes down resolution to restrict Trump from escalating Iran war - Democratic effort fails in mostly partisan vote, hours after US president says he would consider more bombing Senate Democrats failed on Friday to get a ...
Popular Resistance

The Global North Lives Off Intellectual Rents - The number in the graph above, based on data from the International Monetary Fund, is not an exaggeration. Despite the growing technological and industri...
Portside

Sotomayor in Dissent: None of Our Rights Is Safe - Sotomayor in Dissent: None of Our Rights Is Safe barry Fri, 06/27/2025 - 20:39
Courthouse News

Birthright citizenship - CONCORD, N.H. — In a class action filed the same day SCOTUS revoked a nationwide injunction on the president's birthright citizenship executive order, fami...
Trivial Knot

Social justice and empiricism - I’ve toyed with the idea that one of the major values of social justice is basically empiricism. Social justice contains certain theories, but you can’t j...
The Hill

Biden pays respects at Minnesota Capitol for slain Democratic lawmaker - Former President Biden visited the Minnesota Capitol to pay his respects to former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who were k...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Immigrants' Rights: Know your rights, compliments of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - *Friends, * *Tragically, we are hearing of a lot of people getting picked up by ICE in our communities. It's important theat people know their rights. * ...
Liberation News

Supreme Court gives green light for Trump to deport migrants to third countries - These institutions long said to be the defender of people’s rights are quickly losing their legitimacy
The Verge

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos - For years, Meta's trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram's servers. But apparently, Meta...
SCOTUSblog

Closing the book on the term - It was a bit of a shock on Thursday when Chief Justice John Roberts announced at the end of the session that the court would next sit on Friday and […] ...
Grist

The Trump administration claims roads in forests prevent wildfires. Researchers disagree. - Experts say repealing the "Roadless Rule" won't help stop fires, but it will help loggers.
Workers World

Workers Voice Socialist Movement on U.S. bombing of Iran - [image: Workers Voice Socialist Movement on U.S. bombing of Iran] New Orleans-based Workers Voice Socialist Movement issued the following statement on June...
Techdirt.

Creativity & Technological Evolution - This series of posts explores how we can rethink the intersection of AI, creativity, and policy. From examining outdated regulatory metaphors to questionin...
Reform Austin

Schatzline Withdraws from Texas Senate Race - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Two days after announcing his candidacy for a north Fort Worth Senate seat, Fort Worth Republic...
Houston Public Media

Saharan dust plume expected to hit Houston this weekend - Saharan dust could bring hazy skies and vivid sunsets to Houston. But it also could pose serious health risks for people with respiratory conditions.
NPR's Health Shots

People say they've faced withdrawals from SSRIs. They want recognition and research - A growing number of people who take SSRIs are saying they've suffered difficult withdrawal symptoms from long-term use, including dysphoria and sexual dysf...
Lowering the Bar

Authorities Question Unlicensed Beaver Releases - [image: beaver release]An "underground network" of unauthorized beaver releasers is at work.
Scheerpost.com

Bob’s Newswire: June 27, 2025 - June 27, 2025 Israel, the Middle East and the World China, Asia and the World June 22, 2025 Israel, the Middle East and the World China June 13, 2025 Israe...
San Antonio Current

Pair found guilty of 2022 San Antonio migrant smuggling tragedy to spend life behind bars - Two men convicted of federal charges related to the deaths of 53 migrants trapped in the back of an overheated tractor trailer in San Antonio in 2022 will...
The Conversation

Supreme Court upholds childproofing porn sites - Kids face risks online, but whether and how the law can protect them is a thorny issue. The Supreme Court weighed in to say states can try with age-gating ...
Crooked Media

SCOTUS Clears the Way for Trump’s Lawlessness - The post SCOTUS Clears the Way for Trump’s Lawlessness appeared first on Crooked Media.
Slate

The Supreme Court Just Handed RFK Jr. New and Extraordinarily Frightening Power - Congress did not give Kennedy, or any other HHS secretary, these powers. SCOTUS did.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - It is time
Futurism

Huge Number of Crypto Users Suddenly Getting Terrifying Letters From the IRS - Crypto bros are freaking out amid a surge in letters from the Internal Revenue Service about their digital currency holdings. As Bitcoin.com and other si...
Election Law Blog

A few thoughts on election litigation after Trump v. CASA - Justin helpfully summarized the lay of the land after Trump v. CASA with respect to universal injunctions and graciously linked to my previous takes on t...
Consortium News

The Chris Hedges Report: Francesca Albanese on an Economy of Genocide - “Israel has been put on notice and others cannot continue business as usual” — On the brink of publishing a new report, U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca A...
CultureMap Houston

A pink takeover brings hope and funds for American Cancer Society luncheon - The Post Oak Hotel was awash in shades of blush, rose, and fuchsia as more than 650 supporters turned out for the *American Cancer Society* Quantum Capital...
Vox

The hilarious implications of the Supreme Court’s new porn decision - The Supreme Court upheld a Texas anti-pornography law on Friday that is nearly identical to a federal law it struck down more than two decades ago. Rathe...
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: In Arrival, it was a race of tentacled beings! - *FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2025* *Today, it's Hegseth and Leavitt:* How strange has American culture become in the years since their arrival? We're speaking of t...
Daily Cartoonist

Dana Simpson Interviewed On Her New Cartooning Paths - After webcomics (Ozy and Millie, Raine Dog) and syndicated comic strips (Phoebe and Her Unicorn) cartoonist Dana Simpson mostly moves on to graphic novels ...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Says He’s Ending Trade Talks With Canada Because Of New Digital Services Tax - Donald Trump said that he was ending trade talks with Canada over its digital services tax, which will impact major tech firms like Google, Meta and Amazon...
Ballot Access News

Maine Legislature Retracts Ranked Choice Voting Bill from Governor’s Desk - On June 26, the legislature recalled LD 1666 from Governor Janet Mills’ desk. The bill had been passed and sent to the Governor earlier. It is very unusual...
OpEd News

Smash Trump's ICE Raids and Dismantle the Machinery of White Supremacy - These raids are chaos by design, a power trip to keep the nation trembling.
Mediagazer

California legislature approves increasing the annual film and TV production tax credit cap from $330M to $750M, following months of lobbying from Hollywood (Gene Maddaus/Variety) - Gene Maddaus / Variety: *California legislature approves increasing the annual film and TV production tax credit cap from $330M to $750M, following month...
The Week

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Church and State

Not For Profit Medicine - I am not clear why more doctors do not choose to practice in a non-profit setting. There are many advantages, and few drawbacks.
Glasstire

Thoma Foundation Awards $160,000 in Grants & Fellowships - The Dallas-based nonprofit The Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation has announced the 2025 recipients of its Art of the Spanish Americas grants and fellows...
slacktivist

LBCF: Grace and greed - In Left Behind, "salvation" is a choice driven by fear and greed. And Christian living is all about making other choices driven by fear and greed.
San Antonio Report

Harlandale ISD’s Gerardo Soto could win Texas superintendent of the year - Harlandale ISD superintendent Gerardo Soto named superintendent of the year for the region. ------------------------------ Harlandale ISD’s Gerardo Soto co...
Independent Political Report

Green Party of California Endorses Butch Ware for State Governor - The Green Party of California announced this week its endorsement of Dr. Butch Ware, a history professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, ...
El Paso Matters

Texas Tech Health El Paso and Project Vida initiative reduces school absenteeism by 35% through innovative health care access - A border health telemedicine program is a game changer for student health in Far West Texas schools. The post Texas Tech Health El Paso and Project Vida...
First Draft

Rainy Night In Georgia - Cheers to Tony Joe White.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANYTHING THAT CAN'T GO ON, WON'T EDITION. - *If I’m not mistaken I’m surely right.* Still recovering from surgery, I woke up late this morning to the smell of burning Constitution. I thought any de...
Alternet

Top House Dem identifies first Trump admin official to investigate in profanity-laced rant - Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), who was recently elected as the next ranking member of the powerful House Oversight Committee, is already setting his sigh...
The Militant

Defend Israel’s battle to prevent another Holocaust!US troops, bases and warships out of the Mideast! - Click below for printer-friendly pdf of this statement Statement issued June 25 by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party Working people the...
Wolf Street

PCE Inflation Accelerates. But Tariffs Haven’t Shown Up Yet: Why the Fed Is in Wait-and-See Mode - The 6-month PCE price index accelerated to 2.8% annualized, despite dropping energy prices. It’s been 2.7% to 3.3% in 2025, sharply higher than in the 2nd ...
Claytoonz

Totally Obliterated - 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...
The NM Political Report

Luján, Heinrich, Leger Fernández urge Trump Administration to fully implement broadband - A bipartisan group of over 40 members of Congress, led by U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Representative Terese Le...
Mother Jones

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Presses Oil Firms on Lobbying for a Huge Tax Break in the Budget Bill - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democratic lawmakers led by the Massa...
American Prospect

Supreme Contempt for the Constitution - As Trump moves toward outright dictatorship, the Roberts Court keeps enabling him.
MintPress News

“I Was Brainwashed”: Greg Stoker on How the US Military Breaks Young Men - Former Army Ranger Greg Stoker talks to Lowkey about how the US military “breaks young men,” fuels Israel’s war in Gaza, and leaves its own veterans dest...
Capital & Main

LAPD Arrest of Journalist at ICE Raid Fuels Press Freedom Fears - Anthony Orendorff was jailed for four days without bail before charges were dropped. The post LAPD Arrest of Journalist at ICE Raid Fuels Press Freedom ...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Funding Medical Education, A Human Ancestor, Tardigrades to the Rescue, Trashing the Earth, Plus MAHA and Measles - Part the First: Financing Professional Education in the United States. College costs too much in the United States. Professional School costs way to much...
Democracy Chronicles

Social Security and Medicare Reforms For Trump - Disabled people have the harshest financial situation in society. And the percentage of people disabled increases as you start adding intersectionality.
Undernews

Sociopaths tend to act like young children - like Donald Trump - *Hartmann Report - *According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), adults with ASPD or sociopathy display a consistent and p...
Angry Bear

Trump approved bombing of US airbase - “President Trump said Iranian leaders cleared their plan with the U.S. to fire retaliatory strikes against an American airbase in Qatar, and even request...
Second Nexus

Michael Cera Hilariously Reveals How Tom Cruise Once Called Him Out For Talking On Set - Actor Michael Cera opened up about the moment he once shared with the legendary Tom Cruise—something of a mentorship moment, if you will, though not one ...
WhoWhatWhy

Japan’s New Seafloor Monitors to Drive Quake Early Warning System - [image: science, safety, Japan, seafloor monitors, earthquakes, early warning system] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recom...
Mondoweiss

Mamdani’s victory also repudiated the Islamophobia of U.S. politics - [image: Zohran Mamdani Speaking at a DSA 101 Meeting at the Church of the Village in NYC on November 11, 2024. (Photo: Wikimedia/Bingjiefu He)]Zohran Mamda...
The Daily Poster

Seventy-Two Minutes Until The End Of The World - Are we closer than ever to nuclear winter?
Texas Standard

Joshua Ray Walker finds a beach amid cancer battle on ‘Tropicana’ - The Dallas country artist wrote many of the songs for the record while undergoing chemotherapy.
Sludge

Chamber of Commerce Fights to Keep Wall Street Bonus Culture Alive - In comments to the SEC, the U.S. Chamber is pushing to scrap a proposal designed to rein in the short-term bonuses that fueled the 2008 financial crash.
Discourse

Behold: Your Perfect Gay Pets! - We asked about your queer children and y’all came through with flying colors. Plus: some bonus history!
Dorf on Law

SCOTUS Ruling in Universal Injunction Case Treats Trump Like a Normal President - Much will no doubt be written (perhaps including more thoughts from me) about today's SCOTUS ruling in *Trump v. CASA*. Headline writers predictably will...
The Root

When A White Woman Was Told She Could Not Be Harriet Tubman In a Play, She Took Matters Into Her Own Hands - The longtime actress simply wanted to portray influential historical figures, but things unfortunately went South. Let's get into it! Read more...
Bracing Views

Donald Trump, Insulter-in-Chief - Teenage Boys Playing “Risk” Lead America! BILL ASTORE JUN 27, 2025 When I was in high school, my friends and I would get together and play “Risk,” the game...
Progressive.org

Stop the War Now, Before It Is Too Late - A call for an immediate end to unlawful military action and a move toward peaceful diplomacy.
Dissident Voice

What It Means to Be Human - Various domesticated bird species usually run around the farm, including guinea fowl. We love our guinea fowl because they spend their days eating bugs: ...
Rio Grande Guardian

We never got along with District No. 3, admits former McAllen mayor - Appearing at the Delta Area Summit, Jim Darling is asked to talk about the merger of two Hidalgo County water districts. The post We never got along wit...
Environment Texas

Legislature Approves $20 Billion for Water Infrastructure: Is Texas Finally Taking Water Seriously? - Proposition 4 promises big gains for conservation and supply – if spent wisely The post Legislature Approves $20 Billion for Water Infrastructure: Is Te...
Earthworks

Nickel waste floods homes in Indonesia, sparking protests - From June 10 to 13, 2025, heavy rainfall hit Obi Island in Indonesia. As a result, muddy floods submerged three … The post Nickel waste floods homes in ...
Bonddad

May personal income and spending: consumer payback for Tariff-palooza! is a B!t©h - - *by New Deal democrat* The last significant data for the first half of 2025, personal income and spending for May, was released this morning. It ...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 - *The devout must hope Mark was wrong about Jesus here* If the Judeo-Christian god truly had the welfare of humanity at the center of attention, it’s ha...
Rewire

Ten Years After Winning Marriage Equality, Jim Obergefell Wants to Aim Higher - The Ohio man reflects on the case that rewrote his life—and how much further the fight for LGBTQ+ rights must go. The post Ten Years After Winning Marria...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Democracy Now!

Bill Moyers Dies at 91: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting - The legendary journalist Bill Moyers has died at the age of 91. Moyers, whose long career included helping found the Peace Corps and serving as press secre...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 169: “Biden’s Downfall, One Year Later” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: What a difference a year makes! June 27, 2024—when President Joe Biden’s disastrous CNN debate against Donald...
Space City Weather

The sky may open up on parts of the Houston area again today with more pop up storms expected - In brief: Another round of localized heavy rain, street flooding, and lightning will be possible this afternoon somewhere near or just northwest of Highway...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/27/2025 - 17:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
ArcaMax

Saving Birds and Helping Humanity - Birds are dying at an alarming rate, and it's a warning sign to humans that the quality of our environments are getting worse. Bird populations are an ecos...
The Smirking Chimp

The Corporate Democrat’s Biggest Nightmare -
Skeptophilia

The collapse - A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the spike in atmospheric oxygen concentration -- by some estimates, rising to 35% -- during the Carboniferous Period...
Off The Kuff

Paxton minions hurl accusations at each other - What a nest of vipers the AG’s office must be. Several former and current top aides of Attorney General Ken Paxton are trading explosive accusations in leg...
ProPublica

States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up - by Jennifer Berry Hawes ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrong...
High Country News

The Trump administration is asking park rangers to rewrite history - And some national park site staffers are pushing back. The post The Trump administration is asking park rangers to rewrite history appeared first on Hig...
Counterpunch

Jeff Bezos and the Billionaire Invasion of Venice - Venice, Italy. This weekend, the world’s third richest person, Amazon’s cento-billionaire Jeff Bezos, is throwing a lavish three-day wedding in Venice, I...
jobsanger

Marriage Equality Would Be In Danger If Obergefell Decision Is Overturned -
Informed Comment

The Assault on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The US v. Canada - “These first few months [have resulted] in the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific and medical research, clampdown on any efforts promoting diversit...
Crooked Timber

The Protestant Work Ethic, Libertarianism, and the Welfare State - Many thanks to Hannah for her beautiful post on George Eliot’s Silas Marner and the evacuation of moral purpose from the Protestant work ethic. That resona...
The Greanville Post

MY COUNTRY, ’T’IS OF THEE… - PAUL EDWARDS—I was born American. I was taught to love my native land, and instructed in the reasons that I should. In youth, I was made to understand it...
The AltWorld

The Fictional Mental Illness That Only Affects Enemies Of The Western Empire - Within the storytelling of western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental illness which […] The post The Fictional Mental Illness ...
Brad Blog

Thank You For Your Attention to This Matter: 'BradCast' 6/26/2025 - It's our last BradCast before we head off for a 4th of July respite next week. Which means we're trying to fit in a whole bunch of stuff into one single sh...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Senate parliamentarian order removal of gender-affirming care ban from Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Senate parliamentarian orders removal of gender-affirming care ban from GOP reconciliation bill *- *I'm personally opposed to the bill in general bein...
The Grayzone

Funcionario de Trump: el director de la CIA “toma dictado” del Mossad sobre Irán - Un funcionario de la administración Trump le cuenta a The Grayzone que el Mossad israelí está usando al director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe y al jefe del ...
Antiwar.com

NATO’s 5% Pledge: An Obscene Betrayal of Global Needs - At this week’s NATO summit in The Hague, leaders announced an alarming new goal: push military spending to 5% of nations’ GDP by 2035. Framed as a response...
Salon.com

“They should be prosecuted!”: Trump blames Dems for Iran intel leaked to CNN - The FBI is investigating the origins of a leak related to the Iranian strikes, but Trump is blaming Democrats
Common Dreams

Free Press Mourns Bill Moyers - Bill Moyers, the esteemed journalist, presidential adviser and philanthropist, died on Thursday at age 91 in New York. In the early 2000s, Moyers played ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
Texas Observer

Moonlighting Midland Prosecutor Means Freedom for Samuel Sanchez - Samuel Junior Sanchez had served around 15 years of a 75-year sentence for a violent road-rage incident and had seemingly exhausted all appeals when his ...
Ian Welsh

Does Zohran Mamdani Matter? - [image: Does Zohran Mamdani Matter?] So, Democratic Socialist (ie. has politics a 70s liberal would have agreed with, but is less racist) Zohran Mamdani h...
DeSmogBlog

Climate Activists Protest at London Headquarters of Global Ad Giant WPP - Climate campaigners turned out on Wednesday in London to occupy the lobby of UK-based communications giant WPP, demanding that the company stop working f...
Project Censored

The Problem with AI War Games - Alexandr Wang, 28, founded Scale AI in 2016, and he is now worth billions. Scale AI is credibly accused of cheating and exploiting human coders who hand-...
Bud Kennedy

A year in jail for a THC snack? Texans are unhappy with Republicans | Opinion - Texans are sick of our elected officials. But probably not sick enough to get rid of any of them. We don’t like any of our state leaders, according to a … ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Digging into a New 2024 Postmortem: Findings from Pew’s Validated Voter Study - Pew's validated voter study of 2024 just published -- what does it tell us, and how does it compare to other 2024 analyses? The post Digging into a New 2...
Earth 911

3 Simple Earth-Friendly Summer Recipes - One of my favorite things about summer is the recipes it inspires with the bounty... The post 3 Simple Earth-Friendly Summer Recipes appeared first on Ea...
See You In 2020

Kash Patel’s war on dissent, & the “dissident” media figures who’ve sold him as an anti-establishment hero - The Kash Patel psyop has cost our social movements many months of extremely precious time in the fight against repression. It’s created hubris where the...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Debunking Cannabis Potency Myths - [image: a legal cannabis joint rests atop a cannabis flower][image: a legal cannabis joint rests atop a cannabis flower]Unlike alcohol (which is readily ...
Texas Freedom Network

The Twenty-Two-Hour Hearing That Couldn’t Break Us: Texan Volunteers Fight for Democratic Process - By: Elva Mendoza and Erika Slaymaker Excitement and inspiration gave way to frustration, disappointment, anger, and aggravation. Calculations were made: ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Can Have Better: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The Mamdani victory is a moment of joy and a roadmap to the future
Socialist Alternative

Zohran Mamdani Stuns The Establishment In NYC Mayoral Primary - This is an initial statement by Socialist Alternative on the New York City mayoral election. We will publish a fuller analysis in the coming days. In a dra...
Ecosophia

June 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
ROAR Magazine

Proteção jurídica completa para apostadores desportivos no Frank Casino Portugal - Proteção jurídica completa para apostadores desportivos no Frank Casino Portugal Table of Contents O que é a proteção jurídica para apostadores desportivos...
Dissent Magazine

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

6.23-28 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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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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