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

Counterpunch

Six Ways a 78-Year-Old Law is Still Screwing Workers - If you’ve ever watched a union campaign get crushed by employer intimidation, wondered why you see so few strikes, or been frustrated that unions don’t d...
Eschaton

Do Not Rank The NYT Editorial Board - Looks like Mamdani did it. Suck it, Cuomo
jobsanger

U.S. Should Stop Talking "Regime Change" - We Don't Do It Well -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3065: Victor and Eva Saxl - Episode: 3065 Victor and Eva Saxl: Love, War and Homemade Insulin. Today, love, war and insulin.
OpEd News

Scrimshander scratched his way to the top - An article from my daily reorter days at the New Bledford Stand-Times back circa late 1989. Nostalgia.
The Week

Seven wild discoveries about animals in 2025 - Mice have Good Samaritan tendencies and gulls work in gangs
naked capitalism

Gen. Michael Kurilla and the Pivot to Asia - Is diminishing Iran key to the famed pivot to Asia, or a distraction?
Courthouse News

Judge orders Trump admin to restore electric vehicle funds to 14 states - U.S. District Judge Tana Lin ruled that the Trump administration likely violated the law when it froze $2.74 billion in congressionally approved funding fo...
Mother Jones

Conservatives Are Already Losing Their Minds Over Mamdani’s Apparent Win - It didn’t take long for conservatives to lose their minds after Zohran Mamdani’s apparent upset over Andrew Cuomo in the Tuesday night Democratic primary i...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘On to victory’: supporters overjoyed as Zohran Mamdani defeats Andrew Cuomo in New York primary - In a major upset, Mamdani, who would be city’s first Muslim mayor if elected, looks set to defeat former governor Andrew Cuomo in city’s Democratic prima...
Common Dreams

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

California lawmakers approve Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to increase funding for the state's film and TV tax incentive program from $330M to $750M per year (Gene Maddaus/Variety) - Gene Maddaus / Variety: *California lawmakers approve Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to increase funding for the state's film and TV tax incentive program from...
Informed Comment

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

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

Mamdani stuns Cuomo: 5 takeaways from the NYC mayoral primary - Zohran Mamdani stunned political observers across the country on Tuesday as he looks set to win the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City over f...
Mediaite

‘Take it Down’: Fox Co-Host Scolds Charlie Kirk Over ‘Gross and Islamophobic’ Post - Fox News' The Five co-host Jessica Tarlov scolded Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk for publishing a "gross and Islamophobic" post on Tuesday. The p...
World Socialist Web Site

Detroit high school student, on brink of graduating, deported to Colombia - Bogoya-Duarte, who arrived from Colombia in 2022, was snatched by border patrol while driving to a school field trip.
memeorandum

UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief: 'Night and Day' Difference Between Iran's Nuclear Capabilities Before and After US Strikes (Adam Kredo/The Washington Free Beacon) - Adam Kredo / The Washington Free Beacon: *UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief: ‘Night and Day’ Difference Between Iran's Nuclear Capabilities Before and After US S...
The Daily Poster

Zohran Mamdani’s Mandate Is A Democratic Earthquake - There will now be a high-stakes battle to define the meaning of the New York mayoral candidate’s historic win.
Consortium News

Australian Reporter Wins Suit Against ABC Over ‘Anti-Semitic’ Post - Journalist Antoinette Lattouf was awarded A$70,000 and possibly more in damages after the public broadcaster wrongly dismissed her for sharing a social med...
Raw Story

'Staggering': Ex-NYC mayor stunned watching 'amazing upset' - Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called Zoran Mamdani’s commanding lead in the Democratic mayoral primary a “staggering” development Tuesday nig...
Daily Dot

“Let me run over to Red Lobster”: Red Lobster launches seafood boils as part of “Crabfest” - [image: Red Lobster signage outside a restaurant location. A Red Lobster server in a black shirt makes a concerned look on her face. Her text reads, "Y'a...
Axios

Scoop: Trump denies 9 former Biden aides executive privilege in probe of ex-president's fitness - The Trump White House has decided that nine former senior Biden aides won't be protected by executive privilege during their interviews for a congression...
American Prospect

Mamdani Shocks the World on a Hot Primary Day - New York City’s mayoral election provides a big surprise, with voters choosing Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani over former governor and sex pest Andrew Cuomo.
Techdirt.

Sony Opposes Trademark For ‘Naughty Cat’ Because ‘Cat’ Is Too Similar To ‘Dog’ - There’s an old joke that dog and cat owners may be familiar with that goes something like this. What is the difference between dogs and cats? With a dog, y...
Political Wire

Andrew Cuomo Concedes Primary to Zohran Mamdani - Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani as the 33-year old member of the state Assembly had a signif...
Deadline Politics

Zohran Mamdani Surprises With Solid Lead In Democratic Primary Race For New York Mayor; Andrew Cuomo Concedes - Zohran Mamdani held a solid lead over Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary race for New York mayor, signaling a major upset by a political unknown agains...
Alternet

'Chronic disappointment': MAGA activist 'embarrassed' she asked people to vote for Trump - Conservative commentator Candace Owens said she is embarrassed that she told people to vote for President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election,...
Popular Resistance

The Ceasefire With Iran Reveals The Limits Of Israel’s Power - Much of the current crop of commentary on Israel’s war of aggression on Iran has adopted the familiar tone of breathless admiration: praise for its targe...
Brad Blog

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

James Vasquez named sole finalist for Socorro ISD superintendent - The Socorro ISD board looks to approve a budget that’s not in a deficit for the first time in a decade. The post James Vasquez named sole finalist for S...
Wolf Street

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

What It’s Like To Have An Empathetic Leader - The post What It’s Like To Have An Empathetic Leader appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Verge

Ironheart believes the children are the future - Before the multiverse, magic, or any of Marvel's streaming series were important parts of the studio's cinematic universe, there was Iron Man. After years ...
Workers World

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

Andrew Cuomo Concedes - New York city is holding partisan primaries on June 24 for city office. Because the city uses ranked choice voting, the results won’t be known until July. ...
The Greanville Post

Israel vs Iran: WW3 Chronicle: GBU-57A/B MOP Bunker Buster or Bunker Busted [i] - MIKE MIHAJLOVIC—The historical background of the bunker busters’ use in the modern post-WWII conflicts includes the Gulf War & Iraq (1991–2003). Despite he...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

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

US sanctions alleged leader of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua - The State Department has offered up to $3m for information leading to the arrest of Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano.
Portside

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

The Secret Reason So Many College Students Are Relying on AI Is Incredibly Sad - According to a new study, a whopping majority of American college students are using artificial intelligence in their studies — and the reason why is pre...
San Antonio Report

Bexar County Commissioners approve $5M for UTSA athletics facility - Bexar County Commissioners Court approved a $5 million contribution for the construction of UTSA's basketball and volleyball training center. -------------...
CultureMap Houston

Houston loses top-10 rank in 2025 list of America's best cities - A just-released national report ranking the best cities in America has declared Houston is the 13th best U.S. city in 2025.
The Conversation

Ceasefires like the one between Iran and Israel often fail – but an agreement with specific conditions is more likely to hold - While Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire after 12 days of airstrikes, it isn’t clear what specific measures, if any, the countries might agree to i...
Rio Grande Guardian

Boms: Texas Is Booming — and the Grid Has to Keep Up - A guest column from Matt Boms, executive director of the Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance. The post Boms: Texas Is Booming — and the Grid Has to K...
The NM Political Report

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

Green Party Condemns U.S. Airstrikes on Iran as an “Act of War” - The Green Party of the United States issued a statement Tuesday condemning President Donald Trump’s recent decision to order airstrikes on Iranian nuclea...
Reform Austin

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

Texas remains nation's most uninsured state, new study finds - A new study reports that Texas has retained the unenviable distinction of the being the U.S. state with the highest rate of uninsured residents. The Lone ...
Earthworks

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

NPR's 'Embedded': Why doctors think women can have safe abortions without their help - Doctors have become increasingly supportive of self-managed abortion with pills, an abortion method that's become more common since the Supreme Court overt...
WhoWhatWhy

Yes, the Iran Thing Kinda Worked Out, But Let’s Not Forget That Trump Is Nuts - [image: Donald Trump, G7 Summit, Alberta, Canada] Even on a day in which he celebrated a genuine success, Donald Trump can't help being totally weird. Ye...
Slate

Adoption Should Also Be a Choice. In Post-*Roe* America, It’s Increasingly Not. - It’s been three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the right to legal abortion in the United States.
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration claims district court defied Supreme Court’s order allowing for immigrants’ deportation - Less than one day after a majority of the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to move forward, at least for now, with deporting im...
Dissent Magazine

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

A little bit of patience in NYC - NYC news outlets today are letting voters know they may need a little bit of patience to get results from the primary. The City’s board of elections has ...
Second Nexus

Missouri Road Buckles In Extreme Heat And Sends Car Flying Into The Air In Wild Viral Video - Footage was captured of a car being launched into the air while trying to drive down a buckled road in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. After a heat wave over t...
Undernews

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Claytoonz

Bombs Over Norway - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Church and State

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

It’s not just the cities. Extreme heat is a growing threat to rural America. - Summer has officially begun with a blast of scorching temperatures across much of the United States. The National Weather Service is warning of “extremely ...
Environment Texas

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

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

TUESDAY: Sitting president spots the scum... - *TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2025* *...then continues from there: **The Daily Beast* is reporting a poll. For ourselves, we probably wouldn't call its results "dev...
Rewire

How The Supreme Court Blessed Anti-Trans Discrimination - Analysis: The *Skrmetti* decision allows Tennessee to stop transgender minors from getting hormone therapy or puberty blockers, but its consequences will...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard: Another Lesser Evilist Offering - On 20 June 2025, Galloway spoke about his dream team for the next presidential race: "Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, president and vice president of the ...
First Draft

Album Cover Art: Dreams - Artwork by David Wilcox and Gahan Wilson.
Ian Welsh

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

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

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

Trump: Israel and Iran ‘Don’t Know What the Fuck They’re Doing’ - President Trump heavily criticized both Middle East powers for violating his proposed ceasefire.
Texas Standard

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

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

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

How to understand Tucker Carlson’s criticism of Israel - [image: Tucker Carlson speaking with attendees at the 2024 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 19, 2024. (Photo: ...
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
The Root

Ryan Coogler, Cynthia Erivo and More Reveal Their Favorite Movies of All Time - If you fancy yourself a movie buff or just a lover a cinema, then you already know there are arguably more films out there than hairs on our head. But, t...
Bracing Views

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

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

Al Wiesner – RIP - Shaloman cartoonist Albert Wiesner has passed away. Albert Seymore (Al) Wiesner July 2, 1930 — March 4, 2025 For at least ten years Al had contributed a pa...
Texas Freedom Network

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

Repeat home sales through April confirm housing market is well on its way to rebalancing - -* by New Deal democrat* Yesterday the existing home sales report showed continued deceleration in YoY price increases to 1.3%, along with an increa...
Discourse

Hot Mayor 2025: It's Time - New Yorkers: let's do this.
Glasstire

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

TMI Show Ep 166: “Will NYC Go Socialist?” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Listeners of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your boredom! Today on “The TMI Show with Ted Ral...
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 ...
Democracy Now!

"Blatantly Unconstitutional": Rep. Ro Khanna Decries U.S. Strikes on Iran Without Congressional Approval - “You can’t, as the president, engage in strikes on a foreign country when there’s no imminent threat, without coming to Congress for authorization,” says R...
ArcaMax

No Sense of Decency: Donald Trump Unwraps a Changed America - In his book on America's hitherto most accomplished demagogue, "No Sense of Decency," journalist Robert Shogan concluded that the principal reason America'...
Space City Weather

Houston faces a healthy chance of showers today and Wednesday, but nothing too serious - In brief: Showers and thunderstorms are likely across the greater Houston region today, starting near the coast and spreading inland, and Wednesday. We don...
Earth 911

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

The District Court Opinion in the AAUP Case Challenging the Columbia Funding Cutoff Gets Just About Everything Wrong - N.B. Today's essay is cross-posted at the Knight Institute blog. There, readers will also find an essay by eight members of the Columbia Law School facul...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Is Trying to Unconstitutionally Bomb His Way Back to Popularity -
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...
Skeptophilia

The Jerdanowitch method - Art lovers, ever heard of the Disumbrationist Movement? Begun in 1924 by painter Pavel Jerdanowitch, it shares some features with Primitivism, in that th...
Off The Kuff

Abbott vetoes THC bill and calls special session - Waited till the last minute because he’s such a drama queen. Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday vetoed a contentious state ban on THC products and shortly after ca...
DeSmogBlog

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

How Hotels, Once a Last Resort, Became New York’s Default Answer to Homelessness - by Spencer Norris, New York Focus This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with New York Focus, an investigativ...
Grist

How shrinking the EPA could make wildfire smoke even more dangerous - "It will leave communities more vulnerable."
Crooked Timber

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

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

What Sonoran Desert fungi are teaching scientists - [image: Justin Stewart collects a soil sample in Saguaro National Park.] The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical...
Salon.com

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

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

Can Economic Populism Win Back the Rio Grande Valley? - As a rainstorm rolled in last Friday evening, hundreds of people eagerly filed through metal detectors at an 1,800-seat performing arts center in McAllen...
Angry Bear

May existing home sales show prices stabilizing, inventory continuing to increase towards its historical range - – by New Deal democrat The first part of this week is all about more housing data. This morning started out with existing home sales, which although t...
See You In 2020

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

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

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

U.S. Bombs Iran - As reported by *USA Today*, on Saturday, June 21, 2025, “President Donald Trump on Saturday night announced American warplanes dropped bombs on three nu...
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...
Liberation News

PSL statement: Trump’s unprovoked war against Iran is based on lies - In the coming days, people will be taking to the streets across the country and around the world to say: “No war on Iran!”
NORML

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

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

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

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

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

FRDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LIFE-RAFTS IN THE FLOOD EDITION. - *The Spanish guys working on the building down the street played this.They know what's good.* I'll be less attentive to the collapse of the Republic ove...
Debunking Christianity

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

Black Agenda Radio June 20, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio June 20, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/20/2025 - 06:40 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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

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

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

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

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

Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virginia’s Wild Democratic Statewide Primaries - Recapping the wild Democratic statewide Virginia primaries and looking ahead to the fall The post Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virgini...
Ecosophia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Media Roots Radio - Media Roots Radio.
TalkLeft

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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