Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Vox

When Israel lost Democratic voters, in 3 charts - Among Democratic voters, Israel’s reputation is in tatters. Polls show Democratic voters have dramatically unfavorable views of Israel. Three incumbent Dem...
naked capitalism

Iran War: Strait of Hormuz Traffic Falls as Trump Threatens Infrastructure Strikes; Iran Alleges $9 Billion of Witkoff/Kushner Profits from Negotiation Intel, Demands Cut; - Today's Iran war news: Trump's bluster increases, evidently to compensate for military impotence.
Political Wire

Todd Blanche Faces Crucial Hurdle After Rocky Hearing - “The fate of Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general remained uncertain on Wednesday after a rocky confirmation hearing in which a Republican senator...
ArcaMax

Scary Stuff - Representative Ro Khanna was touring the West Bank in Israel when, he says, a group of armed Israeli settlers detained his group. A terrifying incident, it...
Mediagazer

A look at Privacy Act lawsuits against the government that result in journalists being subpoenaed to reveal their sources, and their impact on press freedom (Riddhi Setty/Columbia Journalism Review) - Riddhi Setty / Columbia Journalism Review: *A look at Privacy Act lawsuits against the government that result in journalists being subpoenaed to reveal t...
jobsanger

The Worst States To Live In Are Republican-Controlled -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2618: Søren Kierkegaard - Episode: 2618 Søren Kierkegaard: Christian Existentialist. Today, an exit.
Al Jazeera English

Trump’s intelligence chief nominee won’t say Biden won 2020 election - US President Trump’s nominee for top intel official, Jay Clayton, evaded directly stating that Biden won 2020 election
Informed Comment

“Persia Has Become a Holy Land” – William Morris and Iran - What English Artists Found in Their Rebellion against Industrial Britain
Courthouse News

Witness identities in First Amendment case over pro-Palestine demonstrations must be revealed, judge rules - Sixteen students say Arizona State University President Michael Crow retaliated against their exercise of free speech when he suspended them following thei...
The Hill

Trump administration replaces slavery exhibition at Washington’s Philadelphia home - The Trump administration has removed a slavery exhibition at the home of former President George Washington in Philadelphia, according to The Associated Pr...
Techdirt.

Sony Deletes A Bunch More Movies From The Accounts Of People Who ‘Bought’ Them - In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which people don’t actually own the things they think they’re buying, I ...
Brad Blog

Former Correspondents Charge VOA Being Unlawfully Used for Propaganda Amid Iran War: ‘BradCast’ 7/15/2026 - On today’s BradCast we’ve got a perfect example of the type of news media this White House would like to see everywhere, no matter the harm it does to trut...
Popular Resistance

No, Israel Does Not Have ‘A Right To Exist’ - News that, in the midst of the genocide in Palestine, the German parliament was this week advancing legislation that would criminalize speech that denies...
Texas Standard

Large swath of Texas facing torrential rain, dangerous flood risk likely to ‘break records’ - Gov. Greg Abbott said South Central Texas should expect “life threatening catastrophic floods,” through Thursday, mainly concentrated around the Nueces Riv...
Mediaite

Fox News and Kevin O’Leary Are Sued Over Claim That Nonprofits Worked for Chinese Communist Party - Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary and Fox News were sued Wednesday by two Utah nonprofit leaders who allege they were falsely portrayed on air as agents of t...
Antiwar.com

Competing Visions for Gaza’s Future: Endless Bloodshed Or Bloodless, Sterilized Techno-Concentration Camps - Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. While the attention of the conscious world is, quite correctly, focused right now on Rakefet Prison, an undergro...
Debunking Christianity

One Thing More: We Don't Need No Bayes Theroem! - Here's a paper I published at *The Secular Web* on the virgin birth of God's Son, titled Hail Mary: Was Virgin Mary Truly the Mother of God’s Son? In it I ...
Daily Cartoonist

The AAEC 2026 Convention Dates and Preliminary Schedule - In celebration of the quasquicentennial when California legislators repealed their anti-cartoon law the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC...
CultureMap Houston

These are the top 14 things to do in Houston this weekend - It’s Traeday time again in Houston.
OpEd News

America's Expanding Air Campaign Over Iran: Why Ahvaz, Shiraz, and Bushehr Matter - As the U.S.-Iran conflict enters a new phase, this article examines the strategic military significance of Ahvaz, Shiraz, and Bushehr. Combining current de...
The Verge

HP’s OLED-equipped 2-in-1 laptop is a solid back-to-school deal - With storage and memory prices still at an all-time high, we’re happy to tell you about a solid deal on a good laptop when we find one, rare as they are. B...
Crooked Media

The Mitch is Back - The post The Mitch is Back appeared first on Crooked Media.
San Antonio Current

After week of silence, Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas Rangers will investigate deadly Houston ICE shooting - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has finally broken his silence on the fatal shooting of a Houston man by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. During ...
Salon.com

“Policy must change”: Pelosi backs amendment to military aid to Israel - The Massie amendment failed, but the vote signals a shift among Democrats
Mother Jones

“I’m Ashamed of My Country”: Biddeford, Maine Locals Grieve Neighbor Killed by ICE - The day after hundreds of locals poured into the streets of Biddeford, Maine in protest of ICE’s killing of 26-year-old Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero on Mo...
San Antonio Report

Texas agencies must cut spending by 3% under new order from Abbott, Patrick and Burrows - The Big Three framed the move as a way to keep Texas fiscally conservative and help fund priorities like property tax cuts. ------------------------------ T...
The NM Political Report

WATCH: Heinrich presses Trump’s spy pick on Epstein cover-up, victim data leak - New Mexico’s Zorro Ranch sits at the heart of a Senate showdown over who’s protecting Jeffrey Epstein’s paper trail — and whether Trump’s pick to run U.S...
Futurism

Evidence Grows That Taco Bell Infected Massive Number of Customers With Explosive Diarrhea - Live más — on the toilet. The post Evidence Grows That Taco Bell Infected Massive Number of Customers With Explosive Diarrhea appeared first on Futurism.
Slate

Trump’s AG Nominee, Trying to Distance Himself From the President, Blurts Out: “I’m His Lawyer” - Todd Blanche is trying to get confirmed. This won’t help.
Axios

Buffett and Kalshi: Two views of America's gambling boom - The Oracle of Omaha is concerned that America has a gambling problem. *Why it matters: *Warren Buffett recently retired from Berkshire Hathaway, but when...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Now with extra 'T'!
Alternet

'Mind boggling': Another Trump toady collapses under Senate interrogation - While cable news focused on the Senate confirmation hearing of attorney general nominee Todd Blanche, there was another hearing for President Donald Trum...
The Week

Another Arctic island is caught in geopolitical crosshairs - But it isn’t the one you are probably thinking of
IVN

Veteran Leader Calls CA Primary Repeal Effort a ‘Shameful’ Return to Partisan Segregation - The effort to repeal California’s Top Two primary would erase the constitutional guarantee that “all voters may vote,” sidelining more than 6 million indep...
Progressive.org

For Soccer Fans Around the World, the United States-Hosted World Cup is Complicated - Soccer is an international pasttime—but the Trump Administration’s xenophobic rhetoric and policy has loomed over its largest event.
Deadline Politics

Paramount Seeks Recusal Of Judge Assigned To State AGs’ Antitrust Challenge To Warner Bros. Discovery Merger - Paramount is seeking to have the judge assigned to the state attorneys general challenge to its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery recused from the case, a...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Two-State Solution Was Always a Sham - Israel’s relentless expansion of illegal settlements into the West Bank and East Jerusalem while the E.U., U.S. and Britain look the other way has left any...
Common Dreams

Jay Clayton Denies Objective Reality at Trainwreck Hearing - On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Nominee Jay Clayton repeatedly refused to say whether Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. At to...
Ballot Access News

Forward Party Files New Mexico Ballot Access Case - On July 15, the New Mexico Forward Party filed a federal lawsuit against the ballot access laws. New Mexico Forward Party v Toulouse Oliver, 1:26cv-2286. H...
Novara Media

Shabana Mahmood Set to Be Chancellor - Burnham has appeared to rule out Ed Miliband as chancellor, seen by many as the progressive choice – what does it mean for his impending premiership? Plus:...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: He had permission to work in this country! - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2026* *But he didn't have legal status?* Tomorrow, we expect to discuss the second person who recently lost his life. For today,...
El Paso Matters

Trump pushes ICE to continue traffic stops after fatal shootings - President Donald Trump urged ICE to keep conducting traffic stops despite recent fatal shootings that have intensified scrutiny of the agency's immigrat...
MintPress News

Lionel Messi’s Ties to Netanyahu, The Israeli Military and Its Elite Spying Unit 8200 - Lionel Messi has quietly built relationships with companies and security firms closely linked to Israel's military-intelligence establishment. From becom...
NORML

Can I Fly With Medical Cannabis? - [image: a young woman packing a small green case into her suitcase][image: a young woman packing a small green case into her suitcase]TSA's medical marij...
First Draft

The Whiplash War - You say TACO; I say whiplash. Let's call the whole thing off.
ProPublica

FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots - The post FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots appeared first on ProPublica.
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3 - In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

There's No Hiding It Anymore: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Wolf Street

Producer Price Inflation beyond Energy: “Core” PPI Accelerates to 4.7%, Services PPI to 4.6%. Lots of Inflation Going on in Here - The plunge in energy prices pushed down overall PPI inflation, to a still very high 5.5%. It has been zigzagging higher since mid-2023.
Mondoweiss

With a new attack on the ICC, the U.S. expands its assault on the rule of law - [image: President Donald Trump meets with Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss the U.S. peace plan for Gaza in the Oval Office, Friday, October 3, 202...
Ian Welsh

Our Carefully Designed Hell Society - I was amused, in a “oh for fucks sake” way today when I found out that over 80% of workers experience anxiety on Sunday, thinking about return to work on M...
Undernews

House votes for permanent daylight saving time - *The Hill - *The House on Tuesday passed with broad bipartisan support legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide. The lower c...
Independent Political Report

Greg Ballard Says Lincoln Party Could Create Opportunities for Indiana Independent Candidates - *This article was originally published by Indiana Capital Chronicle on July 14, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expr...
The Root

‘Insecure’ Turns 10: A Look at the Moments That Made the Show Iconic - The cast of 'Insecure' is honoring its 10th anniversary by hitting the road for a fun tour soon. Let's take a look at some of the show's most unforgettab...
Bonddad

Producer price declines are “less good” than consumer price declines, and on net that’s “bad” - * - by New Deal democrat* I pay a lot less attention to producer prices than to consumer prices. Partly that is because in the past few decades, the ...
High Country News

Feds transfer grizzly bear management to states - After 20-year controversy and numerous court battles, the Trump administration declared grizzlies recovered despite public lands rollbacks. The post Fed...
Capital & Main

In Michigan, the Price of Energy Is on the Ballot and Both Parties Know It - The GOP spent years circling the state as a key 2026 pickup opportunity. But after a lopsided election loss, doubts are creeping in. The post In Michigan...
Liberation News

A year later — all levels of gov’t are still failing Central Texas flood survivors - The people don’t want unreliable charity from the rich. We want to have our needs met by a government that is led by working people and works for all of us!
Rallblog

Q&A | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Have a question for Ted and/or co-host Jamarl Thomas? Join the hosts of “DeProgram” for a full hour of nothing but LIVE Q&A! Any topic, any question, goe...
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration asks justices to have lower court reconsider protected status for Venezuelan and Haitian nationals - In a filing submitted on July 9 and docketed on Monday, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the justices to order the U.S. Court of Appeals for th...
Ecosophia

Briefing for the Descent, Revisited - It’s long been a source of wry amusement to me that some of my critics like to insist that I never admit it when I’m wrong. What makes that amusing to me i...
Texas Observer

The Hard Ceiling over Texas Cities’ Climate Plans - In 2015, a 25-year-old flooring installer named Roendy Granillo collapsed and died of heat stroke on a construction job in Melissa, a small town northeas...
Election Law Blog

Is Trump in His Thursday Speech on “Free and Fair Elections” Going to Try to Order the (Commissioner-Less) EAC to Decertify Dominion Voting Machines used in 11 States? - Plausible theory from Michael McDonald. As with many things that Trump is trying to do with elections, I expect such actions to be challenged in court an...
The Progressive Wing

7/15 News Roundup and Open Thread - The smoke is headed our way.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Tripling US union membership would shift $1.2tn to workers annually – report - More density would also narrow racial pay gaps, while a decline in density correlated to surges in wealth inequality Tripling union membership in the US ...
Glasstire

On Scale of Motion: Claudia Vásquez Gómez & Land Arts of the American West - In Shallowater, Texas, in 2024, on a computer screen partially shaded by a tilted hand, I viewed a recording of a well being drilled into the caliche. On...
Scheerpost.com

Israel And The United States Are Merging Their Militaries. Here’s Why. - “From aid to partnership”, the US and Israel are set to become even more united in genocide Nuvpreet Kalra In June 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu w...
Democracy Now!

"Block the Merger": California AG Rob Bonta on 12 States Suing to Stop Paramount-Warner Mega Deal - Twelve Democratic-led states led by California sued this week to block Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount i...
Angry Bear

June Jobs Report - There is nothing I can add to this report by Dean Baker from 10 or so days ago. The economy under Trump is still a mystery. I am waiting for the shoe to ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Communiqué from an Author of Harmful and Undesirable Literature - So I have been indicted by the Berlin District Prosecutor for authoring, publishing, and advertising a book. I’m not joking. The District Prosecutor is act...
WhoWhatWhy

New Mexico AG Rips DOJ for Failing to Assist in Probe of Epstein’s Zorro Ranch - [image: Jeffrey Epstein, sitting, wicker chair] New Mexico's attorney general is accusing the Department of Justice of stonewalling his efforts to investig...
Space City Weather

Storm chances continue, but we’re beginning a downward trend in activity - In brief: Rain chances continue today, although coverage should be slightly less than Tuesday, with lower overall intensity. High pressure builds later thi...
Dorf on Law

Chatrie and the Supreme Court's Embrace of Privacy Doctrine - I've been blogging here (and here) recently about *Chatrie v. United States*, the Supreme Court's landmark Fourth Amendment case decided late last month. ...
Grist

They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked. - A decade after climate activists' emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking.
Two Party Opera

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Earth 911

Shopping Your Values: Organic - This is the final article in a six-part series focused on helping consumers choose products... The post Shopping Your Values: Organic appeared first on E...
Counterpunch

“Capital Is Not a Thing”: The Legal System’s Pre-Distribution of Economic Power - The popular political discourse frequently presents the idea that redistribution happens or can happen after markets yield conditions of inequality. But ...
World Socialist Web Site

Unifor springs sell-out tentative agreement on Ford Canada workers over two months ahead of contract expiration - The union—which has divulged no information whatsoever about the proposed contract—hopes to stampede workers into accepting it at anti-democratic, shotgun ...
Workers World

Stop terrorizing migrants! Abolish ICE! - [image: Stop terrorizing migrants! Abolish ICE!] Aurora, Colorado, June 9, 2026. There has been no letup in the racist terror campaign by Immigration and C...
Portside

The Left Needs Its Own Foreign Policy - The Left Needs Its Own Foreign Policy Judy Tue, 07/14/2026 - 18:54
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Return on Knowing: Why Mexican American and Latino Studies Is an Economic Investment in Our Shared Future, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *The Return on Knowing: Why Mexican American and Latino Studies Is an Economic Investment in Our Shared Future* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *July 14,...
Socialist Alternative

ICE Murders Again—Build The Fightback From Houston To Maine! - On the morning of July 7 in Houston’s historic East End, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by ICE. Just six days later, they killed Joan Sebastian...
Raw Story

Elon Musk's voter cash giveaway stunt 'likely' broke the law: report - A bipartisan elections panel found that billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk "likely broke Wisconsin law" when he gave $1 million checks to voters in las...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (7.14.26) - Take time to listen to Paul Campos, Anna O. Law, Nathan Goldwag, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Jeremiah Moore, and Elesha Coffman.
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws - Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the ...
The Conversation

How Lindsey Graham’s keen ability to read the moment propelled him to political relevance for 3 decades - Sen. Graham repeatedly moved in the direction South Carolina and Republican politics were headed rather than where they had been.
Sludge

Jeffries Opposes Bid to Cut Israel Aid After Record AIPAC Earmark - The House Democratic leader's campaign operation recently took in AIPAC PAC's largest earmarked donation ever, from a billionaire hedge fund investor.
The AltWorld

Trump Supporters Are Pathetic Cucks, And Other Notes - The middle east continues to burn under the administration of the self-proclaimed “President of Peace”. Donald Trump says he’s “reinstating” […] The pos...
Media Lens

25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On Iran - This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens. Still in short trousers, we sent our first media alert to a handful of readers on 9 July 2001. For a l...
The Smirking Chimp

The Only Way To End Trump’s Endless War -
Off The Kuff

We have some video of ICE and Loranzo Salgado Araujo - The NYT pieced together what we currently have. Shortly before 7 a.m. on Tuesday, immigration officers were trailing a white work van in the Magnolia Park ...
NPR's Health Shots

What is an aortic dissection? - NPR's A Martinez speaks with American Heart Association's volunteer president Dr. Manesh Patel about aortic dissection, the preliminary finding of what led...
memeorandum

Ron Johnson is full speed ahead on Reconciliation 3.0 (Politico) - Politico: *Ron Johnson is full speed ahead on Reconciliation 3.0* — Sen. Ron Johnson doesn't know when he will officially take over as chair of the Se...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 14 July 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- to see any image at full size, right-click and open the link in a new tab. [For the link round-up, click here. For the...
Claytoonz

Four Hate Rallies and a Funeral - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
The Grayzone

Under Israeli pressure, US seizes Max Blumenthal’s devices on return from Tehran reporting trip - The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal was targeted by an Israeli doxxing outfit and Laura Loomer when he arrived in Iran to report on Khamenei’s funeral and the ...
Crooked Timber

Encounters with a future Tory MP, a popstar, and 25,000 placards - Here’s another episode in my memoirs of being an activist. You can read it at substack, or here!: Between school and college I decided to take a ‘year off’...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'VA gay teacher, LGBTQ ally parent win $1 million in lawsuits after false 'groomer' accusations' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *Gay teacher, LGBTQ-supportive parent win $1 million in Fairfax County defamation lawsuits* - *Too bad this didn't involve Libs of TikTok, but it's stil...
Earthworks

Freepoint Plastics Incinerator: Still polluting while shutting down - Earlier this year Freepoint Eco-Systems announced that it would be suspending operations at its facility in Licking County. This is … The post Freepoint...
Project Censored

Venezuela’s Earthquake Aftermath: Recovery Amid Sanctions and Propaganda - On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Leonardo Flores joins the show again to talk about the fallout from the double earthquake in Venezuela. Leo...
Church and State

Why do MAGAs stick to Trump? - According to recent polls, Trump still has a 29% voter approval rating, which I presume is the result of his continuing hold on his core support.
See You In 2020

As the masses become de-classed, Haiti’s BBQ shows how to win America’s next phase of class war - During Trump 2.0, the great shock for the petty-bourgeois professionals is that they’re now being declassed alongside the working masses who they look d...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health’s 2026 Resident and Fellow Graduation Ceremony produces physicians and pharmacists dedicated to providing healing, advanced health care, research, education, excellence, and compassion close to home - FEATURED: Dr. Jessica Guajardo Martin, Designated Institutional Officer (DIO), General Medical Education (GME), DHR Health, addresses medical residents, fe...
Discourse

Meet the Press's Lindsey Graham Tribute Was Revolting Beyond Belief - Witness TV news at its most corrupt and morally bankrupt.
Bracing Views

America’s Dilemma at 250 - A Budget of the Pentagon, By the Congress and For the War Profiteers BILL ASTORE JUL 13, 2026 Note to Readers: The short essay below represents a joint eff...
Texas Environmental News

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Trivial Knot

The efficient fencing problem - Back in the day, I used to post math puzzles, similar to how I post origami today. Today I’m revisiting a problem that I never fully solved. Problem statem...
Greg Palast

Superman vs. Josh Fox - In his new film, *The Welcome Table*, Josh Fox has traded the point-and-shoot of his seminal *Gasland* for lush cinematography on five continents. But it a...
The Greanville Post

The Important Questions on Iran and Ukraine - OBB—The Sea of Azov is a vital transport corridor. By attacking tankers carrying fuel from Russian ports to Crimea, Ukraine severely complicates the abilit...
Alas, a Blog

Two Toms Talking Theology - This comic was drawn by R.E. Ryan, who did a great job rendering my silly version of Colonial America. In 2023, Senator Josh Hawley posted this quote, attr...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CLEARING THE DECK IN MAINE EDITION. - *No, really, is that how you pronounce "kilometre"?* We’re rid of Graham Platner at last. His removal comports with the widely-known difference in approa...
Lowering the Bar

Official State Crap Update: California’s Official Shrub - In which the proliferation of official things is also discussed.
The Texas Signal

A Texas Literary Horror Collection Rooted In Reality - Many of the stories in the collection from Texas women are designed to be pure nightmare fuel running on the gasoline of lost bodily autonomy
The Militant

Protests: ‘End US blockade, war threats against Cuba!’ - MINNEAPOLIS — As part of nationwide actions called by the National Network On Cuba to protest U.S. aggression against Cuba, the Minnesota Cuba Committee, S...
Texas Monthly

Does Portland Still Have the Best Texas-Style Barbecue Outside of Texas? - I made this claim back in 2019, so I went back to Oregon to check in on how the scene is doing today.
Progressives Chat

July 2026: Not a Good Start - July 2026 was not a good start. Not for me. I am not alone. My area Detroit, Michigan closed out June and began July 2026 with near-100 degrees in tem...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report July 10, 2026 - Black Agenda Report July 10, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/10/2026 - 05:03 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
The Daily Poster

Trump quiere los expedientes de los abogados sobre los niños migrantes. - A medida que los tribunales de inmigración aceleran los procedimientos de deportación, la administración Trump retiene fondos y, al mismo tiempo, presiona ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Flight Restrictions Threaten to Smother Drone Journalism - Democratized aerial journalism needs to be preserved as the authorities seek security against drone attacks
Dissent Magazine

The Court vs. Democracy - An interview with Julie C. Suk, author of the forthcoming book *The Shadow Court*, on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions and the kind of reforms that w...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Decade-Plus Winning Streaks Could be at Risk in the 2026 Midterms - The 2026 elections could test several long-running partisan streaks in Senate and gubernatorial races. The post Decade-Plus Winning Streaks Could be at R...
Democracy Chronicles

An Inspiring Africa-Middle East Story: Somaliland - Despite limited recognition, Somaliland is forging bold alliances and leveraging its strategic position in the Horn of Africa defy isolation.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Screwed Blue And Tattooed - 14.3 x 12 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.7mb As I post this, we’re still waiting to hear if the Nazi tattoo-wearing, woman-harassing, domestic violence-...
Duck of Minerva

Unmanageable ally? Ceasefire breakdown reveals deeper tensions in US-Israel relationship - On June 19, 2026, as American and Iranian negotiators were set to meet in Switzerland to work through the terms of a fragile memorandum of understanding, I...
Rewire

States May Exclude Trans Kids from Sports: Supreme Court - Plus, how Illinois is protecting abortion patients and abortion pill restrictions go into effect in trio of states. The post States May Exclude Trans Ki...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Campaign for America's Future

Nosotros, El Pueblo, Venceremos - Siento gratitud hacia todas las personas que, a lo largo de los siglos, alzaron sus voces y se organizaron para hacer de este país un lugar mejor. Ahora es...
Field Negro

"What was old is new again". - As I sat watching these masked men march in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 250th anniversary of this experiment in democracy called America, I coul...
TalkLeft

Fourth of July Open Thread - Who ever thought that on the 4th of July, the main emotion evoked in millions of Americans would be shame. Shame that our fellow citizens voted to elect ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2026 - Walmart had at least twelve more shootings in June 2026, with five of them fatal, and the police chased and caught a thirteenth shooter two days after a...
Idavox

How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Nazi Show Promoter Mad After Having to Take Their Canceled Festival Down the Road - Vengeance is our sayeth the Antifa! “I started having problems once President Obama was elected,”... The post How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Naz...
LareDOS

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension sets informational public meeting regarding New World Screwworm July 8 - Meeting begins at 10 a.m. at LC’s Yeary Library
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Approves Bible in classroom, Flawed Social Studies Standards - Let’s be blunt. Texas public schools are now Ground Zero in the Christian nationalist war on religious freedom in America. From the Bible in the classroo...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 4: THE CLARITY ACT AND THE STABLECOIN WARS - As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that...
Seeing the Forest

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The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Land Destroyer

US Cements Political Capture of Armenia as it Advances “Extending Russia” Strategy - *June 15, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and...
Environment Texas

What to do about data centers - Gov. Abbott’s call for data center reform is a good start—Texas lawmakers should go further to protect air, water and communities. The post What to do ab...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not another one, aw, no - "Girl With Mug" is a painting by Iranzy Art. Not sure where we are in any given minute with the Iran ceasefire deal, during which, as usual, Israel has ...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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

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

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
GreenSource DFW

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

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

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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....
Chicken Fried Politics

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

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

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