Friday, April 10, 2026

NRA President-elect Oliver North smears Parkland survivors as criminals

“What they did very successfully with a frontal assault, and now intimidation and harassment and lawbreaking, is they confused the American people.”

Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 13, 2018

Justice Department reopens the Emmett Tiller investigation, Trump's global chaos tour, Ireland passes bill to fully divest from fossil fuel by end of 2018, and more.
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‘Untouchable:’ Women testify to Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual abuse in powerful new film

The film “Untouchable” takes on Harvey Weinstein’s decades of predatory behavior and the system that allowed it to happen, through the stories of survivors of his abuse, from his time as a young music promoter in Buffalo in the 1970s all the way until a series of investigations toppled Weinstein in 2017.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 27, 2018

What you need to know about the Democratic Socialists of America, as Trump Administration misses family reunification deadline, children protest "horrific" immigration policy, and more.

There won’t be another Jimmy Breslin, but we need more like him in the...

It's not that good journalists aren't out there, they just don't get published.

America’s addictions

It goes beyond opioids – America is addicted to Donald Trump and war.
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Noam Chomsky: The future of organized human life is at risk thanks to GOP’s...

“We have to make decisions now which will literally determine whether organized human life can survive in any decent form.”

Net neutrality

The biggest loser would be the internet itself, which would be made to surrender its determinedly democratic ethic to the plutocratic rule of corporate profiteers.

Billionaire wolves in workers’ clothing

Right-wing “foundations” across the country started spending the tens of millions they’d received from billionaires to bust unions.

In the search for missing women, neighbors and family members pair drones with Indigenous...

Often, Indigenous communities don’t trust that police will act on reports of violence.