Republicans, complicit in mass shootings, aiding & abetting domestic terrorists
We're going to find out before long, not whether America is an exceptional, indispensable nation but, rather, whether it can still be called a civilized nation.
California just legalized public banks. Will the rest of the nation follow suit?
The new law promises to take taxpayer money back from Wall Street and reinvest it in communities.
The growing myth of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
Donald Trump’s lack of curiosity or basic knowledge of the world becomes most dangerous, exacerbating tensions in faraway places that he simply doesn’t understand and views through a prism created by right wing hacks (and his own long held racist views).
The border fetish
The U.S. frontier as a zone of profit and sacrifice.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, July 12, 2018
"Papa" John is at it again, activists raise money to post bond for detained immigrants, Hawaii Supreme Court rules against anti-LGBTQ hate group, and more.
Robot generals
Will they make better decisions than humans -- or worse?
Striking teachers are fighting for much more than paychecks
“Students continue to experience pain and trauma in our schools due to lack of resources, over-policing, and continuing threats of school closures.”
How this database is tracking and exposing officers’ bigoted Facebook posts
It’s found more than 5,000 racist, sexist, and Islamophobic Facebook posts and comments by law enforcement.
NRA’s new fearmongering ad series argues that proponents of stronger gun laws are pro-murderer
The series, which debuted on July 16 and is hosted by NRATV’s Colion Noir, is premised on the NRA’s claim that efforts to regulate firearms are tantamount to helping killers.
Media ignore criticism of DHS’s new ‘disinformation’ board—unless it’s from the right
The board’s stated mission would be to address “disinformation spread by foreign states such as Russia, China and Iran,” as well as “transnational criminal organizations and human-smuggling organizations.”









