Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Worker's wages fall, Federal judge orders government to seek consent before medicating migrant children, Bernie Sanders thanks the Koch brothers, and more.
The sadness… continues!!
Too many people, worldwide, are dying from this virus for it to be taken with anything but a grain of salt.
Texas loosens gun restrictions less than a day after a mass shooting in the...
"We are the only country that struggled with gun violence at this level. Other countries respond to tragedy."
10 organizations honoring Native peoples’ history and future on Thanksgiving
Food Tank is standing with and highlighting organizations renouncing the traditional story of Thanksgiving and honoring Indigenous communities.
Immigrants seeking shelter after Hurricane Florence fear deportation as FEMA shifts funds to ICE
The Trump administration has reallocated nearly $10 million from FEMA’s budget to ICE to pay for detention space and deportations.
Here we go: Another IRS problem (and a Bank of America problem)
“I don’t know if you have IRS problems; I do.”
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, September 11
Native American tribes sue Trump over Keystone XL. Japan aims to overthrow whaling ban, and more.
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.
The meaning of a job
Robots may seem useful, but they advance unknown dangers to human lives.
Preserving Black historical resorts is a radical act
We may have more options for travel, recreation, and restoration than our ancestors likely ever dreamed of, but it’s still important to safeguard the historic leisure sites of the past.