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Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 20, 2018

Progressives go big on Medicare for All, California Supreme court squashes splitting the state into two, Zinke takes a wrecking ball to the Endangered Species Act, and more.

Psychologists: Migrant parents reunited with detained children must brace for trauma & long recovery

The trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.

Can the Brit’s Baby Trump blimp come play at Trump’s DC military parade?

In these grim times, we could use a good dose of British humor.

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Sanders rips Trump on Helsinki remarks, Mueller seeks immunity for 5 mystery witnesses, net neutrality defenders declare a win, and more.
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Bernie Sanders takes on corporate power and wealth inequality during town hall

"This is what a rigged economy looks like and it must end."

Comic: The upside of crowded living

What I went through to find a place to live in the fifth most expensive city for renting.
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Mass protests meet Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki over human rights, free speech, climate action

As the two leaders drove from the airport to their summit, they were met by 300 billboards in English and Russian that were posted by the country’s leading newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Americans explode after Trump's summit with Putin, Justice Department arrests Russia national with ties to Trump and the NRA, all the people convicted of treason in the US, and more.

Brits don’t mince words: The most irreverent and radical signs from UK’s historic anti-Trump...

They took to the streets en masse to show their opposition to the U.S. president's hate-filled policies.