Trump’s decision to hamstring California’s climate authority is illogical and uninformed
Revoking California’s ability to set stricter air-pollution standards also misses three important benefits to California and the nation.
BREAKING: Michael Flynn taken into custody by FBI, pleads guilty to lying about conversations...
Flynn turned himself into authorities and appeared before a court hearing this morning, where he pleaded guilty.
“This is a win for our city”: Chicago teachers celebrate end of historic strike...
After weeks of tense negotiations, the city agreed to reduce class sizes, increase salaries by 16% over the next five years and bring on hundreds more social workers, nurses and librarians.
Is There Even an Iota of Courage in the GOP Hierarchy?
The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity. And, boy, America's Republican leadership is conforming like a pack of lemmings.
Combining Medicare for All and the Biden healthcare plan
If Biden is going to be nominated, then Bernie and his supporters need to work hard to get the platform improved and make sure that Biden commits to the changes required under the platform.
Trump’s Farcical ‘Sarcasm’ Defense the Damning Credibility Blow — Now No One Knows What...
By his own oblivious measure, this reality stands out: no one now knows whether Trump ever means what he says. Or ever did. No wonder 2/3’s of the country judge Trump untrustworthy and unfit, if not the greatest phony dreaming of the WH? The seeming jokester has managed to turn himself into prime object of ridicule. This is politics as phantasmagoria, along with gruesome nightmares American is kaput. If language no longer has meaning, all bets are off, doomed by Trump’s indecipherable intentions. Nothing exactly new here if you track predatory sales pitches, intensely self-serving narcissism, even what most people end up calling crazy, deranged, or unstable.
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.
A hospital’s secret coronavirus policy separated Native American mothers from their newborns
Pregnant Native American women were singled out for COVID-19 testing based on their race and ZIP code, clinicians say. While awaiting results, some mothers were separated from their newborns, depriving them of the immediate contact doctors recommend.
L.A. City Councilman arrested in federal corruption probe
“Councilman Huizar violated the public trust to a staggering degree, allegedly soliciting and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from multiple sources over many years.”
‘Horrific:’ In dead of night, Trump administration transferring children to tent camp with no...
"Please remember there are 13,000 migrant children in detention. We can't forget about them."