Friday, November 13, 2026

‘The lion has fallen!’

Recently, Manbij has fallen under the control of Kurdish militias and their allies. And that is only a rough summary of the city’s grim and complex history.

The president is a Ponzi scheme

Here and abroad, Trump's wealthy backers understand that his populist rhetoric is a masquerade.

‘No regard for the law’: Starbucks to deny union workers new paid leave benefits

"Their goal is to retaliate against and punish union stores," said Starbucks Workers United.

Gov. Cuomo announces legalization of marijuana with proposed adult-use cannabis program

It's no longer a question of whether New York will legalize marijuana, its how to go about the legalization. Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
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Why does flying suck so much?

Companies get away with bad behavior when we accept their excuses that there’s just no other way to run a business.
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‘Bring the war home:’ The long history of white power and paramilitary violence in...

Anybody that is advocating violence, we need to work to mitigate.

Trump is the symptom, not the disease

Our failure to defend those who are demonized and persecuted leaves us all demonized and persecuted.

America’s Presidential Candidates Against the World

The issues facing the US in a presidential election year are simply too important for the candidates to ignore. And yet, while this suggests that they need to display policy mastery and even, now and again, genuine statesmanship, they are instead merely assuring voters that they will “keep us safe.”

Minneapolis is giving Americans the model for fighting a fascist regime

The day when they can turn their resistance against the regime into electoral power, take back control of the legislative branch, and start using the powers of Congress to hold this criminal regime accountable.

Progressive Briefing for Thursday, September 6

New study links air pollution to dementia, U.K. accuses Russian spies of implementing nerve agent attack, anonymous White House official publishes scathing NYT op-ed, and more.