Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, October 10
Judge throws out felony charges against climate deniers, the top immigrant-friendly cities in the United States, Nikki Haley resigns as UN ambassador, and more.
Watch: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on activism for America
Rep. Jayapal has laid out an ambitious goal for herself and her allies.
Trump and Musk’s plan to slash 83,000 VA jobs sparks outrage
A leaked internal memo from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has revealed that the Trump administration, in coordination with Elon Musk’s...
‘Renters are struggling’: economists back tenant-led push for federal rent control
"We have seen corporate landlords—who own a larger share of the rental market than ever before—use inflation as an excuse to hike rents and reap excess profits beyond what should be considered fair and reasonable."
Why Trump’s attacks on mail-in ballots are a desperate attempt to undermine democracy
“It’s ugly, and as un-American as you can get.”
Biden admin reinstates early $190 million in Gulf drilling leases
The consequences of the sale could be the production of 1.1 billion barrels of oil and the probable release of 723 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
How DOGE’s cuts to the IRS threaten to cost more than DOGE will ever...
“When you hamstring the IRS, it’s just a tax cut for tax cheats.”
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, October 9
Chicagoans fight for police accountability, UN report warns of looming climate catastrophe, and more.
Chomsky: Arrest of Assange is ‘scandalous’ and highlights shocking extraterritorial reach of US
"Why is it acceptable for the United States to have the power to even begin to give even a proposal to extradite somebody whose crime is to expose to the public materials that people in power don’t want them to see?"
70% of Americans support deciding state abortion rights by ballot measure: Poll
After an "enormous victory" in Kansas, some progressives argue that ballot measures "are the next frontier" for protecting access to reproductive healthcare.