Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 21
Microplastics in beer, CNN "fact check" on Medicare for All is bogus, ZInke caught red handed trying to sell off public lands, and more.
TSA’s ‘Quiet Skies’ surveillance program receives backlash, DHS to further review program’s legality
The surveillance program has air marshals following passengers and recording their behaviors and any other observations providing minute-by-minute updates for reports, which are sent directly to TSA.
Donald Trump: Weapon of mass distraction
Donald Trump is not only the perfect vehicle to shred regulations, he’s also a powerful distraction from the ongoing for-profit war against nature itself.
Six potential lessons from our most debased presidency
To restore America, we need both vilify Trump for what he is – and defy his gang – but also reluctantly face how epic excesses clarity our moral, intellectual and political choices.
Musk, Trump, and the second Gilded Age
Will their audacity and excesses usher in a second progressive era?
Horror at TX detention center: ICE guards separate fathers & sons after they had...
Authorities appear to have reseparated the parents and sons as retaliation for organizing a nonviolent protest.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 20, 2018
U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.
Police determine officer was driving at ‘unsafe speed’ when striking teen
"Our training is designed to prevent this sort of thing from happening. We are going to make sure our training – and the officer’s adherence to that training – is as solid as it can be.”
Short-term health plans: A junk solution to a real problem
While the cost of health care is one of the overwhelming problems in the American health care system, short-term health plans do nothing to alter the underlying causes.
Military parade cancelled, how does peace movement build on this victory?
We need to celebrate this victory and build on it.