Monday, July 14, 2025

Don’t let pharma make us pay twice for COVID-19 treatments

The research we’ve funded is going to be critical in the coming months. We’ve already paid for it. Let’s demand that Congress change the law so that we don’t have to pay again.

It’s official: California lists key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup as cancer-causing

We should all keep the pressure on the EPA to ban glyphosate, for good.

Veterans arrive at Standing Rock to act as human shields for water protectors

Over 1,000 veterans plan to “deploy” and are calling on their fellow veterans to assemble as a “peaceful, unarmed militia at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.”

Judges are complicit in the opioid epidemic says new analysis

An analysis of U.S. court secrecy, conducted by Reuters, shows that by sealing evidence from the public, judges may have lengthened and deepened the epidemic.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 10, 2018

Trump rule would give $2.5 billion tax cut to big bank fat cats, Judge blocks Trump administration from deporting asylum seekers, Argentina Senate votes against legalizing abortion, and more.

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ disrupt biological processes in developing adolescents, first-of-its-kind study discovers

“Together, our findings raise the possibility that increased risk of metabolic disorders associated with PFAS exposure are caused by alterations in thyroid hormones and mediated by changes in lipid metabolism.”

Amazon, Instacart workers strike amid coronavirus pandemic

"The richest man in the world can't even provide basic protection for his workers during this pandemic crisis because it hurts his bottom line."

Big Food Says They Will Label GMOs … But Is There More to the...

Consumers have no choice but to continue to demand GMO labeling without any compromises. We should be able to know what food we are putting in our mouths!

The food industry puts profits over public health using big tobacco’s playbook

In certain cases, preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—can devastate public health.

Bill to Block Mandatory GMO Labeling Advances in Senate

D.C. dysfunction at its finest: Committee passes law that an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose.