Friday, March 29, 2024

GOP Candidates Freaking Out About Grand Jury That Indicted Anti-Abortion Activists

All of them believe the jury made the wrong decision.

8 lessons US progressives can learn from the UK Labour Party

As of mid-July, Labour is 8 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. Here’s how they did it.

15,000 Minnesota nurses launch historic strike to put ‘patients before profits’

"We feel like this is the only thing we can do," said one nurse. "Hospitals tell us it's our fault, but we've been actively involved and getting nowhere."
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Inside Exxon’s great climate cover-up: From early climate change researcher to epic climate denier

Exxon knew that fossil fuels cause global warming as early as the 1970s but hid that information from the public.

Eyewitness sketches provide ‘stormy’ results, can lead to false convictions

“These data suggest that the accuracy of eyewitness identification by some victims of crime has been overestimated in data from laboratory studies."

‘More training’ is not the answer to police terror

The death of Tyre Nichols doesn’t have to be in vain – there are numerous opportunities for action at the local and national level to rein in out of control police terror.

The Supreme Court’s ‘Muslim ban’ decision is terrifying

If the war on terror has taught us one thing, it's that harsh laws targeting non-citizens will eventually be extended to citizens, too.
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Trump’s incredibly dumb bet on coal

If we really want to lead we have to go with the energy of the future, not the energy of the past.

Suicide truckers

The "Freedom Convoy" in Canada wants to spread its anti-government, antisocial, and ultimately self-defeating messages far and wide.

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, June 27, 2018

28-year-old Democratic Socialist wins the New York primary, the Supreme Court upholds Muslim ban and sides with anti-abortion centers, Occupy ICE protests spread, a federal judge sides with Big Oil, and more.