Friday, March 29, 2024

Down the memory hole

Living in Trump’s United States of Amnesia.

Sanders, Jayapal plan would tax Wall Street speculation to fund tuition-free college

"The time is long overdue to make public colleges and universities tuition-free and debt-free for working families."

Biden’s broken promise to avoid war with Russia may kill us all

On March 11, 2022, President Biden reassured the American public and the world that the United States and its NATO allies were...

Trump’s Space Force

“I have not yet heard a compelling case why we need a separate force.”

Ugandan farmers whose land will soon become a crude oil pipeline pathway lose years...

After years of uncertainty, communities are demanding proper compensation from major oil companies who will soon begin construction of a major pipeline through their land.

Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 30

Vietnam demands compensation from Monsanto for victims of Agent Orange, California on brink of mandating 100 percent clean energy by 2045, Sanders vs. Amazon intensifies, and more.

Mapping EPA nominee Scott Pruitt’s many fossil fuel ties

The Senate confirmation hearing will be the only chance for our elected officials to ask Pruitt under oath to speak to the glaring conflicts of interest that he has developed.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, October 2

Amazon adopts $15 minimum wage, California bans animal-tested cosmetics and becomes first state to require women on corporate boards, and more.
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“This is voter suppression”: 198,000 Georgia residents were illegally purged from voter rolls

“I think it’s quite interesting and coincidental … that many of them on that list are African American voters.”

Public health crisis looms as California identifies 600 communities at risk of water-system failures

A new report puts into focus for the first time the scope of the state’s drinking-water problems and what it will take to fix them.