Progressive Briefing for Thursday, September 27
The 7 senators who will decide Kavanaugh’s fate, more police violence, a declaration from the third Kavanaugh accuser, and more.
Why gutting this agency amounts to playing with fire
“If it weren’t for NIOSH, we wouldn’t have the reliable and safe gear we do today. We’d be smoke eaters.”
Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 3
Labor Day: When workers are recognized as human, $30 trillion to the richest white Americans, Los Angeles educators vote to strike, and more.
The American oil industry’s playbook, illustrated: How drillers offload costly cleanup onto the public
The tactics are ubiquitous in the industry.
‘All he has to do is sign’: Group crafts executive order for Biden to...
"We have no other option but to fight for debt abolition and a society where everyone has the means to live."
Maine, Colorado officials face threats after Trump barred from ballots
Following Trump's potential exclusion from 2024 ballots in Maine and Colorado, election officials face unprecedented threats, spotlighting the fragile state of U.S. democracy and the perilous path of political discourse.
Looking back at 1919
many of the underlying attitudes and the tone of the immigration argument 100 years ago were strikingly similar to those that roil our society today.
How US activists are infiltrating Israeli events selling Palestinian land
Other forms of pressure need to be brought to bear on Israeli realtors who seek to benefit from the illegal annexation of Palestinian land.
Media coverage of Amsterdam soccer riot erases Zionist hatred and violence
The events in Amsterdam called for nuanced media coverage that contextualized events and condemned both anti-Jewish and anti-Arab violence.
Trump tries to turn Greenland into Okinawa
It’s part of the new, heightened indifference to sovereignty of the Trump administration.