Saturday, March 7, 2026

What should progressives be insisting on?

This is going to be a list, borrowed from other lists...

Demand a single-payer health care system

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Keep America great (don’t count on it!)

Two years later, Trump has failed to reverse America’s decline.

7 Things Hillary Supporters Get Wrong About Sanders’ Voters

We need the spaces for discussion, online, on front porches and elsewhere, about how our people will again thrive.
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Pope Francis tells Trump that climate change is real and solidarity is key

Trump is a little unlikely to get it. But the point of publicly bestowing on him this gift is that the Pope hopes the rest of us will.

Bernie Sanders speaks out: Criticizing Israeli policy is not antisemitism

Amid national debate over Gaza protests, Senator Bernie Sanders challenges the narrative equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, drawing on his personal history and widespread American discontent.

DACA sophistry: Trumpery at its worst

Another round of punitive disruption-for-disruption-sake Trumpism – except for the innocence of the targets. DACA children, brought into the only country they know, are now reduced to ideological bargaining chips to distract from endless failures. Trump populism? Little more than an unfeeling tyranny of the shrinking minority.

Brazilian Politics, Players, Panama and Perpetual Motion

The idea of removing a left-wing government with a growing public debt to GDP ratio is embraced by the upper, business and new middle class.

What the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know about China

Deliberate lies about China to drum up justification for more U.S. war spending needs to be urgently addressed.

Displaying ‘inhuman disdain’ for working families, Manchin said child tax credit would be used...

“Sen. Joe Manchin—who is a multimillionaire—doesn’t think his poor constituents can be trusted with a little help.”