Progressive Briefing for Monday, October 1
Trump accused of rigging FBI's Kavanaugh probe, Sanders demands FBI investigate whether Kavanaugh committed perjury, Las Vegas strip to go dark on one-year anniversary of worst mass shooting in U.S. history, and more.
Hunting Hillary: Dim Speaker-to-Be Reveals Select Committee’s Partisan Goal
As the Republican-controlled House revealed yet another committee to investigate Benghazi, is this their way of "hurting Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign?"
Trump’s energy adviser runs away when questioned by Democracy Now! at UN climate talks
Wells Griffith refused to answer questions and ran from our camera team for about a quarter-mile, retreating to the U.S. delegation office.
Confirming US orchestration, report details Pence’s key phone call to Venezuelan opposition leader
"The U.S. had been planning this coup in Venezuela. It was the Trump administration that told the little-known opposition leader Juan Guaidó to declare himself (unelected) 'president.'"
Who is more advanced? 29 Muslim-majority states will have more liberal abortion laws than...
Only 18 of 47 Muslim-majority countries have abortion laws today as restrictive as that in Texas...which is the model for a raft of laws to be enacted as soon as Roe is struck down.
EPA chief met with Dow Chemical CEO before deciding not to ban toxic pesticide
This is just the latest in a long list of examples of the Trump administration working with corporate polluters before reversing public safeguards
To Joe Biden, Trump’s potential successor Mike Pence “is a decent guy”
When Joe Biden told an audience that Mike Pence “is a decent guy,” Pence had already been vice president for more than...
We don’t need government-granted patent monopolies to finance drug development
The best way to get alternatives to the current patent system was to have examples of successful drugs developed without relying on patent monopolies.
Senate hearing calls out the influence of dark money in blocking climate action
Until the U.S. political system changes and limits the amount of money, and its corresponding power, in politics, the deck will remain stacked in favor of the fossil fuel industry when it comes to Congressional action on climate.
Landmark win in ‘Fight for Habitable Future’ as jury refuses to convict climate activists...
"We need to take note of the lessons learned by the labor movement—mass civil disobedience works. The climate crisis is a workers issue, we need to unite to shut down business as usual. Right now."