Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 28
Bar association calls for FBI probe into Kavanaugh, GOP governors call for delay in Kavanaugh vote, women react to Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, and more.
Big Business Tax Breaks Crippling Chicago
For over 100 years the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has used the city's invaluable resources to make billions in profits while paying almost nothing in return.
Confessions of a besieged Trumper
Only patriots with righteous causes/ Defy bad laws, like daring outlaws.
Progressives outraged as House Democrats elect ‘big money’ centrist Hakeem Jeffries over Barbara Lee...
"Our caucus today denied Barbara Lee the honor she deserved of being Chair. But the petty politics of members of Congress will never be able to deny her her place in history. She towers above those who rejected her."
It’s a $cam!
The evidence is in: the U.S. military is incapable of responsibly spending your tax dollars.
Justice Sotomayor slams the Supreme Court’s ‘new normal’ under Trump
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court allowed Trump’s “third-country” asylum rule to go into effect. It’s the administration’s toughest barrier to asylum-seekers yet, and a...
The Goldman Sachs effect
How a bank conquered Washington
Trump faces Palestine
The legacies of colonialism and the set of ideas behind that Act of 1688 are still with us and continue to target formerly colonized (and still colonized) peoples.
Activists demand climate refugees be recognized
Campaign for legal recognition of climate refugees would be a long struggle.
Maine Democrats Move to Eliminate Superdelegates
If the amendment passes it will not officially take affect until 2020, but will allow for Maine to strongly suggest that this year’s super delegates vote in accordance with the caucus results.