Monday, April 29, 2024

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.

In the heart of a dying empire

Welcome to that most unpredictable and dangerous of entities, a dying empire.

Debate: Jeremy Corbyn, antisemitism and the British media

It is the Labour party’s hesitation on this point, and Corbyn’s history of pro-Palestinian activism and criticisms of Israel, that have proven so problematic.

As Ford polygraph made public, Senate Judiciary Democrats unified: Kavanaugh should ‘immediately withdraw’

"We are writing to request that you immediately withdraw the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court or direct the FBI to re-open its background investigation and thoroughly examine the multiple allegations of sexual assault."
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Trump admin targets immigrants using food stamps & Medicaid & puts millions of children...

The draft regulation was unveiled Saturday and has been widely condemned for its cruelty and potential impact on millions of U.S.-born children of immigrant parents.
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World laughs at Trump as he boasts about himself in UN address threatening Iran,...

“What’s amazing is not that this hall of seasoned professionals laughed at him, but that he doesn’t get more laughter in the United States."

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, September 26

Bill Cosby sentenced to prison, UN condemns U.S. for lack of universal health care, Montana judge restores grizzly bears' protection, and more.

Electing Democrats in November without confronting neoliberalism will not be enough

If Democrats win in the next couple of elections but continue to make the rich richer with neoliberal policies (as Obama did), that will just be another opening for a Trump-type.
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Donald Trump has betrayed the working class.

He still claims he’s on their side. That’s one of his biggest lies of all.