Puerto Rican mayor and other officials arrested on corruption charges
“The public must be able to trust the officials who are put in charge of government funds. Anyone who violates that trust will be brought to justice."
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Farmers need a $12 billion bailout to offset Trump's tariffs, Ivanka Trump dumps fashion brand, new emails show the lies of Sarah Sanders, and more.
GOP’s $4.5 trillion tax giveaway: Slashing Medicaid and food stamps to fund the wealthy
House Republicans propose massive tax cuts for billionaires while gutting Medicaid, food assistance, and student loan programs, sparking outrage from lawmakers and advocacy groups.
USPS releases calendar records for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy—but it’s almost entirely redacted
“Shrouding his calendar in secrecy likely violates the letter of the law, and certainly violates its spirit.”
Trump admin. sends 1,600 kids to Texas tent city as number of detained children...
“We have more children in detention now than ever before.”
Bernie Sanders says Trump ‘directly responsible’ for insurrection effort
“Trump will go down in history as the worst and most dangerous president in history.”
“Enemies foreign and domestic”
As a nation, as a people, Americans must come to grips with what is underway and decide what kind of country this is and what it is going to become before the dystopian tide overwhelms us.
To working stiff Trump supporters
Perhaps we need some of that now. That is not insurrection or revolution. Let us call it EVOLUTION.
‘That’s not who we are?’ Well, you are what you do, your actions speak...
These attacks on sovereign nations are, without question, illegal, unjustifiable and a stain on America’s reputation. Is that who we are?
Exasperated by Netanyahu, France Prepares to Recognize Palestinian State
The French parliament urged recognition of Palestine in a vote in 2014. Sweden has recognized Palestine and a number of other European countries have raised the Palestinian mission in their capitals to the rank of full embassy.