Friday, April 4, 2025

Our billionaires are blasting off. Good riddance!

We don’t need billionaires out to “conquer space.” We need to conquer inequality.

Methane emissions from food waste alarmingly accelerate climate crisis

As EPA reports highlight the staggering methane emissions from food waste, the U.S. grapples with an overlooked environmental hazard.

Texas school district threatens suspension for student protests; universities respond, ‘peaceful protests won’t impact...

Individual admissions officials took to Twitter to let students know that joining such demonstrations wouldn't "affect their college acceptance decisions."

Biological annihilation

To mitigate the crisis, to save life itself, would require not merely the replacement of carbon-dirty fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy, but a genuine reevaluation of modern life and its institutions.

GMOs: Everything you need to know

What they are, where you can find them and should you eat them?

Big Pharma greed ‘literally killing Americans,’ Sanders says outside drug lobby HQ

"We cannot continue to allow the drug companies to charge us any price they want. We are saying enough is enough."

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, October 2

Amazon adopts $15 minimum wage, California bans animal-tested cosmetics and becomes first state to require women on corporate boards, and more.

Protests continue across Canada in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders fighting fracked gas pipeline

Demonstrations over the past week have halted traffic in downtown Vancouver and shut down railways throughout the country.

Progressive Briefing for Thursday, September 6

New study links air pollution to dementia, U.K. accuses Russian spies of implementing nerve agent attack, anonymous White House official publishes scathing NYT op-ed, and more.

US media suppressed their government’s role in ousting Brazil’s government

Unveiling the hidden role of the US in Brazil's 'long coup,' a groundbreaking academic article exposes Washington's involvement in Operation Car Wash and the political upheaval it caused.