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Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Wrong: Schools Don't Cause Science Ignorance
Neil deGrasse Tyson recently blamed public schools for “the rise of flat-Earthers." Anti-science views may indeed be in resurgence. But what’s the evidence that public schools are the main cause of this?
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Wants to Cut Legal Immigration by Half Trump, GOP senators introduce bill to slash legal immigration levels. WaPo: "President Trump on Wednesday endorsed a new bill in the Senate aimed at slashing legal immigration levels in half over a decade... a 'merit-based'...
Trump's Bid to Pit Black and Brown Workers Against Each Other
President Trump is resurrecting an old lie about immigration to feign concern about black unemployment, even as his administration actively assaults the very dignity of African American people.
Progressive Breakfast
Bipartisan Health Hearings Senate to hold bipartisan health committee hearings. CNN: "Several Republican and Democrat lawmakers agree that Congress needs to prevent a collapse of the health insurance market, which could hurt millions of consumers - and that concern...
Land Taken From Freed Slave's Descendants for Amazon Data Center?
Land passed down from a freed slave should not be seized to enrich a giant corporation. That's what's happening in Haymarket, Virginia, where descendants of Livinia Johnson are being forced to do so for a new Amazon data center.
Progressive Breakfast
Kochs Push for Tax Cuts Koch brothers move to back WH tax-cut plan. Bloomberg: "After times of only tepid support for President Donald Trump’s agenda, the billionaire Koch brothers are putting their financial muscle behind the White House’s plan to overhaul U.S....
Kochs and Trump Team Up to Cut Billionaires’ Taxes
What do you get when you combine the Koch brothers' money and influence with Trump’s executive power and support from the Republican base? A unified Republican Party marching in lockstep toward a destructive goal.
Don’t Dawdle on Economic and National Security
Trump pledged to support manufacturing workers and launched investigations into the effects of steel and aluminum imports on national security. But now companies, communities and workers are being told to wait. What for?
Democrats Need to Go Bolder on Jobs, Not Backwards
The Democrats' just-unveiled ‘Better Deal’ agenda features a job-training proposal that demands less from CEOs than the job-training proposal Bill Clinton ran on a quarter-century ago.
Progressive Breakfast
Health Care Reset Trump turmoil adds delays, doubt to GOP agenda. The Hill: "The Republican Congress and the administration are signaling a pivot to tax reform... yet Trump on Saturday also wrote on Twitter that Republicans should not give up the effort on health...
