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TPP "Partner" Jails Human Rights Blogger
A human rights blogger who writes under the pseudonym Mother Mushroom has been arrested by the Vietnam government for "corruption against the state." Yet Vietnam is still included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Outspent Trump short on cash as GOP tries to save Congress. NYT: "Disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday revealed tens of millions of dollars in late donations and transfers to Republican 'super PACs' focused on down-ballot races ......
What Obama Never Got About Education
The legacy of the Obama administration on education will be mostly that he generally didn't get it. Indeed the very place he recently chose to tout his work on graduation rates indicates how little his administration understands the issues
Why Another Round of Partisan Investigations Will Backfire on the GOP
Republicans are already planning to launch yet another round of partisan investigative witch hunts designed to hobble a Hillary Clinton presidency. Such adversarial talk unnerves Democrats, but Republicans are the ones who should worry.
Small Business Owners Warn Trump Is "A Recession Waiting to Happen"
Given Donald Trump's shady business practices I'd be afraid to do business with him, let alone let him run the country. - Kelly Conklin of Foley-Waite LLC
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Campaign Brags About Voter Suppression “We have three major voter suppression operations under way,” Trump official tells Bloomberg: "Instead of expanding the electorate, [campaign cheif Steve Bannon and his team are trying to shrink it ... Trump’s invocation at...
"Underbanked" Report Shows Need For Postal Banking
If We the People could be have a simple bank account at our Post Offices, this would solve a problem for millions upon millions of Americans. It would keep people away from the debt-trap clutches of the predatory payday lending industry.
The Geniuses Who Brought You the Iraq War Are at It Again
The “Blob”—the epithet Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes used to scorn Washington’s inbred, vainglorious, bipartisan foreign-policy elite—is striking back. The Blob has driven us into one folly after another. And it is calling for more.
Grassroots Victory: Second-Biggest County in U.S. Raises Minimum Wage
The government of Illinois' Cook County, the second-biggest county in the nation, voted 13 to 3 on Wednesday to raise its minimum wage from $8.25 to $13 by 2020.
AFL-CIO Report Warns TPP Will Force Another Mass-Migration Into US
NAFTA forced millions of small, Mexican farmers out of business, causing a mass migration north. TPP threatens to do the same, on a much larger scale.
