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Trump's EPA Is Selling Out Safety
Photo credit: CSB.gov / cc The March 2005 fire and explosions at BP’s Texas City, Texas, oil refinery killed 15 contractors and injured 180 other workers in ways that will haunt them forever. Some lost limbs. Others suffered horrific burns, head injuries or wounds...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Anat Shenker-Osorio Progressive Ideas Are Popular, They Win – Here’s How Like many of us, after the Trump election I looked around and saw that whatever it was we were doing, as hard as we were working, it either wasn’t enough, or wasn’t the right...
Progressive Ideas Are Popular, They Win - Here’s How
How do we build a bigger “we”? Anat Shenker-Osorio says we do this when we talk about race and class in a way that welcomes everybody in, and leaves nobody out. This “Race-Class Narrative Strategy,” which she and UC Berkeley law professor Ian Haney López developed in...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Is Pete Buttigieg A Shill For The Donor Class? Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Maltese-American mayor of South Bend, the fourth-largest town in Indiana, is the shiny new object in the race to become the Democrats’ candidate for...
Is Pete Buttigieg A Shill For The Donor Class?
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Maltese-American mayor of South Bend, the fourth-largest town in Indiana, is the shiny new object in the race to become the Democrats' candidate for president in 2020. Coming from almost...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld How Social Media Amplifies Trump’s Rants And Disinformation As 2020 nears, disinformation—intentionally false political propaganda—is increasing and getting nastier. Central to this disturbing trend is President Trump, whose...
How Social Media Amplifies Trump's Rants And Disinformation
Photo credit: White House official photo / cc As 2020 nears, disinformation—intentionally false political propaganda—is increasing and getting nastier. Central to this disturbing trend is President Trump, whose re-election campaign and allies revel in mixing selected...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Corporate Spies Keep An Eye On Organized Labor Google’s computers are spying on its workers. Anytime a Google employee uses an online calendar to schedule a meeting involving more than 100 co-workers, management gets an alert—a great way for...
Corporate Spies Keep An Eye On Organized Labor
Google’s computers are spying on its workers. Anytime a Google employee uses an online calendar to schedule a meeting involving more than 100 co-workers, management gets an alert—a great way for the anti-union corporation to sniff out union organizing efforts. Lots of...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Robert Borosage Warren Won’t Back Down On Medicare For All When Elizabeth Warren was criticized for not detailing how she would pay for Medicare for All, most pundits assumed she would duck and cover. M4A is Bernie Sanders’s signature legislation, but...
