Progressive Political News
Anti-Abortion Forces Used Deceptive Tactics to Defeat Nebraska Ballot Measure
This election was painful for so many across the country, and while some celebrated victories for reproductive rights, others — like us in Nebraska — watched a crucial opportunity slip away. On Nov. 5, I sat in my living room surrounded by my community, watching a tightly contested ballot measure to protect abortion access in…
Read MoreFacing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
The Project 2025 blueprint for the next Trump administration sets its sights on two crucial public institutions: libraries and higher education. Librarians show up on page 5 — targeted for their support for LGBTQIA+ reading — while dismantling the Department of Education, eliminating student loan programs, and restricting what can be taught about gender, race…
Read MoreICE Isolates Me From Community So Corporations Can Profit From My Imprisonment
I am Sereyrath “One” Van, currently incarcerated at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in the Northeast U.S. My experiences with ICE reveal a crucial truth: mass incarceration is embedded in American culture, and immigrant detention is simply an extension of the prison system. I’ve been in jails, prisons…
Read MoreIn the Wake of Trump’s Win, a Top Climate Scientist Finds Strength in the Bible
Katharine Hayhoe at the Cop27 conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 2022.Nariman El-Mofty/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For people involved with research and advocacy about climate change, the results of last week’s presidential election sting. To get a sense of what’s to come…
Read MoreActivists’ Alternative to COP29 Brings Frontline Communities Together
It took Samoan activist Tunaimati’a Jacob Netzler three flights and a bus ride over the course of 24 hours to reach the big climate conference. The plan was to join nearly 200 other campaigners from around 40 countries to discuss the fate of the planet. But Netzler wasn’t traveling to Baku, Azerbaijan, for COP29. Instead,…
Read MoreTrumpworld Pushes Back Against Dueling Pete Hegseth Controversies
Pete Hegseth itnerviews Donald Trump in 2017. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Weekend Fox News host Pete Hegseth has already been an exceedingly controversial choice as Donald Trump’s pick for his Secretary of Defense. Hegseth and the Trump camp have spent recent days…
Read MoreBen & Jerry’s Sues Parent Company for Silencing Support for Palestine
The lawsuit adds that Unilever rejected Ben & Jerry’s choice to make donations to Jewish Voice for Peace.
Read MoreAlex Jones Is Trying to Halt the Sale of Infowars. Elon Musk’s X Just Got Involved in the Case
Alex Jones speaks outside of the Dirksen building on Capitol Hill in Washington in September 2018.Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Thursday afternoon, a federal bankruptcy judge in Texas ordered an evidentiary hearing to review the auction process that resulted…
Read MoreLet’s Translate Our Outrage Over Trumpism Into Action
For many of us, the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s decisive electoral victory has been a time of deep despair and mourning. There has been plenty of commentary trying to make sense of Trump’s win and the factors that led to it. But no analysis changes the fact that the outcome represents a serious blow…
Read MoreUnionized Letter Carriers Organize for Better Than Meager 1.3 Percent Raise
A wave of anger is cresting at post offices across the country. Letter carriers are looking at the big raises that other union members have won — 38 percent over four years at Boeing, 62 percent in six years at the East Coast ports, $7.50 in five years at UPS. They’re comparing those gains to…
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