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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 7h

Art Through the Mists of Time in Kancha Ilaiah’s Book Harappa hollywoodprogressive.com/art/art-th… Priti Gulati Cox: The story focuses on the people that will eventually play a pivotal role in the birth of the Harappa Civilization.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 17h

Lights, Camera, Tax Break hollywoodprogressive.com/film/who-g… "oe Mathews: A dark romantic comedy about California film subsidies, billionaire gamesmanship, political corruption and a new generation of artists who want nothing to do with Hollywood."

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 17h

When the Power Goes Out, the 19th Century Is Waiting hollywoodprogressive.com/humor/powe… Garrison Keillor: Storms, blackouts and fears of runaway technology collide with memories of farm life, kerosene lamps and a less complicated age.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 19h

The Trial: An Excellent 2026 Series hollywoodprogressive.com/television… Walter Moss: Amazon Prime’s suspenseful Mexican drama examines sexual violence, parenting, class privilege and the unequal pursuit of justice.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 20h

A Story of Post-Sixties’ Salting Among the “Salt of the Earth” hollywoodprogressive.com/literature… Steve Early: Barry Bergman’s novel revisits 1970s labor “salting,” union bureaucracy, workplace racism and sexism, and the enduring radical legacy of Salt of the Earth.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When Universities Start Acting Like DOGE f.mtr.cool/08x12t49xd Jeremy Varon: The New School’s workforce cuts, executive power grabs, and assault on tenure show how authoritarian management is spreading far beyond Washington.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We Remember the Dream: We Forgot the Demands f.mtr.cool/73j8kblp6d Cynthia McDermott: The March on Washington called not only for racial equality but for jobs, living wages, voting rights and dignity for working people.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When Universities Start Acting Like DOGE f.mtr.cool/o8odfanrd7 Jeremy Varon: The New School’s workforce cuts, executive power grabs, and assault on tenure show how authoritarian management is spreading far beyond Washington.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trump Is Bombing America, Too f.mtr.cool/pzzh0wz0qd Tom Engelhardt: Threats against Oman, designs on the Strait of Hormuz and widening economic warfare reveal a president increasingly detached from reality.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How the Media Turned Jason Arday Into a Racialized Spectacle f.mtr.cool/fosi5a9f2r Henry Giroux: Hundreds of stories about one Black Cambridge professor expose the racial double standards embedded in modern journalism.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How the Media Turned Jason Arday Into a Racialized Spectacle f.mtr.cool/7n0pi6qwhs Henry Giroux: Hundreds of stories about one Black Cambridge professor expose the racial double standards embedded in modern journalism.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We Owe Children More f.mtr.cool/4rrz8anada Patricia Hynes: Weapons manufacturers promote robotics, artificial intelligence and engineering to young students even as war deprive children elsewhere of schools, safety and basic necessities.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

America’s New Imperial Model: Control Venezuela Without Occupying It f.mtr.cool/0wgiihn8u5 John Peeler: Trump’s intervention has left Venezuela’s old political machinery standing while Washington gains extraordinary leverage over the government and its oil

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

From BRICS to Makkah: The Global South Builds New Centers of Power f.mtr.cool/02ctt41o4n Tom Hall: Emerging nations are constructing alternatives to the Western-led order through new trade, defense and diplomatic partnerships.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Iran Faces a Nuclear Choice: Libya or North Korea f.mtr.cool/z25a4bxv42 Vijay Prashad: One state surrendered its nuclear program and was destroyed; the other built the bomb and survived.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Nepal’s Deadly Himalayan Flood Reveals a New Climate Threat f.mtr.cool/wa3x2z2cj5 Madhab Pant: A collapsing mountainside, melting ice and a temporary debris dam combined to send a devastating surge through the Bhotekoshi, Trishuli and Narayani river corridors

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Trump’s Bully Politics Meet Their Limit f.mtr.cool/kjpmm486er Robert Reich: With Iran unresolved, Canada fighting back and institutions refusing to bend, Trump is confronting a reality his political persona was built to deny: he can lose.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We Were Friends for 50 Years: Then We Had to Talk About Trump f.mtr.cool/1u566qlv0h Erin Aubry Kaplan: A long-delayed conversation about race, conservatism and democracy tests a friendship that began with two girls drawing horses in junior high

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

CEOs Won Tax Cuts While Their Workers Faced Medicaid and SNAP Cuts f.mtr.cool/cetrb26mx7 Sarah Anderson: The nation’s biggest low-wage employers celebrated tax breaks for the wealthy while saying little about cuts to programs their own employees rely on.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

From BRICS to Makkah: The Global South Builds New Centers of Power f.mtr.cool/06dux1csrf Tom Hall: Emerging nations are constructing alternatives to the Western-led order through new trade, defense and diplomatic partnerships.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Umpire Took a Side f.mtr.cool/zjxb0dsmz9 Bill Blum: John Roberts promised judicial neutrality. His record on voting rights and presidential power tells a very different story.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Umpire Took a Side f.mtr.cool/bu5p80ikx0 Bill Blum: John Roberts promised judicial neutrality. His record on voting rights and presidential power tells a very different story.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

LA Landlords Have a New Way to Make Renters Pay More f.mtr.cool/6rgtyw0nnv Erin Rode: Tenant advocates say Ratio Utility Billing Systems function like hidden rent increases by shifting unpredictable building costs onto renters.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Vijay Prashad: Against the False Symmetry of War and Resistance f.mtr.cool/t23nhvmbxn Arguing that the attack on Iran must be understood within a much longer history of imperial power, racial hierarchy, and struggles for sovereignty.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Crooked of Hormuz: Trump’s Latest Unwinnable War f.mtr.cool/gij1jfn7x9 Tom Engelhardt: Trump’s Iran conflict raises an uncomfortable question about eight decades of American military intervention and the extraordinary cost of wars without victory.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Crooked of Hormuz: Trump’s Latest Unwinnable War f.mtr.cool/4axxy66xmw Tom Engelhardt: Trump’s Iran conflict raises an uncomfortable question about eight decades of American military intervention and the extraordinary cost of wars without victory.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Beshear Says Socialism Failed. Democratic Socialists Ask: Compared to What? f.mtr.cool/d571jrzp9j Berry Craig: Kentucky activists challenge the governor’s critique by pointing to Social Security.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Why I Believed Ayn Rand—and Why I Was Wrong f.mtr.cool/y31rrknx2l Robert Jensens: A former Objectivist looks back at the fear, youthful certainty, and desire for radical independence that made Ayn Rand’s philosophy so seductive

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Angelmarie Taylor Is Fighting Back Against Campus Repression f.mtr.cool/brh6mag6lt Sharon Kyle: The Black Lives Matter Grassroots Youth Vanguard organizer is fighting campus repression, standing with immigrant communities.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How America Learned to Wage War Somewhere Else f.mtr.cool/am25379mpd Sharon Kyle: The United States has repeatedly pushed the human costs of war onto other people while powerful interests reap the rewards.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump's Pro-Israel EO 14203 Receives Fierce Pushback f.mtr.cool/gpp41988wl Majorie Cohn: Plaintiffs seek court declaration that sanctions violate the 1st and 5th Amendments and Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump f.mtr.cool/u1wnywu0gt John Peeler: Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan chronicle a first year of retribution, executive power, war, political vengeance, and presidential plunder.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How America Learned to Wage War Somewhere Else f.mtr.cool/pmuzsliiej Sharon Kyle: The United States has repeatedly pushed the human costs of war onto other people while powerful interests reap the rewards.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ikkis and the Folly of War: What Have We Learned? f.mtr.cool/budng73li2 Walter Moss: From the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War to Iran, Gaza, and Ukraine, an anti-war film reminds us how little humanity has learned about the devastation of war.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fried Weasel, Fried Rat, and the State of American Politics f.mtr.cool/3to8n3oq8v Garrison Keillor: When fear replaces principle, loyalty outranks truth, and doing the right thing becomes politically dangerous.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“H Is for Hawk,” Grief, and the Oneness of Being f.mtr.cool/ez1ahb85kc Walter Moss: Another problem, with both the book and the film is that neither medium offers a clear answer as to why the goshawk’s killing of other animals, like rabbits, is necessary.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Don’t Cancel the Holidays—Reclaim Them f.mtr.cool/emriahbuzz Steve Early: Matt Witt’s Make Holidays Your Own offers a smarter way to confront commercialization, historical myths, and political baggage while preserving what brings people together.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

God Did So Make Honky-Tonk Angels f.mtr.cool/3083ibh9rb Scott Prosterman: In an age of cruelty and division, the country superstar built an extraordinary legacy around music, literacy, generosity, dignity, and joy.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“American Midnight” Recalls Earlier Dark Times in U.S. History f.mtr.cool/u13baa1172 Walter Moss: Adam Hochschild’s American Midnight reveals how quickly fear and demagoguery can turn democratic institutions against immigrants, minorities, and dissenters.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Why Chantal Meza Is the Artist for Our Times f.mtr.cool/hhzkzl5p58 Henry Giroux: To understand Meza's significance today, and why her work continues the radical tradition that links art to moral witnessing, it is necessary to recognize what has been lost.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ibsen’s Troubled Waters Updated f.mtr.cool/rpyghbyh9w Ed Rampell: Bart DeLorenzo’s timely Los Angeles adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic pits public health and scientific truth against political power, profit, and a frightened populace.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A Long Glance Back f.mtr.cool/mta04x0k39 Garrison Keillor: I wanted to be a writer and the English Department loved the legend of the Doomed Writer, Dylan Thomas, Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, men who’d gotten their legs caught in the trap of alcohol.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Waiting for the Adults to Come Home f.mtr.cool/f89lrd20x4 Chuck Yates: In an era of political chaos and exhaustion, Americans are struggling to decide whether to fight, withdraw, or simply hold on to one another.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Establishment’s Crazy Lies About Black Folks and Socialism f.mtr.cool/984zdslqij Mark P. Fancher: From MLK to today’s DSA victories, the Black radical tradition challenges establishment claims about Black politics—and the limits of the white left.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

God Did So Make Honky-Tonk Angels f.mtr.cool/3t2g9ogn90 Scott Prosterman: In an age of cruelty and division, the country superstar built an extraordinary legacy around music, literacy, generosity, dignity, and joy.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Big Tech’s Next Dark Pattern: Turning AI Users Into the Product f.mtr.cool/iatly9fpjj Lily Minh Wass: Generative AI is quietly turning everyday user experiences into hyper-personalized surveillance advertising.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Politics and Religion: Religion Isn’t the Problem, Intolerance Is f.mtr.cool/obkggdcslh Walter Moss: From FDR and the Social Gospel to Martin Luther King Jr., American progressives once spoke confidently about values. It may be time to do so again

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chinatown 2026: The Plot Against Los Angeles f.mtr.cool/ht0zw9ec08 Joe Mathews: Forget water rights. Today’s Los Angeles power struggle runs through basketball, Hollywood, media, beaches, housing and billions in public money.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Zuckerberg Put Profits Before Children. Now States Want $200 Billion f.mtr.cool/lz99tlienk Sonali Kolhatkar: Lawsuits accuse Instagram’s parent company of addicting young users, harvesting their data, and concealing the risks.

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