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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 14m

Will Trump Take Cuba? www.laprogressive.com/foreign-polic… John Peeler: Decades of U.S. sanctions and Cuban economic failures have left the island dangerously vulnerable to a president drawn to power politics and spheres of influence.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Donald Trump and a World at the Boiling Point mailchi.mp/laprogressive.com/world-… Tom Engelhardt: War with Iran, weapons for Israel, climate change and escalating militarism reveal a planet growing more dangerous by the day.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Donald Trump and a World at the Boiling Point www.laprogressive.com/climate-chang… Tom Engelhardt: War with Iran, weapons for Israel, climate change and escalating militarism reveal a planet growing more dangerous by the day.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Who Should Pay for Infrastructure? " www.laprogressive.com/economic-equa… Johnny Townsend: Seattle residents face rising sales taxes, property taxes and public-service cuts while corporations and wealthy residents avoid paying their fair share.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can LA Insurgents Break AIPAC’s Grip? www.laprogressive.com/sponsored/bre… Marcy Winograd: Gonzales-Torres, Dueñas and Hernandez bring grassroots challenges into the November 3 election.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stay Woke: What My Father Learned About Race in America www.laprogressive.com/racism/stay-w… Eva Amar: A Jewish immigrant in a U.S. Army uniform walked into an Arkansas diner with his Black friend—and discovered that America did not see them as equals. #laprogressive #leftcoastforum

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Existential Threat We Can Do Something About mailchi.mp/laprogressive.com/the-ex… Sharon Kyle: Inequality—and the racial and ethnic hierarchies that sustain it—is something we can begin confronting wherever we organize.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Existential Threat We Can Do Something About www.laprogressive.com/progressive-i… Sharon Kyle: Inequality—and the racial and ethnic hierarchies that sustain it—is something we can begin confronting wherever we organize.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Netanyahu’s Empty Seats and the Business of Occupation www.laprogressive.com/foreign-polic… Vijay Prashad: Diplomatic isolation is growing at the UN, but a new focus on companies tied to settlements shows how occupation is sustained economically.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Planet Is Burning—and We’re Still Making War www.laprogressive.com/climate-chang… Tom Engelhardt: Trump, climate change, nuclear weapons and endless war are turning humanity’s wars against one another into a war against the planet itself.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Authoritarian Awareness “Sweet 16” Glossary Test www.laprogressive.com/progressive-i… Don Hazen: Sixteen terms that illuminate the connections among extreme wealth, technology, misogyny, psychology and political control. #laprogressive #leftcoastforum

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

China and the US: Meeting Is Good, Agreement Is Better mailchi.mp/laprogressive.com/china-… Richard D. Wolff: The September 2026 meeting between U.S. and Chinese leaders comes as economic competition, BRICS expansion and geopolitical tensions reshape global power.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Enough Already: An 84-Year-Old’s Advice to Donald Trump hollywoodprogressive.com/humor/advi… Garrison Keillor: Father Time Eventually Catches Everyone. The Trick Is Learning When to Let Go.

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LA Progressive @laprogressive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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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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