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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump has appointed individuals willing to provide fawning approval of his every whim. progressive.org/op-eds/donal...
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Donald Trump’s Loyalty Problems
Trump has appointed individuals willing to provide fawning approval of his every whim.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Last month, my little brother decided to take swimming lessons. During one of his sessions, the Israeli military opened fire." progressive.org/latest/the-s...
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The Sea We Learned to Fear
Last month, my little brother decided to take swimming lessons. During one of his sessions, the Israeli military opened fire.
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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Scott D. Landes pens a new op-ed for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social, pushing back against Donald Trump's call to revive forced institutionalization. Read it here: buff.ly/utd8LLr Landes is also the author of the forthcoming "The Counterconforming Body."
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Block Trump’s Push to Lock up Disabled People
If Trump's assertion of ableism is successful here, that won't be the end of it.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Disabled Americans have faced a renewed threat to their freedom: an effort by the administration of President Donald Trump to reopen the door to forced institutionalization. progressive.org/op-eds/block...
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Block Trump’s Push to Lock up Disabled People
If Trump's assertion of ableism is successful here, that won't be the end of it.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
he President’s goal in these renamings is to glorify himself and project his vision of national identity. progressive.org/op-eds/why-t...
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Why Trump’s Renaming Fixation Is Frightening
The President’s goal in these renamings is to glorify himself and project his vision of national identity.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Economic restrictions have limited residents’ disposable income, making it difficult to keep family businesses afloat. progressive.org/latest/what-...
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What Declining Purchasing Power Looks Like in Gaza
Economic restrictions have limited residents’ disposable income, making it difficult to keep family businesses afloat.
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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"What separates effective resistance from performative noise?" I don't read reviews, but I'm passing this one along anyway because @theprogressivemag is a magazine I've been fond of for a long time, since I worked in politics. [Repost because I missed the link] progressive.org/magazine/the...
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The Return of the Enslavers’ Republic
In his new book, Tad Stoermer explores why resistance movements in the United States face uphill odds.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Despite Colombia introducing a ten-year integration policy for Venezuelan migrants in 2021, experts have warned that “legal frameworks alone are insufficient.” Meaningful change needs to reach to a cultural level. progressive.org/latest/pathw...
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Pathways to Dignity on Colombia’s Border
Colombia’s fumbled reckoning with regularization has left its migrant population vulnerable
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On August 11, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network permanently ended the requirement that U.S. companies disclose who actually owns them and plans to delete the ownership information that companies have already reported. progressive.org/op-eds/trump...
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Trump’s Fraudulent War on Fraud
I worked in financial regulation and consumer protection for fifteen years. I have a hard time taking the administration’s campaign against fraud very seriously.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What was once a hobby passed down by her mother has become a thirty-five-year-old Palestinian woman’s main income. progressive.org/latest/embro...
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Embroidering to Survive
What was once a hobby passed down by her mother has become a thirty-five-year-old Palestinian woman’s main income.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 14/09/2026
“In lieu of actually doing anything, Democrats these days seem to settle for an occasional chest thump before meekly rolling over. Evoke a feeling, rather than initiate a material change.” @sarahljaffe.bsky.social @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/magazine/str...
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Strategy and Leverage—Not Vibes—Are What We Need Now
The general strike remains a goal to aspire to. But simply saying the words over and over again will not call the strike into being.
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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The U.S. government is about to spend a historic amount of public money on an unproven and lightly regulated school voucher-like program. Each state has a decision to make: Accept or reject what might amount to a subsidy for the rich. @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/public-schoo...
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A ‘Gold Rush Moment’ for Private Education
State officials weigh a new federal school voucher program that is ripe for profiteering and discrimination.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today, the lack of a moral compass among the so-called free world is deeply concerning—not only concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but across the many wars and conflicts around the world. progressive.org/latest/the-911-i-lived-in-gaza-hijjo-20260911/
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The 9/11 I Lived in Gaza
It is important to remember that governments and their leaders do not represent all of humanity.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“The images were heartbreaking: people on fire leaping to their deaths from a hundred stories up. . . Those scenes horrified & sickened me. Then our political leaders came on TV, & I was horrified & sickened again.” — H. Zinn via @theprogressivemag.bsky.social Read: progressive.org/magazine/rem...
Text says: In remembrance of the sixteenth anniversary of the attacks on New York City and Washington, we share a piece from Howard Zinn published in our November 2001 issue.  Words to live by.

The images on television were heartbreaking: people on fire leaping to their deaths from a hundred stories up; people in panic racing from the scene in clouds of dust and smoke. We knew there must be thousands of human beings buried under a mountain of debris. We could only imagine the terror among the passengers of the hijacked planes as they contemplated the crash, the fire, the end. Those scenes horrified and sickened me.

Then our political leaders came on television, and I was horrified and sickened again. They spoke of retaliation, of vengeance, of punishment. We are at war, they said. And I thought: They have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from the history of the twentieth century, from a hundred years of retaliation, vengeance, war, a hundred years of terrorism and counterterrorism, of violence met with violence in an unending cyle of stupidity.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If nothing else, the 2026 World Cup exposed the fact that globalization represents no challenge to neofascism, authoritarianism, rightwing nationalism. progressive.org/magazine/doe...
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Does Soccer Still Explain the World?
If nothing else, the 2026 World Cup exposed the fact that globalization represents no challenge to neofascism, authoritarianism, rightwing nationalism.
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A piece I wrote for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social magazine earlier this summer is now published online: “How to Fight Media Oligarchy” progressive.org/magazine/how...
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How to Fight Media Oligarchy
Every billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy.
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Miles Halpine @mileshalpine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Our fears for the safety and wellbeing of our community are seen as something akin to hysteria, with many others going along with their lives like there is nothing to see here." Via @tasullivan21.bsky.social in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/latest/if-th...
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The Equity Docket: If They Find Me in a Tree, Know It Wasn’t Me
Modern day unsolved deaths bear the hallmarks of nineteenth and twentieth century lynchings.
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Dave Awl @daveawl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a worthy remembrance of Wendell Berry. And the poem at the end, about the continuing presence of those we've lost, is a keeper.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy. progressive.org/magazine/how...
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How to Fight Media Oligarchy
Every billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The great poet, essayist, and fiction writer had a habit of repeating himself—but only because what he had to say was so important. progressive.org/latest/remem...
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Remembering My Friend, Wendell Berry
The great poet, essayist, and fiction writer had a habit of repeating himself—but only because what he had to say was so important.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As dangerous trends continue to intensify, we need Wendell Berry's voice more than ever. progressive.org/op-eds/lets-...
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Let’s Heed the Wisdom of Wendell Berry
As dangerous trends continue to intensify, we need his voice more than ever.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The legendary poet, farmer, and philosopher had vital lessons on transforming modern isolation. progressive.org/latest/wende...
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Wendell Berry’s Wisdom of Belonging
The legendary poet, farmer, and philosopher had vital lessons on transforming modern isolation.
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Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com · 03/09/2026
“The warehouse is located on a stream, so sediment runoff could feed into the Potomac River. The impact could be catastrophic.” progressive.org/latest/when-... We were interviewed by @theprogressivemag.bsky.social. Check it out. #MarylandStrong #NoKingsNoCamps
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When ICE Moves Into the Office Next Door
Local activists push back against expansion of immigration enforcement workspaces.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thousands protested disenfranchisement efforts on the sixty-third anniversary of the March on Washington. progressive.org/latest/in-de...
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In Defense of Voting Rights
Thousands protested disenfranchisement efforts on the sixty-third anniversary of the March on Washington.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What happens when Darline Graham finds herself in a position where she has to butt heads with the squatter in order to accomplish something for people with disabilities? Which side will she sell out? Is there really any doubt? progressive.org/latest/darli...
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Darline Graham’s Dilemma: Support Trump or People with Disabilities
The political reality is that she cannot plausibly do both.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Regardless of where they live or what political party they usually vote for, voters should say “no” to tax cuts for the wealthy on their November ballots. progressive.org/op-eds/voter...
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Voters, Don’t Be Fooled by State Tax-Cut Measures
Say “no” to tax cuts for the wealthy in November.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Over the past quarter-century, Wall Street interests, the technology industry and university elites, and anonymous donors have all gained strong footholds in our party’s power structure. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social progressive.org/magazine/cri...
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Crisis of the Common Good
Over the past quarter century, Wall Street interests, technology industry and university elites, and anonymous donors have all gained strong footholds in our party’s power structure.
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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Where Wisconsin was a test case for getting rid of collective bargaining for public unions, what’s happening now is a test case again for how the right can engage in backdoor attacks in purple states to undermine academic freedom” @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/public-schoo...
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Trump Administration’s War on DEI in Universities Closes Off Students’ Learning Opportunities
Wisconsin is a prime example of how federal pressure is pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education to the brink.
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Excellent review of THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE AND THE RADICAL STATE in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social: “[A]n immense contribution…. The details of the Anti-Defamation League’s role in advancing this agenda and its racial aspects have never been documented so thoroughly or explained so carefully.”
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Rethinking the Anti-Defamation League
Emmaia Gelman’s new book explores the group’s opposition to leftist movements, especially those linked to racial issues.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wisconsin is a prime example of how federal pressure is pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education to the brink. #DEI #Education progressive.org/public-schoo...
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Trump Administration’s War on DEI in Universities Closes Off Students’ Learning Opportunities
Wisconsin is a prime example of how federal pressure is pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education to the brink.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Remembering the civil rights leader and New Orleans icon Jerome Smith. progressive.org/latest/a-gia...
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A Giant Who Walked Among Us
Remembering the civil rights leader and New Orleans icon Jerome Smith.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The President and his administration are using Christian nationalism to shape the federal government. progressive.org/magazine/tru...
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Trump’s Unholy War on the First Amendment
The President and his administration are using Christian nationalism to shape the federal government.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Amid the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened more than 27,000 people in forty-seven states, causing more than 800 hospitalizations and two deaths, many people are blaming the federal government for letting its guard down on the monitoring of food-born illnesses. progressive.org/op-eds/eat-l...
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Eat Local, Help Farmers, Avoid Pathogens
Consumers have the power to limit the impact of this and future outbreaks.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Behind a legal campaign to meet the Trump Administration’s gutting of environmental protections with slow, granular resistance. progressive.org/latest/the-g...
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The Grassroots Climate Lawyers Taking the EPA to Court
Behind a legal campaign to meet the Trump Administration’s gutting of environmental protections with slow, granular resistance.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The enduring history of the freeway murals in Los Angeles, and their future at the 2028 Olympics. progressive.org/latest/art-f...
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Art for the People
The enduring history of the freeway murals in Los Angeles, and their future at the 2028 Olympics.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The rise of open bigotry, remote learning, and underfunded public schools has white supremacists pulling children out of class and teaching them at home. progressive.org/magazine/hom...
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Homeschooling Hate
The rise of open bigotry, remote learning, and underfunded public schools has white supremacists pulling children out of class and teaching them at home.
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Jeff Bryant @jeffbinnc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"The sad truth is that the grievances that motivated people to board buses and gather on the Mall on a hot July day in 2011 continue to dominate the K-12 school landscape today." And this will remain the truth until progressives in the Democratic party make public schools a policy priority.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fifteen years ago, thousands of teachers marched on Washington to protest the Obama-era push to privatize public education. Has anything changed? progressive.org/magazine/the...
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The Lesson of America’s Broken Education Politics
Fifteen years ago, thousands of teachers marched on Washington to protest the Obama-era push to privatize public education. Has anything changed?
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
For months, Palestinian journalist Majahed Bani Mfleh was held in Israeli administrative detention without charges and subjected to brutal physical violence. He’s far from the only one. progressive.org/latest/survi...
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Surviving Torture in the West Bank
For months, Palestinian journalist Majahed Bani Mfleh was held in Israeli administrative detention without charges and subjected to brutal physical violence. He’s far from the only one.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 24/08/2026
“…data center development appears to be the latest corporate scheme to extract resources without consulting the people impacted.” @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/op-eds/data-...
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Data Center Issue Can Empower Rural Areas
Grassroots opposition to corporate hyperscale data center expansion has generated a rare moment when members of both parties seem unified with many voters.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Local democracy isn’t dead yet, despite all of the threats to it. #democracy #local #louisiana progressive.org/magazine/ove...
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Overriding the Will of the People
Local democracy isn’t dead yet, despite all of the threats to it.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As a young attorney in the Reagan Administration, he aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act and undermine democracy. Now the Chief Justice has finished the job. progressive.org/magazine/the...
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The Long Con of John Roberts
As a young attorney in the Reagan Administration, he aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act and undermine democracy. Now the Chief Justice has finished the job.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was a cost-effective lifeline for low-income people and families—until the Trump Administration gutted it. progressive.org/latest/the-s...
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The SNAP Ripple Effect
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was a cost-effective lifeline for low-income people and families—until the Trump Administration gutted it.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The world’s militaries are in an arms race to develop the use of AI in warfare. Despite calls from civil society and AI experts to ban its use in military operations, given the devastation that inaccurate AI targeting can cause. #AI #Warfare progressive.org/op-eds/end-t...
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End the Use of AI in Warfare
It's foolhardy to believe that humans can adequately review AI targeting without making tragic errors.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When the gears of the ballot box have been tampered with, it’s time for voters to write their own rules. progressive.org/magazine/pla...
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Playing a Rigged Game
When the gears of the ballot box have been tampered with, it’s time for voters to write their own rules.
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Island Press @islandpress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Many states adopt measures to protect student athletes from extreme heat, but those same kids lose that protection when they step off the field and into the classroom. Pediatrician Michelle Kirwan makes the case for schools to extend heat protections to every student: buff.ly/yQfam8M
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Protect All Kids—Not Just Athletes—From the Heat
Schools must protect students from extreme heat, indoors and out.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 18/08/2026
“Instead of giving up on rural areas, lawmakers and candidates for office should be taking a stand and proposing investments in rural education to keep people in the countryside instead of driving them to cities.” @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/op-eds/data-...
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Data Center Issue Can Empower Rural Areas
Grassroots opposition to corporate hyperscale data center expansion has generated a rare moment when members of both parties seem unified with many voters.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Until enemies can civilly engage with each other, hostilities fester and the spiral goes on and on ad nauseam. progressive.org/magazine/emp...
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Empathy Is the Worst Enemy of Rightwing Ideology
Until enemies can civilly engage with each other, hostilities fester and the spiral goes on and on ad nauseam.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In his new book, No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism, Representative Jared Huffman chronicles the rise of right-wing Christian nationalism as a threat to American democracy. progressive.org/magazine/up-...
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Up Against the Theocracy
In his new book, Representative Jared Huffman chronicles the rise of rightwing Christian nationalism as a threat to American democracy.
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Citruchel LLC @citruchel.rip · 17/08/2026
The Citruchel LLC position on vaccines follows international standards and well documented science: vaccines save lives. The GOP'S felon administration is happy to endanger the world with fantasies about a better past and fears of "manipulative intellectuals" promoting a "science menace."
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