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The Progressive Magazine
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A voice for peace and social justice since 1909. August/September Issue OUT NOW! https://progressive.org/
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 10h
Book Review: Stitching Freedom by Gary Tyler is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the idea that people can endure great hardship without being hardened by it.

Bill Lueder's full review:
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#prison #incarceration
Living with Injustice
Gary Tyler had his life taken away, yet managed to claw it back.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 13h
"On September 25, I began a hunger strike in conjunction with the health care worker-led People’s Hunger Strike for Gaza...My week-long fast was painful, but manageable. For those starving in Gaza, however, there is no end in sight."

Full Story by Sam Stein:
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#gaza
What I Learned From Hunger Striking in Solidarity with Palestinians
My week-long fast was painful, but manageable. For those starving in Gaza, however, there is no end in sight.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 21h
The reversal of Roe v. Wade has left states scrambling to secure abortion rights through complex legislative battles.

#abortionrights #womenshealth #reproductiverightd #roevwade

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In Montana and Wisconsin, State-Level Legal Battles Over Abortion Have National Implications
The reversal of Roe v. Wade has left states scrambling to secure abortion rights through complex legislative battles.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 15h
The International Community is Pushing for Palestinian Statehood—But the U.S. Won’t Have It.

Read The Full Story by Stephen Zunes on the Progressive.

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#Palestine #israel #gaza #middleeast
The International Community is Pushing for Palestinian Statehood—But the U.S. Won’t Have It
Amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, the United States has retaliated against countries that recognize Palestine.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 21h
The reversal of Roe v. Wade has left states scrambling to secure abortion rights through complex legislative battles.

#abortionrights #womenshealth #reproductiverightd #roevwade

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In Montana and Wisconsin, State-Level Legal Battles Over Abortion Have National Implications
The reversal of Roe v. Wade has left states scrambling to secure abortion rights through complex legislative battles.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 1d
RFK Still Hasn’t Found the Cause of Autism: The President and his health secretary are busy spreading dangerous, dehumanizing lies about the condition.

Read the full story by disability rights activist Mike Ervin on The Progressive.

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#autism #rfkjr
RFK Still Hasn’t Found the Cause of Autism
The President and his health secretary are busy spreading dangerous, dehumanizing lies about the condition.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 1d
Resistance is a defensive politics, but we also need a politics of offense, aimed at winning elections and seizing power.

Read The Full Article by Michael Walzer on The Progressive.
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#resistance #politics #organizing #protest #elections
The Politics of Resistance
Resistance is a defensive politics, but we also need a politics of offense, aimed at winning elections and seizing power.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 1d
Military and police crackdowns on communities are costly and have long-term, harmful impacts on millions of students and families.
#ICE #Immigration #Trump

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Trump’s D.C. Takeover Foretells How Federal Occupations Will Threaten Education
Military and police crackdowns on communities are costly and have long-term, harmful impacts on millions of students and families.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 2d
The Perdomo case Constitutionally justifies racial profiling. It also demonstrates the Court’s racial double standard.

Read The Full Story by Terrence Sullivan on The Progressive.
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#racialprofiling #scotus #racialjustice #ICE #immigration #undocumented
The Supreme Court’s Hypocrisy on Racial Justice
The Perdomo case Constitutionally justifies racial profiling. It also demonstrates the Court’s racial double standard.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 2d
Military and police crackdowns on communities are costly and have long-term, harmful impacts on millions of students and families.

Read The Full Story on the Progressive.

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#publiceducation #ICE #immigration #WashingtonDC
Trump’s D.C. Takeover Foretells How Federal Occupations Will Threaten Education
Military and police crackdowns on communities are costly and have long-term, harmful impacts on millions of students and families.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 2d
Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
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#ICE #Immigration

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Iced Out
Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 3d
Money for jails and power for data centers; no money and no power for the people. It’s the Louisiana story, but it’s also the United States story.

#Louisiana #HurricaneKatrina #Disaster
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What It Means to Survive
Money for jails and power for data centers; no money and no power for the people. It’s the Louisiana story, but it’s also the United States story.
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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 7d
My interview with Michael Workman about his documentary on the #Gaza Solidarity Encampment is up at @theprogressivemag.bsky.social.

Also, a quick reminder: 61% of all Americans and 77% of Democratic voters now support halting U.S. military funding to Israel. - August 2025 Quinnipiac University.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 9d
Michael T. Workman, director of ‘The Encampments,’ speaks about the Columbia encampment, its historical connections, and the power of truth-telling.
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Documenting the Power of the Pro-Palestine Student Movement
Michael T. Workman, director of ‘The Encampments,’ speaks about the Columbia encampment, its historical connections, and the power of truth-telling.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 3d
To the detriment of a merit-based federal system, the President is stacking the deck with loyalists.
#Trump #Republicans #Government

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Trump’s Fixation on Loyalty Is Bad for the Nation
To the detriment of a merit-based federal system, the President is stacking the deck with loyalists.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 7d
If the Trump Administration truly wants to make children and our food healthier, it must stop dismantling proven programs.
#health #food #agriculture
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Gutting Food Programs Won’t Make Us Healthy
If the Trump Administration truly wants to make children and our food healthier, it must stop dismantling proven programs.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 8d
Organizers expect Israel will intercept the humanitarian fleet absent significant international pressure.
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#GlobalSumudFlotilla #Israel #Gaza #Palestine
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Global Sumud Flotilla Demands Safe Passage into Gaza
Organizers expect Israel will intercept the humanitarian fleet absent significant international pressure.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 9d
Michael T. Workman, director of ‘The Encampments,’ speaks about the Columbia encampment, its historical connections, and the power of truth-telling.
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Documenting the Power of the Pro-Palestine Student Movement
Michael T. Workman, director of ‘The Encampments,’ speaks about the Columbia encampment, its historical connections, and the power of truth-telling.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 9d
The Perdomo case Constitutionally justifies racial profiling. It also demonstrates the Court’s racial double standard.
#SupremeCourt #racialjustice

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The Supreme Court’s Hypocrisy on Racial Justice
The Perdomo case Constitutionally justifies racial profiling. It also demonstrates the Court’s racial double standard.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 14d
The Las Vegas Sphere’s immersive ‘Wizard of Oz’ experience has raised concerns about regulating artificial intelligence.

Read The Full Story by Matt Minton on The Progressive.
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#artificialintelligence #wizardofoz #hollywood
Hollywood Hasn’t Reckoned with the Impacts of Generative AI
The Las Vegas Sphere’s immersive ‘Wizard of Oz’ experience has raised concerns about regulating artificial intelligence.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 15d
President Donald Trump and his team are opening a new frontier by attacking minimum wage protections that benefit federal contractors, disabled workers, and home care workers.

#work #minimumwage #labor
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Trump Takes Aim at Minimum Wage
The current administration continues its assault on the working class.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 14d
Demonstrators gathered in Tulsa to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

#FreePalestine #Oklahoma #Protest
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Portraits of Pro-Palestine Resistance in Oklahoma
Demonstrators gathered in Tulsa to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 13d
Instead of assuming that farmers will suffer in silence, the President could dedicate resources to strengthen domestic markets.
#agriculture #donaldtrump #farmers

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Trump Policies Hurt Struggling Farmers
Instead of assuming that farmers will suffer in silence, the President could dedicate resources to strengthen domestic markets.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 14d
The Las Vegas Sphere’s immersive ‘Wizard of Oz’ experience has raised concerns about regulating artificial intelligence.

Read The Full Story by Matt Minton on The Progressive.
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#artificialintelligence #wizardofoz #hollywood
Hollywood Hasn’t Reckoned with the Impacts of Generative AI
The Las Vegas Sphere’s immersive ‘Wizard of Oz’ experience has raised concerns about regulating artificial intelligence.
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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 25d
Glad to publish this by Ben McCarthy about how mental illness came to be mischaracterized as a primary cause of homelessness in the United States—and how that misunderstanding obscures the most devastating impacts of the hypercommodified housing market

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The Real Cause of Homelessness
For decades, a misleading narrative about mental illness among the unhoused obscured the true source of the crisis: hyper-commodified housing.
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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 15d
"Because here in Gaza, sometimes the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end."
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · Sep 8
Israel has issued new evacuation orders for the entire population of Gaza City to leave, in preparation for its full-scale ground occupation of the city by October 7, 2025. But for many, leaving is no longer a choice.

#Gaza #evacuation #iSrael #Palestine

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Nowhere to Run: I Am Choosing Death at Home Over Forced Evacuation
When ‘the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end.’
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