The Open-Air Detention Camps of San Diego (progressive.org)
Driving into Jacumba Hot Springs, a town eighty miles east of San Diego, California, an imposing stretch of the border wall emerges, slicing through the rugged desert terrain. Visible along the town’s main street, the thirty-foot-tall steel wall’s long shadow looms over its roughly 600 residents....
Weaponizing San Francisco (progressive.org)
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules State Voting Maps Unconstitutional (progressive.org)
Panama’s Supreme Court Declares Mining Law Unconstitutional (progressive.org)
Panama’s Supreme Court declared a controversial copper mining project in the Latin American country unconstitutional. In a unanimous decision against the Canadian mining company First Quantum, the court suspended the extension of the mining contract, which had generated months of protests from citizens....
Private Equity’s Green Façade Is Being Funded by Your Pension (progressive.org)
Protests in Guatemala Shut Down the Country for More Than a Week (progressive.org)
‘Call of Duty’ Doesn’t Just Depict Bad History—It’s Pro-War Propaganda (progressive.org)
I just started playing COD Black Ops Cold War because I got it through my PlayStation Plus subscription and wanted to try it out. I’ve previously played some others like Modern Warfare (1 and 2) and WWII. While it always felt a bit over the top and propaganda-ish, I really liked it for the blockbuster feeling and just turning...
PragerU’s Propaganda Is Now Being Taught in Schools (progressive.org)
The Movement for Public Schools Isn’t Dead (progressive.org)
‘Big Brother’ On the Border (progressive.org)
The Right-Wing Think Tank That the Charter School Industry Relies On (progressive.org)
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‘I Told Y’all I Was Innocent’: How a Wrongfully Incarcerated Rapper Broke Free (progressive.org)
California hotel workers: Many drive Uber, sleep in cars just to afford rent (progressive.org)
Workers can no longer afford to live in city where they cook meals, clean rooms, wash dishes. Workers “would need to earn $39.31 an hour to be able to pay rent on an average two-bedroom apartment.”
California hotel workers: Many drive Uber, sleep in cars just to afford rent (progressive.org)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/1706311...
Why Red States are Blocking New School Voucher Programs (progressive.org)
Renewable Energy Threatens Utility Profiteers (progressive.org)
Monopolies like Georgia Power are pushing customers to keep using expensive, unsustainable fossil fuels.