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LA Progressive is a daily digital news and opinion magazine that is dedicated to providing a platform for progressive thought. Published by Dick & Sharon. https://www.laprogressive.com

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Congress Could Stop Genocide: Why Won’t It?

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There is no excuse for continuing to send billions of tax dollars to a genocidal regime engaged in forced starvation of two million people. @RiveraSunAuthor #genocide

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LA Grand Juries Enrage Trump Official for Refusing to Indict Anti-ICE Protesters

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"The agent lied and said he was in hot pursuit of a person who punched him.". "The entirety of the affidavit is false." Brad Reed #ice

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No Kings and No Sheikhs Either

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America’s billionaires have decided that this country should be ruled with some of the same techniques that their Middle Eastern proxies have long used abroad. Β Juan Cole #nokings

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Life, Death and the Humor of it All

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Life not only goes on, it also ends. As most Death Humor seems to imply something continues after the heart stops beating. But nothing yet officially declared. Robert Koehler #laugh

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Black Lives Matter Grassroots Vehemently Condemns Israel’s Kidnapping of Chris Smalls

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For Immediate Release Contact: press@blmgrassroots.org | (323)-271-6642

30.07.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They Don’t Want to Be Shot At

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I find it simply impossible to believe that most ordinary Palestinian civilians support Hamas or desire anything but for the killing and misery to stop. @WDEhrhart #gaza

30.07.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why I Am Optimistic

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Whether he will be able to impose Martial Law or remain in office before civil resistance prevents him from governing, is up to us. @DavidTobis1 #martiallaw

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The Peril of Spectacle, Especially Jeffrey Epstein’s Β 

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Trump isn’t smart enough to stoke the scandal on purpose, but Epstein is a goldmine to exploit. Sarena Neyman #jeffreyepstein

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Priced Out of Paradise

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Β Sarena Neyman: When ordinary people get shut out of extraordinary places #inequality

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Did Mark Twain Imagine Donald Trump?

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Is "Tariff Man" bringing back the Gilded Age? Alfred McCoy #trump

29.07.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Robert Reich Teaches β€” and Why Inequality Is Still the Lesson

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Producer of The Last Class discuss Reich’s skill in the classroom and his career-long focus on economic disparities. Alex Demanyenko #robertreich @RBReich

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Every Child Is Our Child: Gaza, Lidice, and the Collapse of Global Conscience

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Β The Silent Cries of Gaza: A Legacy of Innocence Lost and the Urgent Call to Confront Genocide Β @HenryGiroux #gaza

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Every Child Is Our Child: Gaza, Lidice, and the Collapse of Global Conscience

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The Silent Cries of Gaza: A Legacy of Innocence Lost and the Urgent Call to Confront Genocide Β @HenryGiroux #gaza

29.07.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Can We Lock Up Innocent Immigrants and Call It Justice?

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Shackling innocent people, denying them basic medical care, and forcing them to eat like animals isn’t β€œlaw and order.” It’s lawless. @belkiswille #immigration

29.07.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Public Funding Not the Driver of Media Bias, but the Solution

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The billionaire class has its sights set on an ignorant populace that would be more receptive to its morally bankrupt ideology. @SonaliKolhatkar #media

29.07.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rwanda’s Political Prisoner

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After exposing Rwanda’s authoritarianism and questioning the official genocide narrative, opposition leader Victoire Ingabire faces renewed persecution. @AnnGarrison #rwanda

29.07.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Easy Money for the Merchants of Death

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Trump's Washington breathes new life into the military-industrial complex. @WilliamHartung #pentagon

28.07.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beauty? Who Cares? Certainly Not the Trump Administration

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Historians need to defend truth and not cave in to political pressures. Walter Moss #trump

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Trump Throws Spaghetti at an Evermore Desperate Wall

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Improbably, with all the atrocities he's committed , the furor over Epstein seems to be sticking, at least for now. Abby Zimet #trump #maga

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US and Israel's Genocidal Partnership

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Israel’s grisly performance as β€œa new Sparta” in the region is coproduced by the Pentagon, with operations of the two nations intricately entangled. @normansolomon #gaza

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California Prosecutors and Local Police Could Go After Federal Agents

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A 50-Year-Old Case in Humboldt County Made Clear that Feds Aren’t Above State Law @joemmathews
Β #california @joemmathews

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Building for a General Strike

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Workers have the power to shut down production and the profit pipeline of the billionaire class; labor and community united can stop Trump’s march toward war. Linda Averill #generalstrike

28.07.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good Trouble

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Why not just accept that a lot of Americans don’t like the way things have been going since last January 20, and try paying attention to what they have to say? Chuck Yates #trump

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How Energy-Hungry Algorithms Are Fueling the Climate Crisis: The Hidden Cost of AI

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As AI adoption accelerates, its soaring energy demands and carbon footprint raise urgent concerns about sustainability, . Sharon Kumar

28.07.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From Personal Development to Human Development

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Imagine if self-knowledge were approached the way a musician practices an instrumentβ€”with discipline, care, and passion. @davidandersson #humandevelopment

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Things Fall Apart

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Things have indeed fallen apart. We know what rough beast has slouched into power in Washington, and the gaze it turns upon us is blank and pitiless as the sun. Chuck Yates #eppstein

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Making Noise to Stop Starving Gaza

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Using pots and pans to create noise, the β€œStop Starving Gaza, Noise Demo” could be heard several blocks away as sound bounced off the massive skyscrapers’ stone and glass walls. @ppasquini #gaza

27.07.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to What’s Possible

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He is an infantile, cruel, impulsive narcissist who ought not to be trusted with the keys to the liquor cabinet, let alone to the levers of power. @WDEhrhart #trump

27.07.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Christian Left's battle for the Bible β€” and the country In Pennsylvania's Bible Belt, a congregation refuses to cede religion to Christian Nationalists

"In small towns, as well as cities like Harrisburg, there is an underreported but epic struggle being waged for the hearts and minds of everyday people, with ripple effects for the entire nation." @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org via @salonnewsroom.bsky.social

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