What Can Dolores Huerta Teach Us About Movement-Building Now? https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/what-can-dolores-huerta-teach-us One of the most encouraging proposals has been moving away from exalting individuals.  @DocMellyMel #doloreshuerta

Why Celebrate the Fourth of July? https://www.laprogressive.com/hypocrisy-or-hope/celebrate-the-fourth-of-july Any symbolic birthday for the nation should be accompanied by a clear understanding that it is symbolic, not actual. Tom Hall:

Imperial Valley Threatened by Drying Colorado River  https://www.laprogressive.com/california-political-issues/drying-colorado-river  Declining flows and the warming climate imperil farms, green energy projects and the economy of one of California’s poorest counties. @jeremotographs #coloradoriver

Doing the Work Beyond the March: #NoKingsIII https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/work-beyond-the-march As we fight back, we must also fight forward. Even in the midst of war, solely fighting back means that we have allowed them to set the agenda. @DocMellyMel

High Time to Act as Trump Unravels https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/trump-unravels Thom Hartmann: His escalating contradictions are forcing a question about congressional and cabinet powers designed for moments like this… @Thom_Hartmann #trump

Toward a Praxis of Resistance: What Is to Be Done? https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/praxis-of-resistance Currently, only people of Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Cuba, and fragmented anti-colonial movements really fight back against the Empire of Evil. @BVankovska25537 #praxis

How U.S. Sanctions Fuel Hunger in Cuba https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/hunger-in-cuba No amount of ingenuity can substitute for fuel that doesn’t arrive, machinery that can’t be repaired, or markets that can’t be reached.  @medeabenjamin #cuba

Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Cochise, the Viet Cong, the Taliban, and Now Iran....  https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/crazy-horse American imperialism is a bloated, drunken machine of stolen illicit power, forever stumbling back into the same trap. @desicortez1 #epstein

Where Is California's Lithium Bonanza Newsom Promised? https://www.laprogressive.com/the-environment/lithium-bonanza Aaron Cantu: Local officials blame environmentalists for long delays, but politics, technology and markets are the culprits.  @aaron_con_choco #litium

Impact 'Devastating' a Year After USAID's Termination https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare/usaids-termination Marcus Barum: In the face of death and disease, global health workers struggle to keep hope alive. @mbaram #usaid

How Microplastics Threaten Marine Ecosystems and the Food Chain https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare/microplastics-threaten-food-chains Microplastics are pervasive pollutants that accumulate in marine ecosystems and enter the human food chain. Erica Cirino #plasticpollutes

Phil Pasquini: No Kings, No Trump, No War Protesters Resist a Fascist America https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/war-protesters-resist-a-fascist-america   Expected to be the largest protest in American history, organizers were not disappointed by the turnout. #trump @ppasquini

What Can Dolores Huerta Teach Us About Movement-Building Now? https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/what-can-dolores-huerta-teach-us One of the most encouraging proposals has been moving away from exalting individuals towards embracing movements and the collectives. @DocMellyMel #ufw

Western Media, Violence, and Freedom in Venezuela: Rats and Bananas https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/freedom-in-venezuela What was clear to me was that Venezuelans in Venezuela were overwhelmingly horrified by the actions of the United States. Celina della Croce #venezuela

Dearborn Says to Washington: Forget Campaigning, Just End the War and Genocide  https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/end-the-war-and-genocide Party leaders certainly have been acting as if they’re strategizing with one eye on the midterms. @CoxStan

Transgender Day of Visibility 2026: Black Trans Voices, Joy, and Ongoing Struggles https://www.laprogressive.com/lgbtq/transgender-day-of-visibility-2026-black-trans-voices From Erasure to Power: Black Trans Joy Defies a System Built to Silence It. @RevIreneMonroe

César Chávez: The Price of Hero Worship https://www.laprogressive.com/gender-discrimination/price-of-hero-worship George Cassidy Payne: We all have parts of ourselves we struggle to face, motives we cannot understand,  we have yet to confront. His failures make clear the cost of avoiding work.

The Price of Empire and the Costs of War on Iran https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/price-of-empire Eric Ross: History tells us one thing: when we wage unjust wars that terrorize distant populations in far-off lands, the violence rarely remains confined there.  #iran

Defending Democracy Amid Trump's Horrific War Propaganda in Iran https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/defending-democracy Defend democracy and build a society in which human dignity and shared prosperity replace the brutal logics of profit.  Henry A. Giroux #iranwar

Empire, Barbecue, and Haiti's Child Soldiers https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/child-soldiers Danny Shaw: Haiti’s gang coalition Viv Ansanm is powered by thousands of child combatants drawn by hunger, displacement, and a century of foreign intervention. #haiti

What I Saw in Cuba Was Resilience  https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/what-i-saw-in-cuba-was-resilience Gerargo Delgado: The Cuban people do not wait for rescue. They organize. They adapt. They invent. #cuba

When Headlines Make You Snap https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/when-headlines-make-you-snap Mindy Burrell: Know when we’re slipping into unhelpful behaviors, be kind to ourselves and others. Simple but profound rules for challenging times.

When War Becomes Content, We Feel Before We Understand https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/when-war-becomes-content Martina Moneke: As political communication adopts the language of spectacle, war is increasingly encountered as sensation before meaning.

The Only Place In the World Trump Does Not Have Any Power https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/trump-does-not-have-any-power Ted Vaill: The only solution may be for California to secede, perhaps with Washington and Oregon, to form the Nation of Pacifica. #antarctica

A County Sales Tax to Save California Health Clinics: The Least-Bad Option https://www.laprogressive.com/california-political-issues/county-sales-tax Mark Kreidler: Bay Area and L.A. residents weigh a regressive fix as funding cuts threaten basic care for the uninsured.

How Los Angeles Chooses Its Judges https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-justice/judicial-elections Sharon Kyle: How California's judicial system limits voter power before voting even begins. @SharonKyle00 #judges

Who Make the Church Look Bad? https://www.laprogressive.com/science-and-religion/who-make-the-church-look-bad When so many prominent Mormons are supporting lies, cruelty, and fascism, remaining aligned with such a group does say something about you, too. @QueerMormon #mormons

How Attacks on Transgender Women Part of a Larger MAGA Agenda https://www.laprogressive.com/gender-discrimination/attacks-on-transgender-women There is a broader context for the Olympics committee’s recently announced ban on transgender women athletes. @SonaliKolhatkar #trans

Trump’s Cruelty Strangling Cuba — Its Oil Reserves Could Be Gone by March https://f.mtr.cool/waurlxreoj The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, but the crisis persists. @marjoriecohn #cuba

How Anti-Trans Politics Fueled Division—and Why Sports Became the Battleground https://www.laprogressive.com/lgbtq/anti-trans-politics-fuel-division-sports Charles Hayes: A closer look at how fear, politics, and misinformation have shaped the national debate over transgender rights. #trans

Two Wars, Two Presidents, Same Lies https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/two-wars-two-presidents-same-lies Helen Benedict: The chances of any refugee finding asylum in the U.S. now are just about zero.  #iranwar

Crimes, Criminals, and Cover-up: Rwanda’s 30-Year Assault on Congo https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/0-year-assault-on-congo On March 1, 1997, Paul Kagame's troops slaughtered its last occupants including children, women, and sick people who couldn't flee. @AnnGarrison #rwanda

A Social Care Company Tries to Undermine the U.S. Labor Board https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/undermine-the-u-s-labor-board Rick Wartzman: Findhelp is a public benefit corporation that wants the structure of the National Labor Relations Board held unconstitutional. #nlrb

Will Iran Become Vietnam All Over Again? https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/vietnam-all-over-again Ted Vaill: Who is going to stand up and say “Hell no, we won’t go! or “Hey, hey, Donnie, how many have you killed today”?  #iranwar #vietnamwar

The “Each One Reach One” Strategy for No Kings, March 28 https://f.mtr.cool/donsphwuyl t’s time to lace up our boots. Start calling and texting people on our phones. Emailing everyone we can.  @rob_okun #NOKINGS

The War Economy vs. Human Needs https://f.mtr.cool/pnchrvawgh What Military Spending Reveals About America’s Priorities @SharonKyle00 #WAR

The Video That Put a Fatal Beating on the Border in Sharper Focus C Ashley Young became part of a growing legion to bear witness to state violence at the hands of U.S. immigration officials. @bgirledukate

The DNC Is Sorely in Need of Democracy https://f.mtr.cool/ghyphxzwsc No matter how much the DNC leadership tries to shunt it aside, the burning issue of US policy toward Israel will not go away. @normansolomon #DNC

How the Past Whispers to the Present in Iran https://f.mtr.cool/ohqkxdtjbh Alfred McCoy: Historians now refer to the phenomenon of a dying empire launching a desperate military intervention to recover its fading imperial glory as “micro-militarism.”

Injustices Against One Are Injustices Against All https://f.mtr.cool/jgoqvzisqm While the MAGA new right is celebrating a racist and sexist founding, the rest of us need to celebrate Reconstruction America.

Pax Silica and the Embryonic Fascist State https://f.mtr.cool/fypdnqfxrb In the depraved logic of global capitalism in crisis accumulation of butchery is but the counterpart to the accumulation of capital.

Pete Hegseth: The Dumbest Cabinet Member Ever? https://f.mtr.cool/rhqsxxkpvu It’s difficult to select one of Trump’s Cabinet members as the stupidest, but in the end the Secretary of Defense is in a class of stupidity completely his own. @RBReich #hegseth

A Culture of Endless War https://f.mtr.cool/yaoijdkijx More often than not, we’ve rushed off without a purpose, or a plan, or any formal authorization, leading all too often not to triumph but to frustration, embarrassment, and humiliation.

The Cowards Behind the War Drums https://f.mtr.cool/sereesntiq Donald Trump talks like someone for whom death is always happening to other people, somewhere else, for reasons that can always be spun into a slogan. @desicortez1 #warmongers

In Memoriam Berta Cáceres  https://f.mtr.cool/aicipefnds John Perry: If Cáceres’s murder is still unresolved, so is the question of how Hondurans can wrest control of their country from the families that control Honduras.

Himpathy, Whimpathy, and the Emotional Machinery of Hierarchy https://f.mtr.cool/wffzfvrsys How misplaced sympathy protects power—and why naming the pattern helps us finally see it. @SharonKyle00

Cuba Facing Island-Wide Blackout  https://f.mtr.cool/mrddnureox “While we’re busy destroying the Gulf, our side project is implementing a total siege on the island of Cuba,” said one progressive critic. “Unbelievably cruel.” @corbett_jessica

From Invisibility to Inclusion https://f.mtr.cool/dkdngwxyiw Menopause is an inevitable life stage, but many don’t receive adequate medical care. New California legislation aims to expand access, but excludes millions on Medi-Cal. Elizabeth Aquilera #menopause

Trump Plays God, Too, But Badly  https://f.mtr.cool/xnikfprwly America needs an end to this new Great Awakening. We need to put in the dustbin of history where they belong pastors like Franklin Graham and John Hagee, two of the worst. Lawrence Wilkerson #trump

Iranian Women and the Enduring Struggle for Gender Justice https://f.mtr.cool/upubovnqwv This International Women’s Day carried a somber air and fallen walls that silenced more than 160 young voices at Minab Elementary School. @Tech4Educating #iranianwomen