02b U.S. Politics – Progressive

MSNBC ‘MVP’ Segment Salutes Anti-ICE Sandwich-Tosser, Mamdani, Dick Cheney– www.newsbusters.org

pgnewser November 10, 2025 0

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On Friday’s The 11th Hour on MSNBC, panelists all went left in their choices for MVP of the week with praise going to the man who threw a sandwich at an ICE agent in D.C., the jury that acquitted him, and socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D-New  York).

Host Stephanie Ruhle first went to Betches co-founder Sami Sage who oozed: “The D.C. sandwich guy who was found not guilty of assaulting an ICE officer, and I just think it’s a lovely, you know, non-violent type of resistance.” If someone threw a sandwich at Sage, would she find it “nonviolent”?

After Ruhle responded, “Throwing a sandwich?” Sage added: “Yeah, why not?”

The endless Democrat lies about ICE’s actions– www.americanthinker.com

pgnewser November 10, 2025 0

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The media have been inundating Americans with stories of ICE’s cruelty to old ladies, babies, innocent men, and ordinary “Americans”—almost all of them here illegally, of course. It’s a non-stop drip of poisonous claims against federal law enforcement officers, all intended to make them look like Nazi stormtroopers attacking utterly innocent people who just happen to be here illegally, and are occasionally murderers, rapists, and pedophiles.

Nor are these stories just appearing on social media. “Reputable” news outlets are covering them, keeping the inflammatory material in the first paragraphs and burying the exculpatory facts deep in the articles.

Abortion Bans Are Never Just About Abortion– www.thenation.com

pgnewser November 10, 2025 0

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The successful campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade did not just impact abortion care—it moved us ever closer to a world in which pregnancies belong to the state and not to the women and others with capacity for pregnancy who carry them. Those of us fighting for reproductive justice in the United States must continue to speak about these connections and the fact that abortion law can and will be wielded as a weapon against anyone with capacity for pregnancy whether they are already pregnant, seeking pregnancy, carrying a doomed pregnancy, or even dying from a pregnancy. We already see this in the dozens of states that disregard the wishes of pregnant people by carving them out of living will statutes or courts that force obstetric interventions like C-sections on non-consenting patients, and as described here, the slow slide toward legal protection for embryos.

It’s irresolvable to give an embryo or fetus rights without diminishing the rights of pregnant people. By contrast, it is absolutely possible to show respect for embryos and fetuses without denigrating the decision-making capacities of people who happen to be pregnant. Now, not 50 years from now, is the time to decisively and defiantly stand up for pregnant people and people seeking pregnancy before their status as second-class citizens becomes so deeply entrenched in the law that it is almost impossible to detach.

CBS News BURIES DHS Statement, Plows Ahead With Report on ICE Arrest– www.newsbusters.org

pgnewser November 7, 2025 0

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The statement sought by CBS News and provided by the Department of Homeland Security completely undermined the report on a Chicago ICE arrest that ran on the Evening News. But the network ran the report nonetheless, burying the DHS’s statement at the end of the report.

Here is that report in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025:

MAURICE DuBOIS: There is outrage in Chicago tonight following a federal immigration arrest at a day care center.

JOHN DICKERSON: While witnesses say it was a chaotic scene, officials say the day care was not the primary target. Ash-har Quraishi has the story.

ASH-HAR QURAISHI: This video captured the moment ICE agents dragged a pre-K teacher out of a day care center on Chicago’s North Side. She can be seen pleading with the agents as she is pushed up against a waiting sedan. At one point, she shouts in Spanish, “I have papers.”

MIKE QUIGLEY: ICE agents followed a teacher into the facility without a warrant and abducted her in front of her students. This woman is a trusted, loved member of her community. With a work permit.

QURAISHI: Officials identified the woman as Diana Galeano, a Colombian national in the country since 2023 and seeking asylum. Children, teachers, and parents inside of the time of the arrest said they were traumatized by what they saw.

COVID Is Beginning to Surge Globally—What Are the Symptoms, and How Serious Is It?– www.scientificamerican.com

pgnewser November 7, 2025 0

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COVID Is Beginning to Surge Globally. Here’s What We Know

Limited COVID surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say

SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month — global cases increased by more than 19,000 last month compared with the previous month, according to data posted on the World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 dashboard.

But the real number of infections is much higher than that, researchers say, because countries are less focused on collecting data on the infection now than they were during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Surveillance is happening but it’s at a much lower level than it used to be. We don’t have a complete picture of virus circulation of the variants that are out there,” says Maria Van Kerkhove, interim director of the department of epidemic and pandemic management at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. “I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19,” she adds.

Trump Brilliantly Turns the Tables on CBS News in Two Fiery Clips – RedState– redstate.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025 0

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I reported on the preview clips from the 60 Minutes interview that President Donald Trump did with Norah O’Donnell that aired Sunday night. The first two clips were not promising as to whether CBS made a change in how they will be approaching things. One was “What are you doing as president to end the shutdown?” It isn’t up to Trump; it’s up to the Democrats who are behind the government closure. O’Donnell also asked what Trump would do if China attacked Taiwan. Now, that seemed a pretty ridiculous question, because he’s not going to tell her how he would respond, and give away our plans. He made it obvious that it was not something that China would like, which is the only way to answer that question.

Scathing Eleventh-Hour Report Exposes Zohran Mamdani Ahead Of Election Day– trendingpoliticsnews.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025 0

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A last-minute bombshell report is shining a harsh spotlight on New York City socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani and raising fresh alarm bells over his record on antisemitism just hours before voters hit the polls.

Fox News Digital spoke with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, which dropped the lengthy report late in the game. The group argues the far-left Queens assemblyman’s ideology and ties deserve urgent scrutiny.

“It is incumbent on voters to understand the ideological context that Zohran Mamdani comes from and espouses,” Charles Asher Small, founding director of the Institute, told Fox News Digital.

Democrats Will End Their Govt Shutdown Until After Election Day– gellerreport.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025 0

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Democrats are deliberately holding the nation hostage—inflicting pain for ordinary Americans in hopes voters blame Republicans on Election Day. It’s not governance, it’s a political hostage game.

Who, in their right mind, would vote for them?

Infamous Anti-Trump Judge Blocks Trump Order Requiring Citizenship Proof on Voter Registration Forms– gellerreport.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025 0

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“You have to be a citizen to vote but you can’t verify the citizenship of a voter?”

Understand that without illegal voting, Democrats cannot win elections.

Judicial tyranny is destroying the country. And how is it that these same corrupt judges get the big Trump cases? Corrupt judges must be impeached.

Capitol agenda: Dems’ big wins could prolong the shutdown– www.politico.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025 0

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It’s officially the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and about a dozen Democrats are itching to find a way out.

But after Democrats’ sweeping victories Tuesday night, their colleagues are waking up this morning and wondering: Are we really going to cave now?

The big wins in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere stand to complicate efforts to reopen the government. It’s hard to see most Democrats wanting to temper their momentum immediately after witnessing a massive voter backlash to President Donald Trump and Republicans.

“Tonight’s results are a repudiation of the Trump agenda,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement that called it “a good night for Democrats and our fight to lower costs, improve healthcare, and reach a better future for American families.”

Democrats didn’t just rebound. They dominated.– www.politico.com

pgnewser November 5, 2025 0

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For Democrats, Tuesday night felt like 2017 all over again.

All across the country, Democrats won big, from the marquee races to the down-ballot contests. Counties that had shifted right a year ago veered back to the left, and the suburbs that powered Democrats’ massive wins in the first Trump administration came roaring back. Exit polls even showed Democrats improved their margins with non-college educated voters.

The strength of the wins hints at Democrats’ appetite to take on Trump as he ends his first year in office and voters’ concerns about cost of living.

Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill cruised to double-digit victories in Virginia and New Jersey. Two Georgia Democrats flipped seats on the state’s Public Service Commission, the first non-federal statewide wins for a Democrat in nearly two decades. Democrats flipped a pair of Republican-held state Senate seats in Mississippi, cracking the GOP supermajority in a deep-red state. And a successful California ballot measure delivered five additional seats for the party’s House margins ahead of the 2026 midterms, offsetting Texas’ redistricting push.

It was an injection of life into a depleted, depressed Democratic Party that had been cast into the political wilderness by Donald Trump’s decisive victory a year ago. Democrats, locked out of power in Washington, have spent the last year soul-searching and data-digging, as their brand sagged to historic lows.

Mamdani shreds Cuomo and Trump in impassioned ‘mandate for change’ victory speech after historic NYC mayor’s win– www.independent.co.uk

pgnewser November 5, 2025 0

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Mamdani will enter office in January as the first Muslim mayor in the city’s history, and one of its youngest, now set to run one of the largest and most diverse cities in the United States.

“Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I’ve got four words for you: turn the volume up,” Mamdani said in impassioned remarks to supporters Tuesday night.

Looks Like CA GOPers Are Resigned To Losing Prop 50 Fight– crooksandliars.com

pgnewser October 29, 2025 0

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Looks like Republicans have folded their tent in their effort to defeat a Democratic gerrymander of California’s House districts one week before the special election. Good news for Democrats, and Gov. Gavin Newsom, who’s been leading the fight for California redistricting. Via Politico:

As Democrats pummel the state with Yes on 50 advertising, the Republican side of the battle has gone quiet. Major GOP donors and party leaders have effectively vanished from the front lines.

The biggest funder of the campaign to defeat Proposition 50, Charles Munger Jr., has not contributed any significant cash to the cause in weeks, and his Protect Voters First committee cut its weekly spending from more than $4 million to less than $300. The other opposition committee, Stop Sacramento’s Power Grab, spent $155,000 on advertising last week, compared to $3.8 million from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Yes on 50 campaign.

“It’s as full-throated a campaign for Democrats in California as if we were in the middle of a presidential election,” said Jon Fleischman, a former executive director of the California Republican Party. “But you can go to the house next door, occupied by Republicans, and it’s crickets — other than receiving their ballot in the mail.”

States sue over Trump administration suspending food benefits during shutdown – Reuters– news.google.com

pgnewser October 29, 2025 0

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  1. States sue over Trump administration suspending food benefits during shutdown  Reuters
  2. Dozens of States Sue Trump Administration Over Planned Food Stamp Cuts  The New York Times
  3. Dozens of US states sue Trump over Snap food stamp freeze  BBC
  4. At least 25 states plan to cut off food aid benefits in November  Politico
  5. Food banks are preparing for a surge as federal food aid could be paused in the government shutdown  AP News

from news.google.com

America Had a Black President. Then Came the Whitelash. – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

pgnewser October 29, 2025 0

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If you had to describe the last decade or so of political life in America, the list would likely include the following: The Black Lives Matter movement. The death of George Floyd. America’s first Black president. The rise of the MAGA movement. The election and reelection of Donald Trump. A resurgence of white nationalism. An erasure of Black history.

America in these last 10 years has experienced generational political upheaval, clashes over race and identity, and a battle over the very direction of the country itself. Few writers have charted these wild swings better than staff writer for The New Yorker and Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb. And for Cobb, it all started when he was asked to write about an incident that was just beginning to make national news: the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black 17-year-old in Florida.

“At the time, I thought of Trayvon as this particularly resonant metaphor. But I didn’t understand that he was actually the start of something much bigger,” Cobb says. “I’m still kind of hearing the echoes of that moment.”

Cobb recently released Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012–2025, a collection of essays from more than a decade at The New Yorker, that all begin with that moment of national reckoning over Martin’s death. On this week’s episode, Cobb looks back at how the Trayvon Martin incident shaped the coming decade, reexamines the Black Lives Matter movement and President Obama’s legacy in the age of Donald Trump, and shares what he tells his journalism students at a time when the media is under attack.

‘Progressive Christian’ Publishers Launch Children’s Bible Stories Laced with Radical Ideology– slaynews.com

pgnewser October 28, 2025 0

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“Progressive Christian” publishers are rolling out a new wave of children’s Bibles and devotionals that replace traditional teachings with messaging focused on far-left ideology, including social justice and Marxism-rooted “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI).

The new books are part of a growing push to reshape how children are introduced to faith.

Publishers behind the rewritten stories argue that the original Bible promotes “Christian white supremacy.”

The movement, which publishers openly describe as an effort to align Scripture with “modern values,” has sparked concern among parents and faith leaders who say it distorts biblical truth under the banner of “inclusion.”

At the forefront of this campaign is “The Just Love Story Bible,” a new title from Beaming Books aimed at children aged 4–10.

NBC Is the ONLY Legacy Nightly Newscast to Report Bondi Murder Bounty– www.newsbusters.org

pgnewser October 28, 2025 0

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In an ongoing climate of political violence, you would think that the legacy nightly news would devote significant air time to a threat to assassinate a senior member of the Cabinet. But, alas, that did not happen. CBS and ABC both omitted the story from their evening newscasts.

NBC Nightly News was the only newscast to devote a story to this plot. Watch the report in its entirety as aired on Monday, October 27th, 2025:

TOM LLAMAS: Back here at home, the FBI arresting a man after a disturbing threat targeting Attorney General Pam Bondi. The suspect, in a TikTok post, offering $45,000 to have her killed. Here’s Kelly O’Donnell.

KELLY O’DONNELL: Tonight, a disturbing threat discovered by a scrolling tiktok user. A post that offered tens of thousands of dollars to kill Attorney General Pam Bondi. A 29-year-old Minnesota man, Tyler Maxon Avalos, now faces one federal charge for transmitting that threat that investigators tracked on social media. According to the FBI, a TikTok post linked to Avalos read in part: “Wanted. Pam Bondi, preferably dead,” and referred to a reward of $45,000. Court documents include an image which we are not showing, with a photo of Bondi with a sniper’s scope red dot on Bondi’s forehead. TikTok, Google and Comcast, parent company of NBC, helped the FBI trace the suspect, according to the affidavit, which also states Avalos has a criminal history, convicted of stalking and domestic battery. Bondi declined comment, but has pledged the DoJ will root out threats in this heated environment.

Lobbying Hits Record Highs Under Trump– readsludge.com

pgnewser October 28, 2025 0

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Lobbying in Washington is booming to record-high levels, and companies are rushing to hire Trump-allied firms in their efforts to influence the policy pronouncements spilling out of the White House. Overall, federal lobbying spending is up by 21% compared with last year, according to the Washington Post’s tally of expenditures through the third quarter of 2025. In the surge, the firm of Trump campaign fundraiser Brian Ballard has become the highest-paid lobbying shop, and other Trump-aligned firms are seeing an influx of clients as trade and tariff policies churn.

The pharmaceutical industry has juiced its lobbying spending: heavyweight PhRMA is certain to blow past its record high in lobbying spending set last year. The nearly $29.7 million the drugmakers’ group has spent through Q3 approaches the amount that it spent in all of 2024. Health industry lobbyists are weighing in on moves by the Trump administration and the GOP-led Congress to cut Medicaid funding and fire staffers in the overhaul of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-led Department of Health and Human Services.

MSNBC Blames ‘Sexism’ for Spanberger’s Struggle, Apparently Forgetting Who Her Opponent Is– townhall.com

pgnewser October 23, 2025 0

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The October 16 poll from Trafalgar showed Democrat Abigail Spanberger had only a two-point lead over her Republican challenger, incumbent Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears. Trafalgar was the closest in polling for the 2024 election, with their final poll being 0.01 points off from the actual election results.

With that in mind, we have to wonder if the Democrats aren’t a little concerned about this race. A recent panel on MSNBC seems to think Spanberger is struggling, although they totally miss the reasons why Spanberger might be in trouble.

In case they were unaware, Earle-Sears is also a woman.

College faculty are under pressure to say and do the right thing. The stress also trickles down to students– phys.org

pgnewser October 23, 2025 0

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Heavy teaching loads, shrinking university budgets and expanding workload expectations have fueled stress and burnout among professors and other university employees in recent years.

Now, an increasingly polarized political climate, as well as emerging concerns around university funding cuts, self-censorship and academic freedom, has created new pressures for university and college employees.

The result is an academic profession caught in the crosscurrents of culture and politics, with implications that extend far beyond the classroom.

California’s Prop 50 Is “Critical” for Democracy – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

pgnewser October 23, 2025 0

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Former President Barack Obama speaks during a live stream in support of California’s Proposition 50, October 22, 2025.YouTube/California Office of the Governor

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On Wednesday, former President Barack Obama joined California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a livestream for volunteers in support of Proposition 50, the governor’s redistricting measure, and the sole question on the ballot in the November 4 special election.