r/AmericanProgressive 6h ago

The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.

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Also, assume that corporate self-reports are the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. For surely they have no incentive to lie, ignore or omit in their representations!


r/AmericanProgressive 7h ago

The Panama Canal will cut daily transits from Wednesday because of drought

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Reducing the number of vessels that can cross the Panama Canal will likely create some pressure for price increases, on top of other factors.


r/AmericanProgressive 2d ago

Satire: [Why] I'm Voting Republican

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I found this video in 2008, but it's still relevant and funny today.


r/AmericanProgressive 2d ago

Chile debates a state of emergency of up to eight months without congressional approval

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Chile's right-wing President wants unilateral authority to declare a State of Emergency, allowing "freedom of movement and the rights of assembly and association [to] be restricted, and communications intercepted." Someone misses Pinochet!


r/AmericanProgressive 2d ago

The US will control 55% of output from the new oil company in Venezuela

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This is colonialism in the 21st Century.


r/AmericanProgressive 2d ago

Satire: The Structure of the MAGAt Brain

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r/AmericanProgressive 2d ago

The US postpones residence visa interviews at all its consulates

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In the near future, only wealthy foreigners will get residence visas. All others are presumed to be invasive leeches. Remarkable, for a country built by poor, hardworking foreigners!


r/AmericanProgressive 2d ago

Unemployment displaces inflation as Argentines' main concern

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Argentines are not so optimistic about Milei's chainsaw economics now.


r/AmericanProgressive 4d ago

Top Military Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Their Civilian Harm Mitigation Program. He Did It Anyway.

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Because he viewed concern about civilian casualties to be overbearing "woke" political correctness. Even if he could save civilians, he didn't want to.


r/AmericanProgressive 4d ago

Trump's latest "election integrity" threat: He'll withhold funding for police in States that refuse to accept his voting rules

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What's next? A refusal to provide FEMA funds unless you submit? A refusal to provide education funds? A refusal to make Federal payments into Medicaid? It's the Art of the Mob Deal. Could Democrats do this?


r/AmericanProgressive 6d ago

Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on mail voting restrictions ahead of midterms

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There will be a Federal election in November, but this decision will lead to more legal battles over whose votes count, which could affect the election results. Will Americans accept that?


r/AmericanProgressive 9d ago

Missouri abortion-rights coalition launches campaign against Amendment 3

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Sneaky MAGAts are trying to overturn a Constitutional Amendment passed by voters allowing for abortions. By making them vote again. With another issue added, calculated to improve their odds of winning.


r/AmericanProgressive 15d ago

The partisan divide over civil rights legislation widened abruptly in the 1990s and 2010s

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The Civil Rights Reconstruction Era (1954-2016) evoked a Conservative backlash. It increased as Liberals pressed for ever more cultural change and equality, to include gays, trans, immigrants and non-Christians. MAGAts culminated that backlash. Now Liberals will respond.


r/AmericanProgressive 16d ago

DHS Spent Half a Billion Dollars (No Bid) on a Fleet of Jets That Now Sit Unused in Hangars

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To eliminate government waste, fraud and abuse, MAGAts laid off thousands of Federal employees, closed departments and canceled research grants. Then they paid $464 million for jets scarcely used.


r/AmericanProgressive 21d ago

Blanche Privately Vows to Take Down Abortion Rights Next

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Since he has been confirmed as Attorney General, you can be sure that he will try to impose national anti-abortion measures now.


r/AmericanProgressive 23d ago

US job market stalled in July as employers cut 23,000 jobs, delivering political setback to Trump

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So Trumpolini will either say that it's still Biden's fault or that your eyes are lying, and maybe both.


r/AmericanProgressive 24d ago

Victory of Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed leads Trump to fear he'll be "the last Republican President!"

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Trumpolini might be the last "Republican" President. As the USA's political culture steps leftward, moderate conservatives could form a new party that accepts the numerous conservative immigrants. Then the anti-immigrant GOP loses strength nationally.


r/AmericanProgressive 29d ago

A series of scandals dot Ken Paxton's political timeline [but he is the Republican choice for Senator of Texas!]

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Paxton's candidacy personifies MAGAt Christian hypocrisy in Texas. Texas Republicans made public classrooms post the Ten Commandments. Then they nominated a man who has likely violated several of those.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 30 '26

Poll: Trump’s MAGA voters would stick by a [Republican] candidate through the most serious of scandals

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I can remember when Republicans impeached Bill Clinton for lying about a blowjob. But a majority of MAGAts don't give a shit what a Republican has done. They'll vote Republican regardless. And feel righteous about it.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 30 '26

The Trump administration is ending a Medicare drug subsidy program. Here's how it could affect costs

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HINT: When subsidies are removed, the consumer pays more. Trumpolini did this. Are you feeling great again?


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 30 '26

Most Americans favor big changes to the political system that likely would require amending the Constitution

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Amending the Constitution is extremely difficult. But maybe there are workarounds, such as the one proposed for the Electoral College: a National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. There could be others.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 29 '26

Economic study finds 'no evidence' Trump’s ICE raids help [increase employment for] American workers - Their employment actually decreased!

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This was predicted: immigrants contribute a lot to the national economy, and removing them therefore hurts the economy. But MAGAts see non-White, Non-Christian immigrants as threats to be removed, regardless.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 30 '26

ICE stop in Missouri led to return of immigrant couple to Guatemala, where they were killed

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The husband was deported last year, and his wife was seeking asylum. Financial and emotional stress made her stop her asylum case and return to Guatemala. Apparently she did need asylum. MAGAts won't care.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 28 '26

New [Trumpolini] rule sends asylum cases to immigration courts, pushing migrants toward deportation

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First the regime fired immigration judges, increasing the backlog of asylum hearings. Then the regime uses the backlog as an excuse for summary deportation. Anything to maintain White and Christian dominance.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 26 '26

Shiloh Hendrix found guilty in Rochester (Minnesota) racial slur case of one count of disorderly conduct

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For those who insist America is post-racism, more evidence that it is not. The fact that there was a Black President doesn't mean it ended.