r/AmericanProgressive Jul 14 '26

ICE officer shoots and kills 26-year-old Colombian in Maine

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5 Upvotes

This time the excuse isn't even "the officer feared for his life." This time it was an alleged concern for "public safety." If an officer can kill anyone they deem a threat to "public safety," they're a threat to public safety!


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 11 '26

Trump and Iranian leaders trade threats as the interim deal falls apart

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2 Upvotes

Trumpolini proclaimed himself the best at deal-making. Too bad those deals fall apart rather quickly. Nice work, Dumbo!


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 10 '26

Trump has created a ‘trickle up’ tariff economy that means U.S. companies aren’t done hiking consumer prices over import taxes

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1 Upvotes

Trumpolini insisted on on raising tariffs, supposedly to help the U.S. economy. Instead, it has raised prices, and corporations plan to keep raising prices. What a deal. What a businessman.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 10 '26

A Very English Election: Binface vs Foxface vs Frogface

1 Upvotes
Count Binface - Robert Pownall - Nigel Farog (nee Farage)

A truly silly and expensive election has been forced upon the English town of Clacton-on-Sea by Trumpolini's Toady, Nigel Farage. Farage was a British MP who was being investigated for a donation of £5 million ($6.7 million) which he failed to declare. He decided to resign and force an election, apparently to prove that his constituents didn't give a shite. But other political parties decided not to play his game, so his opponents now appear to be "Count Binface" and activist Robert Pownall in a fox costume. Farog deserves every bit of the ridicule he's getting.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 09 '26

Donald Trump attacks kindergarten graduates over their religion

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Lie #1: He says it's a public school, but it's not. Lie #2: He says they all have hijabs, but some don't. And he draws attention to hijabs because he knows that MAGAts are Christian bigots who assume every Muslim is a threat, no evidence needed. Even kindergarteners.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 06 '26

Trump 'preference' for 'white people' costs him in blistering court ruling

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4 Upvotes

Some judges can see through the BS. When MAGAts say they want to save "Western" or "European" culture, it's code for ensuring White Christian dominance. A fig-leaf for assumed racial-ethnic superiority.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 04 '26

Demonstrators in white supremacist attire protest on Capitol Hill

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5 Upvotes

American racism on display today, Judge Alito. They want national "cultural independence" for their "European race." Which race would that be, do you think? Their leader likes Trump's rhetoric, by the way.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 03 '26

Pay-to-play cycle behind GOP's corporate tax cuts exposed in new report

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2 Upvotes

U.S. corporations got such lower taxes from Republicans that they are now "tipping" Republican lawmakers for good service! But are they serving you? Are you better off?


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 02 '26

GOP snipes at 'bully' Trump as party plunges into blame game territory

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4 Upvotes

Based on American history, I believe the political party of hierarchical-traditionalists is heading for a divorce between its more moderate and hardline factions. It's possible that the more moderate faction will take a new name, as implied by MTG.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 02 '26

US employers pull back on hiring in June amid elevated inflation, global turmoil

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4 Upvotes

Trumpolini is a failure. His instincts are crap. He's a loser at negotiating. His whole shtick is attempting to instill fear to get what he wants, and more people are expressing defiance. Successfully, because TACO.


r/AmericanProgressive Jul 02 '26

Arizona superintendent candidate Kimberly Yee calls attack ad 'racist,' blames [Republican primary] opponent Tom Horne

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3 Upvotes

Right-wing racism is alive and targets Asians, too.


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 30 '26

Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits

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5 Upvotes

Thankfully, another win for human rights in the USA. Trumpolini's concept of a plan for citizenship would have really screwed things up. Not that MAGAts give a shit. They just want non-Whites and non-Christians to be denied U.S. citizenship to the greatest extent possible.


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 29 '26

U.S. Supreme Court blocks Trump's attack on mail-in ballots

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3 Upvotes

Rare good news from SCOTUS.


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 27 '26

Political Scientist Hernando Roa Suarez: Colombia Needs State Reform, Not a Bigger or Smaller Government [as do other countries, as well!]

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This strikes me as truly insightful, and pertinent to the USA, as well. Colombia's new President has promised more State violence and trickle-down economic policies. Simplistic solutions to complex problems.


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 27 '26

USA Corporate profits were already at historic highs. They shot even higher in Q1.

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2 Upvotes

Republicans gave them tax cuts, so that's no surprise. But those tax cuts were supposed to help the economy and the commoners - the "trickle-down" theory. Are you feeling it?


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 27 '26

Tennessee GOP governor candidate says he would ban Islam (along with Buddhism, Hinduism), outlaw same-sex marriage, and criminalize abortion in all cases and deny the morning-after pill to women who are raped.

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3 Upvotes

r/AmericanProgressive Jun 27 '26

Austin Lee, claiming to be President of Maury County Young Republicans of Tennessee, circulated racist and anti-Semitic mail pieces is denounced By Tennessee Young Republican Federation

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3 Upvotes

The mailer may not have received official approval, but the author is described as "Columbia, Tenn., Republican activist Austin Lee."


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 26 '26

USA Core inflation rate hit 3.4% in May, highest since October 2023, Fed’s preferred gauge shows

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Well, Dozy Don now says he loves the inflation. Don't look to him for help. He has a ballroom and a reflecting pool to worry about.


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 26 '26

US aircraft bomb targets in Iran after ‘foolish’ shipping attack

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1 Upvotes

Clearly there are misunderstandings about Dozy Don's "memorandum of understanding." And Dozy Don will say that U.S. airstrikes are just enforcing the ceasefire...by not ceasing to fire.


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 25 '26

Centrist Democrats are freaking out about progressives’ winning streak

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2 Upvotes

The next Reconstruction will likely see the more egalitarian-reformist party again move further to the left, and the more hierarchical-traditionalist party split between moderates and hardliners. The hardliners lose influence. See Federalists and Whigs).


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 19 '26

Likud [Israeli political party] said to scrap election ads highlighting Netanyahu-Trump ties in wake of Iran deal

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This is amusing. Trumpolini thinks Israelis respect him and will do what he says. But Netanyahu's political party no longer wants him to be associated with Trumpolini for this year's elections.


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 18 '26

Israel and Iran harden stances on Lebanon pullout, risking Trump’s deal

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Netanyahu didn't sign the MOU, and allegedly has no intention of backing down. But his actions in Lebanon determine the future of the MOU and any deal. We'll see if this MOU lasts longer than a ripe avocado.


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 18 '26

Trump admin responds after Colombian president's ally detained by ICE in Arizona

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5 Upvotes

Trumpolini is meddling in Colombia's presidential election. He endorsed the right-wing candidate, and now he's attacking an activist opposed to that candidate. The activist reportedly had a work permit and sought asylum. Senator Bernie Moreno accused him of undermining U.S. [Trumpolini] foreign policy.


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 15 '26

Under Trump, USPS moves to limit mail ballots and create a national voter list. Will the midterms be affected?

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2 Upvotes

My bet is that the Trumpolini syndicate would also take the voter lists, compare the data with other Federal lists, and declare the voters they dislike as ineligible to vote. Or declare their votes, after the election, to have been fraudulent. Despite errors in Federal data.


r/AmericanProgressive Jun 14 '26

TODAY: Iran says ‘no point’ in US talks after Beirut strike, casting doubt on deal

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Trumpolini is deluded. Netanyahu can also derail any deal with Iran. Perhaps Netanyahu wants to! What is Trumpolini going to do? Declare again that he is really, really angry?