A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis

Click here to view this message in a browser window.

 
Common Dreams

News & Views | 10/6/20

Feature...



by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Millions falling into poverty, millions on the edge of eviction, millions going hungry, millions losing their healthcare and this megalomaniac dime store dictator puts his knee of the neck of a nation."

News...


Participants hold signs while protesting efforts made by President Donald Trump and Republican legislators to the repeal the Affordable Care Act at a demonstration in New York City on July 29, 2017. (Photo: Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"If Trump gets the Supreme Court to strike down ACA, the richest 0.1% would get a tax cut of $198,000 a year, and Big Pharma would get a tax cut of $2.8 billion. But millions of seniors would pay billions more for prescription drugs, and 20 million would lose their health insurance."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Once he's out, and we're still in the streets, our movement can set the tone for the next four years, just like movements past."


A firefighter battles a blaze near homes in Madera County, California on September 7, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The August Complex Fire, which has now burned more than one million acres, is the largest in Golden State history.


Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies about the CARES Act and the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on September 24, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The stakes—even more human suffering and long-run damage to people and the health of the economy—are high."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The behavior of the first family has endangered not only their own health, but that of the staff."


The celebration in front of the United States Supreme Court upon the announcement of the Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right under the 14th Amendment.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It is appalling that five years after the historic decision in Obergefell , two justices still consider same-sex couples less worthy of marriage than other couples."


Jonathan Price was allegedly shot and killed by police officer Shaun Lucas—who has been charged with murder—in Wolfe City, Texas on October 3, 2020. (Photo: Facebook/Texas Department of Public Safety)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Lucas allegedly shot Price—described as a "pillar of the community" in tiny Wolfe City—after the victim intervened in a domestic violence incident.


Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Sunday, March 29, 2020. (Photo: Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Gov. Abbott's order takes healthy, reasonable, safe options away from some of this state's most vulnerable voters."


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) meets with Seventh U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, as she begins a series of meetings to prepare for her confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill on September 29, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Trump's Senate allies are doing everything they can to ensure Trump's pick for the high court moves swiftly through the approvals process. Where has this urgency been as Americans have languished for weeks without new coronavirus relief?"


Trump Big Pharma

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Political manipulation of science—this is exactly what so many of us were worried about," said one public health expert.

More News

Views...


President Donald Trump, infected with coronavirus, leaves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to greet supporters on Sunday, October 4, 2020. (Photo illustration: Original photographAlex Edelman/Getty Images/CD illustrated)

by Michael Winship
The whole Trump nightmare summed up in a week and a half.


Seven months in, I’m finally realizing what so many marginalized people have always known: we’re on our own. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Frida Berrigan
The long haul.


Beyond conspiracy and extortion and bribery in relation to Zelensky, Kirschner argues, Trump should be investigated for a bevy of other felonies. (Photo by Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Bill Blum
Trump’s misconduct in office could lead to criminal prosecution.


The pandemic and anti-immigration policies haven’t stopped migration from Central America – they’ve just made conditions at the border more hazardous. (Photo: Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images)

by Katrina Burgess
A continuation of dehumanizing and dangerous conditions on the border, with less public scrutiny than ever.


Flames and heavy smoke approach on a western front of the Apple Fire, consuming brush and forest at a high rate of speed during an excessive heat warning on August 1, 2020 in Cherry Valley, California. The fire began shortly before 5 p.m. the previous evening, threatening a large number of homes overnight and forcing thousands to flee before exploding to 12,000 acres this afternoon, mostly climbing the steep wilderness slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

by Kristy Dahl
When you’re far from the fires, or when their smoke isn’t cloaking your neighborhood, it can be difficult to conceive of their scale. Here are nine graphics that put this year’s fires into context.


Morocco's Prime Minister Saad-Eddine El Othmani. (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)

by Alexander Bertschi Wrigley
With such a decision, the United States, and the world at large, would face serious repercussions—the erosion of international norms regarding the right to self-determination.

More Views

Newswire...

More Newswire...
Share this newsletter with a friend
Donate

Common Dreams Google Plus | Common Dreams Facebook | Common Dreams Twitter

Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community.
An independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997.
Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good.

Common Dreams, PO Box 443, Portland, ME 04112, USA | 207.775.0488
Common Dreams is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your contribution is tax deductible. EIN: 20-3368194 | Unsubscribe