Time to Repeat: 'This Is Not Normal' | Your Week In Review

A weekly roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Browser View](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) | 7/27/19 [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) [] [] Your Week in Review [] ['A Message That Would Fit Just Fine in a Paul Ryan Speech': Biden Pilloried for Ad Celebrating Private Health Insurance Industry](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) 1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv by Jake Johnson, staff writer "This web ad from Joe Biden attempts to pit working people and generations against one another to perpetuate a broken healthcare system that values health insurance CEOs' paychecks over people's lives." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['This Is Not Normal': Record-Smashing European Heat Wave Sparks Demands to Combat Climate Emergency](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) [Europe heat](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Following days of warnings from meteorologists, temperatures soared to historic highs throughout Western Europe Thursday, eliciting impassioned demands for governments to take more ambitious action to combat the climate crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- ["He Might've Stayed a Minute": Coal Miners With Black Lung Slam McConnell for Brushing Them Off in Healthcare Meeting](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) 1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv by Jake Johnson, staff writer "It was a worthless trip, that's the way I feel," said one of the 120 coal miners who traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with the Republican leader --------------------------------------------------------------- [Scientists Urge UN to Add Environmental Destruction to Geneva Conventions' List of War Crimes](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) [Blocks of C-4 detonate](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer In a letter to the editor published Tuesday by the journal Nature , two dozen scientists from around the world urged the United Nations' International Law Commission to adopt a Fifth Geneva Convention that creates protections for the environment in armed conflicts. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Everyone Should Mobilize': Climate Leaders Urge Massive Turnout for Global Climate Strikes](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) [Students take part in a climate rally in Parliament Square on May 24, 2019 in London. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer "Our house is on fire—let's act like it," says a call-to-action for September 20th and 27th strikes. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['This Is the Beginning': New Study Warns Climate Crisis May Have Been Pivotal in Rise of Drug-Resistant Superbug](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) 1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv by Jessica Corbett, staff writer A new analysis warns that "global warming may have played a pivotal role" in the recent rise of a multidrug-resistant fungal superbug, sparking questions and concerns about the emerging public health threats of the human-caused climate crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Unconscionable': Trump USDA Proposes New Rule to Strip Food Stamps From Over 3 Million Americans](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv by Jake Johnson, staff writer The proposal, said Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, would "take food away from families, prevent children from getting school meals, and make it harder for states to administer food assistance." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Why Is He So Afraid?': Congress Urged to Fight Back Against Trump Lawsuit to Keep Tax Returns Hidden](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) [People gathered for the Tax March rally on the west lawn of the Capitol to call on President Trump to release his tax returns, April 15, 2017. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) by Jon Queally, staff writer "This is yet another desperate attempt by Donald Trump to block congressional oversight and obscure the truth from the American people about his foreign entanglements and conflicts of interest." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Boris Johnson—Denounced as "Liar, Racist, and Donald Trump's Poodle"—Elected by Tory Party to Become New UK Prime Minister](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) 1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Around 100,000 Tory Party members have inflicted on us a prime minister with a record of bigotry, racism, lying, and incompetence, Boris Johnson," declared Green Party MP Caroline Lucas. "This is not democracy." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['They Came to the Wrong Community': Neighbors Form Human Chain to Stop ICE From Arresting Longtime Nashville Resident](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) 1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv by Julia Conley, staff writer Two ICE agents who attempted to detain a man in Nashville's Hermitage neighborhood early on Monday morning "came to the wrong community," according to one of the neighbors who helped form a human chain to prevent the arrest. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Share this newsletter with a friend](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) [] [Donate](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rate us on Google](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) | [Follow us on Facebook](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) | [Follow us on Twitter](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AiifiiU0Zv) Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. 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