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A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [] News & Views | 9/27/19 [] Feature... [] [Citing 'Troubling' Refusal, House Democrats Subpoena Pompeo for Documents as Part of Trump Impeachment Inquiry](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) 1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD by Common Dreams staff The chairmen of three U.S. House committees subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday for documents related to President Donald Trump's interaction with Ukraine's president. [] [] News... [] [With Over 6 Million People Worldwide, Climate Strikes Largest Coordinated Global Uprising Since Iraq War Protests](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) 1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "The momentum is on our side and we are not going anywhere." --------------------------------------------------------------- [As Climate Crisis Threatens to Put More Homes 'Literally Underwater,' Study Warns Big Banks Offloading Risky Mortgages Onto Taxpayers](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [People wait to be rescued from their flooded homes](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer New research first reported on Friday by The New York Times suggests banks are shifting mortgages made riskier by the climate emergency over to financial institutions backed by U.S. taxpayers—findings that "echo the subprime lending crisis of 2008, when unexpected drops in home values cascaded through the economy and triggered recession." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Off by $1 Trillion,' Say Progressives on Two-Year Anniversary of Mnuchin Claim Trump Tax Cuts Would Slash Deficit](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD by Jake Johnson, staff writer "Mnuchin's empty promise shows just how much the 2017 tax cuts for the rich were a scam on the American people." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Marvelously Massive' Turnout for New Wave of Global Climate Strikes](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [Students attend the Fridays for Future march in Rome to protest against the climate crisis on September 27, 2019.](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer In cities from Auckland to Rome to New Delhi, young people demand urgent action on the climate crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- [200+ Groups Denounce UN-WEF Agreement That Entrenches Corporate Interests Driving Global 'Social and Environmental Crises'](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on January 23, 2019 in Davos, eastern Switzerland.](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) by Andrea Germanos, staff writer "It moves the world dangerously towards a privatized and undemocratic global governance." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Suggesting His Life in Danger, Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Claims He's the "Real Whistleblower"](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [Rudy Giuliani outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24, 2019.](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) by Eoin Higgins, staff writer "If I get killed now, you won't get the rest of the story." --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [] [] Views... [] [With a Planet on Fire, This Is What It Means to Enter Emergency Mode](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [School students, Local Citizens, Environmental Activists shout slogans as they participate in a global climate strike to protest against governmental inaction towards climate breakdown and environmental pollution, part of demonstrations being held worldwide in a movement dubbed Fridays for Future , Kolkata, India, September 27, 2019. (Photo: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) by Margaret Klein Salamon The climate crisis is an unprecedented emergency. How we react to the climate crisis will shape centuries and millennia to come. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Children to Adults: 'Do Your Job So We Have a Future'](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [A scene from New York City's Global Climate Strike. (Michael Nigro / Truthdig)](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) by Sonali Kolhatkar Children not only have the scientific facts on their side, but the moral clarity to demand change. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump Is Deserving of an Impeachment Inquiry, Many Times Over](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [Trump has been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by at least 24 women. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan "At some point, we have to stand up to him and let him know that the line has been drawn, and you will go no further." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s Ukraine Scandal Shows Why Whistleblowers Are So Vital to Democracy](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) 1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD by Trevor Timm Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have consistently demonized people who share information with the press and public. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Impeachment Story Proves It Again: Trump Is No Strategic Genius](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [Trump's flailing, incompetent White House emerges quite naturally from basic aspects of Trump's personality—his vanity, his ignorance, his sloppiness, his cowardice, and above all his all-consuming narcissism. (Photo: Illustrated | SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images, JimLarkin/iStock, DickDuerrstein/iStock)](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) by Ryan Cooper He is not some omnipotent political mastermind. Attacks on his integrity, competence, appearance, or anything else that he's sensitive about will drive him nuts and sow chaos in his administration. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bestselling Pentagon Fiction: Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [Revolving-door hires and former defense executives in government remain a powerful force for the status quo in Pentagon spending. (Photo: Master Sgt. Ken Hammond / U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons)](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) by William Hartung, Mandy Smithberger A trillion-dollar future Pentagon budget? --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [] [] Newswire... 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Mnuchin: Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Didn't Lower Deficit](1f9d0/ct31_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [Women’s Rights and Climate Activists to Host Briefing on A Feminist Agenda for the Green New Deal](1f9d0/ct32_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [Ninety-four Percent of CTU Members Vote to Authorize Strike for Schools Chicago's Students Deserve](1f9d0/ct33_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [New Admissions Refugee Cap by the President is an Attempt to Further Hate and Division](1f9d0/ct34_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [] [More Newswire...](1f9d0/ct35_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [] [] [Share this newsletter with a friend](1f9d0/ct36_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) [] [Donate](1f9d0/ct37_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rate us on Google](1f9d0/ct38_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) | [Follow us on Facebook](1f9d0/ct39_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) | [Follow us on Twitter](1f9d0/ct40_0/1?sid=TV2%3AavSj5HBzD) Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. 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