Northwest Progressive Institute

Today we’re excited to unveil the latest joint project developed by the Northwest Progressive Institute & Foundation: SearchTheLeft, a search engine for the progressive internet that specializes in surfacing great writing from the progressive, labor, and democratic-socialist web without wading through piles of digital muck. Creating this has been on our to-do list for many years, but the impetus…

Revered journalist Scott Pelley excoriates CBS management after his ouster “The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable,” Pelley said late Tuesday just hours after being fired from CBS News after almost 40 years at the network. “The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.”

Today was the final day of California’s Top Two election. Results are now rolling in from across the state, and some races are being called by mass media outlets. If you’re interested in following along, the Los Angeles Times has a liveblog. The big stories: Governor: Becerra, Hilton leading in most uncertain California governor’s race in years Lieutenant Governor: Democrat Ma and Republican…

Americans are about to pay even more at the grocery store The hit to U.S. household finances from higher grocery bills is set to intensify just ahead of the November midterm elections, Bloomberg reports.

Since the inception of the environmental movement, we have been fed a steady diet of personal piety where meticulous accounting of our plastic sorting and carbon footprints will somehow absolve us of environmental sin. This also manages to instill a perpetual guilt. We carry this quiet shame into every grocery aisle, operating under the fiction that if we just count our moral points carefully…

The rule of law still matters in America, and the Constitution is not a scrap of paper that wannabe authoritarians can ignore. That was the message that a trio of federal judges collectively delivered today as they dealt Donald Trump’s corrupt regime three big defeats in court, upholding the law in a series of victories for the American people. Their rulings won’t be the final word on any of…

After an unusually long meeting that stretched well into the evening hours, Sound Transit’s eighteen member board of directors approved a resolution revising the parameters for implementing the voter-approved Phase III system expansion plan, known as ST3. The action comes in response to estimates that the cost to build, operate, and maintain ST3 as planned exceeds available revenue by $34.5…

On Tuesday, May 26th, a chemical vat at the Nippon Dynawave pulp and paper mill in Longview catastrophically failed, killing as many as eleven people (there are two confirmed fatalities and nine individuals unrecovered) as well as injuring several more. It’s the deadliest industrial tragedy in Washington’s modern history. Below, we’re compiling videos of each of the media briefings that have…

Disaster struck a troubled pulp and paper mill located in one of Washington’s biggest port communities this morning when a chemical vat imploded, killing at least one person and possibly several more, as well as injuring nine others. The vat contained white liquor, a hot mixture of water, sodium hydroxide (NaOH), and sodium sulfide (Na2S) that is used to convert wood into wood pulp. It ruptured…

It is that deep. And it is all connected. Reading Tales of Militant Chemistry felt less like moving through a book and more like being pulled through a web that has always existed beneath us, simultaneously the meme of the woman staring into the unknown with calculus symbols floating through space while the Twilight Zone theme plays through the speaker and Michael Scott from The Office screaming…

Windscribe joins Signal in threatening Canada exit over controversial surveillance bill “The fight for digital privacy in North America is heating up. Popular Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider Windscribe has threatened to relocate its headquarters out of Canada if the country’s controversial new surveillance legislation, known as Bill C-22, is passed into law,” TechRadar reports.

Early returns from Tuesday’s Idaho primary elections indicate most Republican incumbents are holding comfortable leads, though several legislative contests remain highly competitive as counties continue reporting results statewide. Governor Brad Little is leading the Republican gubernatorial primary with about 60% of the vote according to unofficial results from the Idaho Secretary of State’s…

Watch highlights from the final episode of SNL’s fifty-first season, hosted by Will Ferrell, with Paul McCartney as the musical guest, including the Jeffrey Epstein Ghost Cold Open. The cold open: President Trump (James Austin Johnson) is visited by the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein (Will Ferrell). Read more: SNL season finale: Will Ferrell appears as the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein The monologue:…