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In Brief

Welcome to In Brief, the Northwest Progressive Institute's microblog. In Brief provides a continuously curated collection of asides, recommended links, quotations, audio and video clips, still images, and transcribed dialogue. Click on a thumbnail to open an item.

Putin/Trump: Make Russia Great Again!

“This was Trump pulling a Putin”

April 11th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

“Amid the current crisis, Fiona Hill and other former advisers are connecting President Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine to January 6th. And they’re ready to talk,” writes Robert Draper.

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KBJ cold open on SNL

SNL celebrates the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

April 10th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Humor & Satire, Media & Culture

Watch highlights from the sixteenth episode of SNL’s forty-seventh season, hosted by Jake Gyllenhaal, with Camila Cabello as the musical guest, including the KBJ cold open.

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A garden in a yard

As climate damage accelerates, Americans increasingly turn to native plants

April 6th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment

“Homeowners and landscapers are learning what ecologists have known for decades: It’s time to shed the mighty American lawn in favor of native plants and perennials,” Chris Moody writes.

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President Obama returns to the White House

President Obama returns to the White House for the first time since 2016 for joint event with President Biden

April 5th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

Watch President Biden, Vice President Harris and former President Barack Obama deliver remarks on the Patient Protection Act and lowering healtcare costs for families. President Biden also announced additional actions to save families hundreds of dollars a month on their healthcare expenses. 

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SNL spoofs Fox & Friends and the Thomases

SNL serves up another Trump-themed cold open with FNC morning show spoof

April 3rd, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Humor & Satire, Media & Culture

Watch highlights from the fourteenth episode of SNL’s forty-seventh season, hosted by Jerrod Carmichael, with Gunna as the musical guest, including the Fox & Friends cold open.

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No Comcast Merger: No monopoly!

How Comcast and other telecoms scuttle rural WA broadband efforts

March 30th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

“The state Public Works Board is considering changes after private internet companies successfully objected to local government initiatives,” Crosscut’s Brandon Block reports.

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President Biden speaking in Warsaw

Watch President Joe Biden’s speech in Warsaw responding to Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine

March 26th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

Watch President Biden deliver remarks on the united efforts of the free world to support the people of Ukraine, hold Russia accountable for its brutal war, and defend a future that is rooted in democratic principles.

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Extreme right wing militia members at a gathering

Building on anti-mask activism, far-right groups pivot from mandates to midterms

March 20th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Elections

“Energized by their fight against government coronavirus restrictions, far-right activists are rallying supporters to engage in politics and show up to vote,” Hannah Allam reports.

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Daylight saving time clock switch

Permanent standard time is better than daylight saving, sleep experts say

March 18th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Legislative Advocacy

Permanent standard time is better than daylight saving, sleep experts say “Sleep experts widely agree with the Senate that the country should abandon its twice-yearly

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Nancy Pelosi speaks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Democratic National Committee members push for changes in party to give more money to states

March 11th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

“Dozens of voting members of the Democratic National Committee met Friday to organize a new voting bloc to push for changes to the internal governance of the national party and send more money to state party groups,” The Washington Post’s Michael Scherer reports.

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Tina Peters

Here is everything that’s happened with Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters

March 9th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Elections

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a Republican accused of compromising sensitive election machine data, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday. Here’s an explanation of everything that’s happened so far from The Colorado Sun.

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Part of the skyline of Moscow

Fitch downgrades Russia’s credit rating amid Ukraine crisis, says default is ‘imminent’

March 9th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

“They can’t get their hands on money or securities or goods or services. They are outcast and they will over the shorter term freeze to death,” financial services veteran George Ball said in comments to The Washington Post.

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United States Capitol

What if Congress isn’t hopelessly locked in partisan gridlock? What if it’s getting a lot done?

March 9th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Legislative Advocacy, Party Politics

“According to statistics from the Brookings Institution and CQ Roll Call’s own calculations, the 116th Congress was actually the most productive since the 80th in 1947–48, the farthest back Brookings’ data goes,” Jim Saksa writes for CQ Roll Call.

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SNL spoofs Fox for pro-Russia propaganda

SNL mocks Fox, Ingraham, Carlson, and Trump for their pro-Russia propaganda

March 6th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Humor & Satire, Media & Culture

Watch highlights from the fourteenth episode of SNL’s forty-seventh season, hosted by Oscar Isaac, with Charli XCX as the musical guest, including the Fox Ukraine Cold Open spoofing Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham.

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Patty Murray speaking at a minimum wage rally

NPI’s polling adds a little spice to Washington’s 2022 U.S. Senate race

February 28th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Elections

NPI’s February 2022 statewide research poll found Democratic Senator Patty Murray with a narrower advantage over Republican Senator Tiffany Smiley than she enjoyed in our 2021 polling, prompting a contest rating downgrade and driving news coverage.

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Sergey Aleksashenko speaking

“Financial nuclear bomb” falling on Russia as a consequence of Putin’s aggression, ex-Russian central bank governor says

February 27th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

“The war came and the money ran out — the money ran out sooner than the war ended,” said Sergei Aleksashenko.

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Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York performs Prayer for Ukraine

SNL dedicates its cold open to Ukraine; John Mulaney joins Five Timers Club

February 27th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Humor & Satire, Media & Culture

Watch highlights from the thirteen episode of SNL’s forty-seventh season, hosted by John Mulaney, with LCD Soundsystem as the musical guest, including the cold open featuring the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka.

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Democratic donkey and health symbol

Democrats, speak to working class discontent

February 24th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg writes: “The Republican threat to America’s constitutional experiment has led me to ask: What is our plan to save it? Here’s mine.”

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Novel coronavirus

Vulnerable to COVID-19, high-risk Americans feel left behind

February 17th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Healthcare

“Transplant recipients, cancer patients and millions of other Americans with risk factors feel ignored and abandoned as their neighbors, and their government, seek a return to normal,” Amanda Morris and Maggie Astor write.

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Hillary Clinton rallies supporters in Seattle

Hillary Clinton assails Republicans, rebuts the narrative they’ve been using in Virginia and around the country

February 17th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Party Politics

“Republicans will claim they’re on the side of parents and family values, but they will do nothing for actual parents … nothing on child care, nothing on paid leave … they’ll ban books but do nothing about guns,” Clinton said.

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Uno Shoma at the 2022 Winter Olympics

Dan Shaughnessy reflects on how the Olympics have become “a big bowl of bad”

February 17th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, World Community

“The Beijing Olympics… are a big bowl of bad, unfolding in a country ruled by fear and oppression,” the Boston Globe columnist writes.

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