Some progressive House Democrats negotiated to make the paygo rule weaker, then voted for it.

Maybe they achieved something significant with that negotiation. Perhaps they did help the progressive cause. To judge that depends on what they could have achieved by voting no, and I don't know that.

I don't think this should reduce our criticism of the plutocratist Democrats.

Ocasio-Cortez advocates high tax rates for the highest income bracket.

This is a step in the right direction, but to succeed at taxing the rich more than a few percent we need to change laws for tax shelters.

Getting Congressional Democrats to support things like this will require pressuring them continually.

David Sirota, who reported on Beto O'Rourke's fossil fuel funding and his more-right-wing-than-most-Democrats voting record in Congress, is the target of systematic attacks by the supporters of plutocratist Democrats.

Doctors are on strike in Zimbabwe because the new dictator is squeezing the people to attract Chinese and other international "investment".

Lending to the dictators of poor countries is, in effect, buying an opportunity to squeeze that money out of the people later.

Famous glaciers in the Alps, depicted in famous paintings, have disappeared. By 2100 the Alps are likely to be bare peaks.