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Donald Trump Could Be Facing More Than 150 Years in Prison

Cars Have No Place in Our Future

Warmer in Alaska Than San Diego as Temperature Record 'Pulverized'

COVID Deniers Look Forward to 2022

Defund the Police? Reform the Police? Or Re-imagine Policing?

A Thousand Little Cuts Are Also Killing Democracy

A Festivus Firehose of Fabrications

Politics 2022 Preview: Dave Myers Campaign for Sheriff Gets a Boost, Lorena Ain’t Dead

Pirates, Profiteers, and Privatizers

Way Back When: FBI Funded Terrorists in San Diego

OMG, Omicron!

The Most Underreported Stories of 2021

Trump's COVID Response Didn’t Make America Great Again

DA Summer Stephan's Soros Fixation Gets National Coverage

Senate Santas Bringing a Lump of Coal and Bucket of Sand

Nullification and the ‘Tyranny’ of COVID Precautions

Capitol Insurrection Texts Are Another Piece of the Puzzle

Supreme Court Decision Opens the Door for Vigilante Lawsuits; Governor Newsom Walks Right In

“January 6 Was Practice”-- The GOP’s Plans to Subvert Democracy

Mileage Taxes and Bike Lanes Stoke Controversy As the Planet Burns

ALEC’s San Diego Summit: Let's Force Investment in Dirty Energy

The Pacific Beach Antifa Conspiracy

Who You Gonna Call After a COVID Diagnosis? Doctors Fauci vs Oz

San Diego County Sheriffs Are Recruiting Anti-Vaxxers

Kevin Faulconer’s Unwelcome Gifts for San Diego

The Culture of Despair

The Devil’s Rhetorical War on Biden's Build Back Better

How Far Will the Anti-Choice Supreme Court Go?

Anti-Vaxx ‘Jonestown’ Scenarios Loom in San Diego and Washington

Once Upon A Time, Everybody Quit Their Jobs

Looking At Problematic San Diego Politicians As 2022 Approaches

News Stories Your Crazy Uncle Read Over the Holiday Weekend

ALEC Comes to San Diego

The Marketplace Origins of the Omicron COVID Variant

My Pillow Guy’s Election Miracle Won’t Happen (Again)

Senator Ted Cruz’s Thanksgiving Festival of Fear

El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells’ Communist Fixation

Buy Nothing Day, Now More than Ever

Rittenhouse Jury ‘Not Guilty’: Three Courtrooms, One Nation on Trial

SDPD Quitting Over Vaccinations? Hasta La Vista, Pendejos

Congressmember Katie Porter Whiteboards the Postmaster

Are School Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Programs Part of the Vast Liberal Conspiracy?

The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Ending: The Nihilist Scourge Isn't

“Universities Are the Enemy” -- The War on Wokeness Takes Aim at Higher Education

American Corporate Criminals in the Crosshairs (finally)

Connecting the Dots in the Right's Culture Wars

Another 50th District Congressman Headed for Legal Troubles?

The GOP Death Cult: Porno, Threats, and Covid Casualties

Conservative Racist Tropes Get Passed Off As Critical Race Theory

Defending the Indefensible: What ‘Woke’ Really Means

Lessons from Virginia: How the Democrats Got Schooled

Will Children Be Sacrificed on the Altar of Vax Resistance?

KUSI-TV 'News' Anti-Vax Astroturfing Campaign Continues

Vaxxers Cheer for Threats, Racism at County Supervisors Meeting

Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah. Climate Change. Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah.

Vaxxers in Sheriff's Department Point to Need for Overhaul

Making Martyrs of the January 6 Rioters

Will Lorena Gonzalez Be the Next Head of the CA Federation of Labor?

A Mileage Tax? Cue the Outrage

Conspiracies, Truths, and the Difficulty of Nailing Trump

A Legacy of Racism: Charlottesville Riot Trial & Critical Race Theory

The Facebook Papers ‘Greatest Hits’

America, and Young Americans in Particular, Are Facing a Mental Health Emergency

A Hate Wave Washes Over America

Trump’s Wuhan Social Network: Follow the Grift

Discouraged By A Do-Nothing Congress? Think Local

Getting Vaccinated Is as American as Apple Pie

Striketober and the Great Resignation: It’s About Respect

Doug Porter Day: Gratitude, Maskholes, and Too Much Pain

KUSI: Driving the SDPD Vaxxer Death Train into Oblivion

High Tech High Charter Teachers Go Public With Paycheck Issues

San Diego County and City Whiff on Indoor Vaccine Mandates

California Republicans in Retreat

Will the January 6 Investigation End With a Whimper?

Playing for Keeps - Republicans Are Going for the Throat (Again)

Jail Shouldn’t Be The Holy Grail for Law Enforcement in San Diego

Why There Are No Corporate Criminals in America

Congressman Scott Peters and Threats to Democracy

Robber Baron Elon Musk Takes His Toys and Stomps Off to Texas

The Rich Got Richer As the Biden Administration's Agenda Shrank

Welcome to Antifa, Rick Wilson

The Congressional Capitol Insurrection Investigation Doesn’t Need Cheerleaders

The Big Little Strike That Could Change Work As We Know It

Death Threats Aren’t Free Speech: Fact Checks Don’t Cure Paranoia

A Confluence of Conspiracies and Complacencies

Work in the Age of the Pandemic

Radiation: The Gift That Keeps on Giving for Cancer Patients

Are You Calling Me a Racist?

A Bad Day for the Vaxxer Crowd

More Pain Is the Name of the Game

Last Week in Dystopian Plutocracy

Trump Loses Arizona Audit: Jan 6 Investigation Cranks Up the Volume

Police Reform Efforts: Gone But Not Forgotten

Holiday Gifts for a Pandemic World

Do We Need Captain America to Protect Our School Boards?

Are ‘They’ Coming for Your Home?

The California Recall’s Biggest Losers: Stay Classy, San Diego

SD Schools Ready to Take a Stand on Vaccines: Cops, Not So Much

Surviving Serious Surgery: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertainty

CA Recall: Republicans See Voter Fraud as the Future

The Future of the Planet Is at Stake in the California Recall Election

Diced and Sliced, But I’ll Be Okay

Taking a Pause for Surgery

Turning the Tide on the CA Recall

Attacks on Masks in Schools Are an Attempt to Destroy Public Education

Now the County's Delusionists Want to Recall Supervisor Lawson-Remer

Honor Labor Day: Vote NO Recall and Support Essential Workers

Slavery Was the Ultimate Labor Distortion – Empowering Workers Would Be a Form of Reparations

Seditious September: The Loons Are Ready to Dial It Up a Notch

Three Ways To Fight Back Against Texas’ Abortion Law

Vigilante Justice, Back Alley Abortions, and Segregation Forever

Don’t Texa-fy California; Voting in the Recall Matters

Mister Campa-Najjar Goes to Chula Vista

Glad, Sad, and Rad COVID Numbers Have Stories To Tell

Right Wing Radio Hosts Dropping Like Flies From COVID

Crazy California Recall Is Getting Deadly Serious

America’s Other Deadly Illness Won’t Be Stopped by Science

California Recall Roundup: One Democrat's Debate Debacle

RECALL ROUNDUP: Elder on Inside Track, Dems Canvas Like Crazy

Forget About Governor Newsom. Just Vote NO Recall

CA Prop 22, the Gig Industry's Servitude Scam, Declared Unconstitutional

San Diego Needs a Strong Vaccine Mandate Like San Francisco’s

Protect and Serve? Check Out SDPD/SDSO's Record on COVID-19

California Recall Newsom Vote: Consider the Consequences

County Supervisor Jim Desmond Needs to Go, and Here’s Why

Refugees Will Have to Deal With the Rising American Taliban

What Do We Say to Those Who Served in Afghanistan?

The Right Wants a Fight

Is this the Summer 'Normal' Ended?

The Little-Known Story of How Slavery Infiltrated California and the American West

Reinstatement Day for Trump Comes and Nothing Happens

Big Porkers Threaten California’s Bacon Supply

CA Gubernatorial Recall: It’s About Freedom for COVID-19 Spreaders

A Rush to Save San Diego’s Deathatorium

Vote NO on Question #1. Skip Question #2. Don’t Overthink This. #StopTheRepublicanRecall

The Endangered Dreams of Summer

Bad Choices Entitle Vaxxers to Consequences, Not Victimhood

A Loss for Gov. Newsom Is a Win for Senator Mitch McConnell

Death Cult Rally at Rady Children's Hospital to Celebrate 'Freedom'

KUSI Keeps Pushing the Big Bike Lie

Down Another Path Every Summer

Commies & Socialists Are Coming! Can Rep. Scott Peters Save Us?

Will Kevin Faulconer Abandon the GOP’s COVID-19 Suicide Squad?

Replacing Gov. Gavin Newsom with Larry Elder Really Can Happen

Trump’s Terrorists on Trial: What Will Justice Look Like?

COVID-19 Mandates Trigger Republican Death Cultists

The Cowardly El Cajon Police and the Pompeo Rapture Rally

A Common Goal for Right Wing Recallers, Reopeners, Refusers, Rejectors & Erasers

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Summer

Will California Republicans Unite Behind One Candidate?

January 6 Investigation: Pelosi Says “No Thanks” to GOP Obstruction

Don’t Allow the January 6 Capitol Insurrection to Be Erased

A Non-Official 2021 Recall Election Guide on Who NOT to Vote For

Vaccinated Anger & Medical Bias

Gubernatorial Recall Ballot: And Then There Were 41 (Maybe)

Mary Oliver’s Temple

The Inherent Racism of Anti-vaxx Movements

They've Got the Recall Blues: Dems Are Depressed, GOP Is Clueless

An Almost Military Rebellion, Russian Kompromat, and More Gifts from the Trump Era

Show Us the Money: Gavin Newsom Spends His Way Out of a Recall

Don’t Blame San Diego for the Newsom Recall

Biden’s Anti-Monopoly Order: Seventy Two Reasons to Celebrate

Who Really Wants to Be Governor of California?

Burning the World Down With the Fox Weather Channel

Whatever Survives Survives

A Not Too Serious Look at the Recall Candidates for California Governor

Republican Dating Claims Go Limp

Ashli Babbitt Killed by MAGA in the Jan 6 Assault on Democracy

If Republicans Know They Can’t Win, Why Have a Recall?

Haunt the Streets & Redeem the City

July Fourth: The Declaration of Independence Wasn’t Just Complaining About King George

Critical Race Theory: What It Is and What It Isn’t

Corruption Is When a Corporation Says You Can Handle More Poison Because You're Fat And Drink Beer

New Child Tax Credit Program Sabotaged By Corporate Interests

Welcome to the Summer of 2021: Burn, Baby, Burn

Trump’s in Trouble: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up Just Yet

The Insomnia of Our Inconceivable Times: Don DeLillo’s America

Public Pushback Saves City Commission on Police Practices

Today’s Equivalent to the Salem Witch Hunt: Critical Race Theory

It Ain’t Over ‘til It’s Over, And It’s Over for Voting Rights in the Senate

It’s a Hard Knocks Life -- Being a Republican in San Diego These Days

The Endless Cycle of Studies, Forums, and Doing Nothing About Policing in San Diego Continues

Dark Money-Funded 'Community Groups' Spread the Gospel of the Gig Economy

The Song that Belongs to No One: Summer Chronicle #1

Recalling Kevin Faulconer’s Failed Real Estate Deals

Wake the Children Sleeping: James Baldwin's White Fragility Meets Critical Race Theory and Freaks Right Out

The Utter Failure of Fifty Years of the War on Drugs

Law Enforcement Thrown Under the Bus by Apologists for the January 6 Capitol Insurrection

Coronavirus Freedom Day in California -- Well, Sorta.

A Slogan for the Summer: Violence Is American As Cherry Pie

New Report: A Bold Clean Energy Transition in California is Possible

It’s My Birthday. Will Somebody Please Punch a Racist for Me?

Is There a Cure for the Pandemic of COVID Denialism?

The January 6th Capitol Insurrection Must Not Be Forgotten

Leaked IRS Documents Show How Billionaires Don't Pay Taxes

It’s Going to Be a Long, Hot, Summer in the U.S. Senate

Is the End of 'Free’ Parking in San Diego on the Horizon? I Hope So

Millions of Americans Have Faith in Absurd Conspiracy Theories: How Did We Get Here?

It’s Time to Cancel KUSI-TV - They’re a Danger to the Public

Deplorables’ Delusions Aim to Disrupt Democracy This Summer

Recall Roundup--Effort to Unseat Campbell Flops; Newsom's Cruisin'

The State of the Union-Tribune: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

The ‘You Will Not Replace Us’ Attack on Black History

Remember the Dead This Memorial Day And Redeem Our Losses in the "War" Against the Pandemic

Show Me the Money: Newsom Goes All-in on Vax Promo

Bill to Ban Bad Cops Passes California State Senate

Why We’re Not Allowed to Repair Things Anymore

Was the City’s Deal With SDG&E the Best We Could Do?

George Floyd’s Death Is Supposed to Mean Something. Does It?

Is This How It Ends? Planet Earth's Baby Boom Goes Bust

Are We Living Through the Beginning of the Great Unraveling?

How the Filibuster Dies

Give the GOP a Taste of Their Own Medicine With the January 6 Investigation - Benghazi Them

Republicans Standing Proud For Racism Nationwide

Devin Nunes Cow Survives Trump Era Federal Grand Jury Probe

Congressional Committee to Investigate the January 6 Capitol Insurrection Is Blocked

Roe v Wade on the Chopping Block, A Long View

Video of SDPD Brutality Against Homeless Human Shows Need for Real Change in Policing

The Liz Cheney Circus and the Rot of the American Ruling Class

Gov. Newsom’s Broadband Plan Will Take CA to the 22nd Century

Unmasking the Maskholes: Why the CDC Decision Leaves Me Queasy

Have You Seen the Bigger Piggies in Their Starched White Shirts?

January 6 Insurgency 'A Normal Tourist Visit' by 'Peaceful Patriots' Say Republican Congress Critters

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Booting Liz Cheney and Recalling Gavin Newsom

Can Voters Pick Their Politicians or Will Politicians Pick Their Voters?

Nobody Wants to Work Anymore... (For A Crappy Boss)

San Diego Labor Democratic Club to Host Harold Meyerson Talk

Keep 'Them' Out of Midway and in the Kitchen Where They Belong

The California Gubernatorial Recall: A Race to the Bottom

The Border Crisis Chronicles, Family Reunification Edition

The Bare Minimum Standard Question for Republican Candidates

The Homeless You Don’t Know

The San Diego Labor Council Gets New Leadership: What Will It Mean?

Employers Are Outraged That Workers Won't Come Crawling to Work for Peanuts in a Pandemic

Inflation Doomsayers Are Really Apologists for the One Percent

Rep. Peters Promotes Pharma Agenda As the World Calls for #Vaccines4All

GOP Led Sedition Isn’t Finished - It’s Time to Face the Facts

The Pendulum Is Finally Swinging Back for Organized Labor

Use the Right Pronouns, But Don’t Vote for Caitlyn Jenner

Politicians Claim Credit for Criminal Justice Reform: Activists Did the Real Work

Pharma's Dangerous Anti-Generic Vaccine Lobbying Blitz

2020's Contorted Census Data: Doom for Democrats?

I’ll Give Up That Double Cheeseburger When You Pry It Out of My Cold, Dead, Hands

An Immodest Proposal to End the Pandemic: The Lysistrata Strategy

Money Alone Can't Fix Central America – Or Stop Migration to US

It’s Time to Trash San Diego’s People’s Ordinance

The Awesome Destructive Power of a Billionaire

A COVID Crime Wave and Its Consequences

Is Earth Day 2021 a Joke? I Hope Not.

'Policedemic' Unabated As the Nation Awaits Verdict in Floyd Trial

Thoughts on Earth Day: Addressing the Epidemic of Alienation

"Anti-Voter-Suppression" Companies Are Lobbying to Kill HR1

Campaign to Recall Newsom Desperate to Stay Relevant

Hate Your Internet Service? The FCC Wants to Know

On Leaving Afghanistan: One Step Forward, Two Steps Sideways

Racism and San Diego’s Freeways

Like a Cornered Rat, The Gun Lobby Is More Dangerous Than Ever

Don't Miss the Progressive Labor Summit With an Impressive Array of Local Leaders and Activists

Beating the Coronavirus Is About More Than Not Getting Sick

Sex in the Sewer; As Good as it Gaetz

Communists Ruin Baseball for Republican True Believers

Newson Recall Is DOA: Right Wing Politics in a Post-Pandemic World

The Real Cancel Culture

A Response to the Cop-Sponsored Racist Mailer in 79th Assembly Primary Contest

Will Losing a Half Billion Users Data Get Facebook a Pat on the Back?

The Empty Promise of the Republican Recall in California

A Tale of Two Possible Futures: Do We Invest in a Just Transition or Double Down on Big Oil?

Efforts to Support Voter Rights Bill Focus on Senator Feinstein

Why I Support Public Education

Zombie Convention Center Tax Rises From the Grave

A Triumph of Irrationality: Right Wingers and Anti-Science Views

Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is About More Than Concrete

I'm COVID Cautious and Proud of It

Decades of Monopolism Made the Suez Canal Blockage Inevitable

We Need a COVID Passport, and the Biden Administration Is on It

Assemblymember Gonzalez' AB 1003 Criminalizes Corporate Wage Theft

Time to End the Filibuster to Protect Voting Rights

Georgia's Anti-Voting Law Amounts to Jim Crow, Version 2.0

Building Back Better: The Postal Service Needs Some Love

Green Investing Is a Fraud

A Voter Guide for the 79th Assembly District Special Election Primary

Prediction: Right Wing Will Go After Migrant Children at San Diego Convention Center

Mass Shooting in Boulder Came Two Weeks After City Was Blocked From Enacting Ban on AR-15 Rifles

The Progressive Political Possibilities of Cities

Peel Back Some Big Lies to Understand the Border “Crisis”

Proposed California Wealth Tax Bill Addresses American Inequality

The Recall Newsom Campaign Needs to Be Taken Seriously

Please Spare Us From One More Murderous White Boy's Fever Dream Of A Really Bad Day

They Haven’t Figured Out How to Steal Your $1400 COVID Relief. Yet.

The Next Phase of My Cancer Rematch: Wait and See

Republicans Rev Up Racist Immigrant Invasion Rhetoric

Doubts About Post-Pandemic Life

SCANDAL: President Biden Spills Grey Poupon on His Tan Suit

What Would a Fair and Sustainable Economic Recovery Look Like?

Americans Shocked As President Biden Demonstrates Empathy

KUSI Wants You Dead Because Property Rights Are More Important Than Human Life

If Rep. Darrell Issa Is Against It, This Labor Law Reform Must Be Good

Recall Newsom Crowd Already Whining About Electoral Fraud

There is Power in A Union: From Joe Hill to Joe Biden?

Taking the “Bi” Out of Bipartisan: Why Republicans Have to Lie

A Potpourri of Republican Folly

DeMaio Jumps Into ‘Racist’ East County School Board Recall

SDPD Shooting Video Shows Need for Changes in Policing

Vultures Make Cancel Culture Their Crusade Du Jour

A Simple Choice: Enable Jim Crow or Kill the Filibuster

Goodbye Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Last American Bohemian?

“Reopen” Racism at La Mesa/Spring Valley School Board Meeting

CPAC Cult Gathering Builds Enthusiasm for Political Insanity

Women of Color Nominated to President Biden's Cabinet Facing All-Too-Familiar Attacks

GOP Gaslighting on COVID Relief, Investigation into Causes of Jan 6 Insurrection

Short Term Vacation Rentals Are Here to Stay; Councilmember Campbell, Not So Much

Push Back Against the Big Lies: UnFox Your Cable Box

California Recall Campaign: A Desperate Attempt to Win Something, Anything

Robin Hood Wealth Taxes Versus the K-Shaped Economy

Report: Jobs in a Green Economy

Chair Nathan Fletcher Speaks: "Resilient and Ready to Rise" On The State of San Diego County

Texas Is a Perfect Example of Disaster Capitalism

It’s Too Soon to Talk About Local 2022 Elections. Really!

The Limbaugh of It All

Biden Administration’s Immigration Legislation: Likely Dead on Arrival

Why Amazon Workers Need Assembly Member Gonzalez' #AB701

Texas Weather Tragedy Brings Out the Worst in Republicans

Big Pharma Gets a Tax Break on Opioid Fines

Will It Be Springtime for Fascists As Trump Plots His Return?

Lawsuit Calls Out San Diego Police Pro-Trump Leanings

Thoughts on Reopening Schools

$50 Trillion Moved From America's 90% to the 1%

Santee Politicians Decry Nathan Fletcher’s ‘Hateful Rhetoric’

Trump Knew Pence Was in Danger, Encouraged Mob Anyway

Trump Spent $50 Million to Promote January 6th Rally

"I hope this trial reminds America how personal Democracy is."

How COVID Will Beat the World

A Speedy Second Senate Impeachment Trial for Trump

It’s Zap Time: Round Two in My Cancer Rematch

The Moneyed Interests Behind the Attack on Democracy Are Also Driving the Assault on Workers in the Midst of the Pandemic

Compared to Climate Denial, Qanon Is Benign

Congressional Democrats Testify: We Won't Forget January 6

Pandemic Relief on the Way as VP Kamala Harris Casts First Senate Tie-Breaking Vote

Today’s GQP: Chock Full o’ Nuts & Proud of It

Vaccinated for COVID-19? Great. Now Keep Social Distancing

The 79th Assembly District Special Election Is Set: Here Are the Declared Candidates

Ex-San Diego Mayor Faulconer Seeks to Become California’s ‘Second Choice’ Governor

Democrats Face a Familiar Foe in an Unfamiliar Time; Will They Learn the Lessons of the Past?

Odds Are Trump's Senate Impeachment Trial Will Be a Farce

California Crazy: Fear, Loathing, Covid-19, and the Campaign to Recall Governor Newsom

The Qanon Colonization of the Republican Party

Understanding the Aftermath of r/wallstreetbets

Republican Lunatics Have Redefined the Party's Brand

A Stupendous Day for Planet Earth: Will It Matter?

The Capitol Insurrection, Proud Boys and Bit of San Diego History

County Supes: Nobody’s Going to Hell If There’s a Pot Shop in Julian

If Trump's Coup Attempt Goes Unpunished, It Will Be Considered a Training Exercise

Biden’s Moment of Truth Is Already Here and the Future of the Country Lies in the Balance

A Timeline of Trump's Attempts to Overturn the 2020 Election Results

What's Behind the Campaign to Recall Governor Gavin Newsom?

President Biden Goes to Work: Clean Up on Aisle 45

Hallelujah! Trump’s Gone. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Have Taken the Reins

No One Should Be on the No-Fly List

Trump’s Pardon-palooza: Yet Another Insult to Americans

Schedule of Inauguration Events on Pacific Standard Time

To Understand What Happens Next With QAnon, Look at Past Cults

What Does Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Mean in the Wake of the Assault on American Democracy?

County GOP Opts to Go Down With the Trump Ship

2021 State of the City: A Glorious Future for San Diego?

It's Impeachment Day: Will GOP CryBabies Brave the Metal Detectors?

Republican Representatives Laughed Off Lockdown Mask Ask

Legislators Supporting Sedition Need to Resign

The Republicans’ Frankenstein Monster Rises Against Democracy

Trump, Social Media and “Orwellian” Bullshit

How Many Local Police Went to DC to Overthrow Democracy?

'An Act of Treason' Motivates Pelosi Push for Trump's Impeachment

Trump’s Traitors Need to Be Exposed and Marginalized

Savor the Moment - Victories for Democrats in Senate Races

Elections Have Consequences, San Diego County Supervisors Edition

Killing Small Business and Journalism for Fun and Profit

2020 Election Turmoil: Ultimately, The Way to Save Democracy Will Be With More Democracy

A New Year’s Wish for a Politics Grounded in Our Collective Grief

A Cancerous Christmas Carol