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Free Buses, Car Mileage Taxes, and Natural Gas Bans

What's the Difference Between Southwest Airlines and Covid?

Congressman Santos and the Fine Art of “Capital Introduction”

Will the Republican Majority in the House Self-Destruct?

Drag Shows Are Safe Places

2022 Was the Year of “Goblin Mode”

Who Would You Want at Your Holiday Dinner?

Jan 6 Report Says Trump Did It: So What?

Deliciously Ridiculous: Can Republicans Top Emily in Paris?

Trump’s Biggest Lies: Tax Records Tell the Truth

Will the Big Lie Ever Die?

Many People Are Saying It’s Going to Be a Bad Week for Donald J Trump

American Workers Need a Christmas Present from Congress

I Made It! Elon Sent Me to Twitmo!

Can Republicans Win Elections by Killing Off Their Voters?

Trump Trading Cards: The Ultimate Christmas Grift

The Fed’s Inflation Remedies Are Akin to Medieval Bloodletting

Remembering Sandy Hook and the People Who Won't Stop It From Happening Again

How San Diego Could End Up With a MAGA Mayor

An Ugly Far Right Response to Losing

Lessons from the Picket Line at UC: Young Workers Offer Hope

Marijuana Overdoses and Fentanyl Vapors

Georgia on My Mind: Should I Feel Sorry for Herschel Walker?

Just Say No to 2024 Referendum Petitions

Robot Writers and an Uncertain Media Landscape

Do D*ck Pics Trump the Constitution?

What’s Disgusting? Biden’s Union Busting

A Tale of Two Dinners

Making America Stupid Again with Elon Musk

Sinister Motives Behind City Bike Lane Sweeper Naming Contest*

Truth Or Dare on Mass Shootings

No Fraud, No COVID Zombie Voters, No Future, and No Money.

The New Reality of Climate Politics

Purges, Nazis, & Guns: What a Way to Celebrate Thanksgiving Weekend

I’m Not Canceling Thanksgiving (and a Few Words of Appreciation)

Tucker Carlson’s Lies Are Killing People

Universities Secretly Sold Their Students to Online Casinos: It's Varsity-level Corruption

Who’s Grooming “Lone Wolf” Terrorists?

Republicans: Hunter Biden Investigation Will Solve Nation’s Economic Woes

Congress Is About to Become One Hot Mess

Stand in Solidarity with UC Academic Workers!

Grifting Along With America’s Frontline Doctors

Anti-Woke Candidates Come Up Short in School Board Races

2022 Election Analysis: San Diego County Government

Republicans Revolting - Is Trump Going Down?

Notes from Election Purgatory: What Did We Learn?

2022 Election Analysis: San Diego Region’s City Contests

2022 Election Analysis: San Diego Area Ballot Measures

2022 Election Analysis: State Ballot Measures

2022 Election Analysis: State of California

2022 Election Analysis: The National Picture

A No Nightmare Government, for Now

An Election Day Note to Readers: Keep Calm and Carry On

Defunding Is on the Ballot

Big Things You Can Do at the Ballot Box

Giving the Bird to Elon Musk

Blue Wave? Red Tide? Here Are Your Choices

Governor Newsom Says No More Excuses on Homelessness

The Choice Is Clear: Bullies Or Ballots?

Happy Roevember! Vote Like You Mean It

Elon Musk Yells “Squirrel” and Media Handwringing Begins

No, the Attack on Paul Pelosi Wasn’t a Random Criminal Act

In Memory of Mike Davis, San Diego Radical

Vote While You Still Can

The Coronado Mayor & the Culture War Candidate

The Classroom-COVID Conundrum

School Board Contests, Part 6 - Palomar Community College

The Hypocrisy of My Vote for John Hemmerling as San Diego Sheriff

Voting Updates: Things to Know With Two Weeks to Go

Fentanyl Coated Razor Blades Hidden in TV Station Halloween Treats

Midterm Money: Who’s Funding Aspiring American Fascists?

The Persuaders

D2’s Jen Campbell Gets What’s Coming

TV Ads Ramp Up the Racism for Padres Playoffs

Don't Be a Dope, Remember to Vote

Deja Vu All Over Again; Albertsons-Kroger Merger Promises Free Ponies for All

LA City Council Debacle - Some Labor Leaders Need to Take a Class in Solidarity 101

Voting Continues As Money Flows and Maniacs Melt Down Over Cat Litter

Double O Nine Trips Up Trump: 0-9 at Supreme Court & Select Committee Subpoena

Tommy Hough: A Cautionary Tale

The InfoWars Supplements Scam: Pull the Plug on Blowhard Pill Shills

A School Board Takeover?

Confused GOP Candidates Have Problems With Reality

Homeless Prisons Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg

GOP Plans to Subvert Elections as January 6 Select Committee Sets Final Hearing

Need Some Help Voting? Here's My Voter Guide!

White Working Class Despair is the Mother’s Milk of the GOP: Will It Feed a Republican Resurgence?

San Diego Unified’s Measure U - More Bonds, More Safety, No New Taxes

SD County Measure A - Marijuana Is On the Ballot

Ready to Vote? Help Is on the Way!

Citizens for a Better East County’s Election Scam

Rooting for Rapid(er) Bus Routes

The Price of Gas & the Urgency of Voting

A Dozen Key Races for Progressive Goals in San Diego

2022 School Board Contests, Part 5 - Encinitas Union Elementary School District

Corporations Fight California’s Ballot Box Decisions

A Pedestrian Victory in the War on Cars

On Homelessness, Transit, and Climate Action: Why San Diego Can’t Ever Do Big Things

2022 SD City Council Races: District Eight - Nothing to See Here

Should We Name the First Homeless Concentration Camp After Bill Walton?

2022 SD City Council Races: District Six

2022 SD City Council Races: District Four

2022 SD City Council Races: District Two

San Diego Needs a Warehouse Worker Ordinance

When Politics Is Interesting, People Go Vote

SD Democrats’ Scandal Inside a Scandal

CA Proposition 31 - Tobacco Company Lawyers Are Scum

CA Proposition 30: A Poison Pill Wrapped in Sweet Promises

2022 CA Proposition 29: Regulating Dialysis Clinics and the Definition of Insanity

2022 CA Proposition 28: Arts & Music for a Sane Future

2022 School Board Contests, Part 4

2022 CA Propositions 26 & 27: Betcha Can’t Pick Just One

The No Future Generation: What Have We Left for Our Children?

Keeping San Diego & California Politics Interesting

2022 CA Proposition One: It’s About More Than Abortion

2022 School Board Contests, Part 3

November 2022 City of San Diego Measure H: It’s For the Children (And Their Parents)

2022 School Board Contests, Part 2

November 2022 City of San Diego Measure D: Righting a Wrong to Build the Future

2022 School Board Contests, Part 1

November 2022 City of San Diego Measure C: Reach for the Sky! Or Else?

November 2022 City of San Diego Measure B: Trash Meets Cash

We Need to Defend Public Education at the Polls and Support Teachers’ Unions

GOP Now Stands for Grifters, Opportunists, and Perjurers

Republicans Celebrate Heat Wave, Because the Cruelty Is the Point

And It’s Off to the Midterms

November 2022 Guide for County Sheriff, Assessor, and Treasurer Races

November 2022 Guide for San Diego Board of Supervisors Races

The Labor Movement Still Holds the Key to a Better Future in America

Support Local Workers on Strike this Labor Day!

A Sort of Illustrated Transcript of President Biden’s Speech in Philadelphia

Undoing the Racist Roadblock Standing in the Way of Affordable Housing in California

Franchise Restaurant Owners Lies Make the Case for AB 257

Trump Melts Down As Investigators Decide on Prosecution

November 2022 Guide for CA State Assembly Races

On Having Covid-19: Some Thoughts on the Pandemic that Never Ends

November 2022 Guide for CA State Senate Races

Republicans Angry About Student Loan Relief, Hope to Stop It in Court

Corporate Restaurants Fight for the Right to Exploit Employees

Vote for Democracy in 2022, Like You Really Mean It

School Board Candidate Becca Williams, Critical Race Theory, and Republican Wet Dreams

A “State of Jefferson” State of Mind: Explorations in California’s Trump Country

A November 2022 Voter Guide for California’s Executive Offices

November 2022 Voter Guide for San Diego’s DC Delegation

Peter Navarro: Getting a Deserved Day in Court

Education and Mental Healthcare Crises Are Symptomatic of a National Empathy Deficiency

Trump: Nice Little Country You’ve Got There... Be a Shame If Something Happens to It

Something’s Rotten Downtown and It Ain’t the 101 Ash Street Settlement

The Democrats’ Climate Package is a Big Political Win, But Please, No Victory Laps

Silence of the Sheep: Trump’s Secrets Problem

Is Joe Biden Sending the IRS for Your Guns?

They’re Going to Huff and Puff and Blow the Justice Department Down

The Reviews Are In; FBI Raid on Mar a Lago Is a Ratings Hit!

Zero Tolerance for Immigration Nazis

Don’t Blink! Something Good Is Happening in DC

Right Wing Frenzies, Deep in the Sewers of Texas

Kansas Roe, Roe, Roe’d the Vote, Now It’s Up to the Rest of Us

Come for the Modern Day Miracles, Stay for the Pain.

I’m Going Away for a While; Reconstructive Surgery, Part Six

Trump Wanes; Trumpism Doesn’t

Presto Chango! The GOP’s Magical Plan to Make the January 6th Hearings Go Away

Why Wouldn’t You Want Your School-Aged Child to Wear a Mask?

Investigation of the January 6th Insurrection Grinds On

An Intercontinental Heat Wave, Sponsored by Senator Joe Manchin’s Donors

Rapists and Manly Men in the Post Roe Era

Out Damn Spot: The Sound of Children Screaming Has Been Removed

Darrell Issa Votes Against Monitoring of Domestic Extremists Infiltrating the Military

When Truth Doesn’t Matter Anymore

Will Trump Ever Suffer Consequences for January 6 Insurrection?

Nobody (Old) for President in 2024

Will Trump’s Bid to Sabotage the January 6 Committee Fail?

Desperate GOP Ghouls Blame Everything But Access to Guns for Mass Shootings

Jan 6 Selection Committee Set to Focus on Thuggish Proud Boys and Oath Keepers

DeMaio Voter Suppression Ploy Fails to Make the November Ballot

Opposing Bike Lanes Is a Lost Cause. Deal With It.

Gov. Newsom’s Call for Freedom Is a Winner

Gas Prices Fuel Putin’s Propaganda on KUSI-TV

The Courts, Coal, Cars, and Climate Action Plans; Things Aren’t Looking Good for the Environment

GOP’s Abortion Vigilante Laws Are Just the Start

Jan 6 Witness Describes a Desperate President

No Matter Where You Live, Roe Is on the Ballot in November

San Diego’s Dumpster Fire of a Real Estate Deal

Rep. Sara Jacobs Bill to Seeks to Protect Women’s Privacy in the post-Roe Era

The Oligarchs' Supreme Court

Bending the Arc

The Constitution is Now a Stepford Wife

January 6 Hearings Are Delivering the Goods, Slowly But Surely

Rolling Back Roe v Wade: There's More to Come

Who’s to Blame for Inflation?

Straight Folk, We Need to have a Chat

Trump Thugs Terrorized Ordinary Americans

Sen. John Cornyn says the Quite Part Out Loud on Gun Bill

Can the House January 6 Investigation Save Democracy?

Sorry About the Interruption

Right Wing Assaults on LGBTQ+ Events on the Rise

Elon Musk’s Mars Indentured Labor Scheme

You Know It’s Coming. Trump’s Coup Rehearsal Will Go Unpunished. But Watch Anyway.

The Art of the Senate’s Performative Gun Deal

Stumbling Across the Finish Line: Personal Logbook 6.12.22

Two Years After George Floyd’s Death, "Defund the Police” Is a Tool for Authoritarians

Monkeypox, Just in Time for the Midterms! Coincidence?

I'm Alive and Ready to Rumble

Once Again, I’m Headed for the Operating Table

Republicans Fear Imaginary Spying, Ignore Data Collection on 75% of Americans

Voter Fraud Grifter Running Out of Friends

Here Comes Your Ballot–> Make a Plan to Vote!

Deep Pockets of the Dark Side Aim to Undermine Democrats in Race to Replace Lorena Gonzalez

Slouching Toward a Republican Utopia: Overturning Roe v. Wade Is Only the Beginning

Forced Birth Sadists Use HiTech to Track Women’s Periods

Can the Police Budget Save San Diego from a ‘Crime Wave'?

Condemn the Cruelty of the Zealots

The Leak Is not the Scandal. It’s What Was Revealed

A Look at More Stepping Stone Candidates in the California Primary

Overturning Roe v Wade Is Just the Beginning.

A Look at Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, & Treasurer 2022 Primary Candidates

A Look at Candidates in the Primary for CA Governor in 2022

From May Day to Billionaire Pay Day

At Look At 2022 U.S. Senate Primary Candidates

Something’s Not Right At City Hall

Using the Words Nazi or Pedophile Should Be the Same As Saying “Your Mama”

Trans Folx were Right

Bottled Water Monopolist Admits Recycling is Bullshit

The Troubled Terrified Trembling Throat of Ron DeSantis

Expect to Be Harassed for Wearing a Mask - They Can’t Help Themselves

The Twit gets Twitter

Nathan Fletcher Faces Reelection With the Wind at His Back

Sen. Warren Is Right: Democrats Need to Take Advantage of their Majorities Now or Face Disaster in November

The People Who Want to Close Down Your Neighborhood School

I’m Not Dumb

Toxic Manhood Can’t Be “Cured” by Testicle Tanning

Think About It -- The American Condition

CANCELED! Libraries, Math Books, and Disneyland

Injustices in San Diego: Let The Justice Department Take Over the County Jail (& More)

The Latest IPCC Report on Climate Change Is Like a Dystopian Novel: Can We Write a Better Ending?

Time for Democrats to Consider a Little Union Busting

Goodnight, Dianne? Colleagues Say CA Senator’s Mental Fitness Is Rapidly Deteriorating

GOP Goal is to Kill Off the Democratic Party Once and For All

Florida High School Student Under Investigation for Stonewall History Presentation

Grooming and Dooming: The Perverse World of the GOP

Time for a Time Out: A Personal Note to Readers

Grading the San Diego City Council Candidates for the District 2 Primary Contest

Amazon Labor Union’s Organizing Victory Has Lessons for All of Us

Awaken Church Hosts Putin Apologist Tucker Carlson

Dispatches from the Education Wars: Solidarity Not Meritocracy Is the Answer

Drug Addled Stories That Aren’t April Fool’s Jokes

CBS Hires Mick Mulvaney to Comment on the End of Democracy

Planes That Won’t Fly, or Ships That Won’t Sail?

Help Wanted: A City Attorney Not Dedicated to Preserving the Old Order

JimCrowChat. Elon Musk’s Social Media Idea?

Stupid American Tricks: Why We Don’t Have Shelters for a Nuclear War

It’s Time We Hold All Oligarchs Accountable

Concerned About Illegal Drug Smuggling? Ask the Republicans Who Enable It.

Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Are More Than a Clown Show

How I Lost the War

Is Free Trash Pick Up Sacred Like the Second Amendment? San Diego Is About to Find Out.

Don’t Fall for Carl DeMaio’s Repeal the Gas Tax Scam

The New York Times Woke & Cancel Culture Appropriation

When the Going Gets Tough, Americans Go “Goblin Mode”

The Right’s Insane Brains on Ukraine

January 6 Insurrection Investigations Uncover a Mountain of Evidence

Will Uber’s $250,000 Politically Sanitize Assembly District 80?

The Bloodlust of Putin

U.S. Fifth Column Echoes Russian Biolab Propaganda

Some Perspective on the Ukraine War

Memo to Local Police Recruiters: When Your Reputation Stinks, People Don’t Want to Work for You

The Major League Baseball Lockout was a Window into What’s Wrong with America: Billionaire Owners Who Put Greed before Community

Sex and Sex and Sex and Sex Some More

Court Ruling: Scam Diego’s Convention Center Expansion Is (And Should Be) Toast

Republican States Vie for Most Horrible Legislation in 2022

What Are the ‘Lingering Questions’ in the District 80 Special Election?

Standing Up to Putin Is the Way Out of Ukraine

Getting Off Fossil Fuels Is the Best Way to Fight Autocracy Abroad and Revitalize Democracy at Home

Refund vs Defund the Police Is the Wrong Argument

GasHoles Seek Strife, Not Solutions in US

Corona Roundup: Maskholes Metastasize

Time Out for Star Trek

The Bigger Picture on Putin’s Ukraine War

Putin Apologist Tucker Carlson Appearing at San Diego “Church”

Does War in Europe Mean the Death of Reform in The United States or Can California Serve as a Model for a Better Way?

What Do Masks in School, Black Lives, Trans Youth, and Birth Control Have in Common?

“Putin is kind of a Bad Ass”

Rep. Issa Joins the Chorus of Putin Apologists

What Kind of American Roots for Putin?

How Much White Collar Crime With the 101 Ash Street Deal Is Acceptable?

The Road to Fascism is Lined with People Telling You Not to Overreact

The Curse of the Supermajority, California Style: Corporations vs. the Public Interest

Finally! A Scaled Down Assault-type Rifle for the Kiddos

Republican Threat Strategy Impacts Americans in All Walks of Life

A Law and Order Election for California in 2022

Ending Mask Requirements: Giving in to Mob Psychology?

“They’re” Coming to Take Your Money Away!

What Do Parents Actually Think About Schools?: It’s Not What You Think

Is There an International Freedom Convoy Conspiracy?

The Right Winger Super Bowl Disruption Menace

The GOP Finally Has Something to Run on: Gazpacho Police and Crack Pipes

Public Education Pandemic Pandemonium

Anti Vaxxers Keep On Truckin’ as Mandates Wind Down

Up Is Down, And You’re a Commie If You Don’t Agree

Learning to Love Fascism: The National GOP Officially Embraces Extremism

San Diego’s Garbage Bin for Humans, aka the County Jail, Needs to Be Fixed

Trucker Convoy Conspiracists Headed for U.S. Capitol

Black History Month Kicks Off with a Righteous Lawsuit Aimed at the NFL’s Racism.

Law & Order: Trump Crime Edition

Coronado Bigot’s Big Mouth Gets Him Busted

The High Cost of Declining College Enrollments

Single-Payer Health Care for California: It’s Time

Breyer’s Resignation Sparks Republican Frenzy

Book Banning, Teacher Snitches, and Election Police

Anti Mandate Protestors Are Not Freedom Fighters

Republican Recall Regrets Reflected in 2022 CA Campaign Apathy

Murderous Inequality Is the Central Fact of our Time

War! What Is It Good For?

Hope Tinged With Trepidation As Sheriff Quits, SDPD Oversight in Trouble

For January 6 Conspirators, Karma Is a Bitch

The Copaganda-Induced Crime Wave Is Really About Rolling Back the Clock

Defenders of Jefferson Davis’ Legacy Mar MLK Day

The Striking Sanitation Workers’ Struggle in Chula Vista Is a Fight Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Would Readily Join

Help Wanted: Pulse & Functional Respiratory System Required

An Early Morning “Suspicious” Fire in City Heights

The Big Lie’s Big Footprints

Latest COVID 'Cure:' Do Eat the Yellow Snow

Will California Make Single Payer Healthcare Happen?

It’s Déjà Vu in 2022 but Workers’ Struggles Show the Way Forward

I’m Taking Time Out for Repairs and Upgrades

The Power of the Big Lie

January 6th As the New July 4th

New Law Aims at California’s Biggest Crime Wave