Sitemap - 2023 - Words & Deeds
The War on Christmas Loses Again, Maybe
A Record Setting Do Nothing Congress
Trump Doesn’t Care About a Colorado Primary
The Israel-Hamas Butcher's Bill
Biden Impeachment: A Nothingburger With a Side of Lies
Last Gasps for Republicans Before the Holidays
Politics, San Diego Style: How Much Has Changed?
Kate Cox & Britany Watts: Women Being Persecuted by Republican Religious Fanatics
Horrible People Doing Horrible Things
Breaking the Law to End Rule of Law Is the Path Republicans Have Chosen
2024: A Year of Politicians Scheming to Shame Seniors for Not Eating Cat Food.
Upcoming Petco Park Rodeo is a Threat to Public-Safety
Glimmers of Hope from the Salton Sea?
Infotainment Extravaganza: Governors Newsom and DeSantis Debate
No More Black Fridays: All I Want for Christmas Is a Livable Future
For People Who Find Evil Entertaining: Fox News on Thanksgiving
Point Loma NIMBYs with Million Dollar Homes Cry Foul
The War on Christmas Is (Still) Happening
Supreme Court Grift Will Continue, Unabated
Still Simmering After 60 Years: Who Killed JFK and Why?
The Search for a Missing Backbone on Capitol Hill
San Diego’s Housing Crisis Isn't Going Anywhere
What Will You Say When Trump's Henchmen Are Rounding Up Your Neighbors?
New, Old and Social Media Struggles
Elections, War, and the Future of Democracy
Eat The Rich Is Probably Too Harsh As A Campaign Slogan
Roundup: 2023 Elections Were a Big Deal
Democrats Handed Republicans Their Asses in Elections Nationwide
Even in San Diego, Abortion Is on the Ballot
Forecast for 2024 Elections: Clear As Mud
Labor's March for a Better, Sustainable Future: The United Autoworkers Win Big and More
Should I cancel my subscription to the Union Tribune?
Democratic Consultants’ Indictments Add to Public Disgust
What Do Next Week’s Election and Abortion Have in Common?
Trick or Truck (or SUV): The Deadliest Monsters in Our Community
A Halloween Trick at the San Diego City Council
Big Oil and the Billionaire Class Are Investing Extensively in Murdering the Future
A Taxonomy of Corporate Bullshit
Border Memo on Terrorists Is Fake
No Easy 'Cure' for Thousands of Youth Living on San Diego’s Streets
The Sky Is (Not) Falling at the Border
Another Domino Falls Against Trump
San Diego's New and Improved Tent Camp
Thoughts on the Latest War on Terrorism: Compassion, Uncertainty, and the Cruel Lessons of History
Switching Banks Ought to Be Easy
A Bad Day for Hate: Rep. Jim Jordan Folds, Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell Flips
Randy Evangelicals Recruiting for the Rapture
Crime Pays for Republican Candidates
Amy Reichert & RFK Jr Take the COVID Denial Route to Politics
The UAW Strike Offers Hope for a Better Future for Workers and the Planet
Friday the 13th War Journal - From Gaza to DC to Kiev
Climate Change Is a Bigger Threat Than Terrorism
Are Terrorist Hordes Lined Up at Our Border?
Hamas-Israel War Misinformation Mainlined by Blame America First Party
Fear and Loathing Over the Border 'Crisis'
Congressional Clown Show Leads to Chaos
It’s ‘Pay Attention to Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Day
Burning Down Democracy One Book at a Time
Enter the Bardo: My Transition to a Second Life of Sorts
Ex-Sheriff Gore Serving on the Ethics Board is Like Having a Fox Guarding the Hen House
Six Dollar a Gallon Gas Is a Breath of Fresh Air
Voter Guide: 2023 District Four County Supervisor Special Election
Trump Losing Empire, Biden Wins on Many Fronts
The Republican AntiVaxxer Coalition
Rising Waters Always Find an Opening
My Dark Night(s) of the Soul: Notes on the Long Road to Recovery
Rising Waters Will Always Find an Opening
"Efficiency" Left the Big Three Vulnerable to Smart UAW Tactics
Presidential Primaries Are Now Irrelevant: Focus on the Important Stuff
Oklahoma - A Taste of What It’s Like to Live in MAGA's Promised Land
Democracy is not a state; it is an act -John Lewis
Bad Journalism Is Bad for Democracy
Major Insurance Companies Fan the Flames of Climate Change
Romney Quits, Tattles on Senate Travesties
A Hot Labor Summer Is Going Year Round
Labor Power Challenging Four Decades of Trickle-down Economics
No Matter the Weather, It’s Going to Be a Stormy September
Voices of San Diego Labor, Part 1: Organize, Organize, Organize!
Boldly Going Where a Network Didn’t Want to Go
Former Trump Advisor Finding Out About Consequences
NLRB Ruling: Any Union Busting Triggers Automatic Union Recognition
So Many Weather Disasters, So Little Time
GOP Tough Guys Call for War on Mexico
This Labor Day, Let’s Celebrate American Workers and their Unions
KUSI Social Media Rants Are No More
Dislike Trump and Biden? 'No Labels' Is Even a Worse Choice
The Latest Round of COVID Isn't Biden's Fault
Big Pharma Seeks to Crush Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
Those Assassinated at the Dollar Store in Jacksonville Had a Dream, Too.
Labor ‘Unrest’ Is Kind of A Big Deal
A Clueless Presidential Primary Debate for a Clueless GOP
Going Backward for Women in Republican Theology
So Many Lies, So Little Time - GOP Presidential Primary Debate
Hurricane Hilary Was Just a Warning Shot
America’s “Next Great Intelligence Agency” Founder Target of Criminal Probe
Hurricane Hilary Aims at Southern California
San Diego Supervisor Election Heads to November Runoff
KaBoom! Georgia Grand Jury Throws the Book at Trump & Co.
Trump's Georgia Indictments by the Numbers
The Hidden Tax of Single Family Zoning
Graphic Truths About Unhoused Humans
What the Hell Is Going on With Jim Miller?
Opioid Settlement Stymied by Supremes
Round Four of Indictments for ex-President Coming Next Week
Justice with Benefits: Justice Clarence Thomas’ Luxe Lifestyle
Sad Truths About San Diego's Unhoused
A Mid-Summer Special Election Nightmare
Fighting Junk Fees Is "Woke" ????
Neighborhoods Saved from Homeless Zombies
I Voted for Monica Montgomery-Steppe for Supervisor and You Should, Too
An Indictment Worth Waiting For
Holy Cow! What Happened to Slow News Days?
Don’t Fall Into the Tesla Trap
A Dispatch From the Other Coast
A Better Person for an Imperfect San Diego
Republican Performative Nonsense ‘For the Children’
It’s (Almost) Special Election Time!
Why Are So Many Californians Homeless?
Let Republicans Stew in Their Own Filth
How Soon Will the Union-Tribune Be Stripped Down and Sold for Parts?
County Sheriff’s Department’s Inner Workings Are None of Your Business
What Will We Name Our Concentration Camps?
Cocaine on the Brain in MAGA-land
Useful Idiots and Casserole Assholes
Mayor Gloria Announces Reelection Campaign
When Will KUSI Stop Protecting Child Predators?
Angry Citizens, Homeless Humans and What Passes for Progress in San Diego
Democracy Lives to See Another Day in Supreme Court Ruling
2024: Biden’s Old, Trump’s a Crook, and the Threat of A Black Lady President
Dispatches from the War on Cars
Spin, Lies, and Misinformation
Does Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal Mean His Father Is Satan?
RFK Jr’s Snake Oil Brand Is Still Snake OIl
Right Wing Extremists Visit School Board in Temecula
Trump’s Paranoia Could Be Hazardous to Your Health
There Will Be No Camping in Gloriaville
Trump Indicted: Now Comes the Hard Part
Can‘t Breathe? Climate Deniers Think That's Nonsense
Republican Bill to Save Old Appliances Runs Out of Gas
All I Want for My Birthday Is to See Trump in Court
DeSantis Dumps Desperate Asylum Seekers in Sacramento
'We Simply Can't Afford It' Is a Lie
County Sheriffs to the Public: So What?
A Declining Twitterverse and A Few Other Things
Cars Are No Longer THE Solution
Will Somebody Tell Target Giving in to Bullies Is a Losing Proposition?
Lawbreaking in Their Sunday Best
On this Memorial Day, Remember the Over One Million Who Died in Our Lost “War” on Covid
The ‘Right to Read’ is Horse Manure
Summer Forecast: A Hatewave Aimed at Pride Events
DeSantis Fails to Impress in Twitter Debut
The MAGA Way: Loving Guns But Fearing Poetry
Will Anyone Anywhere Vote for Anybody But Trump?
Carlsbad’s Christian Soldiers Take Aim at LGBTQ+ Inclusion
San Diego Historian and Educator William Cheek and His Radical Pedagogy of Love
Nothing Happened. Nobody Did Anything. And I Have Nada to Say
Politicians Selling Big Lies About Housing First
The IRS Will Do Your Taxes for You
The Sky Is About to Fall. Are Your Eyes Glazed Over?
Trump’s ‘Crime of the Century’ Fails to Make the Grade
Supervisor Jim Desmond Could Build a Border Wall With All the Lies He’s Telling
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week from Ron DeSantis!
Police Reform in San Diego Is a Sick Joke
You Can’t Beat Donald Trump at His Own Game
Welcome to the Latest Chapter in the US Mexico Border Crisis
Repeal the Second Amendment? Yes! It Can Be Done
How to Fight Loneliness: Social Isolation Is Impacting our Culture and Politics
Hollywood is the single best example of mature labor power in America
YIMBY vs NIMBY Face Off in Hillcrest on Saturday, May 6
I Don’t Want to See Dark Shapes Bumping in the Night on My TV
Resigning(?) Supervisor Nathan Fletcher Will Be Replaced by a Woman
Is ‘Otherizing’ Homeless Humans Better Than Promises Not Kept?
Malarkey vs. Medicine in a Quest for Cancer Treatment
May Day Then and Now: Demanding the Impossible
Denny Sanford's Dirty Pictures Won't Go Away
What the Hell Is San Diego’s Mayor Up To?
Tucker Carlson Wins Cable TV’s Triple Crown
Happy Independent Bookstore Day
Presidential Politics: 2024-Style
AI and the Coming Great Disruption of Everything
Russian Roots for Today’s Republicans
Body Parts Are the GOP’s Wedge Issue This Year
Cancer Showdown All Over Again
Fox News Settles. We Shouldn't
Big News at UCSD Climate Change Panel with Ministry for the Future Author
The Politics of Camping on San Diego’s Streets
Howling Against Democracy: The Cultural Roots of the Authoritarian Right
Affordable Housing Projects in California Dumped in Silicon Valley Bank Bailout
Democrats Aren’t Perfect, But At Least They’re Not Evil
Lawyers and Judges and Courts, Oh My!
How Breitbart Helped Cause a Port Shutdown
Speaking of Democrats That Need to Resign, What About Senator Diane Feinstein?
Who Is the Nastiest Republican of Them All?
Nathan Fletcher Up Against the Wall
Hope in Chicago Offers a Lesson for San Diego
Everything Advertised on Social Media Is Overpriced Junk
The Bad Guys Are No Longer Hiding It
Musk's Twitter Joins the Ranks of Bottom Feeders in the Marketplace of Ideas
Upcoming Chaos at the Ballot Box, Thanks to the GOP
Lining Up the Right Wing Firing Squad
Big Not-Trump Related News Today
Trump Has the Right, But Not the Ability, to Remain Silent
The Federal Reserve Strategy on Inflation Is Top-Down Class War
Morning Roundup: What’s Up With the (First) Indictment of Donald J Trump
A Conspiracy of Fifteen Minute Cities
Nathan Fletcher's Broken Promise
AR-15s Are Like MAGA Hats: Just Another Medium for the Same Message
Spring Cleaning in San Diego: Homeless People Swept Up Like Roadside Trash
Dollar Stores: Walmart's Jackals, Picking Over the Remains
Nathan Fletcher Steps Off the Political Stage
Waiting for Breaking News About Trump Before the World Goes Off a Cliff
The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules)
Trump Plays the Anti Semitic Card
San Diego’s 2024 GOP Candidate Cruelty Crusade
Chickens Are Coming to Roost for Trump
Rocking Chairs Against Climate Change?
Waiting, Watching for Trump to Go Down
The Ministry for No Future: Biden Undermines His Own Climate Pledges
Rolling Back Child Labor Laws for Fun and Profit
The Futility of the Wars on Drugs and Poverty
Are Robotic Trucks and Driverless Cars Coming to Take You Away?
Privatizing Profit, Socializing Risk for Tech Bros
Look to the French for a Model of Resistance to Austerity Politics
Conspiracies Conjured by the Right Are Projections
Polish Your Dancing Shoes for the Upcoming Trump Indictment Social, Maybe
No More Trickle Down for Joe Biden
GOP “Weaponization” Committee Follows Sen. Joe McCarthy’s Footsteps
The Godly Call of Right Wing Righteousness and Retribution
How Low Can the GOP Go? Check Out CPAC 2023
Under the Perfect Sun at 20: What Have We Learned, Where Are We Now?
SDPD Hopes to Know About Everybody Everywhere All at Once
A Pandemic of Magical Thinking in Politics
The COVID Emergency Might Be Over: The War on Science Is Just Getting Started
Truth Not in the Playbook for Fox News
The Magical Thinking of Corporate Recycling
Harold Brown and the San Diego Congress of Racial Equality
A Lie-laden Opposition to Renewable Energy
Fear and Loathing in the Right’s Propaganda Machines
Setting the Stage for the 2024 Presidential Primaries
Eleven Women Leaders Against Public Education
Ooops. Sorry About the Duplicate Email
Gun Nutz Wrap Themselves in the MAGA Flag
Gun Nuts Wrap Themselves in the MAGA Flag
Turbotax is Blitzing Congress for the Right to Tax YOU
Ch-ch-changes at Words & Deeds
What Will San Diego’s Bold Move on Housing Bring: Equity or Just More Gentrification?
Money, Honey – It’s Time to Share the Wealth
SHOCKING! Georgia Grand Jury Thinks Trump's Election Fraud Witnesses May Have Lied
A Dangerous Republican Scheme for Social Security and Medicare
An Ecological Disaster Born of Deregulation
Cultural Blinders May Explain Recent UFO Sightings
It’s My Cancer & I’ll Cry If I Want To*
First Look: Nathan Fletcher’s Run for State Senate
Christian 'Soldiers' Are Coming for Oceanside’s Library Books
The Debt Crisis is Really a Revenue Problem
America’s Macho Clowns Go Nuts Over a Balloon
Reject the Bigots and Blacken American History
Supervisor Jim Desmond’s Crusade for Freeways and Stuff
Davey Crockett Goes to Florida
2024 GOP: Stopping ‘Wokeness’ is the Plan
The Pelosi Attacker Ascends to the Right’s Brotherhood of Perpetual Victimhood
Reproductive Rights Are Worker Rights
Republicans Hang on to Ronna McDaniel as RNC Chair
Is the US Going to Hell in a Handbasket?
San Diego Cops Lied to Own the Libs
I Ate A Purple M&M and Woke Up in Bed With Tucker Carlson
Tomorrow Would Be a Good Day for Trump to Be Indicted
A Lack of Housing & Too Many Narrow Minds in San Diego
Culture Warriors Fare Poorly in San Diego Board of Education Races
San Diego Janitors are Ready to Strike
The Life and Death of Internet Platforms
Trump’s Bluster Busted; Lawyers Get Stuck for Costs
The Inmates Running the House of Representatives Asylum
Panic at the YMCA! It’s God vs Antifa in Santee
San Diego County Cops Count on Complacent Citizens to Continue Cruelty
Will California Follow Oregon and Decriminalize Psychedelics in 2023?
Despair Is Not An Acceptable Response to Climate Change
GOP Stinks Up the House of Representatives
The State of the City Doesn’t Have to Be This Bad
The 2024 Race for Senate Is On. Will Gov. Newsom Upset the Applecart?
Sore Losers Coalition Fails in Brazil Coup Attempt
America is Suffering a “Social Recession,” the Root of Our Biggest, Most Intractable Problems
2023 Will Bring More Gun Deaths
Looking Backwards, Moving Forward: Cultural and Political Trends to Watch in 2023