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Here We Are Again

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

An Uncelebrated Holiday

The Wisdom of Winter Trees

Biden Impeachment: A Nothingburger With a Side of Lies

Big Lies Lead to Bad Outcomes

Last Gasps for Republicans Before the Holidays

Welcome to Gaza

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

Pedophiles for Purdue Pharma

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?

Yay! Newsom!

Infotainment Extravaganza: Governors Newsom and DeSantis Debate

No Sex for Trumpers

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

Programming Note

The War on Christmas Is (Still) Happening

Thanksgiving in Dark Times

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

"Brand Safety" Killed Jezebel

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?

Congress Really, Really Sucks

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

Word of the Day - Embargo

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 Day Off

A Bad Day for Hate: Rep. Jim Jordan Folds, Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell Flips

Randy Evangelicals Recruiting for the Rapture

What Americans Want

Crime Pays for Republican Candidates

Israel’s Useful Idiot

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

I Stand With . .

Friday the 13th War Journal - From Gaza to DC to Kiev

The Automakers Are Desperate

Climate Change Is a Bigger Threat Than Terrorism

Are Terrorist Hordes Lined Up at Our Border?

It’s Special Election Time!

Hamas-Israel War Misinformation Mainlined by Blame America First Party

The Kaiser Strike Is as Much About Patients as It Is About Workers and More Notes from the Picket Line

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

Voices of San Diego Labor, Part II: Thoughts from Two Local Organizers on the State of Labor and Teachers’ Unions

Major Insurance Companies Fan the Flames of Climate Change

Romney Quits, Tattles on Senate Travesties

A Hot Labor Summer Is Going Year Round

Imminent Impeachment Insanity

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

Word of the Month: IMPEACH!

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

We’re Mostly Communists Now

Fighting Junk Fees Is "Woke" ????

Neighborhoods Saved from Homeless Zombies

Defending Donald J Trump

I Voted for Monica Montgomery-Steppe for Supervisor and You Should, Too

A Reprieve From Cancer

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

I’m on Vacation.

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?

Hunter Biden Broke the Law

Afraid of My Own Shadow

RFK Jr’s Snake Oil Brand Is Still Snake OIl

Hellscapes Are Already Here

El Cajon Mayor’s Pity Party

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

A Bad Day in MAGA-land

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

Machines That Might Be Smart

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!

We Interrupt This Program...

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

TRUMP’s FIRST INDICTMENT

A Conspiracy of Fifteen Minute Cities

Banning TikTok for Dummies

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

It’s Time for Woke Pride

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

Marching Toward Fake Freedom

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

Lying Liars at Fox News

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

President Biden Was Right to Change the Narrative on Taxes and Inequality by Proposing a Billionaires’ Tax

It’s My Cancer & I’ll Cry If I Want To*

Twitter Mania on Capitol Hill

The Face of the GOP Revealed

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

Dancing for the Apocalypse

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

A Brave Person

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

The Deadly Smells of Freedom

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

Notes From the GOP Madhouse

See Ya Next Week

2023 Will Bring More Gun Deaths

Looking Backwards, Moving Forward: Cultural and Political Trends to Watch in 2023