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Beyond Handwringing Over Trump: Reject Neoliberalism
The Housing Emergency and the Second Trump Term
Misinformation in the Pursuit of Social Security ‘Reform’
The Great American Sell Off: Why Should Russian Oligarchs Have All the Fun?
Higher Education Is at the Top of Trump’s Hit List
Damascus Falls to Rebel Forces; Assad Day for Putin
A Hit-Man Runs and Outrage Rises
Pardon the Reality: Will Biden Block Trump’s Revenge?
South Korea Turned Back Martial Law: Think the US Would?
South Korea’s Democracy Crisis
Black Friday Blues: When Will This Commercial End?
Coming Soon to DC: A League of Grifters, Meanies, and Fools
Gratitude for What Matters - You
The Visions of the Broligarchs, A Nightmare for the Rest of Us
Smashing Big Government and the Deep State for Vengeance and Profit
First Amendment Blues Over Trump V.2
The Death of a Word Defines Trump 2.0
In the Age of Trump 2.0, Matt Gaetz Is Special
A Congressional Rule for Transgender Bigotry? - ‘No Bathroom for You’
Regardless of What RFKjr Claims, His Agenda Is Set by Project 2025.
Paradise and Other Lost Places
Arguing About Woke Is a Gift to MAGA
Communications Breakdown: X Marked the Spot
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Circus Has Arrived
San Diego’s Mixed Electoral Results
Trump’s Team USA: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Laws
Breaking Bread Together to Defeat Fascism
Democrats Could Promise $100 Grand, a Stairway to Heaven, and Still Lose
Election Denialism Is a Dead End
How the Democrats Lost the Working Class and the Election
Trump's Conspiracy Fueled Visions
The High Cost of San Diego’s Congressional Delegation
Legacy Media’s Upcoming Death by a Thousand Executive Orders
The Bad Guys Won. It is what it is.
Big Bucks Darlings Faulconer, Turner Fail to Convince Voters
Republicans, Russians, and Exit Polls. Not Much to See, Yet
Watching and Waiting for Election Results
Keep Calm: Avoid the Drama-la Today
Ten Questions Tuesday’s Election Will Go a Long Way Towards Answering
Privatized Schools Will End Democracy
To Endorse Or Not Endorse? That Should Not Be the Question for Newspapers
Kamala Harris Sticks the Landing
2024 Presidential Election: A Smorgasbord of News Clips, Starting in the Big Apple
‘Bradly Effect’ May Give Harris’ the Win
Madison Square Garden Rally Lays the Groundwork for Post Election Chaos
Note to Harris: Don’t Surrender Economic Populism to the Billionaires
Democracy Dies in Anticipatory Compliance
McDonalds Delivers for Kevin Faulconer
Why a Massive Turnout Is Needed
Show Me the Money Going into the Final Stretch, San Diego City Election Edition
Harris, Democrats, and the Union Vote
Listen Closely, You Can Hear the Mounting Madness
A Day in the Life of Two Presidential Candidates
Thanks Suckers: Proposition 36 Is a Republican Ruse
Campaign Trail 2024: Looney Tunes and Unhinged Behavior
Red Waves and Racist Rants in the Presidential Election Homestretch
What Would Electoral Success for the Lincoln Club Mean for San Diego?
Faulconer, Turner Vie for Overseer Jobs on America’s Finest Tourist Plantation
Misogyny Is Baked into MAGA for a Reason
A Trip to Nevada to Canvass for Kamala Harris against Trump
A MAGA Storm Surge: Machinations About Hurricane Milton
Pay Attention: Disinformation Dress Rehearsal for 2024 Election in Progress
Re-Electing Mayor Todd Gloria: It’s for the Good of Children
Thoughts After a Year of War in the Middle East
Need Some Help Voting on San Diego, California 2024 Ballot Measures?
Need Some Help Weeding Thru Candidates in the 2024 General Election?
Words & Deeds 2024 General Election Voter Guide for San Diego
Republicans Root for Ruin, Plunder the Public
The East Coast Port Workers Strike Isn’t ‘Political’
The VP Debate: Vance Slicker Than Trump, Walz Peaks at the End
Hurricane Helene’s Lessons for San Diego About Climate Change
Existential Terror and Polling on the Campaign Trail
Civics Lessons at Voice of San Diego’s Politifest
SVU Trump Crimes: The Big Grift(s)
Kevin Faulconer Campaign Lies, Fueled by Local Fat Cats
Grocery Greedflation Is on the November Ballot
Read Between the Lines: America’s Wannabe Censors at Work
Sex and Sex and Sex and The Patriarchy
Don’t Get Bored by Board of Education Elections
Election News Round Up & Good News for You to Ignore
It’s Crunch Time for Mayor Todd Gloria
Job One for San Diegans: Register to Vote
Faulconer Fronts for Developers, Aims for GOP Control
Making San Diego Great Again: What Should We Make of Larry Turner Nation?
The 2024 Presidential Race: What a Week!
Who Will Represent Us in Washington DC?
Trump Takes Kamala Harris' Bait at the Debate
Who Is San Diego Sending to Sacramento This Year?
Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America
Up For Debate: Felon vs Prosecutor
Local 2024 Ballot Measures in San Diego
California Proposition 36: A Feel Good Measure for Fear Mongers
Just Say No to CA Propositions 34 & 35
CA Proposition 33: Deja Vu All Over Again on Rent Control
California’s Proposition 32: Something’s Better Than Nothing, I Suppose
Every American Worker Should Have the Right to Fair Scheduling and Paid Sick Leave
California Ballot Measures Two thru Six
Both Sides-ing Our Way to Fascism
Project 2025 Wrap Up. Objectively a Horror Story; Subjectively Not So Much
A Deep History of the Radical Right’s (No Longer) Stealth Plan for America
Project 2025’s Federal Trade Commission Cleanser
Project 2025’s Promise of the Best Politicians Money Can Buy
About the Democratic Convention, Warts and All
Project 2025 Whines About the Federal Communications Commission
Project 2025: Defanging Financial Regulatory Agencies
Free or Fair Trade for Old Men at Project 2025
The Democrats, Labor, and the New Hope for a Better Future
Finance, Purgatory and Paradoxes in Project 2025
SUNDAY EXTRA! Veterans Slam GOP Nominee
Project 2025: Looting and Booting at the Department of Treasury
Weather by [color descriptor redacted] Marker Pen: Project 2025's Department of Commerce
Project 2025’s Assembly Line Veteran Care
Going Nowhere Faster - Project 2025’s Department of Transportation
Chaos and Fear Are the Calling Cards of Democracy’s Enemies
Minnesota Dispatch: The Joy of Winning
Department of Labor Gets Religion with Project 2025
Don’t Let Trump Fool Ya: Project 2025 Lives
Revenge Drives Project 2025 Justice Department
Dems Blue Fire Melting the Orange Liar?
Public Land for Sale, Cheap: Project 2025
Sphere and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other Tales of America Gone Crazy
Republicans Won’t Even Pronounce Her Name
Project 2025: Some (Christian) People Are More Equal Than Others
Make America Dirty Again: Project 2025 on Energy and the Environment
Project 2025: Junk Food and Parents Rights
Learning How to Die and Live Again
Project 2025’s National Nightmare for “The General Welfare”
Fifty Million Small Reasons in 12 Hours
Biden's Gone, Harris Is the One
2024 GOP Convention: A Tiger Can't Change Its Stripes
No Soup For You: Project 2025’s Foreign Aid Program
Two Thirds of the Major Presidential Candidates Will Be Gone Soon
What Can You Do For Trump Today? Project 2025’s Diplomats, Spies and Spokespersons
Homeland Security’s Authoritarian Role in Project 2025
I Cover the Waterfront: Max Miller and the Ghosts of San Diego’s Past
Project 2025: Christian Soldiers Marching Off to Land Wars
I’ll Bet My Tin Foil Hat Beelzebub Shot At Donald Trump
GOP 2024 Convention in Milwaukee: Stay Awake
Going Deep into Project 2025 - Partisan Priorities for Civil Servants
Digging Deep into Project 2025 - (a multi-part Series)
Trump Dictates Platform as GOP Convention Nears
Somewhere Down a Road in the Mountains
Enough With Performative Politics. Take a Stand for Freedom
The Twilight Zone Version of Independence Day, 2024
A Bumpy Road Ahead for Democracy
Take a Deep Breath. Some Post-Debate Thoughts
I Thought Only Politics Geeks Cared About Tonight’s Presidential Debate
Digging into the Depths of Patriarchal Dictatorship.
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and The Struggle for the Soul of Labor
RFK Jr. Talks Himself Out of the Presidency
Ten Commandments on a Classroom Wall Are for Certain Christians Only
Alert! Alert! Be Scared! Very, Very Scared!
Activists Win a More Equitable Budget for San Diego
Pardon My Pot Paranoia, But This Just Doesn’t Feel Right
Only the Best Gifts, Gaffes, and Grifts
A Supreme Court Skirmish Won in the Struggle for Women's Healthcare
Crime Is Down. With One Exception: Republican Politicians
Hunter –The Felon– Biden: Not Running for President
Global War and the Assault on Freedom of Expression
Pay Attention. Courts Are on the Ballot
2000 Mules, One Ass, A Couple of Weasels, and The One That Got Away
Surcharges Are Bad, No Matter What Big Business (& MAGA) Say
Getting the Godfathers of Climate Chaos Off Our Screens
Let’s Hear It for Gas Tax Increases
34 for 45! On Trump’s Historic Humiliation and the Limits of Our Schadenfreude
MAGA Meltdown Over Trump Verdict
TRUMP GUILTY OF FELONY FRAUD x 34
How I Write & Other Thoughts on a Day Off
Cars, Cars, and More Cars– the Future of Transportation?
They Finally Went There: Biden Campaign Throws a Punch
Memorial Day Blues: Remember the Dead and Let Yourself Mourn
Has Donald J Trump’s Candidacy Peaked?
Supervisor Vargas Says She’s Sorry
AI Driving Google Search to the Junkyard
What If County Supervisor Vargas Became a Republican?
An Open Letter Regarding Chairwoman Nora Vargas
Antifa Angst Is Authoritarian Brainwashing
The Poverty of Our Political Imagination Enabled San Diego's Budget Crisis
The Sex Life of a Rich Asshole
So-Called Christians Thirst for Power: Donald Trump Is Their Vessel
Defending the Dignity of Dishwashers and Other Congressional Priorities
Don’t Talk to the Man: Telling the Story of Pro-Palestine Encampments
UCSD: Campus Closed, Encampment Gone, Arrests Made
The Story of San Diego’s Vigilante-In-Chief: Ralph Van Deman and His Dangerous Legacy
Don't Buy the Kentucky Derby Hype
When Will the First Pro-Palestine Protester Get Shot?
Pro-Palestine Protests Proliferate
Ghosts of American Labor’s Radical Past Speak to Our Future
Trump Court Report: Fake News and Supreme Deference
Student Protesters Are the Newest GOP Boogeyman
Biden For the People: A Historic Era of Righting Wrongs
Demonization of Gaza Protests Won’t Stop Them from Spreading
A Tale of Two Futures for American Labor: Upsurge or Systemic Dismantlement?
A Rollback for Prop 47, A Jail Death for Shoplifting, and Maybe a New Jail
An Incredible Historic Trial; Nobody’s Ever Seen a Trial Like This…
An Evil Plot to Hire a County Administrator for San Diego?
The Empty Promise of Banning Homeless Camping
Mayor Todd Gloria’s Brick Wall?
An Election Integrity Demand From a Man Who Has No Integrity
The 'Science of Reading' Grift
Who Cares About San Diego Workers? Everybody Should
New York’s Trump Trial Is About More Than Paying Off Stormy Daniels
There’s No Room for Debate About Biden vs Trump Standoff
Getting ‘Tough on Crime’ As an Excuse for Failure
The Half Darkness of a Partial Eclipse in San Diego
Boldly Going… Away. Star Trek Discovery’s Final Season
Israeli Military Deliberately Kills World Central Kitchen Volunteers
Fast Food Workers Get Nice Pay Bump
Why I’m Learning to Love Corporate Democrats
Beyoncé's Genre Bending of Country Music
A Mixed Bag of Family Emotions
The ‘Right’ Kind of Crime Is Soaring in San Diego
San Diego Mayoral Candidate Turner Gets Schooled on Bike Lanes
It’s Jail Time for Peter Navarro, San Diego's Asshole in Trumpworld
Chasing the Ghosts of San Diego’s Past in "Drift"
Trump’s Demented Bode for a Bloodbath
Who Wants to Be Vice President and Why?
The Buck Passes and House Republicans Are Afraid
The Imagined TikTok-ing Time Bomb
Speaking of Sadism and Stuttering
Coming Soon: Purging Old Corrupt Oligarchs to Bring in the New
What Will it Take to Stop the Threat to Our Democracy and Which Way Will Workers Turn?
What They Said: Reactions to President Biden’s State of the Union Speech
Biden’s SOTU Message to Congress: Tax the Rich, Bitches!?
Super Tuesday is over. Do you feel super about it? Can I get a big “meh”?
Money Spent on Homeless Humans Gets Wasted
Maybe We Should Just Cancel the November Elections
Voting At the Last Minute? Here's Some Help
A 21st Century Soapbox for San Diego
Supreme Court Puts Its Thumb on the Scale for Donald Trump
Republicans Backed Into a Corner By Sex Fiends
Primary Voting Guide San Diego 2024
Gaming San Diego’s Primary Elections: A Sure Path to Mediocrity
Voting Alone: The Deep Costs of the Loss of Community
Rob Reiner's God & Country Doc Exposes Toxic Political Power of Christian Nationalism
Making Sex Bad Again Is Where We’re Headed
2024 Primary Election Guide: San Diego’s Congressional Contests
Who Needs Evidence? GOP’s Case for Biden Impeachment Blows Up
Google Reneged on the Monopolistic Bargain
Putin Gets a Pass as Navalny Dies, Oklahoma Mean Girls Stomp Out a Non-Binary Life
Don’t Be Fooled by California’s Anti-Prop 47 Movement
Beware of the Taxpayer Deception Act: It Will Defund Our Future
2024 Primary Election Guide: Dr Akilah Weber Running for CA State Senate D39
A Really Bad, Awful, Losing Day for MAGA
Would You Buy a Used Government from These Hucksters?
2024 Primary Election Guide: San Diego Assembly Districts
Going Beyond the Mainstream Media
2024 Primary Election Guide: City Council Incumbents Will Rule
After the Flood: Can San Diego Rise?
2024 Primary Election Guide: City Attorney for San Diego
Immigration, Abortion News You'll Want to Know
Da Mayor Is A Bum; Can Anybody Replace Him?
Trumpian Toddlers Get What They Want, Throw It Away for Big Daddy Putin
California 2024 Guide: You Get to Vote Twice for US Senator
San Diego Labor Wins Big with Council Vote for Citywide Project Labor Agreement
Mayor Todd Gloria Can't Stand the Rain
The California 2024 Primary: Is Proposition One A Cure for Homelessness?
The California 2024 Primary Ballot: President
The Second Amendment on Wheels
Carl DeMaio: 2024's Badass At the Border
My Mom Died, So I Have Something to Say
Was the One-Day Strike by Academic Workers in the California State University System a Win?
Trump’s a Sore Winner in New Hampshire
Five Years Later, This Blog Is Still Going Strong
Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a Monopoly Horror-Story
What the News Doesn’t Tell Us Might Just Come Back to Haunt Us
I’m stepping back for a few days...
Candidate With 91 Felony Counts Wins Iowa Republican Caucus
Hating MLK, Migrants, and Women in MAGAland
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2024: Where Do We Go from Here?
State of the City: Todd Gloria, Tide Pods, and an UnWar on Drugs
A Short Day at Words & Deeds Headquarters
Adolescent Minds in the Republican Party
2024 Eco-Watch: Hot Times and Plastic Bottles
Elon Musk: The Man, the Myth, the Misdirection
75% of Americans Reject Claims of FBI Involvement in Attack on the Capitol
President Goes to Valley Forge to Warn Americans
MAGA 2024 Hate on Transgender Humans