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Beyond Handwringing Over Trump: Reject Neoliberalism

I’ll See You Next Year

Syria, After the Fall

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

No Thanksgiving: Abandon Hope

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

Enter the Bardo

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

Organize! But for What?

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

No Content Today

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

F - As in Fascism |

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

Emissary of Enmity

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

Awaken/RMNNT Meddles Again

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

Hey Guys, Knock it Off!

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

Let’s Go San Diego!

Don’t Get Bored by Board of Education Elections

My Substack Summer

Election News Round Up & Good News for You to Ignore

It’s Crunch Time for Mayor Todd Gloria

Hyped Up Hating on Haitians

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

This is the Month That Was

BIG LIES, San Diego Edition

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

Pocahontas Redux?

Time Out

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

Deep Into the Desert

Homelessness Is Hopeless

Take a Deep Breath. Some Post-Debate Thoughts

Not With These Dice

I Thought Only Politics Geeks Cared About Tonight’s Presidential Debate

Digging into the Depths of Patriarchal Dictatorship.

Today’s Column Isn’t.

The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and The Struggle for the Soul of Labor

Debate Or Debacle?

RFK Jr. Talks Himself Out of the Presidency

Ten Commandments on a Classroom Wall Are for Certain Christians Only

The Grifting Lifestyle

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

O! Say Can You See?

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

Hasta La Vista, Baby

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

MAGA Visions of Womanhood

A Road to Nowhere at SANDAG?

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

NPR's Liberal Bias Shocker

There’s No Room for Debate About Biden vs Trump Standoff

Getting ‘Tough on Crime’ As an Excuse for Failure

Being "Moderate" on Abortion?

San Diego Needs a Public Bank

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

Leaving San Diego

See You Next Week

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

The Virtuous Middle?

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

Burning Truth

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?

Showdown at the Rio Grande

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

Monday News You Should Read

What the News Doesn’t Tell Us Might Just Come Back to Haunt Us

Raise Your Voice on High!

I’m stepping back for a few days...

Candidate With 91 Felony Counts Wins Iowa Republican Caucus

Sympathy for the Spammer

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

GOP Flaunts Racism as Election Strategy

Make It So in 2024