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Under the Black Flag: On Pirates, A Romance

The Epstein Files: Two Plus Two Equals Five

The Following Message Is for Donald J. Trump, President of the United States

Brazil Bites Back, As Tariffs Fail to Impress

A Few Words About Numbers

An Epstein Cover-Up & A Woke Superman

You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Explain the Texas Flooding

Hypernormalization Blues or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fascism

What Paloma Aguirre’s Win Means for the San Diego Board of Supervisors and the Region

Musk's America Party: Whatever, Dude.

Congress Gave Trump the Means to Create a Police State

The Big, Beautiful… Oh, Never Mind.

On the Fourth of July, Act Like a Patriot

Trump Budget Bill's Authoritarian Core

Zohran Mamdani and the Populist Poetry of Hope

A World Informed by Grace

I Have Never Met a Man Who Was Quite Awake

Are You Ready for a Hot Socialist Summer?

Humpty Trumpty’s Bombs Fail to Impress

A Senate Vote on the Billionaire Big Beautiful Budget Bill?

New York City Voters Reject Political Leftovers, Mamdani to Win Primary

A Ceasefire, Maybe, for a Moment

Bombing Iran for the Oligarchy

Who's ICE? Nobody Knows

Now That No Kings Protests Are Past…

Cracks in the Trump Facade Appear

Dems Dilemmas Deepen for 2026

Notes from the Road: No Kings (Except Kamehameha) Day in Hawaii

Trump’s War on Three Fronts: Blue Cities, the Middle East, and Stochastic Terrorism

Congratulations, San Diego. Reviews Are in for the No Kings protests.

Those Calling for Non-Violence Are Speaking to the Wrong People

A Moment in History - Things Are About to Get Serious

Military Deployment to Wherever Dissent Is Anticipated

Troops in LA: A Summer of Protests Gets Underway

Way Down Upon the Chicago River

Enjoy the Trump vs Musk Mud Bowl

No Kings Day & Trump's Ugly Budget Bill

Pride Month No More?

Not On Our Watch: Updates on the ICE Raid in San Diego

Fascism Came to Our Neighborhood

ICE Stages South Park Raid to Make Community Afraid, Fails

A Masked Federal Police Force, Unleashed on Immigrants

It’s TACO Thursday in America

Countdown to No Kings Day ~ San Diego Resistance Calendar May 29 - June 8, 2025

Making America Ignorant Again

Doonesbury Goes Missing & It's No Joke

It’s Top-Down Class War, Stupid

The Immigration Trumpstapo Takes Another Step Toward Defiling Due Process

Protesting on No Kings Day Is Not Enough

Trump’s Time Bomb Budget Set in Congress

Uncertainty Plagues Trump Administration

White House Paranoid Pettiness

The Circle of Life in Places with Unknowable Answers

Trump’s Sky Chariot Won’t Fly

Promoting Vouchers to Destroy Public Education

The Message Needs to Be More Than Saying No to Trump

A Conspiracy to Keep Joe Biden in Office?

May 15 - 25 San Diego Resistance Calendar

I’ll Be Back - Time Off for a Road Trip

It’s Finding Out Time at Trump’s FAFO Aerial Circus

Trump’s Budget Proposal: "You Deserve Less"

Celebrate the Release of Sunshine/Noir III and Twenty Years of City Works Press

Labor, Latinos, Locals, and Lawyers Stand Up for Liberty on May Day

GOP’s Budget Plan Laden With Sadistic Intent

Take to the Streets on May Day, San Diego!

A Crime Wave in the White House

The Perpetual Limbo of Literary San Diego

San Diego Tourism: Cancelled By the World

Sacking the Smithsonian to Sooth Supremacists

RFK Jr’s National Disease Registry Is an Dictator’s Dream

Do the Work to Save Democracy

Trump Caves to China on Tariffs

Due Process and First Amendment Rights Support Harvard’s Defense

Fighting Oligarchy and “End Times Fascism”

Free America! Protests Continue, More to Come

Connecting the MAGA Dots: A Vibe Shift in the Zeitgeist

Will San Diego County Survive Trump?

April 19 Rallies Pop Up All Over

Trump's Cultural Purges in Progress

Don't Be Silent About Due Process

The South’s Long War on Black Literacy

Over Here, Over Here! There’s Something Happening!

San Diego Labor's April 19 Day of Action

Free Speech Doesn’t Include Using the Word ‘Palestine’’

What’s Next? Ways to Opt In to Oppose the Oligarchy

A Weakened Trump Goes on a Treason Bender

San Diego Resist Calendar

Trump's Tariffs: Turmoil & Tribulations

There Will Be No Martial Law Declared on April 20

Paloma Aguirre Is the Kind of Change San Diego Needs

We Marched, It was Great! Now What?

Thoughts and Pictures From San Diego's Hands Off! Protest

Certainty About Uncertainty

Trump Seeks to Dictate the Economy with Tariff Scheme

It's Trump's Tariff Day! Are You Feeling Liberated Yet?

America's Labor Unions Are Joining the April 5 Hands Off Mobilization

Solidarity Is the Only Way to Win the Future

Replacing Trump & Chewing Gum at the Same Time

America, America. Land of the Cruel and Unusual

The Greenland Invasion Scheme

Social Security Teeters as Musk Mucks About

Open Mic Night at the Apocalypse

Killing Free Speech to Silence Environmental Activism and Public Protest

Of Protests, Pitchforks and Plutocrats

Education's Eve of Destruction

Impure Thoughts Will Get You Branded as a Terrorist

Impeaching Crown Prince Elon Musk

Protesting the Present to Build a Future

Trump’s Threat to Our Basic Civil Liberties is a Real and Present Danger

Who Deserves to Be Snatched Up Off the Street?

Cowardly Dem Sens Miss Opportunity

Hamas! Hamas! Hamas! Hamas!

Welcome to Crazytown. Up Is Down, Down is Up. Trump is Angry. Musk Is Mad.

Maniac Elon Musk Is Stripping the Government for Spare Parts

Canada: ‘Elbows Up’ to Trump the Bully

A New Lost Generation in the Age of Trump?

Special Election Voter Guide: San Diego County Supervisor District 1

Deep into the Dumbness of DOGE

The War on Science: 2+2=4, Right?

Are YOU Willing to Be Part of a 3.5 percent Solution?

The Sorry State of Trump-o-nomics

Russian Imperialism Meets Manifest Idiocy

Will San Diego Raise the Wage for Tourism Workers?

Exercising Those Democracy Muscles

WEEKEND EXTRA: A White House Confrontation For The Ages

Pssst! Wanna Buy Some Eggs?

BOOM! It's An Economic Blackout!

San Diego’s Lambda Archives Faces Federal Grant Cuts

A War on Drugs Revival

Musk's Billionaire Bully Schemes

Rolling Back the Twentieth Century: The Endgame of the Trump Tax Cuts

The News Isn’t All Bad

February 28 Economic Blackout: One Small Step for Resisters, No Heroes Required

The White House 'Word Police'

The Cost of Billionaire-Run Government

The Truth Is Out There

An Era of Empires, Maybe

The Climate Crisis and Mass Migration: Trump is Marching Us Towards a Dystopian Final Solution

Lies Are the Weaponry of the Techno-Barbarians Storming the Nation

Trump and Putin Agree to Russia’s Terms in Ukraine

White House Words: Orwellian Newspeak to Distract the Masses

Grand Theft Government: White House Edition

The True Cost of Musk's Madness

San Diego Labor Endorses Paloma Aguirre for County Board of Supervisors, District 1

It’s ‘Finding Out Time’ for the American People - Part One

Dear Federal Workforce - STRIKE!

Manufactured Illusions and the First Amendment

Photo Essay:"50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Day" Rallies Across the Country

A Coup in Progress: Fight the Power, No Silence, No Surrender

Musk’s Make America Stupid Team Takes on the Education Department

Union Density Blues: Trump Guts the National Labor Relations Board, Fires Federal Workers, and Attacks Collective Bargaining as National Union Density Hits Single Digits

The Richest Man in the World Is Taking Over the US Government

Count to a Billion

White Men Implicated in DC Mid Air Crash

Depraved President Blames DEI for DC Air Collision

Taking An Axe to Government Employees, Feds Cancel Freeze Memo

‘Promoting Diversity’ Is The New Red Scare

How Did Trump’s First Week Help Working People?

Don't Drown in a Flood of News

You Don’t Have to Settle

The Chaos Circus and an Important “Why?”

Picking Through the ‘Shock and Awe’ Debris

Billionaires Driving 'Science of Reading'

Words From Sane People About What Happened on January 20, 2025

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Class Politics Might Just Be the Antidote to Trump

TikToK Goes the Trump Clock

Republicans Toasting Marshmallows Over LA Fires

President Biden Proclaims the Equal Rights Amendment to Be Part of the Constitution

Tech Overlords to Oversee Their Investment at the Inauguration

The Wheels of Justice Came to a Halt After Donald Trump Slashed the Tires

The Democratic Party Needs a Better Plan

Devil Winds Return to Southern California

The Rich Get Richer As Los Angeles Burns Out of Control

BlueSky Brightens Up the Gloom for Social Media Users

Throwing Gasoline on the Los Angeles Fires

MAGAfest Destiny: Are You Ready to Go to War?

What Didn’t Happen on January 6, 2025

Optimism of the Will: How Labor Can Survive and Ultimately Thrive in the Trump Era

San Diego County Supervisor Vargas Quits, Citing Threats and Harassment

Time to Refocus, Rise Above the Noise, and Daydream

The Bigger Picture: Greed Is the Real “G” in MAGA

Thoughts From An Asia Trip