Yesterday I wrote, "The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is
The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we were in a war and no one noticed?
It has never been easy to be an immigrant to the United States – for most economic, linguistic, and cultural barriers make life here a struggle, even if they were escaping a worse life elsewhere. The utterly evil bill that just squeaked through in Congress, among other harms, aims to make
We have distant enemies, the enemies of truth, justice, human rights, and environmental protection, and they are easy to recognize and oppose. We also have near enemies, the cynics and defeatists among us who in theory agree with our goals but in practice are forever sabotaging them by insisting that
It's high summer in San Francisco and apricots, peaches, cherries, and corn are in season at the farmers markets and kids are out of school and Pride weekend is here, and on the days when the fog doesn't hang over us, the sunlight is glorious. Beautiful,
For a lot of people in public life women's rights are something to make a lot of noise about when it's convenient and sweep aside when it's not. Or so it seems with the rush to forgive and whitewash or just deny sexual abuse,
I was writing about last week's news when I was interrupted by this week's news, – I joked a few days ago that the whole country would love a slow news week, and I sure would. For one thing we could think about where we are and
No one can ignore or smooth over or play down that the Trumpists are going full authoritarian now. So we must go full resistance, and it's good to see that many elected officials are addressing this emergency forcefully and fearlessly, tens of thousands have been acting in solidarity
In one of my early posts on this site, I wrote "I have faith in the American people – faith that we're an unruly, insubordinate bunch scattered across a vast swathe of land, from our beautifully diverse cities to our remotest rural communities, that we are not easy
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the advance of rights for nature, women, children, indigenous peoples, BIPOC and immigrants/refugees, queer people,
On November 6, 2024, and after, it became clear to me that a lot of organizations addressing climate and human rights had made plans for what to do if Trump won, and of course Daniel Hunter had already published his soon-to-go viral article on what to do if Trump wins.
I've always been annoyed by those people who, when they didn't like the outcome of a presidential election, announced they were moving to Canada. Those declarations seemed to be about comfortable people prioritizing remaining comfortable and not wanting to stick around the discomfort of an administration