Yearly Archives: 2021
Former police officer charged with falsifying arrest report
"The La Mesa Police Department holds each and every member of the Department to the highest standards of integrity in order to protect and serve our community and keep its trust.”
The Republican party and victimhood as ideology
They are victims of themselves for having backed decades of Republican economic policies explicitly designed to shift vast amounts of national income and wealth to those who were already the most-wealthy.
Saying goodbye to the con-man-in-chief
It’s going to be quite a task in a world that needs so much else just to demine the American system after he leaves the White House.
‘Miscarriage of justice’: No charges against white Kenosha officer who shot & paralyzed Jacob...
“In this situation, again, we see a miscarriage of justice."
What we’ve lost: The species declared extinct in 2020
The causes of these extinctions range from diseases to invasive species to habitat loss, but most boil down to human behavior.
7 ways 2020 exposed America
Biggest lesson of all: It must be fixed.
#DontFundEvil: Google workers form a union to combat workplace concerns
"The future of tech is stronger with the power of a union."
UK judge denies US request to extradite Assange
“I find that the mental condition of Mr. Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America.”
In 2021, the best way to fight Neofascist Republicans is to fight Neoliberal Democrats
What’s imperative for progressives is not to “speak truth to power” but to speak truth about power -- and to drastically change an economic system that provides humongous wealth to a very few and worsening misery to the countless many.
Defeating McConnell: The real stakes of the Georgia runoffs
Mitch McConnell cares about only one thing: Power.