Monthly Archives: April 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who purchased Twitter for $44 billion on April 25, 2022, is seen in Grünheide near Berlin, Germany. (Photo: Patrick Pleul/ Pool/Getty Images) “This isn’t just some corporate takeover,” said one critic. “This is about a set of very specific moves that our oligarchs have been taking… Continue reading →

25 APRIL 2022/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN Holding signs saying things like “Tell Wells Fargo: Stop Funding Climate Change,” a group of climate activists has revived the era of downtown climate protests in San Francisco Monday morning. Twenty activists from the Oil & Gas Action Network chained themselves Monday to the historic Wells Fargo… Continue reading →

If you missed signing this petition last week please consider signing and sharing now  Much appreciation! .  Article: Texas mom scheduled for execution asks for pardon – April 24, 2022 https://www.cbsnews.com/video/texas-mom-scheduled-for-execution-asks-for-pardon/#x Please Sign & Share the Petition  (Final delivery at 9am CT Monday, April 25. The execution date is April 27, 2022. I learned… Continue reading →

Chronicle Editorial Board April 23, 2022 (SFChronicle.com) A 23-year-old youth mentor shot dead with a gun stolen from the back of a police car. A woman violently assaulted by a mentally ill homeless man as she entered her Embarcadero condo — captured on camera for the world to see. A probationer charged with 11… Continue reading →

Timothy Snyder Sep 27, 2021 Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

Link: https://nypost.com/2022/04/21/sanders-open-to-third-white-house-bid-in-2024/

by JOE ESKENAZI APRIL 21, 2022 (MissionLocal.org) Late in the 49ers’ 55-10 demolition of Denver in the 1989 Super Bowl, broadcaster Pat Summerall wryly asked his partner, analyst John Madden “Not much left to analyze, is there?”  No, there was not. But, then, that was the final football game of the… Continue reading →

View of the crowd gathered of the US Capitol grounds, some in the Capitol Reflecting Pool, for an Earth Day rally, Washington DC, April 22, 1990. Visible in the background is the US Capitol Building. (Photo: Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images) Set in the wider arc of history, Earth Day… Continue reading →

betrump PRONUNCIATION: (be-TRUHMP) MEANING:verb tr.:1. To deceive or cheat.2. To elude.ETYMOLOGY: From be- + French tromper (to deceive), which also gave us trumpery and trompe l’oeil. Earliest documented use: 1522. (wsmith@wordsmith.org)

WHAT IS POLITICS? In this episode we cover the rest of chapter 3 of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s book The Dawn of Everything. In this chapter, the authors claim that the seasonal social structures of the traditional Nambikwara, Lakota and Kwakiutl were the result of conscious choice, grand theatre,… Continue reading →