by Randy Shaw on August 29, 2022 (beyondchron.org) Dealers in front of entrance to Allstar Donuts DA Brooke Jenkins Can’t End Drug Markets Alone The Tenderloin’s open drug markets are thriving. The drug dealers are winning. Despite widespread media coverage the Tenderloin still has far more open drug dealer sites than when the… Continue reading
Loss will contribute a minimum rise of 27cm regardless of what climate action is taken, scientists discover Damian Carrington Environment editor @dpcarrington Mon 29 Aug 2022 16.00 BST (TheGuardian.com) Major sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice cap is now inevitable, scientists have found, even if the fossil fuel burning that is… Continue reading
November 2022 Endorsements posted by SF LEAGUE OF PISSED OFF VOTERS | August 29, 2022 The San Francisco League of Pissed Off Voters membership voted to endorse the following candidates and ballot measures for the November 2022 election. Our full Pissed Off Voter Guide is coming soon! Statewide Offices Governor: No EndorsementLt Governor:… Continue reading
Lauren Gambino in Washington Jena Griswold urges Americans to pay attention to crucial but often overlooked races for secretary of state @laurenegambino Mon 29 Aug 2022 23.23 BST (TheGuardian.com) Colorado’s secretary of state, Jena Griswold, is warning anyone who will listen that the fate of free and fair elections in the… Continue reading
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman speaks to an audience in Hermitage, Pennsylvania on August 28, 2022. (Photo: John Fetterman/Twitter) “Showing up and competing in places like Mercer and Venango, and all of the other counties in between, is the secret to winning as a Democrat in Pennsylvania.” BRETT WILKINS August… Continue reading
Rachel Swan Aug. 27, 2022Updated: Aug. 28, 2022 3:04 p.m. (SFChronicle.com) After more than 20 years of planning, financial woes and political strife, transit officials say that in 2024 they expect to start construction on the tunnel that will allow BART trains to roll into downtown San Jose. What may seem like… Continue reading
Activists gather to rally in support of canceling student debt in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on August 25, 2022. (Photo: Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) “You could undo the 2017 tax cuts for the 1% and forgive all student loans plus have money left over,” said… Continue reading
BECOME A MEMBER The scorched remnants of the Amazon rainforest after a blaze set by farmers tore through the land. Photo: Alex Pritz/Amazon Land Documentary In “The Territory,” documentarian Alex Pritz chronicles Indigenous Brazilians’ fight to save their home in the Amazon rainforest. Andrew Fishman August 28 2022, 4:00 a.m. (TheIntercept.com) A… Continue reading
BECOME A MEMBER Gov. Ronald Reagan explains his requested shutdown of California’s higher education system in Sacramento, Calif. on May 6, 1970. Photo: Bettmann Archive In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education. Jon Schwarz August 25 2022,… Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2022 (dailycal.org) GOOGLE/COURTESY According to Susie Miller, an organizing partner at the Shattuck Starbucks location, with the closure of Oxford Street’s location, the Shattuck location is now the only Starbucks location in Berkeley, meeting the caffeine demand of UC Berkeley, Berkeley High School and the greater Berkeley… Continue reading
