The night was a flash point of San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ history New Year’s Eve in downtown San Francisco, Dec. 31, 1964.Barney Peterson/SF Chronicle via Getty Images By Timothy Karoff, Culture ReporterJan 13, 2025 (SFGate.com) A building on Polk Street has a problem. California Hall, which sits on the corner of Turk… Continue reading
By James K. Galbraith JAN 13, 2025 | (ineteconomics.org) Fifty years ago the actions of the Federal Reserve mattered. Today, so far as the aggregate measures of the American domestic economy go, they do not. Books discussed in this essay: Sarah Binder and Mark Spindel, The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal… Continue reading
Billionaire Elon Musk (C), co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), carries his son on his shoulders before a meeting with members of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on December 5, 2024. (Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images) “We can offer views that are untainted by… Continue reading
This screengrab shows a new ad from Americans for Prosperity, a Koch-founded group pushing for an extension of the 2017 Trump-GOP tax cuts. (Photo: Americans for Prosperity/YouTube Screengrab) “Don’t be fooled: What this Koch-backed group is really only after is protecting tax cuts for wealthy people like me,” said the… Continue reading
You Literally Have Nothing to Lose. MICHAEL MOORE JAN 14, 2025 Last weekend, activists dressed as contractors replaced the banner outside the National Archives, demanding Biden publish the E.R.A. Dear President Joe Biden, It’s been three months since I sent you my suggested list of Executive Actions that you could take in your last… Continue reading
(via Occupy Oakland) From the Gaza genocide to the LA fires the connection is about greedy capitalists and war mongers putting profiteering first no matter the cost. Politicians in the US who slash fire department budgets and greenlight destructive developments are the same ones who have voted to fund genocide…. Continue reading
A Positive Form of Opposition TIMOTHY SNYDER JAN 06, 2025 (snyder.substack.com) When I moved to Great Britain to study, I found the politics very exciting. The parliamentary system was different, so that new elections immediately led to new governments. The press was excellent but political, so that one could read… Continue reading
Capitalism: A Ghost Story Arundhati Roy From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly… Continue reading
If you and I haven’t met yet, my name is Josh Weil. I’m a public school teacher and proud Democrat running in the Special Election for Florida’s 6th Congressional District—the first major election of 2025. Here’s the bottom line: I’m a proud teacher who has always encouraged my students to… Continue reading
