(Illustrations by Mike Haddad) If they don’t, the checks and balances that have defined our government since its inception will give way to one-man authoritarian rule. BY ERWIN CHEMERINSKY JANUARY 22, 2025 (prospect.org) This article appears in the February 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. As a first-term president and more recently as… Continue reading
Coast Miwok Tribal Council, Main Street Moms, Legal Aid of Marin, the Dance Palace, and others rally against deportations and the Trump Agenda in Pt. Reyes Station By CHRISTOPHER D. COOK JANUARY 21, 2025 (48hills.org) The winter sky above Point Reyes Station on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—and inauguration… Continue reading
Fielder to chair Audit and Oversight, Melgar Land Use; Public Safety is all pro-cop supes By TIM REDMOND JANUARY 21, 2025 (48hills.org) The new Board of Supes committee assignments are out, and are fairly predictable based on the unanimous board vote naming Sup. Rafael Mandelman as president. The Budget and… Continue reading
22 JANUARY 2025/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) A Stanford student who was covering the occupation of the university president’s office by pro-Palestinian protesters last year for the campus newspaper when he was arrested alongside those protesters has been cleared of wrongdoing, at least by the school. Student journalist Dilan Gohill, a… Continue reading
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is pictured at President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images “In the coming months and years, our job is not just to respond to every absurd statement that Donald Trump makes. Our job is to stay focused… Continue reading
UC Berkeley • Oct 5, 2024 This is a Weinstock Lecture on the Morals of Trade Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the burgeoning climate crisis. This lecture will… Continue reading
AMERICAS Billionaire former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that his foundation would fund the UN climate change agency after President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement. Bloomberg’s pledge will cover the 22 percent of its $96.5 million budget previously provided by the US for… Continue reading
By Molly Burke Jan 20, 2025 (SFChronicle.com) Lina Pritchard, center, claps after the national anthem at a GOP inauguration watch party at Harry’s Bar in San Francisco on Monday. Benjamin Fanjoy/Special to the Chronicle San Francisco Republicans spent Monday morning whooping and applauding in Harry’s Bar on Fillmore Street, celebrating the… Continue reading
Share this Post: Allan M. Baird was a longtime Teamsters official who worked with Harvey Milk in the 1970s to help build a coalition between labor and the LGBTQ community. Photo: John Ferrannini Former longtime Teamsters official and staunch LGBTQ ally Allan M. Baird died Tuesday, January 7, friends told… Continue reading
After 24 years in office, the former supe talks about progressive wins, losses, and ‘right-wing billionaires and their astroturf lackeys’ By CHRISTOPHER D. COOK JANUARY 20, 2025 (48hills.org) A campaign button from Aaron Peskin’s first run for supervisor, in 2000, invited voters to “Annoy Willie. Vote Peskin.” Peskin succeeded on… Continue reading
