OPINION: Time for local Democrats to step up the resistance to Trump

State and local party leaders should be looking for solutions here at home, including taxes on the rich and protections for vulnerable communities. Here are some ideas. By JOHN AVALOS MARCH 26, 2025 (48hills.org) As Senator Bernie Sanders, and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and Greg Casar, return from the barnstorming… Continue reading

Citing Trump’s Push for Ethnic Cleansing, Sanders Says Congress ‘Must Act to Block’ Arms Sales to Israel

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) arrives for President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2025.  (Photo: Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has clearly violated U.S. and international law in this brutal war, and… Continue reading

When is a bed not a bed? In Lurie’s plan to end homelessness, it matters.

by XUEER LU March 27, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) Read Mission Local often? Help grow our newsroom, joining the hundreds of San Franciscans who support us by giving below. Donate today! In an executive directive released earlier this month, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie altered a key campaign promise to end street homelessness within… Continue reading

Do Your Worst; We’ll Do Our Best

“We shall never turn from our purpose, however sombre the road, however grievous the cost, because we know that out of this time of trial and tribulation will be born a new freedom and glory for all mankind.” –Wimston Churchill (nationalchurchillmuseum.org) Audio: https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/do-your-worst-well-do-our-best.html I am very glad to come here… Continue reading

MAHMOUD KHALIL’S ABDUCTION AND TRUMP’S ESCALATING WAR ON THE PALESTINE MOVEMENT

POSTED IN THE MARC STEINER SHOW It’s been two weeks since ICE illegally abducted and jailed Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University—and the future of free speech in America hangs on the outcome of his case. BY MARC STEINER MARCH 25, 2025 (TheIntercept.com) Protestors gather to demand the release of… Continue reading