By Lester Black, Cannabis editor July 30, 2025 (SFGate.com) FILE: People on a moving walkway in front of 787 Dreamliners parked at San Francisco International Airport gates on Sept. 11, 2017, in San Francisco.George Rose/Getty Images The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown appears to have kept a Texas scientist who was born in Korea… Continue reading
Tom Lehrer (via Wikipedia.org) Kuttner on TAP July 30, 2025 (Prospect.org) Both challenged American smugness, one with satire and the other with great journalism. Two of the heroes of my youth died this past week, one at 97 and the other at 103. The youngster was Tom Lehrer. A math genius… Continue reading
See the path from arrest to removal for immigrants detained by ICE in the Bay by KELLY WALDRON and FRANKIE SOLINSKY DURYEA July 30, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) In early July, Edin Eduardo Castañeda Reyes stopped to get breakfast on his way to work in Redwood City when he noticed two unmarked cars following him… Continue reading
by OSCAR PALMA July 29, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today unanimously rejected an appeal of the first stage of the “Marvel in the Mission,” the planned 100-percent-affordable housing development at 16th and Mission streets. Since permanent supportive housing projects are shielded at the state level by SB 2162, neighbors instead… Continue reading
Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, an 18-month-old child in Gaza City, Gaza, faces life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade, on July 21, 2025. (Photo: Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu via Getty Images) “If a publication ran an editors’ note to ‘clarify’ that some portion… Continue reading
Congressional Progressive Caucus chairman Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) speaks in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) “If Trump is allowed to rip the Voting Rights Act to shreds here in Central Texas, his ploy will spread like wildfire across the… Continue reading
Secular Talk Jul 30, 2025 Support The Show On Patreon!: Chris Smalls poses upon release in Jordan with former Gaza Freedom Flotilla participant Anas Nairoukh. (Photo: Freedom Flotilla Coalition/Instagram/Screengrab) Chris Smalls Is Coming Home; Will This Shake the US Labor Movement Into Action on Gaza? Despite Smalls’ high-profile success at… Continue reading
Great Books Jul 28, 2025 Simone Weil was a radical philosopher who diagnosed some of modernity’s most serious problems. While she was influenced by Karl Marx, she also rejected many of Marxism’s central tenets. This means her critique of modernity and the solutions she offers are both original and challenging…. Continue reading
