Heather Knight Oct. 24, 2021 (SFChronicle.com) Sitting on a bench in Golden Gate Park on a recent afternoon, Brooke Jenkins made clear the city’s raging debate over crime and how District Attorney Chesa Boudin responds to it is more complicated than left versus right. Jenkins, a former homicide prosecutor, just quit. Her… Continue reading
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 19, 2021. Photo: Rod Lamkey-Pool/Getty Images Sinema’s subservience to big moneyed interests is a holdover from an era of politics that is fading noisily into the past. Ryan GrimOctober 22 2021, 9:35 a.m. (TheIntercept.com) KYRSTEN SINEMA… Continue reading
Eric Ting, SFGATE Oct. 25, 2021 (SFGate.com) Organizers hoping to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced they collected over 83,000 signatures from voters, a number well above the 51,325 threshold required to force a recall election. Monday is the deadline for organizers to submit signatures, and the city now has… Continue reading
Anne Irwin 1 day ago · Medium.com Right now, there are people in San Francisco taking every opportunity to lie to the public about skyrocketing crime when, in fact, it is falling. (Year to date, crime is 17% lower in 2021 compared to 2019.) They are fearmongering to whomever will listen,… Continue reading
Colin Powell gives a briefing on Jan. 17, 1991. Photo: Rick Maiman/Sygma via Getty Images As secretary of state in 2003, Powell lied at the United Nations about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. Peter MaassOctober 18 2021, 2:40 p.m. (theintercept.com) “I am saddened by the death of Colin Powell without being… Continue reading
TK News While President Biden’s 2020 candidacy was largely supported by environmental activists over the incumbent President Trump, their movement has grown increasingly frustrated by what they see as a betrayal in the approval of fossil fuel projects like Line 3. Over the week of October 11 to 15, climate… Continue reading
BY LIZA FEATHERSTONE (jacobinmag.com) As if his own record weren’t bad enough, former coal baron and current West Virginia senator Joe Manchin’s daughter Heather Bresch — who doubles as a major donor to Joe — is a price-gouging drug profiteer who has played a central role in her father’s destructive… Continue reading
The country’s wealthiest people pay hardly any income tax. BY JACQUI GERMAIN OCTOBER 15, 2021 (teenvogue.com) This story is published as part of Teen Vogue’s 2021 Economic Security Project fellowship. The numbers are almost incomprehensible. According to an ongoing report called Billionaire Bonanza 2020, in the first 17 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon… Continue reading
The founder of Ethereum invested in the Santiago Siri initiative and then others joined in, multiplying the value of the UBI by 30 By Martin Kanenguiser October 21, 2021 (infobae.com) Santiago Siri on the left; Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder of Ethereum Santiago Siri can hardly forget what happened to him this week: the Argentine… Continue reading
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