By Adrienne Fong Am not back posting on a regular basis Please hold the following people in your thoughts: Victor Picazo, dealing with health complications Jackie Barshak, battling stage 4 metastatic lung cancer, as she continues chemo therapy. Melvin Starks – Still needs housing! Rodger Scott as he gains strength. Open site… Continue reading
Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible here. I’m going to tell you something scary first, but I’m going to follow that up with how we can make it less scary. You may have seen that our right-wing Supreme Court just started its new term. Here’s the scary thing: They are considering… Continue reading
posted by San Francisco League of Pissed Off VotersOctober 10, 2022 (theleaguesf.org) Jump to our voting cheat sheet. Scroll down for our endorsements VOTING LOGISTICS: Register to Vote at the Post Office or online at registertovote.ca.gov. The California deadline to register is Oct 19th, but in San Francisco you can register on the spot and… Continue reading
Conrad Swanson, The Denver Post – Sunday React Comments 10 October 2022 (msn.com) County clerks across Colorado say they’re bracing for a surge of highly motivated election deniers working as poll watchers or election judges in the November midterms — part of a nationwide attempt to manufacture evidence of election fraud. Brooke… Continue reading
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks to reporters following the weekly Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill on May 25, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) The GOP has no unifying philosophy other than hate, fear, and kowtowing to billionaires and their giant corporations; the people who… Continue reading
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy speaks at a White House ceremony on June 6, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) “We can’t let the Postal Service sabotage itself by driving industries out of business and driving consumers away from using the mail,” said one critic. JAKE JOHNSON October 12,… Continue reading
Democrats shouldn’t focus only on abortion in the midterms. That’s a mistakeAmerica has long faced structural economic crises. Democrats must win on the economy and present a pro-worker agenda Bernie SandersMon 10 Oct 2022 (info@berniesanders.com) As someone who has a lifetime 100% pro-choice voting record, and is outraged by the… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia National Coming Out Day NCOD logo designed by Keith Haring Observed by LGBT community Type National, International Observances Coming out Date October 11 Next time October 11, 2023 Frequency Annual Related to 1987 March on Washington National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an annual LGBT awareness day observed on October 11, to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (a.k.a. the LGBT… Continue reading
Hamasaki for DA. Mahogany and Mar for Supe. No on D, Yes on E—complete endorsements for the Nov. 8 election. By Guardian Editorial October 10, 2022 (sfbg.com) A professional political consultant, someone who has worked on progressive campaigns for years, told us recently that candidates for local office need to move… Continue reading
FRANCE 24 English Oct 6, 2022 It was an unprecedented attack on the peaceful transition of power that had defined democracy in the #UnitedStates for more than two centuries. On #January6, 2021, a mob of Donald #Trump supporters besieged the US Capitol, forcing several chaotic hours of lockdown and ultimately leaving five people… Continue reading
