May 30, 2023 • Adam McKay (levernews.com) Adam McKay is a film director and producer recently founded Yellow Dot Studios, a media company to fight climate disinformation. Today, he offers a dose of outrage and imagination in the face of dire climate warnings. Adam McKay joins climate change protestors in… Continue reading
Turns out the union’s budget numbers were more accurate than the administration’s. By TIM REDMOND MAY 29, 2023 (48Hills.org) With two new pro-labor trustees leading the way, the City College Board last week voted to overturn the layoffs that deeply damaged the education of hundreds of students last year. Susan Solomon and Anita… Continue reading
U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) walks through the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on May 30, 2023. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) “Kevin McCarthy took the American economy, and working people’s economic security, hostage,” said one campaigner. “Now if he wants to get his ransom, he ought to put up the… Continue reading
Emira Woods, an activist with the group Africans Rising for Justice Peace and Dignity, speaks during a protest against Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill outside the Ugandan Embassy in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2023. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) “This is a desperately dark day for LGBTI rights and for Uganda,” said… Continue reading
Debates Equal Democracy started this petition to Executive Director of the DNC Sam Cornale SIGN OUR PETITION TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS & INSIST THAT THE DNC HOLDS 2024 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY DEBATES! As of May 10, 2023, we have three officially declared Democratic candidates (Marianne D. Williamson, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and… Continue reading
Olivia Wise/The Examiner A “ring of stagnation, decay, vacancies and vestigial industries.” You’d probably guess that’s some recent Miami transplant with a Substack describing downtown San Francisco. Actually, it’s Jane Jacobs, writing about lower Manhattan in “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” published in 1992. Wall Street back then had… Continue reading
May 27, 2023 On Thursday, the California Senate passed a bill to divest the country’s two largest public pensions from fossil fuels, with momentous support. The bill will now move to the Assembly, and could take effect by January 2024. Currently, the two impacted funds — the California Public Employees Retirement System… Continue reading
Written by Christina CampodonicoPublished May 22, 2023 • 5:30am (SFStandard.com) An Undiscovered Creative Market comes alive at night in 2019. | Courtesy Kultivate Labs By many accounts, Downtown San Francisco is in a so-called “doom loop,” with dying shopping centers and empty storefronts serving as harbingers of the apocalypse. But where so many see doom and gloom, some… Continue reading
Facing a mountain of ethics concerns, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court has rebuffed Senate investigators, again. Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts arrives before President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Feb. 7,… Continue reading
