One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden (Contributor) From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling—and timely—history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin. In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of… Continue reading
275,510 views | Simon Stiell • TED Countdown Summit Climate action is speeding up — and we each have the power to push that transformation forward. As the head of the UNFCCC, the UN’s entity supporting the global response to climate change, Simon Stiell points to clear social and technological… Continue reading
4 AUGUST 2023/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (sfist.com) After the controversial clearing of the enormous Wood Street encampment in West Oakland. The New York Times takes a look at what happened to the hundreds of people who were swept out. A year ago this time, one of the most contentious topics in… Continue reading
We’ve all felt it — that moment when you fall in love with The City, when it becomes a part of you. The late Tony Bennett gave us an unforgettable song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” about the phenomenon. It happened to Elon Musk on a Saturday in… Continue reading
Bob Egelko Aug. 2, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) The Constitution’s 14th Amendment permanently bars any government official from public office who has taken part in, or given “aid and comfort to,” any “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States. Could this be applied to former President Donald Trump, whose indictment this week… Continue reading
The most likely strategy, but it will not succeed ROBERT REICH AUG 3, 2023 (robertreich.substack.com) THE KEY DATE TO KEEP IN MIND is January 20, 2025. Trump’s main legal defense will be to stall the start of any trial until after that date. He’ll argue that it is impossible for… Continue reading
RootsAction Team (info@rootsaction.org) August 3, 2023 We dread a re-run of 2016, when all the background noise about alleged Hillary Clinton corruption – such as high-paid corporate speeches and Clinton Foundation donations – hurt her with some voters on the fence. Pro-Biden news outlets have so far generally played down the… Continue reading
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks at a press conference on May 4, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) “Like the tobacco industry before them, the fossil fuel companies’ actions represent a clear violation of federal racketeering laws, truth in advertising laws, consumer protection laws, and potentially other… Continue reading
Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) speak at a news conference in Washington, D.C. on January 4, 2011. (Photo: Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images) “It’s galling to see leadership muster behind Cuellar, of all people at all times,” said one… Continue reading
