San Francisco DAs have never charged peaceful protesters with felonies and forced them to trial. Now it’s happened By Bobbie Stein August 25, 2026 (48hills.org) Once known for pioneering progressive political counterculture, San Francisco is rapidly shedding its flowers-in-your-hair image. In recent years the city has elected mayors who are more concerned… Continue reading
Absentee ballots were prepared to be mailed at the Wake County Board of Elections on September 17, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) “This is yet another example of this administration’s unlawful overreach,” said Rhode Island’s attorney general. Jake Johnson Aug 26, 2026 (CommonDream.org) A coalition… Continue reading
By Tony Bravo,Arts & Culture Columnist Aug 25, 2026 Gift Article (SFChronicle.com) Jennifer Steinkamp’s “It’s a nice day for a white wedding.” is projected on the Humboldt Bank Building in San Francisco.Brennan Smart/For the S.F. Chronicle A 95-foot animated artwork is about to transform a historic Market Street building into one of downtown San… Continue reading
SF News/Jay Barmann Published Aug 26, 2026 · SFist.com The Solano County Board of Supervisors has dealt a blow, albeit possibly a temporary one, to the group known as California Forever and its fast-tracked legislation that would pave the way for a new shipbuilding facility on the Delta. Weeks after… Continue reading
Making the case for impeaching members of the Supreme Court: why the conduct is impeachable, and why penalizing it now matters even without a conviction. Christopher Armitage Aug 25, 2026 Thomas’ approach of originalism for thee but not for me is catching up to him. Cage Rivera/Rewire News Group/Wikipedia A note… Continue reading
August 25, 2026 (Prospect.org) MEYERSON ON TAP Will the Republican justices OK Trump’s efforts to winnow the midterm electorate?Yesterday’s ruling doesn’t foretell where they’ll go, but their Republican bias is an established fact.Yesterday, the six Republican justices on the Supreme Court—those mischievous scamps!—opened the door just a crack to President… Continue reading
Vice President JD Vance speaks at CompoTech headquarters on August 24, 2026 in Brewer, Maine. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) “To come here and say, ‘Have some perspective’? You ought to have some damn perspective,” Jackson said in a video reply to the vice president. Jake Johnson Aug 25, 2026… Continue reading
On November 22, 1994, then-U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich delivered a famously prescient speech titled “A New Middle Class” to the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). Coming just two weeks after the Democrats lost control of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections, Reich used the platform to warn that growing economic… Continue reading
When pressed about the Iran war, a CENTCOM press official threatened to put an Intercept reporter on a “list of people to disregard.” Nick Turse August 24 2026 (TheIntercept.com) The U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 6, 2017. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP File U.S. Central… Continue reading
Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation Stephen Bezruchka How healthy you are is dependent on where you live. Americans suffer more cancers, heart disease, mental illness, and other chronic diseases than those who live in other wealthy nations, despite having the most expensive healthcare system… Continue reading
