Democratic Ballot – City and County of San Francisco, March 5, 2024

March 5, 2024 Election 2024

VOTING GUIDE President of the U.S. Joseph R. Biden U.S. Senator [term ending January 3. 2031] Katie Porter U.S. Senator [term endig January 3, 2025] Katie Porter U.S Representative, District 11: Nancy Pelosi State Senator District 11: Scott Weiner State Assembly Member, District 19 : Catherine Stefani Judge of the superior court Seat 1: Michael Isaku Begert (important races) Judge of the Superior court seat #13: Patrick S. Thompson (important races) State Prop 1: Authorizes $6.38 bln bonds mental health:Read More

News articles week of Feb 24-March 2 2024

March 3, 2024 Articles, Russia, Ukraine

March 2, 2024 Saturday 3:14am [Slate podcast]: The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Coming Amicus Dahlia Lithwick in conversation with Dr. Michele Goodwin re: the Alabama Supreme court decision on IVF “… we will see more of this..” Very much worth your while. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/id928790786?i=1000647696756 [MSNBC, Last Word]: Lawrence on what they don’t tell you about the Dump Biden ‘fantasy’  Feb 21, 2024 https://youtu.be/_9vsivYrC4U?si=e4wOVjCzIvvsQCMI [The Washington Post] Maria Bartiromo hyped the false Biden-bribe story hundreds of times By Philip BumpRead More

“We are seeing the Silicon Valley elite lurch into the culture war with their money and power.”

December 16, 2022 Mastodon

Mastodon post: “We are seeing the Silicon Valley elite lurch into the culture war with their money and power. Their influence is already mingling with and advancing the most dangerous, reactionary and fascist elements of our society, all in service of oligarchy.

Who are the Republicans against this bill: The Afghan Adjustment Act? What hypocrisy!

December 15, 2022 Afghanistan, Immigration

Who are the Republicans against the Afghan Adjustment Act? Republicans are hypocrites.

Ex-Russian spy flees to the NATO country that captured him, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow

November 18, 2022 Russia, Ukraine

Exclusive: Ex-Russian spy flees to the NATO country that captured him, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow, Michael Weiss·Sr. Correspondent Yahoo News https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ex-russian-spy-flees-to-the-nato-country-that-captured-him-delivering-another-embarrassing-blow-to-moscow-010049616.html Very interesting article by Michael Weiss. We will hear much more about this, about the Russian defector, Artem Zinchenko. Alot of rich detail outlining the GRU, FSB, SMERSH, his family’s history. His own prisoner swap at the border in 2018 feels something like Richard Burton’s “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.” Worthwhile reading this

How the 2022 Midterms Became a Squeaker

November 12, 2022 Uncategorized

Interviews with more than 70 current and former officials show the outside forces — and miscalculations and infighting — that led to an improbable, still-undecided election. New York Times, Shane Goldmacher, Nov. 12, 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/us/politics/midterm-elections-officials.html excerpts: “Republicans might not have had a shot at the House at all if not for a court ruling that let stand a brutal Republican gerrymander in Florida and another that tossed a Democratic gerrymander in New York. Those two decisions swung as many asRead More

Thanksgiving 2022, History

November 8, 2022 Uncategorized

Time Capsule: Puck Magazine Thanksgiving Political Covers, 1894-1913 Published from 1871 until 1918, Puck magazine was America’s first successful humor magazine featuring cartoons and political satire. Their Thanksgiving covers, while not always political, usually were and are still fun to look at today even if the relevance has been lost to time. Their choice of makes sense when you know that they were based out of New York City. Tammany Hall, which we all heard about in history class butRead More

November 8th 2022 / Tuesday / Election Day

November 8, 2022 Election day 2022

Tuesday Morning, election day across the U.S. Set up the plugin described here : https://fedi.tips/the-fediverse-beyond-mastodon/#WordPress to connect/ create a mastodon server instance associated with this wordpress site