California’s 2026 Primary Election: Hang on to Your Ballots for a Minute So many candidates, so little time... (I'm here to help)

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Staring Into the Abyss of Trumpiness A Few Notes After a Weekend Out of Town

Staring Into the Abyss of Trumpiness
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Grim Times at City Hall as Mayor Gloria Doubles Down on Budget Cuts San Diego's Got the Austerity Blues

Grim Times at City Hall as Mayor Gloria Doubles Down on Budget Cuts
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Nothing says leadership like threatening the Pope! I’m sure they have access to the Epstein files so he should watch who he’s threatening!!

Inside Epstein’s web: The 137 men and women who reveal how his international network of power and influence operated EL PAÍS analyzes the most relevant profiles from the sex offender’s ultra-wealthy circle, at least 16 of whom have faced legal consequences, while 56 have felt an impact on their personal and professional lives

Inside Epstein’s web: The 137 men and women who reveal how his international network of power and influence operated

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Corporations have only the powers that states give them—no more. Every state retains authority to no longer grant its corporations the power to spend in politics.

Montana has a bill to end Citizens United in their state.

The other 49 states must replicate it.

🌊💙 ☮️ #PamelasHowToResist

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Well, well, well.....What do we have here? Could it be an email between Epstein and JD Vance’s techno-tyrant benefactor Peter Thiel where they plan to “collapse society" in order to create wealth opportunities for themselves?

Well, I'll be damned. It is!

Iran being pretty clear that they're only allowing the Strait to be open as long as Israel stops bombing Lebanon.

Yes! And it’s Republicans in Congress and in state governments—not Trump or anyone in his admin—that we have the power to vote OUT this November. If we focus on what’s directly actionable, we’ll all feel more empowered and be more productive.

Trump Mostly Fired Black Agency Officials, New Lawsuit Says A Black former National Transportation Safety Board member fired by President Donald Trump argues in a new lawsuit that race discrimination shaped the administration’s termination of officials at inde...

When President Trump fires 75% of Black officials at independent agencies, that’s not coincidence – it’s racial discrimination.

We are proud to represent Alvin Brown, National Transportation Board member, in this lawsuit calling out the Trump-Vance admin’s discriminatory actions.

Foreign governments do not get to buy influence in American elections.

Not from the left.

Not from the right.

Not ever.

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Going Beyond Waving Signs and Chanting Slogans on MayDay A San Diego Resistance Calendar. Every Protest Counts.

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Going Beyond Waving Signs and Chanting Slogans on MayDay A San Diego Resistance Calendar. Every Protest Counts.

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Trump’s Promised Tax Refunds Vaporize Make the people who have the most pay the most

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Since it’s tax day, recall what a tax cheat Donald Trump is.

In 2016 and 2017 he paid *exactly* the same amount—$750. What are the chances of that?

Donald is too lazy to make his dishonesty convincing.

A Wheel Comes Off the Autocrats’ Jalopy Hungary was more than just one state on its way to fascism; it was a transit point for financial resources and Christian nationalist ideology being used to undermine liberal democracies worldwide.

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Tom Steyer, Populist Hero? “It’s not the activist left funding the anti-Steyer SuperPAC ads, but the real estate industry, big corporations, and those who are under their sway.”

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FIFA faces new crisis as SoFi Stadium workers in LA threaten strike action The union UNITE HERE Local 11 has made a series of demands to FIFA and voiced major concerns about ICE agents around World Cup venues

Thousands of workers are threatening to strike at the Los Angeles World Cup stadium.

The SoFi Stadium plans to host two of the three US Men's World Cup matches, but now 2,000 cooks, servers, bartenders and more may strike.

Their main issue? ICE being present at the World Cup.

This may come as a surprise to some, but doordash bullshitter was a fucking scam (duh).
Same woman last June parroting fop talking points in NV.
Everything the republican party does is to control the narrative.
Fucking. Everything.

BREAKING: Swalwell announces he will be RESIGNING from Congress

🚨Nicole Wallace just reported Rep. Eric Swalwell is resigning from Congress..Will have report on soon..
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Who’ll Replace Swalwell at the Top Spot in Polls? While some endorsements have drifted over to Tom Steyer and Katie Porter, other candidates are seeing an opportunity to make a move.

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Trump attacks the Pope, then posts an image of himself as Jesus resurrecting what looks like Jeffrey Epstein. You cannot parody this level of depravity.

At the Union Now event in NYC where Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, union leader Sara Nelson and others will be speaking

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

also, it hasn’t sunk in with the public yet that even in this wretched country, the public charging network is largely good enough to get by

Blockading a blockade is the work of a pure stable genius like no one has ever seen before. Only Donald Trump could have thought of this.

It's like, "You think you can shoot at us? Well, we'll show you—we'll shoot ourselves!!"

We should all have tears in our eyes.

Congressman Eric Swalwell’s Campaign Stung by Sexual Assault Allegations Former congressional staffer tells San Francisco Chronicle she was sexually assaulted.

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Will the CA GOP Pick a Candidate for Governor? Trump choosing a side was gift for Democrats

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What this war of choice has wrought-Ben Rhodes sums it up.