The mainstream media will not cover deeply political issues like immigration as a journalistic search for truth but as a debate in which they cover both sides. It's maddening. That structural defect in MSM is why the 'open borders' myth is never addressed. We are... Continue
Progressive Majority Coalition
The one-day labor win for the faculty, adjuncts, post-doc fellows, counselors, and librarians at the planned week-long strike at California State University (CSU) is probably the best unexpected political news for 2024, so I’m banking it. I had planned to write a PMC column urging... Continue
This Sun column, Progressive Majority Coalition, has had a long-standing open mission of converting liberals into progressives. The fact that I am not concerned with trying to convert or persuade conservatives or anarchists is my way of focusing my efforts. At the risk of narrowing... Continue
This past Friday, November 10th, the workers and community supporters of the hotel workers seeking to join UNITE HERE Local 2 held a lively rally outside the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn. We marched in union picket formation for about an hour, making a long circle... Continue
The core value proposition of this column from Day One is to turn liberals into progressives. This mission has felt critical at times. Now is one of those times. We have less time than we expected before the coming series of crises overwhelms our inadequately... Continue
Elvis notoriously shot his TV when all four channels were trash that day. I feel you, bro. You, gentle reader, don’t have to go that gonzo to reduce the influence of mainstream media on your baseline mood and emotional stability. Don’t get poisoned by the... Continue
Moments of crises for the capitalist class always reveals (to borrow a phrase from billionaire Warren Buffet) who is wearing shorts and who is bare. Right now, this is one of the least talented cohort of corporate C suite cronies in the history of modern... Continue
The Board of Supervisors approved a new housing plan cycle that dramatically increased the number of state-mandated housing units in the county from 515 in the prior eight-year planning cycle to 3824 in this cycle. This is a great victory for housing advocates. Credit to... Continue
As ruefully anticipated in my prior columns on the fabricated debt ceiling crisis (the debt ceiling kabuki), this episode was another sad, deflated defeat by a political party that seems headed the way of the Whigs. The intellectual paralysis of the conventional DC Beltway mindset... Continue
The most black-pilled aspect of 21st-century party politics is how high the stakes are relative to the reckless or oblivious attitudes of the partisan political actors. Watching Republican Freedom Caucus ghouls like Matt Gaetz, MTG, and Jim Jordan (all pumped to blow up the dam... Continue