Just when I thought I’d pretty much seen it all, the storming of the Capitol proved that, even as a jaded and politically black-pilled political junkie, I am still capable of being shocked and enraged. My personal practice is to not have breaking news alerts... Continue

The Republican Party has not accepted the results of the 2020 election and the traditional “peaceful transfer of power” may never happen. Not good, folks.  The hilarious legal escapades of the Trump team seem unlikely to reverse the results. A Beltway veteran like James Baker... Continue

The most prominent feature of this unsettling interregnum following the election is the lack of closure. We did not get the release of dread or the angst of defeat. The Constitutional machinery was not designed for this kind of malicious bad-faith stress test. The Fox/Breitbart/Rush... Continue

We are rapidly approaching the event horizon of the November presidential election. This troubled election will clearly be a major stress test on our national claim to be the ‘Leader of the Free World’ and prime exemplar of first world capitalist democracy. We have been... Continue

We are in the crucible of history now and the molten force of this moment will cast the template for the form of government that we will live with for another generation, at least. This is it. The unimaginable political apocalypse of a triumphant right-wing... Continue

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors made the courageous, unanimous (5-0) decision recently to place the Evelyn Cheatham Effective IOLERO Ordinance on the November ballot. This bold action was spurred by public demand for civic accountability of law enforcement, as expressed by the many street... Continue

Let’s give props where they are due. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors (BOS) seems to have accurately read the will of their constituents, who have been deeply impacted by the public action and education around the Black Lives Matter movement. The Board made a... Continue

The ongoing national protests against police violence have entered a stage similar to the Occupy Movement in 2011. As a labor-based democratic socialist, I am not too romantic about leaderless street-action mass movements, because I know from historical evidence that they follow an inevitable arc... Continue

My social security check paid for the gas to drive to downtown Sonoma on June 6 to be in the Walk for Justice rally and march, organized by a local high school student group, Sonoma Black Lives Matter, welcomed by the Mayor and the endorsed... Continue