It’s been hard letting Aretha go, but this expression of love by Stevie Wonder at her funeral service on Friday helps a bit.
(He preceded this tribute rendition of “I‘ll Be Lovin‘ You Always” with an expressive and moving harmonica performance. To also listen to the harmonica work, at the end of the video click the replay icon and the video should replay from the beginning.) [Read more…]
Racist Policy Realized: 497 Children Are Still Locked Up | Progressive Activist Calendar September 1 -10, 2018
As we head into the midterm elections, the administration’s “Make America White Again” agenda is kicking into high gear.
The zero-tolerance program at the border, which had zero intention of ever showing any compassion to children separated from their families has 497 of migrant kids *still* in custody, according to a just-filed government update. Parents of 322 of those kids have already been deported; 22 of the still-separated kids are under 5 years old.
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The Sins of Lorie Zapf – Part 1
As Councilmember Lorie Zapf does her victory laps through the coastal neighborhoods of District 2 for her successful stand against unrestricted short-term vacation rentals, locals need to remember Zapf is also a partisan candidate running to keep her seat on the Council (and hoping for an unusual third term).
While her STVR coalition with Councilmember Barbara Bry ultimately and admirably won the day for restrictions on STVRs and for saving communities from the deluge of mini-hotels plaguing the beaches, one need only peek at some of the other issues Lorie has taken positions on to have your eyebrow raised.
A more serious look into her record over the past 8 years on Council does more than raise eyebrows – it raises the blood pressure. [Read more…]
Hint of Fall | Geo-Poetic Spaces
Fall faintly whispers
To the growing shadows’ play
Time to buy a broom
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Judd Legum Explains the Stats That Voters Should Know About Trump’s Economy | Video Worth Watching
Judd Legum presents three facts about the economy that will help to put into context any claims by this administration about how great the economy is doing. [Read more…]
El Cajon Deplorable: Councilman Ben Kalasho Talks Trash About His City
Ben Kalasho was thinking about running for Mayor of El Cajon. That was before the hundreds of emails started coming in, begging him to represent the Fletcher Hills and Grossmont areas of the city. Or at least that’s what he says on a video on his city councilman campaign website.
What makes this claim odd was Kalasho’s earlier threat to sue the City of El Cajon after they rejected redistricting maps he’d submitted, all of which split his newly-drawn district in two. The people he didn’t want to represent somehow thought he was the best choice to represent them.
Now candidate Kalasho is singing a different tune [Read more…]
From Rough Seas to Pleasant Memories
There have been moments
in mourning
the loss of my son
that I’ve felt like a boat
being battered in rough seas,
swirling and whirling
in pounding
un-relenting waves,
and then there comes
a little break
as the waters, seemingly,
hurl me towards the shore,
and a memory,
like one I had the other day,
springs to the fore, [Read more…]
Campus Rapists and Sexual Harassers Set to Get a Big Gift from the Trump Administration
By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
In the age of #MeToo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is poised to set a policy that lets colleges off the hook for taking sexual harassment seriously and makes life much easier for accused rapists and harassers. DeVos previously rescinded Obama-era guidelines on campus sexual assault because they were supposedly unfair to rapists, and now she’s ready to take the next step with regulations of her own.
The DeVos rules would allow perpetrators to cross-examine their victims during mediation and would “also allow the complainant and the accused to have access to any evidence obtained during the investigation, even if there are no plans to use it to prove the conduct occurred.” Because it’s not already hard enough for assault survivors to come forward—now their assailants will have free rein to dig through their lives and intimidate them in person. [Read more…]
No One Ever Remembered a Teacher for Raising Standardized Test Scores
By Steven Singer / Common Dreams
It’s the day before school begins.
I’m out to eat with my family and have just taken a big bite of a juicy beef taco.
That’s when I notice someone standing right next to me at the restaurant.
So I raise my eyes upward, a meat-filled tortilla overfilled with lettuce and beans hanging from my mouth, and I’m greeted with a familiar face.
“Mr. Singer!” the woman says with a nervous smile on her lips.
“Do you remember me?” [Read more…]
Memories of a Doctor on the ‘Front Lines’ During Chicago 1968
By Jeoffry B. Gordon, M.D. / OB Rag
Fifty years ago this week, I was in Chitown.
Having just finished my medical internship and working several years with the famous pediatrician Dr. Ben Spock on anti-war issues, I was in a white coat among the checkered blue caped and the robins-egg blue-helmeted police and real people.
I will never forget walking along the lines of scared, sweating teenage national guardsmen with fixed bayonets, trying to calm them down by talking about how we were all brothers, and now remembering Kent State – I think, Thank God, there was never a charge by them. [Read more…]
Study: Hurricane Maria killed nearly 3,000 | Video Worth Watching
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer speaks with correspondent Leyla Santiago reporting on the results of a new study by George Washington University on the death toll attributed to Hurricane Maria. The new study’s figure of 2,975 deaths is nearly 46 times higher than the current official figure of 64 deaths. [Read more…]
California Law Makers in Action: Renewable Energy, Bye-Bye Bail, and Training for Concealed Carry
While Washington DC sinks into a political swamp and the nation’s chief executive is melting down, California’s legislature is making history, thanks in large part to San Diego Democrats. Their accomplishments, even when they fall short of progressive expectations, are a welcome contrast to the vileness we see coming from the other coast.
President Donald Trump warned evangelicals on Monday that his policies will be “violently” overturned if Democrats win in November’s mid-term elections. He’s gone full-blown conspiracy-theory crazy, so let’s focus today on some better news.
The 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018 (SB100) was approved by a vote of 43-32 in the assembly on Tuesday. [Read more…]
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