Monday, June 30, 2025

If it were up to the Mission, heads would roll

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  We don't much like these guys. They don't much like us either.
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Tough people still rise. It's Gay Freedom season

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It's a tough year for LGBTQIA+ celebrations. Not so much here in San Francisco where we've had four delicious days of Pride. But aro...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Keeping the pressure on in Colma

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Neighbors gathered on Saturday on either side of Junipero Serra and Serramonte Blvds. in Colma (that's Auto Row)  to let passing cars kn...

Scenes from the gathering for the Trans March

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We gathered in the sun at Dolores Park. The fog was nowhere about. Many are the years that Pride weekend at the end of June is one of the co...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Trans youth have much to say ...

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Trans youth and friends kicked off San Francisco's extended LGBTQIA+ weekend with a rally Thursday night on City Hall steps in response ...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

A few thoughts about Zohran from people closer than I am

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I did live in New York City for a few years, way back in the hyper-energetic times of Mayor John Lindsay (1970-73) whose government epitomiz...

DEI reminder

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It's good getting my health care from a medical system that wants its diverse patient population to know that it aims to treat us all ri...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

A good use for the National Guard

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In Chicago, a couple of soldiers accompanied their mother to her ICE appointment. Some Congresspeople turned up too, fearing what one called...

National disgrace abroad and at home

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If he weren't so dangerous, it would be merely embarrassing to have elected a buffoon to the presidency. Sorry dude, you spent a lot of ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Technofascists v. the normies

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Erudite Partner's latest article from TomDispatch opens with a vignette: Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my ...
Monday, June 23, 2025

What's God got to do with it?

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Everything for the evangelical, Pentecostal segment of Donald Trump's base which is cheering his extra-Constitutional attack on what he ...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

A message of shared humanity and a warning

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Historian of American Christian religion Diana Butler Bass offers a homily for this moment: For I was hungry and you gave me something to ea...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Pacifica will not go quietly

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Along Highway One at Mori Point in Pacifica this morning, folks were alerting passing motorists to their anger at the Trump regime. There we...