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(Repost) Doug’s How I Voted Guide: 2026 CA Primary

No, I haven’t changed my mind on anything. I have a busy day today dealing with health issues. So this is in place of doing nothing, and hopefully reminding you to vote if you haven’t already.


The time has come, fellow humans, to cast...

6 days ago
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Trump Takes on Greenland

Put June 14 –Flag Day, which also is the birthday of President Trump, on your calendar for a major announcement with world wide repercussions. Or, if the White House gets busy with the increasingly likely war with Cuba, the date might end u...

7 days ago
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Haters Hoping Hate Happens

Chew on this for a moment… In the hours after the May 18 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego, an assortment of right wing media and personalities were already at work, hoping to create a narrative capable of inspiring more such attack...

8 days ago
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San Diego Budget Games: Can We Imagine a Better Future Beyond Austerity?

The other day, I came across the San Diego budget challenge on KPBS’s website. I had a few minutes, so I spent a little time playing the game from a couple of different perspectives.

First, I tried on the “San Diego doesn’t have a revenue...

8 days ago
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Beware the Common Sense Candidate in SD's District 2 City Council Primary

It should be an axiom by now that candidates for office framing their platform around the words “common sense” are going to use misrepresentations as the basis for their campaigns. After all, San Diego’s already experienced Carl DeMaio as a...

9 days ago
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    Writer, Progressive Political Activist. San Diego elections are a thing for me, but I cover a lot of things. I lost my vocal chords to cancer, keyboard is my voice. #BLM

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