In the California state Assembly, the so-called “moderates” are doing the bidding of the Oil Lobby, Big Pharma, and the real estate developers — but Bernie’s ‘Our Revolution’ is joining a key fight to stop them.
The battleground: San Bernardino.
READ HERE.
Journalism
Pardon Snowden: A Q&A with Ben Wizner. The Nation 9/12
Can Edward Snowden come home soon? His lawyer, Ben Wizner of the ACLU, talks about what would happen in an espionage trial — and why Obama should issue a pardon.
The campaign to pardon Snowden, led by the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International, is collecting signatures on a petition: https://www.pardonsnowden.org/
Minnesota’s Mini-Trump–and the Lesbian Mother of 4 Challenging Him: The Nation 9/2
TMinnesota’s mini-Trump”: Jason Lewis, the right-wing talk-show host who’s running for Congress for an open Republican seat in the suburbs south of the Twin Cities, the 2nd Congressional District. It’s the same seat Bill Maher targeted two years ago in his “Flip-a-district” campaign—only then it was held by a six-term Republican incumbent named John Kline. Maher’s effort didn’t work; Kline was reelected.. . .
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Are Hillary’s Poll Numbers Misleading? TheNation.com 8/7
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Sick and Tired of Hillary’s Email? It’s not over yet. TheNation.com, 7-19
Republicans are doing everything they can to keep Hillary’s e-mail in the news. And now they have a new front in their campaign: They’re arguing that Clinton violated the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by storing official information on her private e-mail servers.
Read at TheNation.com, HERE
“Relax: Trump Can’t Win”: TheNation.com 6/21
Trump needs at least five or six million more votes than Romney in 2012. Where can he get them? A look at longstanding patterns in American voting suggests that it’s pretty much an impossible task.
READ the piece at TheNation.com HERE
“Witness to the Revolution”: New York Times Book Review 6/12
The new book Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul, by Clara Bingham, is an oral history of 1969-1970. It’s surprisingly moving and powerful.
Read my review HERE.
Pico Diary #3: LA Review of Books 6/2
When the circus came to Pico Blvd;
a look inside the karate studio;
and the mystery of the Pico Teriyaki House: they’re never open, but the guy is always in there.
http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/pico-diary-3/
Nancy Reagan and the Problem of the Two Nancys: TheNation.com 3/5
T here were two Nancy Davises in Hollywood in the early ’50s. One called the other a Communist. That was not true. The first one ended up in the White House, and the other one ended up in Ventura, California, flipping burgers in a snack bar.
story @TheNation.com http://bit.ly/1TYDchM
Pico Diary: LA Review of Books 2/25
Lunch at the Cemitas Poblanas truck, kindergarteners on their way to make pizza, and a chat with the EMT guys at the Fire Station
— my new Pico Diary, at the LA Review of Books: HERE.