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Trump's attacks on the media in his first two months in office

We’re nearly two months into the second Trump regime, and like other wanna-be dictators (such as Viktor Orbán, as chronicled in Democracy Noir), he’s been taking seriously concerning actions to curb press freedom in the United States to put the American people in the dark about his administration’s misdeeds.

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San Francisco Stands Up for Science

"Got polio? Me neither. Thanks science!" The signs were nerdy. The labcoats gleamed in the bright afternoon sun. Hundreds, maybe a thousand people gathered in Civic Center Plaza in SF to defend a pillar of our modern world that too many of us take for granted: science.

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Looming on the Horizon

Congress reconvenes from their recess next Monday. Nineteen working days later –  at midnight, March 14 – the federal government runs out of money. Without new funding, major domestic services and programs will shut down (military & police will continue).

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Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi is defunding the police

We were more than a little bit surprised to see Trump’s new attorney general, Pam Bondi, take action to defund local police this week, as part of the Administration’s ideological crusade against sanctuary cities like San Francisco. This isn’t quite what defunding proponents wanted, and we certainly won’t hail her as a racial-justice hero for an action motivated by anti-immigrant ideology. Nonetheless, her move to withhold federal funding for public safety in sanctuary cities does count as defunding local police—an interesting move from someone nominally in law enforcement.

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Get used to reusing plastic bags… while you still can

Next year, 2025, will be the last year in which you can get cheap plastic shopping bags from your local grocery store. A state law passed this year is closing the loophole that allows thicker “reusable” bags to take the place of the old, flimsy, single-use bags.

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