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Hell No to MAGA's Budget Swindle!

Trump and his MAGA regime are assaulting our democracy and threatening our economic security. To fund massive tax cuts for their billionaire buddies, they are massively cutting funds for the domestic social-safety net while increasing defense and police-state spending to historic highs.

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SF DA Brooke Jenkins is using a Federal Program to do an End Run around the City and State Sanctuary Laws

DA Brooke Jenkins, who previously attempted to bypass San Francisco’s Sanctuary Ordinance but backed down after the Board pushed back, has elected to participate in the All Hands on Deck operation and is using it to allow ICE to detain people accused of low-level drug offenses, in violation of both the city and state’s Sanctuary laws.

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Bracing for impacts from Trump Tariffs

The Trump Tariffs are already causing damage, with shipments in American ports beginning to dry up. This will cause higher costs and scarcer goods, with ripple effects comparable to the early-pandemic supply chain shocks of 2020. Let’s dig a little bit into how we can get through what’s coming at a day-to-day level.

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What if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act?

Trump May Invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act

On his first day in office last January, wannabe king Trump declared a national emergency on our southern border granting him broad powers to repel a non-existent  "invasion." (In actual fact, the number of illegal border crossings is at an historic low.) Trump's declaration also gave the departments of Defense and Homeland Security 90 days to produce a report recommending that he invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807. 

That report has now come due. Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act at any moment.

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The Origin of May Day

The Origin of May Day: American unions then set May 1st 1890, as a national day of action for the 8-hour day. Socialists in Europe did the same, declaring May Day to be International Workers Day. Since then, throughout the world May 1st has continued to be a day for social and economic justice movements of all kinds and issues.

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You should write letters to the editor

Media coverage of the protests in one part of the country had been dismal, so some of the protesters there wrote letters-to-the-editor to their local newspapers and TV stations, calling them out for their failure to inform the public of the protest results. You can, too!

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Trump and Musk's Social Security Scam

For the first time since Social Security was established in 1935 by Roosevelt's New Deal coalition, it is facing a real and immediate threat from Trump/Musk and the shadow brotherhood of billionaires and mega-corporations behind them.

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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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