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Local Public Media Hit Hard

“We’ve taken the President at his word in his calls to eliminate funding for public broadcasting,” says Joe Moore, president and general manager of Valley Public Radio, noting staff at the station [...] Continue Reading

How Do We Fight Back?

It is easy to feel hopeless. It is hard to watch the news. We ask ourselves what is the best way to resist the fascist Trump regime. There is no one silver bullet, but many essential activities—mass [...] Continue Reading

Words Are Insufficient

Never did we expect to see our nation collapse—explode?—in slow motion in our time. We have long known that all the great empires of history had sooner or later collapsed, but we thought we were the [...] Continue Reading

Republican Budget Is Immoral

“In virtually every single area, this bill takes us in precisely the wrong direction.”  —Senator Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.)1 On July 4, America celebrates its independence from the harsh and [...] Continue Reading

It Has Happened!

Not even a planet is big enough for two egos such as those of Trump and Elon Musk. It was just a matter of time, how long it would take for the two supposedly working together to blow up attacking [...] Continue Reading

Technocracy vs. Democracy

The debate between technocracy and democracy has long been a subject of scholarly debate, especially in the context of the United States and its approach to complex global challenges. Technocracy [...] Continue Reading

Una Fuerza más Poderosa: el Pueblo

“Nuestros campos de concentración extraterritoriales, por ahora, se encuentran en El Salvador y la Bahía de Guantánamo, Cuba. Pero no esperen que permanezcan allí. Una vez que se normalice su [...] Continue Reading

Valadao Against His Community

House Republicans have greenlit a proposal that will cut the Medicaid budget by a staggering $880 billion, effectively eliminating access to public healthcare for the vast majority of low-income [...] Continue Reading

Measure C Conclave Convenes

The doors have slammed shut and the public pushed out of the Fresno County transportation sales tax renewal effort’s inner sanctum. The great unwashed are being told to pray for the best and wait for [...] Continue Reading

Measure C Battle Lines Drawn

At the April 22 meeting of the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS), points of contention were delineated for the upcoming Measure C renewal vote, with truculent, implacable Vice Chair Garry [...] Continue Reading

Valadao Contra su Comunidad

Los Republicanos en la Cámara de Diputados dieron luz verde a una propuesta que recortará el presupuesto de Medicaid en la increíble suma de $880 billones de dólares, lo que significa eliminar el [...] Continue Reading