Bro, what the fuck?  I regularly make jokes about San Francisco being a dystopian nightmare and a lot of them go viral because there’s some truth to my jokes. Don’t get me wrong, San Francisco is very pretty and I like it more than I admit, but it’s also pretty

Kanye West has always been a complicated figure in the pop culture landscape. Early in his career, his outbursts were honest critiques of political figures that needed to be said. During an event like Hurricane Katrina, when black people were being gunned down for trying to get supplies because the

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

Last year a bunch of us got together to come up with a big fun event to do to celebrate the anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street. In short, the Battle of Cable Street happened in London in 1936 where 20,000 Jews, Irish, dockworkers, communists, anarchists, socialists and others

Trump announced that he’s ramping up the fascism by sending a “surge of federal officers” to various Democrat led cities in the US. If you’ve been paying attention, their dry run has been Portland, Oregon where brave anti-fascists, including a Wall of Moms, have been standing up against these federal

By Ian Firstenberg On Monday July 13, Republican Governor Mike Parson of Missouri signed an executive order prohibiting the state from doing business with companies that support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, or BDS, movement that calls on international lawmakers to end “support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.”  Missouri is the

The Women’s March in NYC the day after the Inauguration was monumental. By now you’ve heard about the unity, solidarity, and strength felt by many as they participated in the march with hundreds of thousands of other similarly-outraged people–250,000 people, approximately–and millions more in cities across the country and the

“We fought for social justice.” –Khieu Samphan a leader of the Khmer Rouge,  a group that murdered roughly 25% of Cambodia’s population in the 1970s.   Americans in the 21st century have it incredibly easy. We’re so used to freedom that we don’t spend much time thinking about the particulars of how others

The scene at Standing Rock is like a medieval morality play, pitting good against evil. Of all the nightmares in America today, one stands out as a symbol of everything that’s wrong: the Dakota Access Pipeline. As a symbol of all that’s right, we have the Standing Rock Sioux and