Most of the American public probably equates mentally ill people with homeless people, with prisoners in orange jumpsuits, or with "deranged" people getting into and out of a van and living in an ...

Have you ever wondered what your California electeds, State Senator Jesse Arreguin and State Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, [yes, that’s her real name] are up to in Sacto? Well, luckily, both of them are ...

Jewish students at Columbia University took a bold stand on Wednesday, chaining themselves to campus gates in protest of the university’s role in the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a former student now ...

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In recent months I moved out of downtown Martinez. I had been living in a housing situation with a lot of stress—but inhabited by a cohesive community of good people. The housing was conducive to ...

Don't miaa this important article from 48hills.org refuting YIMBY dogma om the need for indiscrimate housing demand. Dramatic data suggests gentrification and income inequality are far more important ...

Afther two months of Trump 2.0, the 47 th President has fallen into a predictable pattern. Each day there’s a dominant news item. This morning it was Ukraine peace talks. Yesterday it was eliminating ...

On March 25, 2025, Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was brutally assaulted by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Susya, in the Masafer Yatta region. Ballal, known ...

In a troubling escalation of state repression, Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by plainclothes ICE agents on March 25, 2025, in Somerville, Massachusetts. Ozturk, a Turkish ...