I’m fine with student protests calling for universities to divest of Israel war ties. It’s a time-honored tactic and was successfully used against South Africa to end apartheid. Ditto for students calling for an end to the slaughter in Gaza…

1) Mass media always focuses on the craziest protesters at demonstrations. I helped organize anti-Iraq War protests in L.A. At one demo I saw twenty soccer moms with Peace Now t-shirts next to a loonie with an Assassinate Bush sign.…

Nevada has six electoral votes. Arizona has eleven. They are battleground states and will be crucial in determining the next president. Both have large, populous Democratic cities and rural areas that are often far-right. Trump cannot win without taking AZ…

Alex Murdaugh, third generation scion of a corrupt rural South Carolina family, will die in prison. Mandy Matney helped put him there. This is a true tale of murder, grotesque criminality, overwhelming privilege, and drug addiction by Murdaugh and his…

Never Trump started on Twitter before the 2016 elections. I’d like to share what we learned because social media this year will be brutal and also an important part of winning the 2024 elections. Never Trumpers originally were Republicans. Then…

The 2024 campaign will be our most ferocious ever. Enjoy the holiday peace while it lasts. The presidential campaigns will raise way over a billion dollars. Attack ads will be pervasive and relentless. Some ads will be AI created and…

Woo hoo, I just used the WordPress ActivityPub plugin to connect my blog to Mastodon. Now anything I post on the blog will appear on Mastodon too, just like Meta is doing with Threads. It’s easy to install and defaults…

Threads is a viable replacement for Twitter, which increasingly is just far-right low-follower blue checks barging into posts, interspersed with really inane ads selling trinkets. And, oh yeah, a galaxy brain genius owner who thinks the best way to attract…