How Judicial Top-Down Corruption Plays Out in California

VIEW FROM HERE – Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye, the 28th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, does not deserve all the credit for California’s judiciary’s descent into a cesspool of corruption.  The process was well underway prior to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s nominating her on July 22, 2010.  From their outset, the California courts have immersed themselves …
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Kamala Harris’ Poor Poll Numbers Concern Democrats

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on July 27, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Vice President Kamala Harris has work to do to improve her favorable rating among voters, three recent polls have found. The surveys’ results have created a dilemma for the Biden administration as …
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VP Kamala Harris blasted for breaking her own campaign ethics pledge by ‘keeping assets hidden’

Kamala Harris was blown up by breaking her own campaign ethical pledge by “hiding her assets.” Vice President Harris, 56, keeps his assets in a tax-friendly family trust according to a financial disclosure form released Monday. Harris has been a trustee of the KDH / DCE Family Trust since 2017.Credit: Splash According to Filing, she …
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103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

Corinne Shutack, Aug 13, 2017 Note 1: This article was last updated on September 21, 2020.Note 2: Our work to fix what we broke and left broken. The work isn’t done until Black folks tell us it’s done. There are varied approaches to ending police violence. The best thing to do is to follow your local …
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I Was a Facebook Content Moderator. I Quit in Disgust.

Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.  A lot of people in Austin do this job. I knew that it was moderation. I knew that I would be looking at gross content. There’s a lot of turnover at first. For most people, they’re coming from retail …
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What Critical Race Theory Is — and Isn’t

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN)Critical race theory. You may be hearing those three words a lot these days. Lawmakers in Tennessee and Idaho have banned its teaching from their public schools’ curriculum, while parents in Texas are opposing a school district‘s efforts to combat racism with lessons in “cultural awareness” — seen by some as critical race theory.It’s a concept that’s been around for …
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How California Politicians who owe $2 million in Campaign Fines don’t get Punished

Many politicians failing to pay back fines are raising questions about whether California is effectively enforcing its campaign finance law. California’s secretary of state’s office has failed to collect $2 million in fines owed by politicians, lobbyists and campaign donors who the office says filed disclosure reports late, a CalMatters analysis shows. It’s allowed some …
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VP Kamala Harris and Sen. Tim Scott both say “America is not a Racist Country” but why are their Responses Taken Different?

How to address American Racism while Scott is called an “Uncle Tom” and Harris gets a “pass” Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were forced to run the media’s “racist country” gauntlet. Don’t answer dumb questions! By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA VP Kamala Harris and Sen. Tim Scott Tim Scott is the only black Republican in the U.S. Senate. In that …
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The Truth about Uncle Tom and Tim Scott is No Uncle Tom

by Vivian “Vicki” Jackson Who was Uncle Tom in Stowe’s novel? A Maryland slave, Josiah Henson, was abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe’s choice to depict in her anti-slavery novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which was influential in starting the Civil War.Josiah Henson used the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom, he protected fugitives, and he made several …
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‘She Embarrassed Everyone Who Supported Her’: Amanda Seales Hits Back at VP Kamala Harris for Saying America Isn’t a Racist Country

Posted byBy Atahabih Germain | May 4, 2021 CommentsComments (0) Those familiar with actress and social justice activist Amanda Seales, know she presents herself as having a zero-tolerance policy for minimizing topics on the well-being of Black and brown bodies in America. When it comes to the subject of racism, Seales’ tell-it-how-she-thinks-it-is approach applies to anyone regardless of status.  So it …
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