The 2.2-acre property on University Avenue will become housing, health clinics, child care, a hub for small businesses and more. Hello everyone!  Refugees in San Diego have long struggled with ...

What if the people most impacted by displacement got to design the future of land itself? Ramla Sahid shares how the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA) purchased 2.2 acres of…

Gavin Newsom describes himself as an ‘accidental politician’. The San Francisco mayor Willie Brown anointed him as...

A jeremiad on uninvention and bitter hope

I followed Border Patrol agents from Illinois to North Carolina to Minnesota. To my surprise, they loved my coverage.

It's an illustration of how the global surveillance ‌economy is shaping the battlefield.

We are safest when all marginalized groups stand in solidarity with each other.

Survey of nearly 1,000 researchers whose grants were cut shows BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and women investigators faced higher odds of targeted equity-related terminations, raising concerns about long-term…

Grant terminations targeting health research for BIPOC and SGM communities have disproportionately targeted the careers of BIPOC, SGM, and female researchers and researchers from disadvantaged backgro...

At the El Cerrito Democratic Club’s meeting to discuss Measure C, April 28, 2026.

In San Diego, about 150 people attended, many carrying signs that said: "Jews Demand: ICE Out!" and "Stop Illegal Detention."

One professor is looking at a possible suspension for two years without pay.

The new generation of IRGC content creators is younger, quicker, and less afraid of the U.S.

YouTube video by Sesame Street

In this new iteration of my newsletter, I’m hoping that each dispatch connects at least somewhat to the one before, rather than being a semi-random string of emails connected to current events, but no...

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

In its early days, the AI initiative known as Project Maven had its fair share of skeptics at the Pentagon. Today, many of them are true believers.

“In essence, it’s Grover Norquist’s “starve the beast” and then drown it in a bathtub strategy—San Diego style.”

On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

What is happening in Iran right now is the defining morbid system of an undead American empire.

Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is playing a key role in the U.S. military’s campaign in Iran, amid a bitter fight with the Pentagon over the terms of its use in war.

Employees at some companies with defense contracts feel betrayed.

Court documents in a case against Jeane Wong revealed the existence of the operation. Written by Kate Morrissey, Edited by Lauren J. Mapp Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego i...

Connectivity is political, and governance must accept that fact, writes Konstantinos Komaitis. The age of innocence is over, and the age of empires is emerging.

The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

It's impossible to ignore the administration's blend of violent repression and overwhelming cringe.

Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.