OB Rag

By Sahil Kapur / NBCNews / October 29, 2024

Kamala Harris called on Americans to “turn the page” on the Donald Trump era at a rally Tuesday, rallying thousands of voters at the site where the former president addressed the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.

On a chilly fall evening one week before Election Day, the Democratic nominee criticized her Republican rival as “unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power.” She vowed to govern as a pragmatist by listening to everyone, including “people who disagree with me.”

“He says one of his highest priorities is to set free the violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers on January 6,” Harris said. “Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him -people he calls ‘the enemy from within.’ This is not a candidate for president who is thinking about how to make your life better.”

By Tony Barboza / Editorial Writer – LA Times / Oct. 29, 2024 

Donald Trump’s closing campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday was a stunningly racist display where speakers mocked Latinos, Jews and Palestinians, likened the event to a “Nazi rally” and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” It was capped by a 78-minute speech in which the former president repeatedly attacked the intellect of the first woman of color to lead a major party presidential ticket, calling Vice President Kamala Harris “a vessel” who “can’t put two sentences together.”

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In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Trump is treading dangerously familiar ground, spewing a torrent of racist and xenophobic insults, threats and lies as he escalates his attacks on immigrants and non-white Americans.

By Julie Meier Wright / Op-Ed San Diego Union-Tribune / October 23, 2024

Women — and the men who support them — can elect a president in 2024 who will protect our Constitution and treasured freedoms.  She happens to be a woman.  It is time.

Forty years ago, Maureen Reagan, our dear friend Judy Miller and I, tackled the gender gap

By Lynne Miller

All over the finest city, we can see the destruction of the Todd Gloria and City Council policies.

Now, instead of distinct neighborhoods, fine in design and unique in character, we see block towers – apartment after apartment.  The tall ugly towers placed in residential neighborhoods block the sun and congest streets.

by Ernie McCray

When I think of
another Trump presidency,
I shiver to my bones
from just knowing
that he will,
based on his granted immunity
if he commits a crime,
devise, out of his love of dictators,
some yet to be seen
extremely obscene
form of autocracy
that will relatively-speaking
bring our society
to its knees.

By Thelma Sawyer

With only days left until November 5, I contemplate each presidential outcome and what it means for antifascists. One thing I feel deeply is that we will all be punished for our opinions should fascism win the electoral college.

The seething disdain for people who have decided Trump should never be president divides the American people in ways I’ve never seen. MAGA now agrees that if you don’t like Trump, you are an enemy and will be punished on day one of a fascist administration.

How and if that punishment is met, ironically will be up to the various law enforcement agencies. Will the San Diego sheriffs, with their disdain for Black Lives Matter, protect us against white supremacists? Will SDPD change their ways or will  white nationalists still be favored at all protests where they show up or host?  Will the DA still cherry-pick which defendants arrested at protests get charged and which do not?

There’s one week until Election Day, November 5th, and law enforcement officials across the country are having to deal with a rising wave of threats to election workers and political activists, plus having now to contend with fires in mailboxes — all foreshadow a presidential contest hurtling toward an aftermath that could include unprecedented violence and disturbances.

According to today’s Union-Tribune:

Last week, the Justice Department unsealed a complaint against a man in Philadelphia who had vowed to skin alive and kill a party official recruiting volunteer poll watchers. The next day, the police in Tempe, Ariz., arrested a man in connection with shootings at a Democratic campaign office, which resulted in no injuries, and other acts of political vandalism.

The news that neither the Washington Post nor the Los Angeles Times will endorse Kamala Harris for president has shaken the media world and shows clearly the risks of billionaires owning major newspapers — especially during this crucial, nation-defining moment.

According to KQED

Both newspapers’ editorial boards, which operate independently of the newsrooms, had reportedly drafted endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris. But the decisions to not endorse ahead of a neck-and-neck race between Harris and former President Donald Trump were influenced by the outlets’ billionaire owners, whose other businesses have lucrative contracts with the government.

“No dog whistles, no plausible deniability,” wrote one historian. “It’s a show of power and an another attempt to make this look and feel normal.”

By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams / Oct 28, 2024

From start to finish, Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night was a torrent of bigotry and fascistic rhetoric, with the former president and a bizarre lineup of preceding speakers trashing Puerto Ricans and Palestinians, condemning the press, and casting their political opponents as a satanic “enemy from within.”

The New York City event, held on the second to last Sunday before the November 5 election, amounted to a closing pitch for a candidate who has pledged to wield the power of the federal government—including the U.S. military—against those he views as obstacles to his ascent to power and his political project, which includes a large-scale deportation campaign, massive deregulation for industry, and another round of tax cuts for the wealthy.

Join and watch Charles Landon’s video of the Ocean Beach Pier Renewal workshop held on Saturday, October 26, at the Liberty Station conference center. His daughter Alise also assisted in its production.

There’s another community in San Diego that feels like they’ve been victimized by a huge apartment complex coming in without any neighborhood input. This time it’s the community of Golden Hill where residents are feeling very agitated by a “stealth” 8-story, 180-unit complex planned for the 2900 block of A Street. And the residents feel abandoned by the City of San Diego.

Three adjacent lots on that block have been recently sold and are all now behind wire fences. And neighbors feel like the city has forgotten about the families who live around there and now favors big developers.

Prompted by a resident’s concerns, local TV station CBS8 looked into it and searched the City’s website. There’s a proposed development in the preliminary stage of the process at 2935 A Street, they reported.