It has become quite the habit for the Hater-in-Chief to smear all immigrants as violent criminals for the crimes of a few, and use it to justify the ongoing cruel, violent, illegal campaign of mass detentions and deportations we have been witnessing, and his callous shutting down of most refugee and other legal admissions programs - even reversing and nullifying all temporary legal statuses. This sharply contrasts Trump's and his acolytes' ho-hum reflexive deflecting and avoi

By Gonzalo Santos, Published on 10/28/25 as an OpEd in The Bakersfield Californian . Last Tuesday, October 21, a large number of Kern County citizens from every walk of life – young and old, of all ethnic backgrounds, U.S.-born and immigrant, veterans and lawyers, educators and community advocates, and faith leaders – turned out to the county’s Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting to call on the supervisors to rescind their September 23 resolution opposing Proposition 50, pass

Dedicated to the seven million people who marched in the “No Kings March” of October 18, 2025. “Events [without historically-grounded, theoretically-informed understanding] are dust” – Fernand Braudel Liberalism has the historical distinction of having been the most polished ideology of what became known as bourgeois democracy in the history of the modern capitalist world-system: a centrist ideology, it was committed to social change by advancing reforms and achieving social