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Posts published in June 2025

Liberation, Cooptation & The Sixties

Reflections on Thorne Dreyer’s Notes from the Underground (New Journalism Project, $27). Have you noticed? Sixties folk—organizers, activists, pacifists, feminists and liberationists of all stripes—can’t seem to get enough of the era when they made…

Bill Veeck

Slightly condensed from an article in the March 1949 American Legion Magazine by Paul Gardner (my dad, whose folder of yellowed clippings I’ve been looking through.) In mid-summer of 1946 Bill Veeck limped into Cleveland…

Mendocino County Today: 6/14/2025

Bluff View | Breezy | Theresa Bloyd | DMV Bragg | Local Events | Verbal Assault | Fish Project | Amazon Ukiah? | Josie's Corner | Sediment Reduction | Monday Supper | Albion Headlands | Brinks Robbery | Zacha Serigraph | Woody Watercolor | Westport BBQ | Yesterday's Catch | Weed Rest | Flag/Protest Day | This America | Hardened Criminals | Immigrants Squared | Israel's Back | Golden Globes | Sako Warbucks | Kezar Stadium | Marco Radio | Giants Win | 1950s Niners | Voucher Problem | Undammed Klamath | Targeting L.A. | American Chestnut | Mexican Stuff | On Parade | ICE Fear | Crumb Revolution | Game On | Protest Prep | Lead Stories | Snitch Out | Ever Wondered | Iran Retaliates | In Exile | Israel Nukes | Birthday Boy

Letters 6/14/2025

Unfortunately, the recent federal budget cuts that have been impacting the Mendo Food Network and Fort Bragg Food Bank continue to affect our ability to maintain our programs.…

Cockburn & The 41ers

Alexander Cockburn, the most incisive political journalist of our time, was born on June 6, 1941 (the year of the snake). I sent him this in ‘91: Greetings to our favorite lefty, Alexander Cockburn, 50…

Mendocino County Today: Friday 6/13/2025

Breezy | Annexation Planning | Pinesap | Weird Stuff | Bragg DMV? | Public Hearing | Comptche BBQ | Millsite Misinformation | Free Show | Cabinet Fit | Vocal Recital | Lilies | Ed Notes | Frontier Days | Grim Suicide | Emmy Lou | Summer Camp | Yesterday's Catch | Mary's 90th | God Realized | Sausalito 1914 | Sako Africa | SMART Money | Giants Lose | No Kings | Donnie's Birthday | Crumb Sixties | Alcohol Wholesaler | Padilla Arrested | Oakland/SF Protests | Moran Fired | New Image | Bukowski Hollywood | Ugly Skirmish | Smallpox Vaccine | Partisan Disinformation | Modern Hair | Cluster Trump | Lead Stories | Israel Strikes | Protest Urgency | Stop Waving | Discussion Rules | Indian Soldiers

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