Vote for these three by November 2 if you want to stand a chance of affording even a drafty room in this capitalist jewel before the wildfires burn everything to the ground.

Vote for these three by November 2 if you want to stand a chance of affording even a drafty room in this capitalist jewel before the wildfires burn everything to the ground. James Yamasaki

We have two paths out of this endless, still somehow deadly, Republican-driven, billionaire-enriching pandemic.

We can vote for a mayor and a city council who will tax wealthy corporations to build housing for the poor, or we can vote for candidates who will protect corporate profits and ramp up mass incarceration. We can chart a more progressive and equitable course at the port, or we can stick with the status quo. We can boot the last few Republicans off the county council, or we can continue watching them gum up the works for another million years.

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