Kelly Mayhew

Fascism with an American Flavor MAGA, Myth, and the Future of American Democracy

Fascism with an American Flavor
It's as American as apple pie.

Memento Mori: We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves Summer Chronicle #5

Memento Mori: We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Under the Black Flag: On Pirates, A Romance Summer Chronicles #4

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AARGH

Hypernormalization Blues or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fascism Summer Chronicles #3

Hypernormalization Blues or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fascism

"Each sure 'tipping point' seems to bleed into yet another, and the horrifying and outrageous, the utterly unacceptable is paired with the banal and absurd or simply buried by the flood . . . "

A World Informed by Grace Summer Chronicles #2

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"The ecstatic instant exists. It gives us glimpses of reality beyond our world of screens and our thoroughly debased social context, but, alas, it is usually simply that, an opening, a stolen moment."

Zohran Mamdani and the Populist Poetry of Hope "He has a Whitmanesque flair for painting a picture of what makes collective life beautiful and good along with a razor-sharp critique of injustice."

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This is great.

Notes from the Road: No Kings (Except Kamehameha) Day in Hawaii "The crowd was characteristically diverse, with folks of all backgrounds forming a kind of spontaneous beloved community of resistance."

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Pretty amazing to spend No Kings Day in Maui with something like 5,000 people! Check out Jim Miller's account in The Jumping-Off Place today.

Fascism Came to Our Neighborhood The ICE Raid of Buona Forchetta was an obscene display of state terror; the neighborhood resistance was a badge of honor for the community.

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Check out my report on ICE's terroristic attack on our beloved immigrant-owned Italian restaurant in my San Diego neighborhood. Bastards.

It’s Top-Down Class War, Stupid Trump’s billionaire populism has always been a ruse, now the House GOP budget bill exposes the obvious truth—it’s all about redistributing wealth and power upwards

It’s Top-Down Class War, Stupid by Jim Miller
The title says it all.

Check this out! :)

San Diego City Works Press Proudly Announces the Release of "Sunshine/Noir III: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana Come celebrate the twentieth anniversary of City Works Press along with the release of the anthology on Saturday, May 3rd at 5pm at the Centro Cultural de la Raza!

San Diego City Works Press Proudly Announces the Release of "Sunshine/Noir III: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana

We're excited to launch our latest book, "Sunshine/Noir III: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana," on Saturday, May 3rd at 5pm at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego!

Fighting Oligarchy and “End Times Fascism” "While rightwing think tanks and dangerously misanthropic rightwing billionaires have been with us for decades, now the worst of the worst of them seem to be in the catbird seat."

Fighting Oligarchy and “End Times Fascism”
Great piece by Jim Miller in The Jumping-Off Place.

Join San Diego Labor for a Day of Resistance on the National Day of Action on April 19th! Progressive Labor Summit 9:00 to 5:00 PM San Diego Convention Center 111 Harbor Drive, San Diego Enter Through Hall D Registration outside Ballroom 20

Join San Diego Labor for a Day of Resistance on the National Day of Action on April 19th! Really excited about my panel this Saturday 4/19 at the Progressive Labor Summit!

Announcement of a new book by San Diego City Works Press

Really excited to announce the publication of "Sunshine/Noir III: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana" on San Diego City Works Press! www.cityworkspress.org

May Day, General Strikes, and Labor Ramping Up "April 5 has shown us that the generalized anger in the population—one of the preconditions for a general strike—is growing daily . . ."

May Day, General Strikes, and Labor Ramping Up

GENERAL STRIKE!

Paloma Aguirre Is the Kind of Change San Diego Needs Aguirre is the enthusiastic choice of grassroots labor and community activists and her election will put a social justice champion on the County Board of Supervisors.

Paloma Aguirre Is the Kind of Change San Diego Needs

Fingers crossed!

Jimmy Santiago Baca and Michael Wickert From Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana The Best of San Diego City Works Press

"Coming into San Diego" by Jimmy Santiago Baca and "The Border Is a Fight" by Michael Cheno Wickert from City Works Press's Sunshine/Noir II. Celebrating twenty years of our wonderful and improbable all-volunteer nonprofit publishing project housed at San Diego City College.

An Incomplete, Episodic, and Still Evolving Timeline of U.S. Gender and Sexuality History Happy Women's History Month! Some samplings of the long, complex history of gender and sexual rights and feminism in the United States.

An Incomplete, Episodic, and Still Evolving Timeline of U.S. Gender and Sexuality History
Important to have an eye on the past as we contemplate what needs to be done for the future.

How Do We Defeat the Fascists? My Best Guess

How Do We Defeat the Fascists?
"A general strike—the ultimate weapon of the working class—will result from intent, experience, reflection and a bit of luck."

Trump’s Threat to Our Basic Civil Liberties is a Real and Present Danger Well before Mahmoud Khalil, freedom of speech has always been a site of contest

Trump’s Threat to Our Basic Civil Liberties is a Real and Present Danger

Great piece.

Protesting the Present to Build a Future Be Better Than Democratic Politicians

Protesting the Present to Build a Future
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A New Lost Generation in the Age of Trump? The pandemic changed everything and we are yet to recover from it

A New Lost Generation in the Age of Trump?

"Everywhere, every day, sometimes hourly there is yet another assault on the ties that bind us and make our social life together more human and sometimes, even beautiful."

Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

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Move Fast and Destroy Democracy Silicon Valley’s titans have decided that ruling the digital world is not enough.

Here is the new afterword for the new paperback version of me memoir, Burn Book www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Hey San Diegans! Jim Miller, author of "Drift," "Last Days in Ocean Beach," "Flash," "Into the Bardo," "Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See" (with yours truly and Mike Davis) is giving a reading and talk on Wednesday, 2/26 at 7PM in Room 430 in Love Library at San Diego State!

"Strapping" and "'Tis Morning Makes Mother a Killer" by Wanda Coleman The Best of San Diego City Works Press

A couple of poems by the late great Wanda Coleman in "Mamas and Papas," an anthology I edited with fellow traveler Alys Masek a few years ago.

An Era of Empires, Maybe Will Democracies Survive This Darkness?

An Era of Empires, Maybe
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Grand Theft Government: White House Edition Hang on to your wallets, folks!

Grand Theft Government: White House Edition
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The Cleaving by Li-Young Lee The Best of San Diego City Works Press

The Cleaving by Li-Young Lee
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