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Small scuffles broke out Saturday as police in Portland, Oregon, deployed "flash bang" devices and other means to disperse hundreds of right-wing and self-described anti-fascist protesters. Just before 2 p.m., police in riot gear ordered people to leave an area downtown, saying demonstrators had thrown rocks and bottles at officers.
So I've been waiting to share my meditations on the electoral process until we got a final vote count for Assembly District 15, but I'm realizing that it could be a long time coming. If you want the latest version, possibly even the final, click here for the very competent web site which will tell you the latest numbers.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he has "the absolute right to PARDON" himself after his attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested he had the authority to do as much in interviews Sunday. "As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?" Trump wrote in a tweet Monday morning.
The Wapama Falls trail next to Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir takes wilderness lovers on a 2 1/2-mile trek to the waterfall, which is still flowing this fall, thanks to abundant winter rains. Two years after losing in court and six years after being rejected by voters, a Berkeley environmental group is continuing its long-running battle to drain Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, a linchpin of the water supply for 2.6 million Bay Area residents from San Francisco to San Jose to southern Alameda County.
Speaking at the University of California Berkeley in May 2018, Hillary Clinton warned about "Trump deplorables," calling them "the biggest threats to America." On the presidential campaign trail in September 2016, Hillary Clinton handed Donald Trump an easy talking point with her now infamous description of some of his voters as racist, sexist, and homophobic "deplorables."
The student government at the University of California, Berkeley will vote Thursday on whether or not it should strip its College Republican club of funds and give them to the black student union. Associated Students of the University of California senator Rizza Estacio proposed the motion, asserting the Berkeley College Republicans violated school policy when hosting campus events, reported The College Fix .
As part of its effort to organize the electric automaker's Fremont, Calif., factory, the union has filed a string of unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board. The complaints, grouped with reports of working conditions at the plant and a changing political environment, could soon turn up the heat on Tesla as it deals with production issues.
The University of Connecticut is reviewing plans by a Republican student group to bring in a well-known conservative speaker, two months after a speech by another right-wing pundit led to the arrests of him and a protester. UConn's College Republicans are again sponsoring the talk, this time by Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of conservative news and commentary site The Daily Wire, whose appearance at the University of California, Berkeley in the fall sparked protests.
Democratic National Committee Deputy Chair Keith Ellison was recently spotted posing in a Twitter photo with the book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook , written by Mark Bray, followed by a caption he wrote stating that the racist reading material should "strike fear in the heart" of President Donald Trump. In case you aren't aware, this Antifa "handbook" is filled with anti-white rhetoric, including how to set up so-called "kill zones" for ending the lives of conservatives and white people.
Democratic National Committee Deputy Chair Keith Ellison endorsed Antifa on Wednesday, tweeting a picture of himself smiling with an Antifa handbook. Ellison posted a picture with "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook" and asserted that the book would "strike fear in the heart" of President Donald Trump.
With talk in the nation's capital of a possible deal to salvage a program that protects undocumented immigrants from deportation, some immigrants were watching anxiously and hoping for an outcome that let's them stay in the U.S. FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2016 file photo, Andrea Aguilera sits at the Erie Neighborhood House in Chicago. Aguilera was illegally brought across the Mexican border at age 4 and now is is a junior at Dominican University in suburban Chicago.
14, 2017. Several streets around the University of Calif... . Protesters shout before a speaking engagement by Ben Shapiro on the campus of the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., Thursday, Sept.
Left-wing agitators have falsely labeled conservative commentator Ben Shapiro a "white supremacist," in an apparent attempt to inflame tensions ahead of Shapiro's speech at the University of California, Berkeley on Thursday. Shapiro, the editor in chief of The Daily Wire, is an Orthodox Jew and a vocal opponent of the alt-right and other fringe white nationalist groups.
" Hundreds of masked, black-clad anarchists who overwhelmed a peaceful California protest and assaulted at least five perceived political enemies have reignited the debate over ensuring free speech while protecting public safety in the city where the U.S. free speech movement was born in the 1960s. After planned weekend rallies were violently disrupted or canceled, supporters of President Donald Trump and other politically conservative activists complained their free speech rights were blocked by liberal politicians who they say incited left-wing extremists.
Northern California police and civic leaders are hoping for calm, but bracing for violence... . File - In this April 27, 2017 file photo, a demonstrator guards the speakers area during a rally for free speech in Berkeley, Calif.
Police officers at protests over the cancellation of conservative provocateur Ann Coulter's speech in Berkeley. Police officials are bracing for violence at a 'No to Marxism in America' rally over the coming weekend: REUTERS/Stephen Lam Seeking to prevent a pair of right-wing weekend rallies from spiralling into violence, Bay Area authorities are vowing a bolstered police presence and urging counter-protestors to stay away as federal officials rebuffed a high-profile attempt to halt a San Francisco rally.
Students walk past Sather Gate on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif. on April 21. Only 36% of Republicans , according to the Pew Research Center , believe colleges and universities have a positive effect on the way things are going in the country, versus 58% who say they have a negative effect.
Robert B. Reich is an economist and political commentator who served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He is currently Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Seattle's decision to hike its minimum wage up to $13 an hour-on its way to $15-ended up costing its low-wage workers time on the job, hundreds of dollars of annual income, and a shot at a better livelihood. That is a reasonable conclusion one could draw from a blockbuster, if not yet peer-reviewed, new study on the city's famed minimum-wage increases.