u/Fit-Flounder7175

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/20/champion-did-trump-just-say-hes-at-war-for-pr-reasons/

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/19/todd-blanche-senate-testimony-trump-ally-fund/

He looks worried. I'd be worried too if I had to explain the inexplicable.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/18/billionaires-grow-california-jackie-elward-california-assembly/

When anti-government entrepreneurs who've gotten rich enabling crime put out a hit on you, you just might have something to offer.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-irs-leak-3729de38770b558be01712a143437bf8

Pardons were an outrage. Paying them for having committed their crimes is worse. (Trump's other demand to settle IRS suit is that no member of his family will ever be audited again.)

WAKE UP!

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/16/congolese-report-constant-burials-as-deaths-in-new-ebola-outbreak-reach-87/

Lucky for us, the POTUS has quit the WHO, and has a vitamin-hawking twit running HHS.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/17/will-trumps-allies-float-a-specious-theory-about-treaties/

Why does it matter if Trump routinely ignores the terms of treaties, which also constitute violations of US federal law? Treaties and federal law regarding refugees and asylum are notable examples.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/15/sonoma-county-gun-country-ghost-guns/

The multi-colored 3-D pistol bodies from Cloverdale depicted are no more lethal than squirt guns unless they are attached to receivers. Put an end to 80% receivers and you will put an end to the ghost part of ghost guns.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/16/drawing-board-trump-goes-to-china/

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/16/napa-countys-immigrant-workers-contribute-1-5-million-each-year-to-local-economy-but-face-intensifying-pressures-report-finds/

8 U.S.C. Section 1324a provides for fining employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers; and for criminal penalties when there is a "pattern and practice" of doing so.

Let the indictments begin!

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/16/chabria-still-looking-for-answers-in-sacramento-fraud-case/

Columnist strives to blame a victim despite protestations to the contrary.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/14/thompson-jones-congress-california-4th-district-secret-recording/

For a recording to be illegal, or even improper, there must be a reasonable expectation of privacy. Terming a PUBLICIZED POLITICAL event private is oxymoronic.

https://apnews.com/live/trump-administration-updates-05-14-2026

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/13/poll-democrats-rally-around-becerra-steyer-as-republicans-consolidate-behind-hilton/

In the UK, everyone but Nigel Farage thinks electing Hilton to anything would be insane.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/13/santa-rosa-bank-robbery-suspect-identified-by-bright-blue-hair-leopard-print-jacket/

Expected to blend into the crowd, no doubt.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/12/musk-cook-executives-trump-china-trip/

As with Iran, the big question is whether he will be able to negotiate his way back to the state of affairs that existed prior to his disastrous tariffs jihad.

https://apnews.com/article/raffensperger-republican-governor-georgia-trump-jones-jackson-bb19d7bc9e36153577895511a095fd5f

What does he want them to forget: That in the 2020 election, he refused to"find" 11,000-odd votes for Trump, despite being threatened; that he testified under oath to the 1/6 Committee as to the results a complete audit of all Georgia ballots: Trump's claims, made in writing under penalty of perjury, were 100% bullshit (so much so that Fanny Willis indicted him for perjury.)

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/12/calmes-who-won-2020-election-trump-judicial-nominees-wont-say/

Nor that the Capitol was attacked on 1/6/21. They are therefore unfit to sit as judges. Vote them down.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/11/russia-ukraine-breaking-ceasefire/

As ceasefires do. The deal was no attack on Victory Day parade in Moscow for a 1000 prisoner of war exchange. The world is watching to see if Trump will insist on that exchange taking place.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/05/08/longtime-sonoma-resident-apollo-astronaut-schweickart-launches-effort-to-safeguard-american-democracy/

We don't need no stinky cavalry to save us.

https://apnews.com/article/hungary-peter-magyar-inauguration-orban-a12b25cb022dedb777a54686e59c65a8?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Orban will have ample time to correspond with his pen pals at the RNC.