##  In the News

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### [Reminder to the Red States, Turnabout is Fair Play](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33212:reminder-to-the-red-states-turnabout-is-fair-play&catid=395)

August 17 2026

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### [Democrats Finally Tell Iowa and New Hampshire: You Don’t Go First Anymore](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33229:democrats-finally-tell-iowa-and-new-hampshire-you-dont-go-first-anymore&catid=395)

August 20 2026

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### [California’s Empty Classrooms Are a Warning Sacramento Can’t Ignore](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33213:californias-empty-classrooms-are-a-warning-sacramento-cant-ignore&catid=378)

August 17 2026

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### [A Prisoner, A Peacemaker, and Israel’s Defining Choice](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33231:a-prisoner-a-peacemaker-and-israels-defining-choice&catid=375)

August 20 2026

#  SAY WHAT?

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  [### These People Are Monsters

Written by Abby Zimet on October 13 2022.

 ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25734:these-people-are-monsters&catid=376)

 Written by Abby Zimet on October 10 2022. Posted in [SAY WHAT?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=376).

## [Like A Warrior Woman](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25710:like-a-warrior-woman&catid=376)

In her early 20s, working at a San Francisco radio station and for affirmative action for Native Americans, she became friends with Marlon Brando, a…

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### [Everything Has Been a Lie](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25673:everything-has-been-a-lie&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on October 06 2022.

### [Bella Ciao: Iran's Women Rise Up - and Hack Off Their Hair - for "Woman, Life, Freedom"](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25638:bella-ciao-iran-s-women-rise-up-and-hack-off-their-hair-for-woman-life-freedom&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on October 03 2022.

### [Somebody Please Think of the Children, Who Are 44, 40 and 38-Year-Old Crooks](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25594:somebody-please-think-of-the-children-who-are-44-40-and-38-year-old-crooks&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 26 2022.

### [Nope, Not A (Terrifying) Cult](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25536:nope-not-a-terrifying-cult&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 19 2022.

### [He Who Hath Not A Uterus Should Shut the F#keth Up - Fallopians 13:13](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25508:he-who-hath-not-a-uterus-should-shut-the-f-keth-up-fallopians-13-13&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 15 2022.

### [Inmates For Fetterman, Because We Can Somehow Always, Repulsively Go Lower](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25487:inmates-for-fetterman-because-we-can-somehow-always-repulsively-go-lower&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 12 2022.

### [AOC, Gillibrand Denounce Starbucks for 'Firing Union Leaders All Over the Country'](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25462:aoc-gillibrand-denounce-starbucks-for-firing-union-leaders-all-over-the-country&catid=376)

Written by Jake Johnson on September 08 2022.

### [Fascist, Fascist, Fascist: If the Foul Shoe Fits, Wear It](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25429:fascist-fascist-fascist-if-the-foul-shoe-fits-wear-it&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 05 2022.

### [Why Are People So Mean? Where Should We Start?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25402:why-are-people-so-mean-where-should-we-start&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 01 2022.

### [America’s Right Wing Determined to Erase Our Historical Sins](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25384:america-s-right-wing-determined-to-erase-our-historical-sins&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 29 2022.

### ['How Close to Death is Close Enough?': Fury Over Latest Texas Abortion Ruling](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25355:how-close-to-death-is-close-enough-fury-over-latest-texas-abortion-ruling&catid=376)

Written by Julia Conley on August 25 2022.

### [If I Can't Dance: Solidarity With Sanna](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25337:if-i-can-t-dance-solidarity-with-sanna&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 22 2022.

### [Mehmet Oz, Inept Grocery-Shopping Man of the People: Let Them Eat Crudités](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25320:mehmet-oz-inept-grocery-shopping-man-of-the-people-let-them-eat-crudites&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 18 2022.

### [This Is the Hill To Die On, Despite Evidence So Pulverizing It Eviscerates Any Notion of Innocence](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25295:this-is-the-hill-to-die-on-despite-evidence-so-pulverizing-it-eviscerates-any-notion-of-innocence&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 15 2022.

### [The War Criminal and the Carnival Barker](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25261:the-war-criminal-and-the-carnival-barker&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 11 2022.

### [The Voters Have Spoken](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25252:the-voters-have-spoken&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 08 2022.

### [Say My Name: Breaking Bad Goes Bronze](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25222:say-my-name-breaking-bad-goes-bronze&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on August 04 2022.

### [Honestly? Our Actual Government Is A Barking Mad Supreme Court That Gives Zero Fucks About Democracy](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25177:honestly-our-actual-government-is-a-barking-mad-supreme-court-that-gives-zero-fucks-about-democracy&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on July 28 2022.

### [The Best People, Also Some Bigots, Cowards, Morons, Liars, Misogynists and Hos](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25152:the-best-people-also-some-bigots-cowards-morons-liars-misogynists-and-hos&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on July 25 2022.

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