Posts by Take Back San Jose

June 5, 2026 9 June 2004, Public domain, via Wikimedia If objectivity is a bourgeois notion, if language is just power all the way down, if feeling trump facts–it shouldn’t be any surprise that newsrooms on board with these notions simply pump out biased pandering. The Niskansen Institute explores the nexus of bad newspapers and…

The Champion Everyone Somehow Forgot You know, back in 1951, if you spotted a Studebaker Champion, you couldn’t ignore it. This little independent automaker built a car that looked like it landed from the future. That famous bullet nose was inspired by aircraft design, while the wraparound Starlight rear window was so unusual people joked…

The real reason establishment politicians hate AI?Because it’s exposing how easy it is for independent creators to outperform billion-dollar media machines. LA Politics Just Became a Meme

Need id to get a beer bro. Need it to walk into an dispensary too

Bessie Stringfield completed eight solo transcontinental motorcycle rides across America beginning in 1929 — riding through the Jim Crow South as a Black woman, alone, on roads that were actively hostile to her existence, and she never once changed her route to make it easier.

Nobody is connecting these dots. We did.

The media is not telling you the truth about Xavier Becerra’s campaign finance scandal. Listen to Susan Shelley break it all down.

REFINERY FILES: California’s Hidden Cap-and-Trade Tax California cap-and-trade program forces refineries to buy carbon emission credits, costing approximately 30¢ per gallon passed to consumers. Not listed separately on pump, buried in base price. Combined with 77.9¢ visible state taxes equals over $1 per gallon in taxes and fees. Texas and most states don’t have cap-and-trade.…