Kelly Mayhew
@kellysm99.bsky.social
Human, mom, teacher, pal, writer, unionist, lefty.
Fascism with an American Flavor
It's as American as apple pie.
It's as American as apple pie.
Fascism with an American Flavor
MAGA, Myth, and the Future of American Democracy
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September 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Fascism with an American Flavor
It's as American as apple pie.
It's as American as apple pie.
Memento Mori: We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Memento Mori: We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Summer Chronicle #5
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July 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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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July 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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 . . . "
"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 . . . "
Hypernormalization Blues or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fascism
Summer Chronicles #3
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July 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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 . . . "
"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 open.substack.com/pub/thejumpi...
"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."
"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."
A World Informed by Grace
Summer Chronicles #2
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July 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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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."
"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."
Notes from the Road: No Kings (Except Kamehameha) Day in Hawaii open.substack.com/pub/thejumpi...
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.
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.
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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June 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Notes from the Road: No Kings (Except Kamehameha) Day in Hawaii open.substack.com/pub/thejumpi...
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.
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 open.substack.com/pub/thejumpi...
Check out my report on ICE's terroristic attack on our beloved immigrant-owned Italian restaurant in my San Diego neighborhood. Bastards.
Check out my report on ICE's terroristic attack on our beloved immigrant-owned Italian restaurant in my San Diego neighborhood. Bastards.
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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June 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Fascism Came to Our Neighborhood open.substack.com/pub/thejumpi...
Check out my report on ICE's terroristic attack on our beloved immigrant-owned Italian restaurant in my San Diego neighborhood. Bastards.
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 by Jim Miller
The title says it all.
The title says it all.
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
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May 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It’s Top-Down Class War, Stupid by Jim Miller
The title says it all.
The title says it all.
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!
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!
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!
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April 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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!
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”
Great piece by Jim Miller in The Jumping-Off Place.
Great piece by Jim Miller in The Jumping-Off Place.
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."
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April 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Fighting Oligarchy and “End Times Fascism”
Great piece by Jim Miller in The Jumping-Off Place.
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! Really excited about my panel this Saturday 4/19 at the Progressive Labor Summit!
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
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April 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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!
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
April 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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
GENERAL STRIKE!
GENERAL STRIKE!
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 . . ."
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April 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
May Day, General Strikes, and Labor Ramping Up
GENERAL STRIKE!
GENERAL STRIKE!
Paloma Aguirre Is the Kind of Change San Diego Needs
Fingers crossed!
Fingers crossed!
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.
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April 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Paloma Aguirre Is the Kind of Change San Diego Needs
Fingers crossed!
Fingers crossed!
"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.
Jimmy Santiago Baca and Michael Wickert From Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana
The Best of San Diego City Works Press
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March 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"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
Important to have an eye on the past as we contemplate what needs to be done for the future.
Important to have an eye on the past as we contemplate what needs to be done for the future.
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.
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March 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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.
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?
"A general strike—the ultimate weapon of the working class—will result from intent, experience, reflection and a bit of luck."
"A general strike—the ultimate weapon of the working class—will result from intent, experience, reflection and a bit of luck."
How Do We Defeat the Fascists?
My Best Guess
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March 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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."
"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
Great piece.
Great piece.
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
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March 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Trump’s Threat to Our Basic Civil Liberties is a Real and Present Danger
Great piece.
Great piece.
Protesting the Present to Build a Future
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Protesting the Present to Build a Future
Be Better Than Democratic Politicians
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March 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Protesting the Present to Build a Future
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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."
"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."
A New Lost Generation in the Age of Trump?
The pandemic changed everything and we are yet to recover from it
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March 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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."
"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."
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Here is the new afterword for the new paperback version of me memoir, Burn Book www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Move Fast and Destroy Democracy
Silicon Valley’s titans have decided that ruling the digital world is not enough.
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March 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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!
February 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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!