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"content": "\u003cp>The sister of a federal security officer who was fatally shot while guarding a courthouse during George Floyd-related protests \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21174499-underwood-v-meta-complaint\">has sued Facebook\u003c/a>, accusing the tech giant of playing a role in radicalizing the alleged shooter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Patrick Underwood, 53, was shot and killed on May 29, 2020, in Oakland. Authorities have charged suspected gunman Steven Carrillo with murder. Investigators say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824604/man-charged-in-killings-of-oakland-federal-officer-santa-cruz-deputy-linked-to-right-wing-extremist-group\">Carrillo had ties to the far-right, anti-government boogaloo movement\u003c/a> and that he organized with other boogaloo supporters on Facebook, including his alleged getaway driver, Robert A. Justus Jr., of Millbrae. Carrillo also faces murder charges in the June 5, 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823427/hundreds-mourn-santa-clara-county-sheriffs-deputy-killed-over-the-weekend\">ambush killing\u003c/a> of a Santa Cruz County sheriff’s deputy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a suit filed Thursday in California state court against Meta, Facebook’s parent company, Angela Underwood Jacobs accused Facebook officials of being aware that the social network was being used as a recruitment tool for boogaloo adherents, yet did not take steps to stop recommending boogaloo-related pages until after Underwood’s death. The suit called the deadly shooting “the culmination of an extremist plot hatched and planned on Facebook by two men who Meta connected through Facebook’s groups infrastructure and its use of algorithms designed and intended to increase user engagement and, correspondingly, Meta’s profits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boogaloo movement is a collection of far-right extremists who claim to want to overthrow the U.S. government through a second civil war. Sometimes clad in Hawaiian-print T-shirts, the group is known to be heavily armed and is highly active online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11824604 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Carrillo-van-oakland-1020x631.jpg']Lawyers for Underwood Jacobs claim Facebook was negligent in designing a product “to promote and engage its users in extremist content” despite knowing that it could lead to potential violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook Inc. knew or could have reasonably foreseen that one or more individuals would be likely to become radicalized upon joining boogaloo-related groups on Facebook,” the suit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal investigators have said Carrillo, a staff sergeant at Fairfield’s Travis Air Force Base at the time of the shooting, used Facebook to communicate with other boogaloo supporters. On the same day Underwood was killed, Carrillo allegedly posted to a Facebook group that he planned to go to the George Floyd protests in Oakland to “show them the real targets. Use their anger to fuel our fire,” he allegedly wrote. “We have mobs of angry people to use to our advantage,” he wrote, according to federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say Carrillo wrote that the protest was “a group opportunity to target the specialty soup bois,” a phrase boogaloo adherents use to refer to law enforcement officials because of the “alphabet soup” of federal law enforcement acronyms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwood Jacobs’s suit contends that if Facebook had altered its algorithm so it was not recommending and promoting boogaloo groups, Carrillo may never have connected online with others in the extremist movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook bears responsibility for the murder of my brother,” Underwood Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook did not have an immediate response to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11901003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11901003 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/AngelaUnderwoodJacobs.jpg\" alt='A Black woman with long, straight hair sits beneath a bright light at a large wooden desk with two plastic water bottles and a pump bottle of hand sanitizer, a white placard in front of her saying in all-capital letters, \"MS. ANGELA UNDERWOOD JACOBS.\" She looks to her direct left, as if someone out of the frame is speaking. Behind her sits a bald White man wearing a gray suit, a yellow tie, and a black facemask.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/AngelaUnderwoodJacobs.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/AngelaUnderwoodJacobs-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/AngelaUnderwoodJacobs-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/AngelaUnderwoodJacobs-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/AngelaUnderwoodJacobs-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Underwood Jacobs, whose brother David Underwood was shot and killed in 2020 by a suspect investigators say had right-wing extremist ties while working as a federal security officer in Oakland, attends a June 10, 2020, hearing on Capitol Hill about policing practices and law enforcement accountability prompted by the police murder of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is the latest attempt to hold a Big Tech company accountable for real-world harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social media companies largely escape legal responsibility in such cases thanks to a law known as Section 230, which prevents online platforms from being held liable for what users post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been rare exceptions in attempts to advance lawsuits against tech companies, like when an appeals court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993579600/snapchat-can-be-sued-for-role-in-fatal-car-crash-court-rules\">found that Snapchat could be sued\u003c/a> for a feature that allegedly encouraged reckless driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who studies Section 230, said Facebook likely will invoke the legal shield in this case, but he said the suit faces other hurdles, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a number of lawsuits trying to establish that Facebook is liable for how violent groups and terrorists used their services,” Goldman said. “And courts have consistently rejected those claims because services like Facebook aren’t responsible for harms caused by people using the service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit leans heavily on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039\">Facebook Files\u003c/a>, a cache of internal company documents exposed in a series of stories by The Wall Street Journal. Among the allegations is that Facebook’s algorithm promotes extremism through inflammatory and divisive content in order to keep users engaged and advertising dollars rolling in. Facebook researchers have estimated that the social network only catches between 3% and 5% of hate speech on the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, lawyers for Underwood Jacobs said the Facebook Files revealed “Facebook’s active role in shaping the content on its website as well as creating and building groups on the platform – activities that fall outside of the conduct protected by Section 230.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722885/facebook-militarized-social-movements-banned-internal-list-leak\">banned nearly 1,000 private groups\u003c/a> focused on “militarized social movements” like boogaloo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has previously acknowledged its role in militia-fueled violence. In August 2020, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it made an “operational mistake” in failing to remove a page for a militia group that called for armed citizens to enter Kenosha, Wisconsin. Two protesters were shot and killed there during demonstrations over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same month, \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2020/08/addressing-movements-and-organizations-tied-to-violence/\">Facebook said it took down 2,400 pages\u003c/a> and more than 14,000 groups on the site started by militia groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/\">npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Sister+of+slain+security+officer+sues+Facebook+over+killing+tied+to+Boogaloo+movement&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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One possibility is that prosecutors could come back to court for an evidentiary hearing that would seek to prove that PG&E violated probation by starting the Sonoma and Shasta County fires.[aside postID=\"news_11891626,news_11890329\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Neither Stern nor PG&E attorney Schar sounded enthusiastic about the prospect of such a hearing, which would come with just half a month to go on the company’s probation and only weeks before the scheduled start of a preliminary hearing on Sonoma County’s 33-count criminal complaint arising from the Kincade Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option that Alsup raised is that the U.S. Attorney’s Office could make a motion to extend PG&E’s probation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rosa Díaz vividly remembers the summer day in 2019 when she showed up for an appointment at the Sacramento office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The surprise I got on July 12 was that I was going to be deported,” she said, speaking in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE officer told her that a judge had ordered her removed from the country after she missed an immigration court hearing in Los Angeles the previous November. Díaz was stunned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had left Honduras with her three children in 2018 after police failed to protect her from an abusive partner who beat her close to death while she was pregnant with her youngest child. Over two weeks, they walked, got rides and took buses to the U.S. border, hoping to find protection. They were sent to an ICE family detention center in Texas for three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she was released from detention, Díaz, 40, gave ICE agents the phone number for her adult son, who lived in Maxwell, a town in rural Colusa County in the Sacramento Valley. Her son provided officials with his address, where his mom and siblings would be living. But the address ICE sent to the immigration court got botched: ICE listed the city as Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never received a notice of that hearing. If I had, I would have been there,” Díaz said. “My intention was to do things the right way.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rosa Díaz, asylum seeker from Honduras\"]'I never received a notice of that hearing. If I had, I would have been there.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was released from detention with a temporary status called “parole,” she was given a year before she had to check in with ICE. Díaz said she thought she had already been granted asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a person first gets here, they don't know how things work, and nobody explained it to me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The asylum process can be baffling, and, as Díaz learned, navigating it without a lawyer can be disastrous. Unlike in criminal cases, people in federal immigration court have no right to a court-appointed lawyer if they can’t find their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Díaz, thousands of newly arrived \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asylum/\">asylum seekers never get their day in court\u003c/a>. They can be tripped up by paperwork, and a clerical error can be enough to get them deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year a third of all immigrants in asylum cases did not have representation, according to data analyzed by the \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/aboutTRACgeneral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a>, or TRAC, a research center at Syracuse University. And over the past two decades, just 10% of asylum seekers without legal representation won their cases, while those with lawyers were nearly four times as likely to win protection, according to \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asyfile/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TRAC’s data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The luckiest lunch break\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After passing an initial asylum screening, Díaz and her kids were released from family detention on June 20, 2018, and told to check in with ICE before her one-year parole document expired. So on June 13, 2019, Díaz voluntarily went to the ICE office in Sacramento. She was instructed to return on June 20 with all her documents, which she did. That day, ICE officials put her in a GPS ankle monitor. On July 12, they summoned her again, and that’s when she learned she had been ordered deported “in absentia” by a Los Angeles immigration judge on Nov. 27, 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials told Díaz they planned to deport her that same day. But first, the office was closing for lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went outside, sat down and burst into tears,” Díaz said. “I cried because I had gotten all the way here with my three children and I couldn’t imagine taking them back to Honduras.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of immigrant rights advocates with \u003ca href=\"https://www.norcalresist.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NorCal Resist\u003c/a> who were leafleting outside the ICE building stopped to check on Díaz, said Katie Fleming, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.crlaf.org/removal-defense-representation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removal defense program\u003c/a> at the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation in Sacramento. The advocates drove her to Fleming’s office and made an urgent plea for legal help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were able to talk to her and then advocate with ICE to give her a few more days to be able to try to reopen that removal proceeding because she did not know about it,” Fleming said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swift response by the activists and lawyers was an incredible stroke of luck for Díaz. Attorneys succeeded in reopening her case. And in March, with Fleming representing her, she won asylum for herself and her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what Díaz experienced is common for asylum seekers without a lawyer. Fleming said Díaz’s case shows how even people with legitimate claims to asylum can be ordered deported without getting a chance to make their case to a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She didn’t understand, as most people don’t, what the next process entailed in terms of applying for asylum,” she continued. “She didn’t realize that going to an ICE office is different from going to court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']Judge Phan turned to a towering stack of blue folders for those not present. Then she signed deportation orders for 23 people who failed to appear.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant rights advocates have long argued for universal access to counsel for people in removal proceedings. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/immigration/achieving_americas_immigration_promise.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 2021 report\u003c/a>, the American Bar Association made a series of recommendations for how the incoming administration of President Joe Biden could make the immigration system more fair and efficient by providing government funding for lawyers, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes for people who are deported can include persecution, torture and death, the report noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unrepresented individuals in removal proceedings are inherently disadvantaged in an adversarial system in which the government is always represented by an experienced attorney,” the report warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/27/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-blueprint-for-a-fair-orderly-and-humane-immigration-system/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden administration has asked Congress\u003c/a> to budget $15 million to provide representation to families and children, and $23 million for legal orientation programs, but Congress has yet to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Deported in absentia\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When a person fails to appear for a hearing in immigration court, they can be ordered removed from the country in absentia. That’s what happened to Díaz, and it’s been happening with alarming regularity at San Francisco’s immigration court, according to Milli Atkinson, who runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbar.org/jdc/immigrant-legal-defense/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immigrant Legal Defense Program\u003c/a> at the Bar Association of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkinson said judges handed out scores of deportation orders in absentia from August to November under a new system ostensibly aimed at correcting bad addresses when mail was returned as undeliverable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the court started doing in August is purposely taking cases that they knew people were unlikely to get their mail and rescheduling their hearing and sending a new notice out to an address that the court knows is incorrect,” Atkinson said. “Some of the judges were just reading off their names and their case numbers and ordering them removed in bunches, without looking at the individual file, making sure the information was all correct and really making no attempt to contact the individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a self-defeating system, Atkinson said, because most immigrants never get the new notice, so they miss their new court date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She acknowledged that it’s the responsibility of individuals to notify the court within five days every time they move. But many people in removal proceedings are checking in regularly with ICE under a supervision program, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times ICE and the government attorneys have information about where these people are and what their current addresses are, and they have no legal obligation to share those with the court,” she said.[aside postID=news_11886227]At one “returned notice” hearing in San Francisco in late October, Judge Susan Phan had 31 cases on her afternoon docket, but only six of the people were present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman in the courtroom was Nichol Valencia, a fluent English speaker originally from the Philippines who’s married to a U.S. Coast Guard officer. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pablo López sat on the small balcony of an apartment in a Walnut Creek housing complex, dialing phone numbers for legal aid groups across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just above his head, the freshly washed Chick-fil-A uniforms of his housemates were hanging to dry. He was focused on a printed list of nonprofit legal service groups and private immigration attorneys, hoping that one of them might help him make his case for asylum in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn’t have long to find an attorney because his case falls under the expedited asylum process created in May by the Biden administration for recently arrived families. The aim of the so-called “dedicated docket” is \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dhs-and-doj-announce-dedicated-docket-process-more-efficient-immigration-hearings\">to resolve asylum cases more quickly\u003c/a>, with a loose goal of a judge issuing a decision within 300 days of the initial court appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an effort to prevent such cases from slipping into an immigration court backlog that recently surpassed 1.5 million cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11883227\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/GettyImages-1150824330-1020x680.jpg\"]“Families who have recently arrived should not languish in a multiyear backlog,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when the program was launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without legal help, López and thousands like him must navigate an unfamiliar system on their own — and face deportation if they fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-bedroom apartment in Walnut Creek is the home of an old friend from Nicaragua. López and his 12-year-old son have been bunking in the living room since they arrived in July. The guest room is occupied by a family of four who also fled political violence in Nicaragua last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López said he and his son abruptly left their town in the Nicaraguan mountains after local government officials came to his house and tried to strong-arm him into working for the reelection campaign of President Daniel Ortega, flashing a gun and threatening to kill him if he resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the next town over, they beat people up and took them away, and nobody knew where they’d gone,” said López, speaking in Spanish, of Ortega’s supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re using a variation on his name to protect his identity because he fears for his family’s safety — and his own if he were forced to return to Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, 37, said he was never involved in politics. Instead, he worked in construction to support his parents, his wife and two kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wishes he could send money home to the wife and toddler he had to leave behind, but the cash he earns from odd jobs is just enough to feed him and his son. He said his wife tells him she and their daughter are fine, but he’s not convinced. Ortega’s supporters have been asking his family and his neighbors about his whereabouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journey north took a month, and López and his son traveled much of it on foot, resting in migrant shelters when they could find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11886227\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51127_010_SanJose_Immigration_08232021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]One night they were on a bus somewhere in central Mexico, López said, when Mexican police officers stopped the bus and made him and other Central American migrants get off. Then the officers took all their money before allowing them to continue on their journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when we reached the border, we had nothing, no money. We were hungry,” he said. “The hardest thing was not being able to care for my son. I had to beg people for food and water. That’s how we made it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were held for three days by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Arizona, then released with a notice to appear in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The ups and downs of the ‘rocket docket’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Both the Obama and Trump administrations implemented versions of an expedited “rocket docket” to handle the growing number of asylum seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Trump administration, in particular, stripped away due-process protections, and well over 90% of cases ended in a deportation order, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/due-process-questions-rocket-dockets-family-migrants\">according to analysis by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the current system has more safeguards for migrant families and isn’t placing them in detention facilities, but the accelerated pace still makes it tough for asylum seekers like López to find legal representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the federal immigration court system do not have the right to a court-appointed lawyer if they can’t find their own, unlike defendants in criminal court. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asyfile/\">a third of all immigrants in asylum cases did not have representation\u003c/a>, according to \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/aboutTRACgeneral.html\">data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a>, or TRAC, a research center at Syracuse University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right']People in the federal immigration court system do not have the right to a court-appointed lawyer if they can’t find their own, unlike defendants in criminal court.[/pullquote]The Biden administration has taken steps to increase access to lawyers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/27/fact-sheet-the-biden-administration-blueprint-for-a-fair-orderly-and-humane-immigration-system/\">including asking Congress to budget $15 million to provide representation to families and children\u003c/a>, as well as $23 million for legal orientation programs. But Congress has yet to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high. Over the last two decades, just 10% of asylum seekers without legal representation won their cases, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asyfile/\">while those with lawyers were nearly four times as likely to win protection\u003c/a>, according to TRAC’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>An impossible situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>López said he calls lawyers every day. He’s spoken to at least half a dozen. Most say they’re overloaded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one private attorney quoted him a fee of $17,000, money he simply doesn’t have. Mostly, though, he’s gotten voicemail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know it’s better to have a lawyer because there’s a higher chance of winning asylum that way,” said López. “But the judge said she’s going to move my case forward even if I don’t have one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late October, López went before an immigration judge in San Francisco and told her he’d had no luck finding a lawyer. He had been to court twice before, and both times the judge had given him a few more weeks to try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third time she granted him three months, setting his next hearing for Jan. 26. But if he didn’t bring a completed asylum application to court next time, she said, she would deem his asylum claim abandoned and order him and his son deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, who speaks only Spanish, has no idea how to complete the detailed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-589.pdf\">12-page asylum application form in English\u003c/a>. But that’s the necessary first step to explain why he fears persecution, one of the five legal grounds — race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group — for seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johanna Torres, an immigration attorney with a private practice in San Leandro, met López in October. Once a week, she fills in as “attorney of the day” at the San Francisco court as part of a Bar Association of San Francisco program to give immigrants basic legal guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres gave López the handout with the phone numbers he’s been calling. She said attorneys are not allowed to help with asylum forms unless they officially represent the person. Without help, she knows, the process is bewildering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11900568\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1917px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11900568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2.jpg\" alt=\"A person sits at their desk in an office, facing a monitor.\" width=\"1917\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2.jpg 1917w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/JohannaTorres2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1917px) 100vw, 1917px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorney Johanna Torres says it’s hard for lawyers to take on asylum seekers like López because the fast-track “dedicated docket” doesn’t allow enough time to prepare their cases. With a shortage of lawyers and no right to court-appointed counsel, Torres, seen here in her San Leandro office on Nov. 15, 2021, says asylum seekers are in “an impossible situation.” \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I put myself in their position,” she said. “I’m in a country that’s speaking a language that I don’t understand and I’m afraid of going back to whatever country I’m from. And they’re like, ‘Fill out this application that’s in a different language. I know you don’t know anyone. You don’t have the money to hire anyone. But if you don’t bring it, then we’re going to have to deport you.’ It’s an impossible situation for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres knows about the political repression in Nicaragua, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1052968032/having-jailed-opposition-candidates-daniel-ortega-is-set-to-win-nicaragua-presid\">where Ortega jailed seven opposition candidates in the lead-up to his reelection in November\u003c/a>. She believes López could be in serious peril if he were returned there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she and other immigration lawyers say the swift pace of the dedicated docket makes it tricky for attorneys to accept clients like López.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not have the resources to complete a case in two months,” she said. “It’s harder for [asylum seekers] to find representation because it’s hard for us to take on cases that are that fast.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Room for improvement\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Executive Office for Immigration Review, as the federal immigration court system is known, said that while the goal of the dedicated docket is to resolve cases in less than a year, judges do have leeway to give immigrants more time to look for a lawyer. In a statement, she said “fairness will not be compromised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said she thinks the dedicated docket was Biden’s corrective to the Trump administration’s controversial strategy of holding court in tents erected at the border where immigration lawyers can be scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Johanna Torres, immigration attorney\"]‘I don’t know if the people that are being named to supervise this actually know what’s happening in the trenches.’[/pullquote]“I think we’re doing better than under the previous administration,” Torres said. “But there’s a lot of room for improvement, and I don’t know if the people that are being named to supervise this actually know what’s happening in the trenches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mimi Tsankov, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, said she’s also concerned about fairness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fair notice and access to counsel, adequate time periods within which to seek representation — [that’s] certainly an important component of providing due process,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsankov said she’s encouraged that the director of EOIR sent a memo to the judges in November instructing them to work closely with the pro bono lawyers in their area to “accommodate and facilitate” getting free legal services to more immigrants in deportation proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']Still, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asyfile/\">the number of people seeking asylum has grown in recent years\u003c/a>. Without more federal funds or a mandate to ensure every person in immigration court has representation, such initiatives are likely to fall short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López paced the tiny balcony at his friend’s place in Walnut Creek as the sun sank low in the sky, repeatedly dialing the numbers on his list. Inside the apartment, his son and the children of the other newly arrived family played on the couch. The mother of those kids prepared tortillas for supper as ranchera music played on the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope a lawyer will answer,” López said. “The journey was hard, and crossing Mexico was dangerous. But we’ve come this far, with God’s help.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Families who have recently arrived should not languish in a multiyear backlog,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when the program was launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without legal help, López and thousands like him must navigate an unfamiliar system on their own — and face deportation if they fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-bedroom apartment in Walnut Creek is the home of an old friend from Nicaragua. López and his 12-year-old son have been bunking in the living room since they arrived in July. The guest room is occupied by a family of four who also fled political violence in Nicaragua last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López said he and his son abruptly left their town in the Nicaraguan mountains after local government officials came to his house and tried to strong-arm him into working for the reelection campaign of President Daniel Ortega, flashing a gun and threatening to kill him if he resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the next town over, they beat people up and took them away, and nobody knew where they’d gone,” said López, speaking in Spanish, of Ortega’s supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re using a variation on his name to protect his identity because he fears for his family’s safety — and his own if he were forced to return to Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López, 37, said he was never involved in politics. Instead, he worked in construction to support his parents, his wife and two kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wishes he could send money home to the wife and toddler he had to leave behind, but the cash he earns from odd jobs is just enough to feed him and his son. He said his wife tells him she and their daughter are fine, but he’s not convinced. Ortega’s supporters have been asking his family and his neighbors about his whereabouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The journey north took a month, and López and his son traveled much of it on foot, resting in migrant shelters when they could find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Here’s a breakdown of 11 of those new laws taking effect in 2022, most of which lawmakers approved in the last session (a few videos cover more than one new law on the same subject).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stripping some cops of their badges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pFBqBh2ehc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/07/decertify-police-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cops could skirt discipline\u003c/a> by jumping from one California police force to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about to change. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the grand tradition of year-end reviews (hey, even journalists need to take a break once in a while), I compiled some cartoons representing key milestones of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We started off the year with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11853981/a-bad-day-for-democracy\">a shocking, violent insurrection and attack on democracy\u003c/a> as former-President Trump tried desperately to cling to power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11853981/a-bad-day-for-democracy\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11853999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring a Trump MAGA snake throttling the U.S. Capitol Building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1164\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final-800x485.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final-1020x618.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final-1536x931.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though a very real threat remains, frightening images of broken windows, smoke and rage on Capitol Hill were soon replaced by the moving words of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856482/youth-poet-laureate-and-scene-stealer-in-chief\">Amanda Gorman, who recited a poem at the inauguration\u003c/a> of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856482/youth-poet-laureate-and-scene-stealer-in-chief\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11856497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring Amanda Gorman, youth poet laureate, at the inauguration with a movie marquee with her name. Also starring, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final-800x558.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final-1020x712.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final-1536x1072.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857002/glass-becoming-half-full\">stay-at-home orders were lifted\u003c/a> as we desperately attempted to return to our “normal” lives …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857002/glass-becoming-half-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11857007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/lookingup_012521_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon about COVID-19 restrictions easing and outdoor dining reopening as an atmospheric river is headed our way. 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/fda_082321_final-1536x1028.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858285/anti-vaxxers-vs-reality\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11858308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring COVID-19 saying, "fortunately, there's no vaccine for stupidity," as anti-vaxxers protest the coronavirus vaccine.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1253\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-800x522.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-1020x666.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-1536x1002.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What should be a nonpartisan issue of public health continued to be just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877339/the-great-unmasking\">another front in a highly partisan culture war\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877339/the-great-unmasking\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11877348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon about wearing face masks, with the main character who is holding a face mask saying, "I take my mask off to show I trust science and am vaccinated... but I keep it handy in case I need to show I'm anti-Trump."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final-1536x1034.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862176/please-make-public-health-officer-a-boring-job-again\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11862186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring a public health worker fighting COVID while being attacked on the other side by anti-mask people in \"the two-front battle.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final-800x554.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final-1020x706.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final-1536x1063.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11889784/chill-weve-been-here-before\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11889846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: an old-timey looking poster with smiling school kids that reads, \"California, requiring vaccines to attend school since 1889.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final-800x596.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final-1020x760.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final-1536x1145.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892934/cracks-in-the-chain-of-command\">surprising number of police officers\u003c/a> — whose job is all about public safety and following laws — balked at vaccine mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892934/cracks-in-the-chain-of-command\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11892942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: "Officer No-Vax takes it to its logical conclusion." A man in a police hat dressed in circus-type gear and holding a cat on a leash says, "look, they can't tell me what to do with my body...or what kind of police dog I can have..."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final-800x551.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final-1020x702.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final-1536x1058.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even more unbelievably, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897603/courtroom-bffs\">Gov. Gavin Newsom sided with the powerful California prison guards union\u003c/a> as they fought mandatory vaccines for prison guards and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897603/courtroom-bffs\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11897612\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: a prison guard holding a \"no vax mandate\" sign is arm in arm with a COVID-19 character and Gov. Newsom. The governor holds a briefcase of money from the prison guards union. Caption is \"Amicus Covidae, friend of covid.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final-800x513.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final-1020x654.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final-1536x985.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the investigation into corruption in San Francisco politics grew to the point where I helped KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jrodriguez\">Joe ‘Fitz’ Rodriguez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/matthewgreen\">Matthew Green\u003c/a> create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859677/san-franciscos-unfolding-web-of-corruption-a-cartoon-interactive\">an interactive cartoon outlining the main players in the unfolding drama\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859677/san-franciscos-unfolding-web-of-corruption-a-cartoon-interactive\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001.png\" alt=\"Featured image for San Francisco corruption interactive\" width=\"4544\" height=\"2841\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001.png 4544w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-1536x960.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-2048x1280.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-1920x1200.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4544px) 100vw, 4544px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11895167/the-other-killer\">the opioid crisis and deaths due to fentanyl continued largely unabated\u003c/a> … \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11895167/the-other-killer\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11895185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: A bright red COVID character hovers over the street as a monstrous purple \"fentanyl\" character looks at COVID and says \"amateur.\" We see homeless tents and \"o.d.\" in the San Francisco background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final-800x558.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final-1536x1071.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895853/off-the-hook-for-getting-people-hooked\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11895878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Drug companies and distributors like J&J and McKesson shown spraying huge hoses of opioids over a city while the J&J character says, "told you the opioid crisis isn't our fault!"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final-800x549.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final-1020x700.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final-1536x1054.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the U.S.-Mexico border, the more things changed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897929/still-remaining\">the more they stayed the same\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866069/the-crisis-that-isnt-a-surge\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11866266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon comparing the border "surge" of 2019 to the large numbers of migrants at the border in 2021. In 2019, the Trump character says "it's their fault" while pointing at the migrants, in 2021, Republicans say "it's Biden's fault."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1249\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final-800x520.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final-1020x664.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final-1536x999.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897929/still-remaining\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11897940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: shows \"then\" and \"now\" images of a \"remain in Mexico\" immigration sign. The Trump-era sign says things like \"rapists\" and \"murderers\" while the current Biden sign apologizes yet still calls on asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final-800x554.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final-1020x707.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final-1536x1064.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what do you get when you have a guy campaigning with a live grizzly bear, another guy who likes to rant on YouTube while wearing a bathrobe and a governor leading a state with a gigantic budget surplus?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872993/bigger-than-a-bear\">Another couple years of Newsom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872993/bigger-than-a-bear\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11872996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon showing Governor Newsom standing atop a huge pile of cash representing the state budget surplus. Newsom, looking down at the small crowd running for governor against him (including John Cox's bear), says, "cute bear."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final-800x583.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final-1020x743.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final-1536x1118.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885724/his-top-supporter\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11885740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon showing a large COVID character holding two signs. One says, \"Recall Newsom,\" and the other one says, \"Larry Elder for Governor!\" In the background, Larry Elder speaks to a crowd while wearing his trademark white bath robe.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final-800x527.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final-1020x672.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final-1536x1011.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other big story this year (and every year for the next umpteen years) was climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is a paradox of environmental activism and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876328/less-pollution-or-less-healthy\">pollution-spewing oil refineries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876328/less-pollution-or-less-healthy\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11876332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon about Bay Area oil refineries and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District captioned, \"decisions, decisions.\" The cartoon shows a refinery on the left with an \"air pollution scrubber\" and on the right, a community of people of color with asthma, low birth weight, cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final-1536x1020.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894250/all-pollution-is-local\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11894264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: Chevron CEO Michael Wirth atop a castle-like refinery saying, \"let them plant trees,\" while pollution spews into the air and water and two small children look on from afar.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final-800x578.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final-1020x737.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final-1536x1110.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer of 2021 was much \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878897/hot-hotter-hottest\">more than just “hot”\u003c/a> …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878897/hot-hotter-hottest\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11878905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon on climate change increasing heat, showing two scientists looking at a thermometer sign that rangest from, warm, warmest, hot, hottest, sweatiest, heat waviest, bakingest, meltiest, as one scientist says," we're going to need more superlatives."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1351\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final-800x563.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final-1020x718.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final-160x113.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final-1536x1081.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People suffering from wildfires of years past caused by a deadly combination of tinder-dry forests and PG&E’s shoddy upkeep of its transmission lines were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872741/burning-through-the-bucks\">still waiting for a payout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872741/burning-through-the-bucks\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11872745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon about the PG&E Fire Victim Trust that is charged with distributing money to fire victims. The cartoon shows a huge pile of money and a trustee making $1500 an hour balancing over the heads of destroyed homes with people standing down below looking upwards. The caption says, \"overhead.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final-800x545.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final-1020x694.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final-1536x1046.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880893/the-billion-dollar-view\">billionaire’s view from space\u003c/a> may have looked a little smokier than expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880893/the-billion-dollar-view\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11880899\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon that shows Richard Branson's spaceship flying over a flaming red and orange earth and western United States as a thought bubble over the spaceship reads, "I always thought it was supposed to look blue from up here..."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final-1020x679.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final-1536x1023.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sadly, many of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889308/the-fallen-giants\">giant sequoias were killed by out-of-control wildfires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889308/the-fallen-giants\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11889315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The rings in a cross-section of a giant sequoia labeled to show when the tree sprouted to when fire suppression began on to when the tree died in a wildfire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final-800x544.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final-1020x694.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final-1536x1045.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change continues to bring more extreme weather as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893660/when-it-rains-it-pours\">California went from fire danger to flooding in the blink of an eye\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893660/when-it-rains-it-pours\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11893671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/change_102521_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: Two National Park Service workers tread water above an \"extreme fire danger\" sign. One says, \"guess we can change the sign now.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1337\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/change_102521_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/change_102521_final-800x557.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/change_102521_final-1020x710.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/change_102521_final-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/change_102521_final-1536x1070.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which, if you’re in the coal business, makes it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11896443/time-to-switch-tracks\">a little more difficult to sell the Bay Area on a fossil fuel distribution terminal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11896443/time-to-switch-tracks\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11896455\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: A dirty coal train port terminal with a young boy and girl walking by. The boy says, "the good news is they're banning coal storage by 2027, the bad news is it's 2021."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final-800x568.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final-1020x725.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final-1536x1091.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spirit of turning over a new, upbeat leaf in 2022, I’ll leave you with a slightly more uplifting cartoon about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875472/the-winds-of-change\">wind farms that are likely coming to the waters off California’s northern coast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875472/the-winds-of-change\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11875484\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring an offshore wind farm, with one wind turbine saying, \"...sure beats working in a coal mine!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1269\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final-800x529.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final-1536x1015.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy holidays! Here’s hoping 2022 has a lot less calamity …\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the grand tradition of year-end reviews (hey, even journalists need to take a break once in a while), I compiled some cartoons representing key milestones of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We started off the year with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11853981/a-bad-day-for-democracy\">a shocking, violent insurrection and attack on democracy\u003c/a> as former-President Trump tried desperately to cling to power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11853981/a-bad-day-for-democracy\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11853999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring a Trump MAGA snake throttling the U.S. Capitol Building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1164\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final-800x485.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final-1020x618.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/capitol_010621_final-1536x931.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though a very real threat remains, frightening images of broken windows, smoke and rage on Capitol Hill were soon replaced by the moving words of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856482/youth-poet-laureate-and-scene-stealer-in-chief\">Amanda Gorman, who recited a poem at the inauguration\u003c/a> of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856482/youth-poet-laureate-and-scene-stealer-in-chief\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11856497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring Amanda Gorman, youth poet laureate, at the inauguration with a movie marquee with her name. Also starring, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final-800x558.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final-1020x712.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/gorman_012121_final-1536x1072.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857002/glass-becoming-half-full\">stay-at-home orders were lifted\u003c/a> as we desperately attempted to return to our “normal” lives …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857002/glass-becoming-half-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11857007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/lookingup_012521_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon about COVID-19 restrictions easing and outdoor dining reopening as an atmospheric river is headed our way. Two people eating at an outdoor table in the pouring rain with one saying, \"things are looking up!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/lookingup_012521_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/lookingup_012521_final-800x550.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/lookingup_012521_final-1020x701.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/lookingup_012521_final-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/lookingup_012521_final-1536x1055.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860599/the-covid-19-color-palette\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11860610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/schoolcolors_021621_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon showing different color tiers for reopening schools, starting with Zombie Blue (online school), then In-Person Green (private schools), then Slow-for-Vaccine Yellow (cautious teachers), then We-Can't-Take-This-Anymore Red for fed up parents.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/schoolcolors_021621_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/schoolcolors_021621_final-800x559.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/schoolcolors_021621_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/schoolcolors_021621_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/schoolcolors_021621_final-1536x1074.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As vaccines began rolling out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886050/the-deluge-continues\">misinformation turned out to be one of the biggest threats to achieving herd immunity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886050/the-deluge-continues\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11886058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/fda_082321_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon showing an FDA doctor with an umbrella holding a clip board that says, \"vaccine FDA approved.\" The person and umbrella are getting covered with a deluge of goop labeled \"misinformation.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/fda_082321_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/fda_082321_final-800x535.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/fda_082321_final-1020x683.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/fda_082321_final-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/fda_082321_final-1536x1028.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858285/anti-vaxxers-vs-reality\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11858308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring COVID-19 saying, "fortunately, there's no vaccine for stupidity," as anti-vaxxers protest the coronavirus vaccine.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1253\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-800x522.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-1020x666.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-1536x1002.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What should be a nonpartisan issue of public health continued to be just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877339/the-great-unmasking\">another front in a highly partisan culture war\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877339/the-great-unmasking\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11877348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon about wearing face masks, with the main character who is holding a face mask saying, "I take my mask off to show I trust science and am vaccinated... but I keep it handy in case I need to show I'm anti-Trump."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/trustscience_060921_final-1536x1034.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862176/please-make-public-health-officer-a-boring-job-again\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11862186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring a public health worker fighting COVID while being attacked on the other side by anti-mask people in \"the two-front battle.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final-800x554.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final-1020x706.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/battle_022521_final-1536x1063.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11889784/chill-weve-been-here-before\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11889846\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: an old-timey looking poster with smiling school kids that reads, \"California, requiring vaccines to attend school since 1889.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final-800x596.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final-1020x760.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/requiring_1889_092421_final-1536x1145.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892934/cracks-in-the-chain-of-command\">surprising number of police officers\u003c/a> — whose job is all about public safety and following laws — balked at vaccine mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11892934/cracks-in-the-chain-of-command\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11892942\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: "Officer No-Vax takes it to its logical conclusion." A man in a police hat dressed in circus-type gear and holding a cat on a leash says, "look, they can't tell me what to do with my body...or what kind of police dog I can have..."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final-800x551.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final-1020x702.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/officer_101921_final-1536x1058.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even more unbelievably, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897603/courtroom-bffs\">Gov. Gavin Newsom sided with the powerful California prison guards union\u003c/a> as they fought mandatory vaccines for prison guards and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897603/courtroom-bffs\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11897612\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: a prison guard holding a \"no vax mandate\" sign is arm in arm with a COVID-19 character and Gov. Newsom. The governor holds a briefcase of money from the prison guards union. Caption is \"Amicus Covidae, friend of covid.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1231\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final-800x513.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final-1020x654.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amicus_112921_final-1536x985.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the investigation into corruption in San Francisco politics grew to the point where I helped KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jrodriguez\">Joe ‘Fitz’ Rodriguez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/matthewgreen\">Matthew Green\u003c/a> create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859677/san-franciscos-unfolding-web-of-corruption-a-cartoon-interactive\">an interactive cartoon outlining the main players in the unfolding drama\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859677/san-franciscos-unfolding-web-of-corruption-a-cartoon-interactive\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001.png\" alt=\"Featured image for San Francisco corruption interactive\" width=\"4544\" height=\"2841\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001.png 4544w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-1536x960.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-2048x1280.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/SF_corruption_BG_featured001-1920x1200.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4544px) 100vw, 4544px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11895167/the-other-killer\">the opioid crisis and deaths due to fentanyl continued largely unabated\u003c/a> … \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11895167/the-other-killer\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11895185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: A bright red COVID character hovers over the street as a monstrous purple \"fentanyl\" character looks at COVID and says \"amateur.\" We see homeless tents and \"o.d.\" in the San Francisco background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final-800x558.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/amateurod_110421_final-1536x1071.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895853/off-the-hook-for-getting-people-hooked\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11895878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: Drug companies and distributors like J&J and McKesson shown spraying huge hoses of opioids over a city while the J&J character says, "told you the opioid crisis isn't our fault!"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final-800x549.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final-1020x700.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final-160x110.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/toldyou_111021_final-1536x1054.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the U.S.-Mexico border, the more things changed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897929/still-remaining\">the more they stayed the same\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866069/the-crisis-that-isnt-a-surge\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11866266\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon comparing the border "surge" of 2019 to the large numbers of migrants at the border in 2021. In 2019, the Trump character says "it's their fault" while pointing at the migrants, in 2021, Republicans say "it's Biden's fault."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1249\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final-800x520.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final-1020x664.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/fault_032421_final-1536x999.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897929/still-remaining\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11897940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: shows \"then\" and \"now\" images of a \"remain in Mexico\" immigration sign. The Trump-era sign says things like \"rapists\" and \"murderers\" while the current Biden sign apologizes yet still calls on asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final-800x554.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final-1020x707.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/remain_120221_final-1536x1064.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what do you get when you have a guy campaigning with a live grizzly bear, another guy who likes to rant on YouTube while wearing a bathrobe and a governor leading a state with a gigantic budget surplus?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872993/bigger-than-a-bear\">Another couple years of Newsom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872993/bigger-than-a-bear\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11872996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon showing Governor Newsom standing atop a huge pile of cash representing the state budget surplus. Newsom, looking down at the small crowd running for governor against him (including John Cox's bear), says, "cute bear."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final-800x583.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final-1020x743.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/cute_051021_final-1536x1118.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885724/his-top-supporter\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11885740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon showing a large COVID character holding two signs. One says, \"Recall Newsom,\" and the other one says, \"Larry Elder for Governor!\" In the background, Larry Elder speaks to a crowd while wearing his trademark white bath robe.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final-800x527.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final-1020x672.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/eldersupporter_081921_final-1536x1011.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other big story this year (and every year for the next umpteen years) was climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is a paradox of environmental activism and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876328/less-pollution-or-less-healthy\">pollution-spewing oil refineries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876328/less-pollution-or-less-healthy\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11876332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon about Bay Area oil refineries and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District captioned, \"decisions, decisions.\" The cartoon shows a refinery on the left with an \"air pollution scrubber\" and on the right, a community of people of color with asthma, low birth weight, cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/scrubbers_060221_final-1536x1020.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894250/all-pollution-is-local\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11894264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: Chevron CEO Michael Wirth atop a castle-like refinery saying, \"let them plant trees,\" while pollution spews into the air and water and two small children look on from afar.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final-800x578.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final-1020x737.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/letthem_102821_final-1536x1110.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer of 2021 was much \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878897/hot-hotter-hottest\">more than just “hot”\u003c/a> …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878897/hot-hotter-hottest\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11878905\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon on climate change increasing heat, showing two scientists looking at a thermometer sign that rangest from, warm, warmest, hot, hottest, sweatiest, heat waviest, bakingest, meltiest, as one scientist says," we're going to need more superlatives."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1351\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final-800x563.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final-1020x718.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final-160x113.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/superlatives_062221_final-1536x1081.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People suffering from wildfires of years past caused by a deadly combination of tinder-dry forests and PG&E’s shoddy upkeep of its transmission lines were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872741/burning-through-the-bucks\">still waiting for a payout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872741/burning-through-the-bucks\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11872745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon about the PG&E Fire Victim Trust that is charged with distributing money to fire victims. The cartoon shows a huge pile of money and a trustee making $1500 an hour balancing over the heads of destroyed homes with people standing down below looking upwards. The caption says, \"overhead.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final-800x545.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final-1020x694.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/overhead_050721_final-1536x1046.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880893/the-billion-dollar-view\">billionaire’s view from space\u003c/a> may have looked a little smokier than expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880893/the-billion-dollar-view\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11880899\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon that shows Richard Branson's spaceship flying over a flaming red and orange earth and western United States as a thought bubble over the spaceship reads, "I always thought it was supposed to look blue from up here..."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final-1020x679.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/blue_071221_final-1536x1023.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And sadly, many of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889308/the-fallen-giants\">giant sequoias were killed by out-of-control wildfires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889308/the-fallen-giants\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11889315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The rings in a cross-section of a giant sequoia labeled to show when the tree sprouted to when fire suppression began on to when the tree died in a wildfire.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final-800x544.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final-1020x694.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/sequoia_092121_final-1536x1045.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change continues to bring more extreme weather as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893660/when-it-rains-it-pours\">California went from fire danger to flooding in the blink of an eye\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893660/when-it-rains-it-pours\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11893671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/change_102521_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: Two National Park Service workers tread water above an \"extreme fire danger\" sign. 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The boy says, "the good news is they're banning coal storage by 2027, the bad news is it's 2021."\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final-800x568.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final-1020x725.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/coalstorage_111621_final-1536x1091.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spirit of turning over a new, upbeat leaf in 2022, I’ll leave you with a slightly more uplifting cartoon about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875472/the-winds-of-change\">wind farms that are likely coming to the waters off California’s northern coast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875472/the-winds-of-change\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11875484\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring an offshore wind farm, with one wind turbine saying, \"...sure beats working in a coal mine!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1269\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final-800x529.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/surebeats_052621_final-1536x1015.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy holidays! Here’s hoping 2022 has a lot less calamity …\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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