On Oct. 18, 2025, an estimated four thousand people gathered in front of The Cheech Marin Center in downtown Riverside in support of Indivisible Riverside’s “No Kings Protest.” Millions of civilians across the nation joined in America’s second No Kings Day Action.
The No Kings Day protest was kicked off by immigrant activist and content creator Alan Vargas. Ramping up...
On Oct. 9, Judge April Perry ruled against the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago, citing that there was not substantial evidence of danger of rebellion. This decision was upheld by a federal court of appeals in Chicago this Thursday, allowing the National Guard to remain in Illinois but blocking their deployment in the city of...
Oscar Rodriguez, a former Riverside County sheriff’s deputy, was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2025 to one year in jail and 10 years of felony probation for the 2014 killing of 39-year-old Luis Carlos Morin in Coachella. The sentence followed a June conviction by an Indio jury that found Rodriguez, 44, guilty of voluntary manslaughter and a gun use enhancement....
On Oct. 2, 2025, Governor of California Gavin Newsom issued a statement threatening to cut down billions of dollars in funding for any “sell out” schools complying with the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education proposed by the White House. Newsom called out the Compact for being “a hostile takeover of America’s universities.”
Divided into 10 points with the...
On Sept.11, 2025, The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit allowed the Trump Administration to go ahead with cutting Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood via the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that was initially signed into law on July 4, 2025. The federal ruling overturns a lower court’s preliminary injunction that provided temporary protection from attacks...
On Saturday Oct. 4. 300 members of the Illinois National Guard were federalized in order to protect federal agents and property from ongoing public U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) resistance. This comes after President Trump attempted to send 200 members of the national guard on Sept. 28. to Portland.
The president explained his decision on Truth Social, “At the...
When protests surrounding the Trump Administration's strict immigration policy began to sweep the nation, some of the most robust were reported to have occurred in California. Despite this, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has continued to carry out mass deportations in all states. One of the more recent efforts being their opening of California's largest detention center, located...
On July 26, 2025, people all across the nation came together to support working families in Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) National Day of Action to demand care and not cuts from the government. In the city of Riverside, this culminated in SEIU Locals 721, 1000, 2015, 121RN and United Health Workers (UHW) coming together and rallying at Riverside...
It remains true that a director whose work was categorized as part of the “New Sincerity movement” is just as sincere and earnest in his newest endeavor as he’s been since he began in 1996.
Over the last three decades, Wes Anderson has steadily released 12 feature films. In this time he has also done collaborations and commercials with brands...
Clue: Who I kissed that chipped the bottom third of my front tooth off.
Answer: SCOTTY STATUE
Clue: Where we scavenged a luxurious office couch (that we dragged across campus at 2 a.m.).
Answer: DUMPSTER
Clue: Who my dream wedding officiant is.
Answer: NORM THE NAVEL ORANGE
Clue: How many crossword clues I have had the pleasure of writing.
Answer: PROBABLY TWO THOUSAND
I love crosswords. I...