Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg, as well as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, spoke in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif. today to a crowd of union representatives.

On June 14, 2014, China’s State Council released an outline that detailed the plan to construct the world’s first comprehensive “social credit system” by 2020.  In function, this social credit system, or “social trust system,” as it has recently been relabeled, is meant to quantify each individual Chinese citizens’ or businesses’ trustworthiness by scoring them in “personal trustworthiness points.”

On the bright and warm morning of Wednesday, November 15, hundreds of first responders gathered in the neighborhood of Westlake, California, to honor Ventura County Sheriff Sergeant Ron Helus, who was killed responding to the mass shooting at the BorderLine Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks on the night of November 7.

The current political state of our country, and world, seems to constantly be erratically changing – and not for the better. All the power seems to be left in the hands of the orange man in the White House, or so it seems. The news is filled with atrocities and tragedies again and again, as if they will never end.

On Thursday, October 18, Santa Monica College participated in an annual state wide optional earthquake drill, called “the Great Southern California ShakeOut.”