The COPD is in shambles since Ada left which is a good sign of whether Ada is in this for…
Awkward, immigrant, staunch Republican politician (and, former Irvine mayor) celebrates “exposed” Turkish foreign agent on behalf of California. https://www.instagram.com/p/DSGRwlTgcLK/?img_index=1 https://tcusapac.org/a-legacy-of-community-and-generosity-the-2025-kirlikovali-holiday-party-brings-turkish-americans-together-in-california/
You should watch footage of Ma. Franco during council meetings. She is a clown that took money from Farrah Khan…
The Blie Square Super Bowl ad proves that Jews are just as racist as the rest of society. https://www.jta.org/2026/02/13/ideas/debate-over-the-blue-square-super-bowl-ad-is-fading-the-racist-responses-from-my-fellow-jews-will-be-felt-longer
There's an awful lot to digest here. Good thing I'm not hungry.
What are your sources for the publicly available information about Karina?
Betty “I’m apparently Eric's guilty secret fantasy love object” Franco [that was edited] dares the US government to try and…
OC Rag reports on OCPA v. County of Orange. https://www.ocregister.com/2026/02/12/orange-county-power-authority-seeks-nearly-1-million-from-county-in-breach-of-contract-lawsuit/ “The OC Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday, Feb. 10,…
I'm still not going to Substack sites because I've heard some unsettling things about the organization and am waiting for…
Gustavo Archive
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Gustavo Heaps Well-Deserved Props on the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Anaheim.
Posted on August 10, 2024 | 6 CommentsYes, he's right, it IS and has long been the progressive epicenter of this County-in-Progress. -
Kristi “Dead Puppy Lips” Noem to headline CA Republican Convention!
Posted on May 6, 2024 | 20 CommentsOn the sound and the fury and the lameness of today's Republican Party. -
OC “Mex-In-Chief” on the “maremoto azul” and crushing Trump’s baldheads.
Posted on December 3, 2018 | 15 CommentsRicardo's additional observations on the 2018 rout. -
Weekend Open Thread: Anthony Bourdain Leaves us for “Parts Unknown”
Posted on June 8, 2018 | 10 CommentsThis sucks... -
Gustavo is back, talking about the “Doyers” and the Politics of Baseball.
Posted on November 6, 2017 | 9 CommentsIf you were missing Gustavo Arellano’s unique style, making some people uncomfortable with references to our diversity, he is back. He recently wrote about the Dodgers becoming a club […] -
Memorial Day Weekend Open Thread: Disney at 60, St.-to-Be Oscar Romero, Gay Irish Marriage, a Dreamer Graduates!
Posted on May 23, 2015 | 10 Comments. . . The Orange Juice Blog wishes all its readers a THOUGHTFUL Memorial Day, and drive safely out there! This is your three-day Weekend Open Thread, in which you’re […] -
Immigration: Republicans and Democrats should listen to Jorge Ramos and Gustavo.
Posted on January 26, 2015 | 42 Comments. . . Last December it seemed we’d practically beaten the immigration issue to death, so I didn’t post a piece on Obama’s Executive Order. Univision‘s Jorge Ramos had recently […] -
O Frabjous Day: Our Alt-Weekly correctly identifies our Scariest People! We elaborate…
Posted on November 5, 2013 | 26 Comments“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy!” As this past Halloween approached, the county’s alternative weekly, the estimable OC Weekly – whose motto LIKE […] -
Cri-Cri, Mexican Independence Day, and Vern’s Sept. 15 Concert
Posted on September 11, 2013 | 4 CommentsOkay, ordinarily I wouldn’t write a story about an upcoming concert of mine, except that it just turns out – serendipitously! – to have more to do with some of […] -
What was the big deal about some principal getting transferred from one Anaheim school to another?
Posted on July 13, 2013 | 195 Comments. Yeah, what WAS that all about, back in May and June? (The kerfuffle is beginning to simmer down now.) Dr. Roberto Baeza, popular and successful principal of Anaheim’s Benito […] -
Contra Gustavo: Another View of Race in Anaheim
Posted on February 1, 2013 | 41 Comments. Gustavo Arellano and I go way back. He covered my first trip to the podium during a City Council meeting, as a terrified housewife, voice quivering. I was just […] -
No, Racism Notwithstanding, We Do Not Actually Live in Freaking “Ku Klux Kounty”
Posted on January 23, 2013 | 37 Comments. . . My wife is not in the habit of bringing home copies of the OC Weekly to show me. As I recall, it has happened exactly twice — once […] -
Eye-rolling at Gustavo Arellano’s Especially Embarrassing Anti-ACLU Rant
Posted on July 16, 2012 | 39 Comments, Gustavo Arellano and I are Facebook friends — until, my guess is, about the moment that he reads the title of this post — but he is the only […] -
THE Orange Juice Blog Congratulates Gustavo Arellano!
Posted on November 29, 2011 | 118 Comments. . . The news has come forth from the horse’s mouth that Ted B. Kissell’s almost five-year tenure as Editor of Village Voice Media’s OC Weekly will end at […]




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![What was the big deal about some principal getting transferred from one Anaheim school to another? . Yeah, what WAS that all about, back in May and June? (The kerfuffle is beginning to simmer down now.) Dr. Roberto Baeza, popular and successful principal of Anaheim’s Benito […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/baeza-murray-moreno-115x115.jpg)
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Greg, Don’t be silly. The DPOC doesn’t have any money let alone money to throw at the likes of Joe…