Leighton Woodhouse

Oakland

Freelance Journalist, Writer and Filmmaker at Freelance

Writer and filmmaker

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Articles

Opinion | Oakland Mayor race sees hypocrisy over police defunding

1 week ago | sfstandard.com | Leighton Woodhouse

In a display of political hypocrisy spectacular even by the standards of Oakland’s septic politics, mayoral candidate Loren Taylor is being falsely accused of supporting police defunding by the same people who championed that cause a few years ago. Oaklanders will vote Tuesday to elect a replacement for former Mayor Sheng Thao, who was recalled last year and indicted on criminal charges in January.
Will Oakland Reject Progressive Politics in Mayoral Race?

1 week ago | thefp.com | Leighton Woodhouse

Will Oakland Finally Reject Progressive Politics? A special mayoral race in this troubled city is a litmus test for the Democratic Party’s future. ‘Carjackings, home invasions. . . I’ve lost my patience.’Loren Taylor is no populist rabble-rouser. With his good manners and his moderate politics, he would never be mistaken for someone aiming to burn down the political establishment.
Meet the New Boss

1 month ago | readcontra.com | Leighton Woodhouse |Pedro Gonzalez |Pedro González

The first half of this episode is free. You can find Leighton’s work at on Substackand follow him on Twitter @lwoodhouse. “Morning in America.” That’s what comes to mind when we think of the heady 1980s. Departing from the “malaise era” for brighter shores with wind in the sails and dawn’s gentle rays on our faces. A nation strutting with swagger anew, convinced of its exceptional destiny, ineluctable as the tide.
The Right is coming for free speech

1 month ago | unherd.com | Leighton Woodhouse

Columbia universityDonald TrumpFree SpeechGaza warPoliticspro-Palestine protestsUS Last week, the Trump administration sent a letter to Columbia University demanding, among other things, that its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department be placed under federal receivership for five years.
Hear No Evil

1 month ago | leightonwoodhouse.substack.com | Leighton Woodhouse

A few years ago, I sat in a small conference room at the San Francisco headquarters of Twitter with maybe a dozen other reporters, poring over thousands of emails and Slack messages from the people who ran the company before Elon Musk bought it. We were looking for evidence that there was a years-long, orchestrated campaign of political censorship on the platform, carried out at the behest of the US government. We found plenty.
Opinion | Trumpists want to make the Presidio a Chinese-style supercity. It's nuts

2 months ago | sfstandard.com | Leighton Woodhouse

President Donald Trump’s executive order to defund the Presidio Trust is already legitimizing a preposterous idea floating around tech circles: converting the park into an autonomous city devoted to unregulated capitalism. Mark Lutter, founder of the Charter Cities Institute, which promotes “deregulated new cities,” co-wrote an article published last month in Palladium magazine in which he advocated turning the Presidio into a “Freedom City” modeled after Shenzhen in China.
DOGE as Class War

2 months ago | compactmag.com | Leighton Woodhouse

It might strike some as odd: The new president of the United States won the election by rallying the working class against the establishment swamp, yet he has placed at the helm of his assault on the elite-controlled Deep State none other than the richest man in the world.
Neoliberalism is Back!

2 months ago | leightonwoodhouse.substack.com | Leighton Woodhouse

It took very little time following Barack Obama’s election victory 16 years ago for the new president to begin jettisoning the populist promises he had run on and start showing his true colors. Just three weeks after Election Day, he announced his intention to appoint Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. Geithner was confirmed less than a week after the inauguration.
A shining light in San Francisco

Jan 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | Leighton Woodhouse
Nancy Pelosi Profited as Luxury Napa Resort Won COVID-19 Bailout

Jan 22, 2025 | kilgorenewsherald.com | Leighton Woodhouse

The Auberge du Soleil, a five-star hillside hotel and spa with a panoramic view overlooking the vineyards of Napa Valley, appears to be first-rate in all ways but one. While the glamorous resort, an hour’s drive from San Francisco, fills rooms that routinely go for $2,000 a night with A-list celebrities and tech titans, financial records suggest it did not provide much of a return to at least two of its investors – Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul.