Michael Bryan

Michael founded BlogForArizona.net as the Howard Dean presidential campaign blog for Arizona in 2003, and has been blogging ever since. The Blog is now coming up on 20 years of continuous publication, a major achievement for any political blog, which usually have the life-spans of mayflies. Michael is an attorney living in Tucson with his wife Lauren. In 2008, Michael remade BlogForArizona into a collaborative project. Michael is now but one of the contributors to the blog and provides editorial and publishing direction in consultation with the Board of Directors and the other authors. If you want to keep up with the latest Arizona and National political news in an entertaining quick hit of news and opinion, check out the BlogForArizona twitter feed, which Mike largely curates and writes. Michael is also an AAPC member who occassionally consults on political campaigns, strategy and communications.

Trump Claims Iran War is to Stop Iran from Getting Nukes? But Trump Has Incentivized Them to Build One… & They Might Already Have One or More, [With a Terrifying Update]

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Part of the claimed justification for Trump’s war of choice in Iran is that he’s determined to prevent Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon. He says it all the time, and when he’s sundowning and hasn’t the cognitive bandwidth to say more, it’s the ONLY reason he gives for his illegal, unauthorized, war-criminogenic, and … Read more

SCOTUS Enables the Ethnic Cleansing of Springfield, OH to Commence

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In a 6-3 decision in the case Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration is allowed to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 350,000 Haitian immigrants. That fact is awful, but seems sterile and anodyne out of any proper context. The preeminent scholar of the global history of genocide and … Read more

MAGA-Only AZ Corporation Commission is Found Corrupt and Lawless in The AZ Court of Appeals

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Our pugnacious and fearless (and former AZ Corporation Commissioner) Attorney General, Kris Mayes, just spanked the purely Republican-only AZCC in court for failing to do their duty under the Arizona Constitution, flouting the law, giving an outright gift to Arizona’s Arizona Public Service monopoly, and failing to understand, or willfully ignoring, the most basic concepts … Read more