Above: The GQP Freedom (sic) Caucus, more accurately described as the GQP Fascist Caucus. March is Women’s History Month, and the history of women in this country is being denied equal status under the U.S. Constitution. The closest women have ever come is white women attaining the right to vote with the 19th Amendment in … Read more
After she lost her primary election in 2018 to Frank Riggs (who would fall to defeat to Kathy Hoffman that November,) then Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas called on the State Board of Education to replace the State Education Standards with the Hillsdale Curriculum, a private school program that originated in Michigan. At … Read more
Supreme Court reporter Dahlia Lithwick explains at Slate, A Different Kind of Supreme Court Reform Is Already Happening: Progressives desperately need massive structural court reform and they need it now. This is not a theoretical problem. Mitch Mconnell’s/Donald Trump’s takeover of the federal bench, coupled with conservative lower court judges emboldened to work quickly without … Read more
Above: U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Donald Trump and “Moscow Mitch” McConnell packed the federal courts with privileged white males, many of whom were corporate lawyers who had never even tried a case in court, let alone had any judicial experience, and were rated “unqualified” by the American Bar Association based upon their lack of … Read more
Why are President Biden’s white male nominees for cabinet positions sailing through the Senate with little serious Republican opposition, while his “diverse” and female nominees are receiving vitriolic opposition from Senate Republicans? No fair, you peeked ahead at the answer. The racism and sexism of the White Nationalist Trump Party is readily apparent. And that … Read more