Donald Trump sold two lies to his simpleton MAGA supporters: that “I am the greatest deal negotiator” — a self-manufactured myth blown up this week in Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses — and that “trade wars are easy to win.” The self-described “Tariff Man” has failed again … Read more
Eleventh Year Teacher and Creighton School Board Member President Jeanne Casteen has announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination to run to be the next Maricopa County School Superintendent. Running on a program of school funding increases and “equity” across Maricopa County, “educating the whole child” in their social and emotional, as well as academic … Read more
The Senate Intelligence Committee, somewhat surprisingly, has issued a subpoena to the president’s idiot son, Donald Trump Jr. Donald Trump Jr. subpoenaed by Senate panel for further testimony on campaign’s Russia contacts: [The Senate is] seeking additional closed-door testimony as part of lawmakers’ ongoing probe of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, according to … Read more
Unless there’s a breakthrough in the U.S.-China trade talks before midnight tonight, U.S. tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports are about to rise from 10% to 25% — an escalation of Trump’s trade war that could hurt major importers and trigger even more painful retaliation by China. China’s Commerce Ministry said in a statement … Read more
The Arizona GOP’s unrelenting war on your voting rights and your constitutionally protected rights to initiative, referendum and recall continues. Howard Fischer reports, Arizona House OKs more hurdles to initiative process: Republican lawmakers voted Wednesday to put new hurdles in the paths of groups that seek to propose their own laws and constitutional amendments. Senate … Read more