Above: Texas Rangers parade down Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, circa 1916. Photograph: Courtesy Robert Runyon Photograph Collection. Life and death on the border: effects of century-old murders still felt in Texas. Many reporters have described the recent mass shooting in El Paso, Texas as the worst modern-day massacre of Mexican-Americans in American history. The qualifier … Read more
The current occupant of the White House has been referred to by this writer as: The 2016 Popular Vote Loser (Hillary Clinton received almost three million more votes from the people) The KKK endorsed Candidate (because they supported him in 2016) Individual One (stemming from the Michael Cohen case) Tiny (Stormy Daniels description) Well, the … Read more
The Outlaw Dirty Monday campaign has opened 11 Tucson “depot” locations where volunteers and petition circulators can get petitions and information kits to put the initiative on the state ballot. The group, a non-partisan PAC to eliminate secret funders of political campaigns in Arizona elections, has collected 30,000 of the 357,000 required signatures. “Why is … Read more
While the nation is transfixed with the tragedy of two mass shootings over the weekend, and the failure of our white nationalist president and his enablers in Congress to address white terrorism and gun violence with any serious legislation, you may have missed that Trump’s trade wars took a turn for the worse on Monday. … Read more
On Monday, a picture appeared on Instagram, apparently taken by a group of young men supporting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the Fancy Farm, Kentucky political picnic. Young Mitch McConnell supporters pose for a photo strangling a cardboard cutout of AOC: The picture showed them gathered around a cardboard cutout of Rep. Alexandria … Read more