Editor’s Note: This post has been subsequently updated: Republicans are using the Coronavirus crisis to kill the U.S. Postal Service (April 10, 2020) Trump administration opposes US. Postal Service aid – ‘let it die’ (April 12, 2020) Republicans have been trying to kill the U.S. Postal Service for decades. Now the coronavirus pandemic has given … Read more
The National Lawyers Guild put out an updated and constantly changing Know Your Rights brochure on March 27 in response to the pandemic. The Rule of Law, already on precarious ground in the U.S., is often the first to go in a crisis. As Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has shown, fascism never … Read more
Above: Kentucky District Judge Justin Walker, far right, fist bumps U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as Senator Mitch McConnell, in the middle, looks on at Walker’s swearing-in ceremony. There are those who would turn a blind eye to public corruption, excusing it as “elections have consequences,” and this is the “spoils of victory,” and “everybody … Read more
History has shown that leaders, both enlightened and despotic, have used crises and emergencies to advance their agendas. The Great Depression in the 1930s gave rise to both the New Deal philosophy of Franklin Roosevelt and the Nazism of Adolph Hitler. The Great Recession in 2008 gave rise to Barack Obama and the fringe Tea … Read more
UPDATE: 2nd round of 1000 gift cards go on sale April 10 at 6 am. Get them via website, www.downtowntucson.org. Help Tucson’s downtown. 1st set of 1000 gift cards sold out within 24 hours last week, raising $35,000. UPDATE 3/16/20: 3rd round of gift cards starts tomorrow at 6 a.m. 2nd round sold out within … Read more