SCOTUS Denies Challenge To Mask Mandate; State Lawsuits Are In Court Today
The right-wing “savior” that Republicans were willing to destroy the U.S. Constitution in order to put her on the Supreme Court in a court packing just before the election (violating the “McConnell rule,” which is really “I can do whatever the hell I want when I am in charge“), Justice Amy Coney Barrett, let down … Read more
Pima Assessor Suzanne Droubie Fights to Use Bilingual Website and Forms
Video Editing by Anne Simons. Pima County Assessor Suzanne Droubie pledged to fight to make the office’s forms and website bilingual. Droubie, who spoke at the August 9, 2021 meeting of Democrats of Greater Tucson, that the state Department of Revenue told her all documents must be in English. Article 28 of the Arizona state constitution … Read more
What to Do when Democracy Can’t Wait
Recently, your correspondent and his wife attended a “Democracy Can’t Wait” rally at Himmel Park in Tucson. The organizer, Eric Robbins, was enthusiastic and urged all of us to take on three “Ten-tasks” in the coming weeks. More on that later. We attended the rally because we truly believe that Democrats in Congress need to … Read more
Bill Pierce Launches Second Campaign to become Arizona’s Next Mining Inspector
Bill Pierce is still on a mission to protect Arizonans and the Grand Canyon State’s environment and water supply from unsavory corporate interests that allow pollution contamination from existing and abandoned mining operations. After losing a fairly close race to become Arizona’s Mining Inspector in 2018, this engineer, who is also EPA trained in dealing … Read more
Census Data: Metro Areas Increased Population, Rural Counties Declined In Population
If you want to know why the white Christian nationalist MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Donald Trump is working overtime to pass GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression and voter disenfranchisement laws, and will now engage in extreme gerrymandering in order to maintain its tyranny of the minority, today’s release of U.S. Census data holds the … Read more
Rebel Alliance Of Educators And School Districts Are The Resistance To The Trump Death Cult (Updated)
Remember back when then-Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana in 2013 exhorted the Republican Party to “stop being the stupid party“? Republicans didn’t listen. They fully embraced stupid, by becoming the party which fully embraced wild conspiracy theories and performance politics, abandoning responsible governance for a post-policy, post-truth alternate reality fueled by right-wing media disinformation which … Read more
Don’t Reimburse Covid Hospital Costs for Anti-Vaxxers
Two weeks ago, when I wrote the article “Those Who Refuse the Vaccine are Facing the Consequences,” I couldn’t have imagined the number of comments that the article would generate, both pro and con. When I wrote the article I tried to explain that if you don’t get the Covid shot, you and you alone … Read more
Senate Democrats Tee Up Voting Rights Legislation For September – Cancel Recess, Do It Now
After Senate Democrats approved the $3.5 trillion budget resolution, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer brought up a Motion to Discharge S. 1, the For The People Act. The Motion to Discharge S. 1 was also a party-line vote of 50-49. The anti-democratic insurrectionist Sedition Party remains committed to destroying American democracy with GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter … Read more
