26 Hate Groups tracked in Arizona in 2020 by Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center has released their 2020 report on 838 hate groups in the United States: https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/yih_2020-21_final.pdf “Does hate have a home in your community? Check out the SPLC’s Year in Hate report to learn about hate groups operating in your area — and what you can do to stop them.” In Arizona, … Read more
What Did #AZLeg Do in the First 100 Days? (video)
For many years, the Arizona Legislature has had a 100 day target for the length of each session. April 20, 2021 was day 100 for this session. When more than 1000 bills are proposed every year and more than 300 are usually signed into law in non-pandemic years, the Legislature doesn’t generally finish in 100 … Read more
Shocker: Arizona Will NOT Gain A Tenth Congressional District (Updated)
The Census Bureau just held a press conference on the population numbers to be used for congressional reapportionment, and shocker: Arizona will NOT gain a tenth congressional district as literally everyone has assumed. WTF? Here is the press release from the Census Bureau. 2020 Census Apportionment Results Delivered to the President: APRIL 26, 2021 – … Read more
Anti Trump-Fascist Republicans give Arizona Congressional Republicans Bad Grades
Which Republican Members of Congress Support Democracy? Not many. The Republican Accountability Project, a group of expatriate Anti Trump Republicans (people like Elizabeth Neumann, Olivia Troye, and Bill Kristol) that have become regular contributors on CNN and MSNBC, has released a report (called the GOP Report Card on Democracy) giving 136 Congressional Republicans failing grades … Read more
Senate Judiciary Committee Prepares to ‘Unpack’ The Federal Judiciary This Week
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
Why Democrats Need to ‘Unpack’ a Reactionary SCOTUS And Restore Balance To The Court
There has been a lot of right-wing caterwauling about how Democrats want to “pack the court.” Sorry lazy media villagers who parrot right-wing talking points, but Mitch McConnell has already “packed” the courts with right-wing reactionary judges approved by the conservative Confederate Heritage Foundation and the far-right Federalist Society. Many of these judges were inexperienced … Read more
“About Endlessness” existential film at the Loft
ABOUT ENDLESSNESS STARTS STREAMING FRIDAY, APRIL 30 FOR $12 “The Loft Cinema will be splitting the revenue with the film’s distributor 45/55. You can watch About Endlessness for 48 hours after your purchase. The film may be watched on your mobile device, computer, and other streaming devices. Click here for FAQs on streaming the film. The latest … Read more
So Much For Any ‘Transparency’ And Any Credibility Of This Sham ‘Fraudit’ (Updated)
The Arizona Senate GQP Sedition Caucus and the comically named Cyber Ninjas company, whose owner Douglas Logan is a “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theorist (no conflict of interest there), have repeatedly publicly assured us this will be “the most transparent” audit ever. We have seen no evidence of this so far. A live videostream provided … Read more
