Take Back the Night Virtual Training Series in April, 2021
A Month of Awareness and Healing SCHEDULE 4/7 Sexual Assault Education & Statistics | 5-6:30 PM Educacion y Estadisticas Sobre la Agresion Sexual | 5-6:30 PM Training presented by SACASA & YWCA 4/14 No Means No | 5-6:30 PM Presented in partnership with Youth & Peace Conference/COPA 4/21 What to Expect After a Sexual Assault … Read more
Public Citizen: U.S. Corporations Gave $50 Million To Republican Architects Of Voter Suppression Bills
Above Graphic: From the Public Citizen report. Despite nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states, America’s largest corporations are just paying lip service while funding the very voter suppression Republicans. A new report (pdf) released Monday morning by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that during the 2020 election … Read more
Part 2: The Intellectual Rot Of Movement Conservatism Into Classic Fascism
Zach Beauchamp at Vox earlier reported, The conservative movement is rejecting America: The right-wing rebellion against American democracy is often subtle, expressing itself through tricky changes to election law without a full-throated acknowledgment of what lawmakers are actually doing. But sometimes, the mask slips — and someone in the conservative movement openly tells you what’s … Read more
Part 1: Empirical Studies Confirm The Republican Party Is An Anti-Democratic Authoritarian Faction
New political science research suggests Republican control over state government is correlated with large and measurable declines in the health of a state’s democracy. Zach Beauchamp reports at Vox, Study: Republican control of state government is bad for democracy: The paper, by University of Washington professor Jake Grumbach, constructs a quantitative measure of democratic health at … Read more
The Biden/Harris American Jobs Plan will “Actually” Help Make America Great Again
Over the weekend, the Republicans that dared to go on the mainstream weekend television news shows (Meet the Press, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and CNN’s State of the Union) unsurprisingly and on cue all bellyached about the Biden/Harris American Jobs Plan. Among their protests were: Most of the bill has nothing to do with … Read more
“Not Again:” Stand for Children Releases Ad Decrying Republican Attempts to Defund Invest in Ed
Starting with the words “Not Again,” the pro-public school organization Stand for Children released an ad late last week decrying the Republican attempts to pass Senate Bill (SB) 1783, the JD Mesnard bill that, despite what fringe lawmakers like Shawna Bolick would not like to say publicly, would seriously undermine the funding for Invest in … Read more
The Washington Post Slams Senator Karen Fann’s Sham Election Audit
The Washington Post editorializes Arizona Republicans’ desperate crusade to find nonexistent voter fraud: Arizona Senate President Karen Fann (R) says she is determined to “ensure the integrity of the vote” in her state. Which is supposedly why, five months after Election Day, following multiple credible audits that found no hint of substantial fraud, she insists … Read more
Arizona Wildcats Come Up Just Short Of A National Championship
An athlete would prefer to lose a game decisively. That way you can always say to yourself “it just wasn’t our day” or the other team “was the better team that day.” Good on them. Losing a close game will haunt you for the rest of your life. It hurts. You will replay it over … Read more
