The Republican War on Public Education Continues with Michelle Udall’s HB2808
March 8, 2022
There is a (no pun intended) school of thought that educational institutions that are performing poorly in the D or F range would do better if outside sources like major charter school chains swooped in (for a large per student fee,) took over the management of the school, and attempted to turn around the poor
Michelle Ugenti-Rita’s Culture War Bill Granting A ‘License To Kill’ For Shoplifting Or Property Damage
March 8, 2022
The Republican’s longtime Queen of GQP voter suppression bills, Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, is now branching out into spearheading an expansion of self-defense laws to include a “license to kill” some punk who sprays graffiti on your wall, or shoplifts from your store. Just to be clear, self-defense laws are about personal safety, the defense of
An Open Letter to Arizona Teachers
March 8, 2022
I am not a teacher, I am a mom. I cannot understand what you’re going through, I don’t see your day to day, I don’t carry the weight that you do. Here’s what I do see. This may surprise you because I don’t know if you knew I was watching…. I see you smile at
(UPDATED) Mayors Gallego and Romero Greet First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at her Stops in Phoenix and Tucson
March 7, 2022
First Lady Jill Biden came to Phoenix and Tucson on March 7 and 8, 2022 to salute career preparation programs, alliances between colleges and industries, the technology innovations of the future that are taking root in both Maricopa and Pima County’s, and International Woman’s Day. According to reporting by AZ Central’s Alison Steinbach, the First Lady,
This Week in Legislative Malpractice March 7-14
March 7, 2022
Highly suggested reading: Save Our Schools Weekly Education Report, and Civic Engagement Beyond Voting’s AZ Legislature Weekly Report. This week only about 150 active bills have survived, out of the over 1600 dropped this session. March 24th will be the next deadline for bills to move forward: all non-appropriation bills must have cleared committee in
Subverting The Rule Of Law: Trump Appointed Judge Blocks Effort to Disqualify Rep. Madison Cawthorn From Ballot
March 7, 2022
The New York Times reported last week, Judge Blocks Effort to Disqualify Cawthorn from Ballot as ‘Insurrectionist’: A judge on Friday blocked a novel electoral challenge that sought to disqualify Representative Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina from running for re-election by labeling him an insurrectionist, issuing an equally novel order that invoked a post-Civil War
The Sedition Party Threatens Political Violence To Intimidate The Department Of Justice Into Not Investigating Donald Trump and His Coup Plotters
March 7, 2022
The Republican Party aka the Sedition Party is engaged in an ongoing slow-motion insurrection against the U.S. government. The seditious insurrection on January 6, 2021 was not a one-off event. Now the Sedition Party is threatening political violence, acting out their civil war cosplay fantasies, to intimidate the Department of Justice into not investigating Donald
Coup Plotter John Eastman Loses His Bid To Shield His Emails From January 6 Committee
March 7, 2022
Update to January 6 Committee Alleges Trump And His Closest Allies Engaged In A Conspiracy To Defraud The United States And To Obstruct An Official Congressional Proceeding. This sort of fell through the cracks with all of the war coverage this past week. The piece of shit insurrectionist Coup Plotter lawyer who wrote the “Coup
