Wicked Witch Fight in AZ Senate Defeats Pair of GQP Voter Suppression Bills
June 30, 2021
An evil witch fight between the GQP Queen of voter suppression, Michelle Ugenti-Rita, and QAnon Queen Kelly Townsend, ended in mutually assured destruction of their voter suppression bills on Tuesday. It reminded me of the witch fight scene from Oz The Great & Powerful (only there’s no “Glinda the good witch” in this version – they
DiSanto and Stahl React to Paul Gosar’s Invitation to a White Nationalist Fundraiser
June 29, 2021
With regards to Paul, “my family will not vote for me,” Gosar, there is one near certainty with the 2022 elections. If he is not indicted and tried for any role he may have had in the January 6, 2021, Domestic Terrorist Attack on the Nation’s Capital by Trump Zone Insurrectionists, there will be no
If We Want Better, We Must Do Better
June 29, 2021
Hello. Let me reintroduce myself. Linda Lyon. Retired Air Force Colonel, school board member, very happily married to my best friend, who is also a woman. Previously married to a great guy. Enthusiastic fly fisher, own a gun, love to camp. A patriot who believes in our Constitution and progressive policies but also that our
Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wants A January 6 Select Committee, Republicans Want To Sabotage It
June 29, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed a House Select Committee to investigate the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection on January 6 (and hopefully the the Republican members of Congress who aided and abetted it). Pelosi introduces legislation that would establish select committee to probe Jan. 6 Capitol attack: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday introduced legislation
Congressional Republicans All Voted to ‘Defund the Police’, And Now Want To ‘Defund The Military’
June 29, 2021
Here you go, Troll Boy (Rep. John Kavanagh). “It is a well known fact that reality has a liberal bias.” ― Stephen Colbert. On Sunday, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace sparred with Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) over Banks’s vote against an emergency relief bill that would have allocated funds to police and first responders.
The Republican War on History and Civics Education Has to Stop
June 29, 2021
The disinformation phenomenon with members of the former Party of Lincoln that has exploded over the last four years did not start with Donald’s windmills cause cancer and let’s have patriotic education, Trump. He, using the bully pulpit of the highest office of the land, just amplified the alternative facts the fringe right has been
Justice Clarence Thomas Sides with Cannabis Operators Against IRS
June 29, 2021
The Supreme Court declined to hear a Colorado medical cannabis dispensary’s challenge to Internal Revenue Code 280 E that awards no tax exemptions to businesses “trafficking in illegal substances.” Due to the conflicting federal policies on cannabis, a ban on interstate use or cultivation may “no longer be necessary or proper to support the federal
SCOTUS Watch: Brnovich (Voting Rights Act) Will Be Announced On Thursday
June 29, 2021
First, some housekeeping: On Wednesday, the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States will hold an all-day, virtual hearing. Public Meetings: The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States will hold its next meeting on June 30, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST (agenda). This meeting will be
