Gun Safety Activists Punk Ex-NRA President And Gun Rights Guru
June 24, 2021
This may be the best episode of Punk’d I have ever seen (even better, no Ashton Kutcher). Kudos to Change The Ref. The Rachel Maddow Show covered this story on Wednesday night, but only has posted the interview with Manuel Oliver, co-founder of Change the Ref and father of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed in a
President Biden Announces Zero Tolerance Policy For ‘Bad Apple’ Gun Dealers Who Fail To Do Background Checks
June 24, 2021
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 saw more gun deaths in the US than any year in over two decades, showing even a pandemic couldn’t stop the violence. The Washington Post reports 2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades. So far, 2021 is worse. Gun violence is the uniquely American epidemic within the global
New York Bar Discipline: Rudy Giuliani Suspended From The Practice of Law
June 24, 2021
About goddamn time! Now every other GQP lawyer who participated in over 60 lawsuits in multiple states as part of the bogus “stop the steal” Big Lie need to be suspended and disbarred. This includes several Arizona attorneys that the state Bar of Arizona gave a pass. The New York Times reports, Court Suspends Giuliani’s
SCOTUS Watch: Decision Gives President Biden The Opportunity To Fire Trump Appointees
June 24, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court has had a fixation on executive branch appointment powers to federal agencies in recent years. You may recall that In 2020, in a 5-4 decision in Seila Law v. CFPB, a case in which the petitioner challenged the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Supreme Court agreed with the
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero Happy with City Budget and State Assistance to Help Clean and Reopen TARP
June 24, 2021
This has been a good week for the people of Tucson. First, Governor Doug Ducey and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality have announced the allocation of two million dollars toward accelerating the cleanup and reopening of the Tucson Airport Remediation Plant (TARP.) It is the second allotment from the state designed to help the
SCOTUS Watch: Chief Justice Roberts Creates New Property Law To Undermine Government Regulation of Business (Updated)
June 23, 2021
In the second long anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision today, the six conservative Justices on the Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid held that California’s access regulation, which gives union organizers the right to enter the property of agricultural employers for a certain amount of time, constitutes a per
Michigan Debunks The Big Lie Election Theft Conspiracy Theory
June 23, 2021
The Arizona Senate has embarrassed itself and the state of Arizona with its shitshow of a GQP sham “fraudit” of Maricopa County ballots by an unqualified QAnon conspiracy theorist promoting the Big Lie that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. It is just one big grift of the simple-minded fools who are members of
Arizona Senate Republicans Pass a Budget for the Dark Ages
June 23, 2021
Fellow blogger and mentor Larry Bodine may be right when he said, after learning the depressing details of the budget the Arizona Senate Republicans passed this morning, “we’re doomed.” We definitely will be if we do not stay engaged and fight back. Political polarization and fringe tribalism in Arizona has come to a point where:
