Let’s Play Tank the Economy: Medicaid Edition
Welcome to America’s hottest new reality game: Tank the Economy: Medicaid Edition. The rules are simple: Advertisement Step 1: Propose massive cuts to Medicaid. Step 2: Funnel the savings into tax breaks for billionaires. Step 3: Watch hospitals collapse, ERs overflow, and working families get crushed. Step 4: Don’t even bother to hide the greed. … Read more
Who Are These Masked and Unidentified So-Called Law Officers?
Photo by Kacey Montgomery. At the demonstration against Avelo Airlines rendition flights on Monday May 12, and at other similar events, I have often heard the question “who are these people” voiced about those who wear masks and no name badges, abduct people off streets, shackle them like animals, and march them onto a plane … Read more
Center for American Progress and Third Way Condemn the MAGA-Republican Budget as an Attack on the Working and Middle Classes and the Most Vulnerable
Center-left organizations Center for American Progress and Third Way have both released statements and reports critiquing the MAGA Republican budget and tax reconciliation bill making its way through House Committees the last two days as a cruel attack on working and middle class families, especially the nation’s most vulnerable. In the conclusion of their report … Read more
Senator Ruben Gallego Unveils a Comprehensive Immigration Reform Plan
In perhaps the first salvo in a Presidential or Vice Presidential run, Arizona Junior Senator Ruben Gallego unveiled a comprehensive immigration reform plan on social media on May 12, 2025 that he hopes will garner bipartisan support. Since putting out his proposal, the Senator has been making the rounds on media networks including Fox and … Read more
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes Fights to Protect Electric Cars and the Future
In MAGA world, they do not understand or are uniformed about many things. Climate Change and the need for cleaner sources of energy is one of them. Drill Baby Drill and prioritizing subsidies and investments that focus on fossil fuels and equipment like cars that depend on them is one road that no longer should … Read more
In Trump’s American Vision, White Nationalist Afrikaners are Welcome While Afghan Allies Can F off
No surprises here. If you are White, you are welcome as refugees to Donald Trump’s America. Anyone else. Do not call us. We will call you but do not wait by the phone because that call is unlikely. On Monday (May 13, 2025,) Mr. Trump, in a nod to his South African buddy Elon Musk, … Read more
Arizona Democrats and Public Education Activist Disparage “Cruel” Federal Budget
This budget, despite its temporary provisions to reduce income (but not payroll) taxes on tips and overtime, car loan interest, and a slightly expanded tax credit for qualifying individuals and families is another example of MAGA Republican Snake Oil that will not move the country forward, make our international competitors stronger, and pull people down. … Read more
