Climate Change: Privatizing the Benefit and Socializing the Risk
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have an excellent story in their spring 2025 edition on how the fossil fuel industry, like the tobacco industry and big pharma, has gaslighted the country for decades. The DOJ was in London earlier in the year to argue for the extradition of a private investigator for hacking into … Read more
Governor Hobbs Vetoes Bill That Would Target Teachers Under the Guise of Saying They Promote Anti Semitism
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed HB2867, a measure that, if it had become law, would have prosecuted teachers under the guise of saying they were promoting Anti Semitism. In her veto letter to Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro, the Governor touted her credititionals supporting the Jewish Community in the Grand Canyon State, including expanding Holocaust … Read more
Arizona House Democratic Leader De Los Santos and AEA President Garcia Blast House MAGA Budget that Robs from Vulnerable Children
What do MAGA Republicans, especially in the Arizona House at the State Capitol have against vulnerable children? This legislative session, they seem to take delight in threatening to cut off funding for poor children’s school lunches or assistance for kids with disabilities. How sick is that? Well, House MAGA Republicans, finally returning from an undeserved … Read more
Arizona Legislative Democrats to Working Class Arizonans on the State Budget “Their Priorities Are Our Priorities”
With budget negotiations gaining steam at the Arizona State Capitol, Democratic Senate and House Leaders released their current goals and assessments of what they want to see for fiscal year 2026 and how the process is proceeding. In a social media video released yesterday (June 10,) Senate Democratic Senate Leaders Priya Sundareshan and Catherine Miranda … Read more
Mainstream Media Needs to Get the First Draft of History Right and Better Call Out Trump/MAGA Republican Big Lie Talking Points
Before going to Fort Bragg yesterday to tell the cheering apparently historically illiterate servicemen that he was going to restore certain forts names after the Confederate Generals they had before, said that we would be speaking Japanese if the United States did not win World War One, and his usual litany of lying talking points … Read more
Useful Idiot RFK Jr. Expands the Trump Know Nothing Government Eugenics War Against the Weak
Before being confirmed for Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised Louisiana Senator and physician Bill Cassidy that he would keep intact the Center for Disease Control Advisory Panel of Vaccination Experts. Surprise, surprise: Kennedy, like previous Trump dumb and dumber nominees to the cabinet and the judiciary (think Brett Kavanaugh lying … Read more
Gallego: the Big Bad Bill is a Disaster
by Ruben Gallego The tax package that House Republicans passed last month threatens food assistance, healthcare, jobs, and energy prices in Arizona. All to give tax cuts to billionaires. This plan would take our state backward. Here’s what’s at stake: Republicans’ Nutrition Plan I was a free lunch kid. That tray meant my mom could breathe a … Read more
