Planned ‘Walk Out To Learn’ Student Protest In Florida Next Friday Should Go National
Not much reporting on this mass protest movement yet, but the Advocate reports Florida Students Plan Walkout to Protest Education Restrictions Next Friday: In response to what advocates have called an increasing number of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-education moves by the Florida state government, students across the Sunshine State will participate in the Walk Out To … Read more
Gov. Hobbs And Secretary Fontes File Their Reply Motions For Sanctions Against ‘Krazy Kari’ Lake For Frivolous Lawsuit
Update to Sanctions Sought For Dead-Ender ‘Krazy Kari’ Lake’s Meritless Appeal To Arizona Supreme Court, and ‘Krazy Kari’ Lake Pleads The Insanity Defense To Sanctions For Frivolous Lawsuit. On March 13, the defendants in the case — Fontes, Hobbs and Maricopa County — filed biting responses (Fontes response) to Lake’s petition asking the Supreme Court … Read more
Tom Horne Wants More Guns In Our Schools. Yeah, Like That Works
The Republican solution to gun violence is always “more guns.” Their solution to mass shootings at schools is not responsible gun control and background checks, and an assault weapons ban, but to militarize our schools and turn them into hardened prisons with armed guards. Reminder: Nearly 400 armed law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting … Read more
Okay with No Accountability for ESA funding, Arizona MAGA Republicans Stick it to Deaf and Blind Children
MAGA Extremist Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature, otherwise known under the deceptive title of the “Freedom Caucus” are at it again. This time, their more extreme members, led by Jake Troll Farm-Fake Elector Hoffman, are making life harder for deaf and blind children who attend the Arizona Schools for the Deaf and Blind. Let … Read more
31st Annual Arizona International Film Festival
Here it is, the 31st Annual AZ International Film Festival showing from April 19 to 30,2023. “The 31st Arizona International Film Festival, the oldest film celebration in Arizona, will run April 19 to April 30, 2023 at The Screening Room (downtown), the Mercado Annex (westside), the Loft Cinema, UA Main Gate, the Historic Hotel Congress, and other venues throughout Tucson. Remaining true to the independent spirit, the Arizona … Read more
SCOTUS Grants An Administrative Stay In Mifepristone Appeal Until Next Wednesday
Update to 5th Circuit Court Of Appeals Does Not Stay Texas Mifepristone Decision On Appeal; Biden Justice Department Moves The Supreme Court To Intervene. Politico reports, Alito keeps access to abortion pill unchanged for next five days while Supreme Court reviews emergency appeals: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily froze a lower court’s ruling that … Read more
In A Rapidly Changing America, Republicans Have Embraced Anti-Democratic ‘Minority Authoritarianism’
The New York Times reports, If Tennessee’s Legislature Looks Broken, It’s Not Alone (excerpt): There are 99 legislators in the Tennessee House of Representatives, the body that voted on Thursday to expel two of its Democratic members for leading an anti-gun protest in the chamber. Sixty of them had no opponent in last November’s election. … Read more
