Stop Acting Defeated. Get Furious and Fight!
May 18, 2025
One afternoon, I was feeling low and irritated while visiting downtown San Jose, Costa Rica. I figured I’d clear my head with a walk—big mistake. I had no idea I was about to get mugged. Out of nowhere, as I turned a corner I’d walked before, some punk jumped right in my face, screamed at
Support the Defense Fund of Falsely Arrested Judge Dugan
May 17, 2025
Lawyers have established the Hannah Dugan Legal Defense Fund in response to the federal government’s unprecedented attack on the independence of the judiciary. On April 26, FBI agents arrested Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly shielding an undocumented immigrant from an ICE arrest. The FBI claims that Judge Dugan informed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents
It’s Not a Press Room, It’s a Stage
May 17, 2025
Trump isn’t taking questions. He’s shredding them. Sure, you can call it a press briefing if you want, but nobody’s walking out with real answers. Reporters show up with facts. Trump shows up with an agenda. What follows isn’t a presser. It’s a performance—equal parts grievance, gaslight, and self-congratulation. The press is just the punch line. And
Arizona Democratic Congressional Candidates and Incumbents Offer Their Views on the MAGA Republican Budget that Robs from the Poor to Give to the Rich
May 16, 2025
House Republicans, despite members of their own caucus that want a crueler product, are moving forward with their plans to pass a big ugly budget and tax bill that, among other disgusting features, starves children, robs health benefits from the working and middle class, guts Head Start, and makes polluting great again. The Arizona Democratic
UPDATED 5/15/25: Trump Regime Gets Slapped Down by Court on Absurd Militarized Border Zone Legal Fiction
May 15, 2025
UPDATE 5/15: Reuters reports: The first batch of 100 test cases of criminal tresspass against undocumented immigrants crossing the US/Mexico border into newly designated National Defense Areas (discussed below), alleged by the Administration to be part of military bases, have been dismissed for lacking probable cause for the arrests. The court ruled that the arrestees
With 15 Other Governors, Katie Hobbs Implores Congress to Fully Fund Head Start
May 15, 2025
In a letter to the Chairpersons and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and 15 other state chief executives urged Congressional members to fully fund the national pre-school program Head Start. Head Start serves 17,000 children in Arizona. Since Trump returned to office, he and his MAGA Republican
Let’s Play Tank the Economy: Medicaid Edition
May 15, 2025
Welcome to America’s hottest new reality game: Tank the Economy: Medicaid Edition. The rules are simple: 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. This
Who Are These Masked and Unidentified So-Called Law Officers?
May 15, 2025
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
