Michael Bryan 
Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes just got legally slapped down for trying to do the right thing. He wanted to send out mail-in ballots to all voters in Maricopa County qualified to vote in Arizona’s Presidential Preference Primary election, even if they were not already on the Permanent Early Voter List (PEVL) — which is … Read more
By Dianne Post In June 2019, I wrote a blog saying that technology won’t save us from the police. I focused on suggestions from the 1960s and what developed i.e. tazers, body cams, sting rays, facial recognition. None have lived up to their hype. As Braunstein and Erickson point out in an article in the … Read more
By Michael Bryan What disturbs me the most about President Trump? So much to choose from, I know. But I think the absolute worst is that his politics are largely just fear-mongering. He appeals to the worst aspects of American culture and character using a constant bombardment of lies to create fear and it’s consequences, … Read more
A friend reached out to me to ask me how I handle it when family and friends bring up the scary word socialism. I understand the concern around the word socialism in the sense that there has been a long-ingrained fear in America surrounding that political model, usually dating back to childhood. However, this is … Read more
Content Warning: The following post includes a discussion of sexual assault and domestic violence. It has been quite an eventful legislative session already for everyone’s favorite misogynist grifter state legislator, Eddie Farnsworth. He made national news last week when a hearing he was chairing devolved into chaos because of his poor leadership. After activist Hugo … Read more