Let’s Call Mass Deportation What It Is: Ethnic Cleansing

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies and mass deportation strategies are not an immigration issue; that’s just a smokescreen for what’s really happening, which is “Ethnic Cleansing”. A literal translation of the Serbo-Croatian phrase etnicko ciscenje, ethnic cleansing, was widely deployed in the 1990s in Yugoslavia. The targets included Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Serbs in Croatia, … Read more

With About 24 Hours to Go, Ansari, Sundareshan, and Kelly Fault Trump and MAGA-Project 2025 Republicans For the Looming Government Shutdown

Refusing to negotiate in good faith with Democrats. Pathologically lying about Democrats wanting to fund health care for illegal immigrants. Willing to let working and middle class Americans suffer with crippling price increases stemming from the Medicaid, Affordable Care Act, and Rural hospital health care cuts enacted in their Big Ugly Billionaires First Bill. Those … Read more

Corporation Commission and Utility Companies, Spurred on by Science Denying and Corporate Billionaires First MAGA, Are Sticking it to Arizonans

In early August, the utility company, Arizona Public Service (APS) abandoned their commitment to become carbon neutral by 2050. They also want to raise rates by 14 percent. Fast forward to this last week and there are two more developments, spurred on in part by encouragement from science denying MAGA allies in Washington D.C. and … Read more

Cry for Me Argentina: Trump is Cruelly Screwing Us for You

So much for America First. Just when you thought he had misplaced priorities with his Big Billionaires First Rob from the Poor and Give to the Rich Bill, spending $200 million for a White House Ballroom only he wants, and forcing the country into a government shutdown while people are starving to death because of … Read more

Arizona Congressional Democrats Call Out Trump’s Refusal to Negotiate to Avoid a Government Shutdown

In a world where Donald Trump and his MAGA-Project 2025 apostates are arbitrarily cancelling Congressionally approved funding projects they do not like through recession with the government open and their willingness to decide MAGA winners and apparent Democratic losers if a shutdown occurs next week, Democrats have nothing to lose by framing the debate of … Read more