When Diplomacy Sounds Like a Threat
Karoline Leavitt said the quiet part out loud: if negotiations go badly, death is on the table. That is not diplomacy. It is a warning.
National Politics
Hell No: Republicans Want to Cut Health Care More to Pay for Trump’s War of Choice Against Iran
Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are ushering in a Golden Age…for America’s Billionaires, Oil Companies, War Profiteers, and Family and Friends who are gaming the system at the expense and pain of working and middle class Americans. Since his return to office, Mr. Trump and his MAGA Republican colleagues have not stopped in their quest … Read more
Ciscomani Blows Smoke at the Dems, but His Right-Wing Pals Set His House on Fire
Design and composition by Charlie Grantham, rendered with ChatGPT 5.2 “Blowing smoke,” or using words to mislead or distort, is common in American politics. Here in Southern Arizona, the primary emitter of these noxious clouds is Congressman Juan Ciscomani. His latest murky discharge came March 25 in an op-ed column in the Arizona Daily Star … Read more
Arizona Democratic House Delegation Rails Against Continuing Trump-Johnson-MAGA DHS Shutdown
With their support for continuing the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security during a time of war against a leading sponsor of global terrorism, are Donald Trump and Mike Johnson making you feel safer? The United States Senate, in a 100-0 unanimous consent procedure, passed a measure to reopen the Department of Homeland Security … Read more
“Let’s be Real”: Hypocrite Trump Votes By Mail
In Donald Trump’s world, there are two Americas. There is the America, populated by his corporate and Twenty First Century Fortune 500 Gilded Age seeking supporters who deserve every privilege and perk the United States has to offer, including massive tax cut benefits, environmental deregulation, and profit increases from rising oil prices. Then there is … Read more