When I had my charter school, Grand Canyon Preparatory Academy, two academic features of the student’s course of study were unique to most traditional public schools in Arizona. One required four years of history, but most schools in the state only require two: one year of United States and another of World History. Another was … Read more
For all the lazy and timid reporters and pundits in this country who do not counter Donald Trump and his MAGA allies when they say they are inheriting a mess, just remember what shape Trump and his minions left the country in four years ago when the 45th President did not have the decency to … Read more
UPDATE: TikTok goes down. TikTok comes back up. All in less than 24 hours. Convenient how creating the problem lets you swoop in to save the day, isn’t it? We’re all being played. Gone Too Viral In a time when our lives were choreographed by algorithms, filled with lip-synced trends, and stitched together into a … Read more
Our long national nightmare is returning. This week has shown yet again that the Republican Party, after 40 years in the making with increasing levels of subservience to a series of “Dear Leader” Presidents (Reagan, Bush II, and Trump,) has morphed into an authoritarian-plutocratic-white nationalists-alternative reality based-neo fascist political entity. In 2025, fealty to Donald … Read more
It seems that many elected Democrats, including some of Arizona’s own, have been cowed into supporting a very bad bill. In brief, the ‘Detain Petty Thieves Forever Bill’ (aka the Laken Reilly Act… you can always count on MAGA to horribly and cynically exploit a family’s tragedy for political purposes, can’t you?) not only mandates … Read more