There are three excellent media criticism articles that every media villager should have to read, especially the talking heads reading from the teleprompter on the TV news. Bookmark this and read one at a time. Sean Illing at Vox makes the point that The fake “Obamagate” scandal shows how Trump hacks the media: We’ve been … Read more
You would never know that this country is in the midsts of a global pandemic in which we will reach 100,000 confirmed deaths by this weekend, and an economic depression on par with the Great Depression of the 1930s. Donald Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress do not want to address these overwhelming problems, … Read more
While Donald Trump and his cult enablers play Dr. Death and Dr. Doom with the country either by: Peddling miracle drugs with little to no health benefits for patients (AZ Blue Meanie just wrote a piece on the Stable Genius taking hydroxychloroquine,) Ignoring the advice of scientific and medical experts by potentially reopening the economy … Read more
Domingo DeGrazia spoke at a live broadcast of the Democrats of Greater Tucson meeting on May 18. He is a Democratic Legislator in the Arizona House of Representatives, District 10. DeGrazia was elected in 2018. The youngest son of the artist Ted DeGrazia, his family has lived in Arizona for more than 100 years. His top … Read more
The Arizona House of Representatives has been adjourned since March 23, 2020, due to the COVID19 pandemic. Some of us wanted to vote to sine die (end the session) on March 23 and come back later for special session(s) focused on COVID19 public health and economic issues. Others– mostly Republicans– wanted to stay in session and … Read more