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Some Good News: Mom and Son Come Back to Tempe After Being in ICE Detention for Three Weeks
June 25, 2026
It is always nice to report good news in these dark times. After being detained in an ICE facility in Texas, Tempe Residents Margot Paredes Ortiz and her 14-year-old son, Dilan were released and allowed to return to their home in Arizona. This release is partially a credit to the intervention of local community leaders
MSNOW’S Steve Rattner Shows How Trump’s Iran Nuclear Deal is Far Worse than Obama’s
June 25, 2026
It is not even close. In all objective measures, Donald Trump’s nuclear deal with Iran is far worse than the one the Obama Administration helped conclude in 2015. MSNOW’S Steve Rattner, a former Treasury Official in the Obama Administration who helped supervise the auto industry rescue following the Great Recession, showed how bad Mr. Trump’s
(UPDATED) Donald Trump Just Said “F You” Again to the American People by Cancelling the Signing of the Bipartisan Housing Bill
June 24, 2026
Remember when serial lying, convicted, and impeached Donald Trump hookwinked millions of amnesiac swing voters in 2024, who had forgotten his poor management and criminal acts in his first term, with promises that he would bring prices down. Well, we told you so. In his latest Fascist-Authoritarian attempt to extort Congress to do his bidding
The Green Reflecting Pool is a Funny and Important Story, But Other Events Also Deserve the Same Amount of Attention
June 22, 2026
The recent coverage of the Reflecting Pool by the Lincoln Memorial is funny, and another demonstration of Donald Trump destroying something he touches. However, while this episode is another example of Trump’s ineptitude, mismanagement, environmental destruction, and endangering living organisms (a duck died,) there are other events happening that merit more news coverage than this.
Juan #CiscoMAGA the Traitor & David Schweikert the GOP’s Cassandra
June 20, 2026
Larry Bodine and I attended a live town hall style event in Green Valley, and for once had access to Juan Ciscomani in a format other than a highly-controlled teletown hall. Larry’s report on the event is pretty comprehensive, so I don’t have much to add to his presentation, other than my own few takeaways.
We Are All Deportable, and Juan Ciscomani Thinks It’s a Good Idea
June 20, 2026
While all of us are paying close attention to the cost of living and healthcare affordability, the Trump administration seems to invent new ways of traumatizing immigrants, permanent residents, asylum seekers, and even citizens every month. You’re Paying for One-Way Trips to Third-Party Countries One way to do it is the deportation of an asylum
