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Smoke and Mirrors: Accountability and the Language of Rape
December 16, 2023
Like many writers, I’ve had my fair share of fascination with how language can warp our minds, make us care or zone out, or pull our attention in random directions. So today, I was dutifully cleaning out my inbox and occasionally succumbing to clickbait-y subject lines when, voilà–another newsletter, another letdown. This time, it was
Poll Anxiety and Electoral Signals
December 16, 2023
One of my favorite political analysists is Rachel Bitecofer, who publishes the SubStack newsletter The Cycle, among other projects. She is fiercely partisan and firmly on team democracy, but she is a hyper-qualified PhD in political behavior and statistical methodology, and just plain has lots of common sense, Here in Southern Arizona had a chance
Arizona’s Republican House Delegation Betrays Our Military, Votes Against Defense Spending Authorization.
December 15, 2023
Never let these MAGA clowns pretend to care about our military ever again. Republicans Biggs, Crane, Gosar, Lesko, and Schwiekert all voted to reject funding our military this year in a snit over bullshit like ‘DEI’, ‘ESG’, transition surgery, abortion services and travel, and drag shows on military bases. They think their culture war nonsense
Outraged by Saudis Mining Our Groundwater? We CAN Do Something About That…
December 15, 2023
You might be aware that in much of Arizona (outside the Active Management Areas) it is perfectly fine for a foreign citizen, corporation, or nation to buy a plot of Arizona farmland and then mine an unlimited amount of ground water under said property to grow whatever they like and then export it back home
AZ State Representative Alex Kolodin is a Naughty Little Lawyer
December 14, 2023
Arizona state representative Alexander Michael Del Rey Kolodin – who is allegedly an attorney – has admitted to the Arizona Bar that he violated the Code of Ethics for Arizona attorneys. Kolodin admits he committed those ethical violations in the course of his representation of his client in the so-called ‘Sharpie-gate’ litigation, in which he
The Biden #RePeachment is a MAGA Failure of Imagination
December 14, 2023
Come on, guys! At least TRY to cobble together a factual basis for an impeachment that is 1) original, and/or 2) actually happened while Biden has been President, and/or 3) even a little entertaining (assuming they do actually wish to distract us from the #TrumpTrials, as I presume). One can only conclude that Biden has
The AZ Corporation Commission Race Could Be the Top of our 2024 Ticket and Our Most Important State Level Races. If We Have the Vision to MAKE IT SO!
December 13, 2023
I’ll be the first to admit a most Arizonans haven’t a clue what the Corporation Commission is, or what it does, or who serves on it. If YOU don’t, get started on educating yourself right now and commit to teaching others.. And that widespread ignorance is exactly the way Arizona’s energy and transportation incumbents like
100 Years is Too Long to Wait: ERA is the 28th Amendment of the Constitution.
December 13, 2023
The U.S. is one of the few developed countries absent a guarantee of women’s equality in its Constitution. As of 2011, 35 countries had an equality provision for women in their constitution; 49 had a non-discrimination provision in their constitution for women, and 29 countries had both. While the U.S. has signed the Convention on the
