Arizona joins 12 other red states asking Supreme Court to end DACA program (Updated)
August 31, 2019
As Adam Serwer wrote, The Cruelty Is the Point: Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty. It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his … Read more
Arizona Congressional Democratic Candidates React to the Trump Administration’s latest stage in the War on Children.
August 31, 2019
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Over the last week, the Administration of the KKK endorsed candidate has reached new lows in its war against children. First, the Popular Vote Loser Administration announced new rules for some parents of military personnel that have children abroad. These rules make it harder to obtain citizenship for children born overseas. According to National Public … Read more
Phoenix Voters Strike Back Against the Reactionaries and Defeat Propositions 105 and 106.
August 31, 2019
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Over the last several months, local, state, and national conservative groups led by Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio, the American Free Enterprise Club (which has ties to the Koch Brothers), and the Responsible Budget Committee (which has links to reactionary supporters in Utah and California) united with some residents and business owners in South Phoenix … Read more
America’s farmers need to put their economic survival ahead of GOP tribalism
August 30, 2019
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was the guest of honor at the annual Farmfest gathering in southern Minnesota this month. He didn’t realize that he was on the menu. He was booed after joking that farmers are “whiners” who need to suck it up for Trump trade policies. The New York Times reports, Farmers’ Frustration With … Read more
Ghosts in the machine: voting machines that ‘flip’ votes (or don’t record them)
August 30, 2019
There have routinely been reports about electronic voting machines that “flip” votes from the candidate one tries to vote for to another candidate since at least 2004, when then newfangled electronic voting machines became prevalent after the 2000 election fiasco and the subsequent Help America Vote Act (2002). Those machines are now decrepit and outdated, … Read more
What Do You have to Do Win Around Here?
August 30, 2019
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By CD 8 Candidate Michael Muscato Being a candidate is hard. Being a candidate in a district where you’re outnumbered is even harder. Convincing voters who aren’t members of your particular party they should vote for you is the hardest. But raising money to run in a district where you’re outnumbered can be maddening because … Read more
Spaceman Spiff rebrands SPACECOM as his ‘Space Force’
August 30, 2019
Donald Trump aka “Spaceman Spiff” (a science fiction hero within the classic Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Watterson) would like you to believe that he has created his U.S. “Space Force.” He has not. The president cannot create a new branch of the U.S. Armed Forces without an act of Congress, and Congress has not … Read more
