Trump’s attorney doesn’t know what he is talking about on Trump tax returns
April 8, 2019
I explained the law on this last week, ‘Follow the Money’ – Congress requests Trump tax returns (Updated): I covered this earlier this year, ‘Follow the Money’ – Congress needs to see Trump tax returns, but now House Ways & Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) has finalized his demand letter under Code sec. 6103(f): … Read more
The Trump administration has a bigger turnover rate than McDonald’s
April 8, 2019
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, despite behaving like a sycophant to the unhinged whims of the KKK-endorsed candidate, resigned during the evening of April 7, 2019, rather than follow through with the reinstituting of family separation policies. She was this Administration’s second Homeland Security Secretary and this is just the third year of the Trump … Read more
Open Letter to Rep Ann Kirkpatrick: Please Stand up for Human Rights by Standing up for Victims Now
April 8, 2019
“Everyone is scared. The situation has never been this bad.” Abdulrahman al-Sadhan’s sister has not been able to see or even speak to her brother on the phone in the year since his arrest by the Saudi secret police. She believes he is being beaten or tortured in jail and may be in imminent danger. … Read more
Arizona International Film Festival on April 10 to 21
April 8, 2019
“Remaining true to the independent spirit, the AZ Film Festival is a venue for independent filmmakers in search of an independent audiences. The Festival theme of “Words Matter, Indie Films Matter” provides a way for independent cinema to share images and voices from diverse cultures from around the world with Arizona communities. Since 1990, the … Read more
Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson in Stephen Miller purge
April 8, 2019
“Trumpism” is the new American fascism, and no one has been a more loyal foot soldier in implementing Trump’s anti-immigrant white nationalist agenda than Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson. She has consistently and repeatedly lied to Congress under oath about the Trump administration’s child separation policy for legal asylum seekers, detaining those children in cages, and … Read more
Free Speech For Whom?
April 8, 2019
Full disclosure: I really don’t want to write this post. As someone who has spent most of his adult life on college campuses in some form (as an undergrad, grad student, and now faculty member), I find the “free speech on campus” debate to be absolutely tiresome. It is a fake controversy mostly manufactured by … Read more
One of Arizona’s worst ousted. There are many more to vote out in 2020.
April 8, 2019
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While it is right that Arizonans celebrated and hailed the forced resignation of Legislative District One State Representative David Stringer citizens need to remember that he is not the only reactionary legislator that does not serve the public good that needs to be defeated. Some of his vile comments on education like “public schools should … Read more
Pledge to conserve water in 2019 Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation
April 7, 2019
Hey Tucsonans, it’s been a week since this National Mayor’s Water Challenge started (April 1) and Tucson is again in 2nd place under Aurora, Colorado. Our city of Tucson won in 2013 and 2018, so we can do it again. Check out the current City Standings (for cities 300,000 to 599,999). You can pledge daily … Read more
