The Right-Wing Media Returns to Anti-Muslim Hysteria: ‘You Can’t Bring Them Here!’
August 17, 2021
After spending a day attacking President Joe Biden for the chaotic scenes in Kabul of Afghans desperate to leave the country, conservative opinion leaders who were quick to condemn President Joe Biden for failing to evacuate Afghan allies are now insisting that those Afghan refugees cannot be brought to the United States. This should not … Read more
DOJ Civil Rights Division Calls On Congress To Pass Voting Rights Legislation
August 17, 2021
Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for civil rights, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Monday, and called on Congress to pass the voting rights bills: US Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke testified in front of a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing about voting rights legislation on Monday, as the House prepares to move forward a … Read more
Celebrate 18 Years of Iskashitaa Refugee Network with Silent Auction
August 17, 2021
Iskashitaa Refugee Network <tucsonrefugees@gmail.com> Time to celebrate! August 18, 2021 begins our Celebrating 18 years of Iskashitaa 18 years of No Fruit Left Behind-The story “In the early 2000’s, Dr. Barbara Eiswerth, PhD., Iskashitaa Refugee Network Executive Director, was completing studies in Malawi, Africa & was traveling between Malawi &Tucson. Her cultural shock was not … Read more
President Biden Defends his Decision to Withdraw American Troops From Afghanistan
August 16, 2021
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With pictures and video of Afghanistan citizens, mostly men, clinging to air transports departing Kabul International Airport all over social media after the Taliban swiftly retook control of the country after American and Allied-N.A.T.O. troop withdrawals, President Joe Biden spoke to the American People and again defended his decision to end the United State’s longest … Read more
Romero and Gallego Blast Ducey’s Prohibition of Vaccine Mandates by Local and County Governments
August 16, 2021
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Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed an executive order that supposedly would prohibit local and county governments from instituting vaccine mandates, another example of Ducey catering to the Know-Nothing fringe. Ducey still has delusions he has an opportunity to win higher office someday. To that end, he has been consistently adopting Know Nothing-science denying-anti mask-anti vaxxer policies … Read more
Perfect the Enemy of Good
August 16, 2021
I wrote a blog post on February 15, 2015, called, The Real Trick to Making America Great Again. Although the title plays off Trump’s MAGA, it really had nothing to do with Trump. Rather, I wrote that, “[t]he singular most significant action each of us can take this year is to demand the members of … Read more
A Democratic ‘Suicide Squad’ Threatens To Sabotage The Biden Agenda And Fellow Democrats
August 16, 2021
Nine Democratic House members, a rump “suicide squad” drawn from the House Problem Solvers Caucus – a misnomer, because this group has never solved any problem despite all the attention it receives – is inexplicably threatening the Biden agenda and fellow Democrats. Its members mostly have voted for whatever House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brings to … Read more
RNC ‘Memory-Holes’ GQP Support For Trump’s Deeply Flawed Agreement With The Taliban
August 16, 2021
Above: Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with Taliban Political Deputy Mullah Beradar welcoming the launch of Afghan peace negotiations – without the government of Afghanistan. Damn, did this fool and his boss ever get played by the Taliban. Tom Boggioni reports, RNC busted for deleting campaign page touting Trump’s ‘historic peace agreement’ after Afghanistan … Read more
