by Carolyn Classen, blogger ✨ You’re Invited to OUTBRUNCH 2026 ✨Southern Arizona’s most joyful celebration of community, leadership, and LGBTQ+ pride. Hosted by the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, OUTBRUNCH brings together advocates, allies, and changemakers for an uplifting brunch honoring leaders who embody courage, compassion, and commitment to justice. 💥 Thanks to a generous supporter, … Read more
A graph is worth a thousand words. 2025 saw a profound spike in the number of reported measles cases in Arizona, to well over 200. Consider that from 1992 to 2024, the number of reported cases per year never came close to 50. Unfortunately, the recent measles outbreak, caused in large part by the vaccine … Read more
Today brought another example of Donald Trump and his loyalists demonstrating that they are White Nationalist, Racist, Social Darwinist Pigs. Last night, Trump, or a kindred racist staffer, posted a picture of Michelle and Barack Obama’s heads on top of the bodies of apes. Out of common decency that Trump and his white nationalist supporters … Read more
With Donald Trump, no basic freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights is safe. That includes the Freedom of the Press. Days after the courts refused to grant an arrest warrant, the Trump Fascist Injustice Department went ahead and arrested local writer Georgia Fort and former CNN journalist Don Lemon under the ludicrous charge that … Read more
Arizona Legislative Republicans are back at it at the State Capitol, playing the same old MAGA-White Nationalist-Religious Extremist broken records of voting suppression and taking away reproductive freedom, sponsoring measures designed to take people’s rights away in both areas. In both chambers, Arizona Republicans want to circumvent a probable Gubernatorial veto by sending a ballot … Read more