For too long, Discrimination, Ego, and Ignorance (DEI) have been under attack. Over the last 60 years, with landmark legislation like the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the growing perspective that long-term discrimination carries huge, generational effects, the lock on power of privileged groups has been loosened (some). And institutions like our universities have … Read more
The Hill reports, Supreme Court preview: the major decisions still to come: The Supreme Court’s decision season is in full swing. The justices in the coming weeks will hand down major rulings on student debt relief, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act, with opinions in 30 remaining cases expected to be released by June … Read more
Right on cue, American Taliban leader Sen. John Kavanagh’s Anti-trans school bathroom bill advances with GQP backing: Republican lawmakers are charging ahead with their attacks on transgender Arizonans, despite veto promises from Gov. Katie Hobbs, unanimously backing a measure on Tuesday that calls for separate school facilities for trans students. The House Education Committee voted … Read more
Amanda Marcotte writes at Salon, The GOP is becoming more unhinged about LGBTQ people — which will only make them more unpopular (excerpt): [I]nitially, the post-Trump era of anti-LGBTQ activism began under the pretext of “protecting children.” Groups like the Proud Boys would organize protests of family-friendly drag events, baselessly arguing that people in silly … Read more
Cathi Herrrod’s puppet in the Arizona Senate, Sen. John Kavanagh, is once again carrying water for the American Taliban, Center For Arizona Policy. A decade ago he sponsored the CAP’s anti-trans “show me your papers to pee” bill which eventually died in the legislature. Now the GQP-controlled legislature is even more extreme and radical than … Read more