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The Green Reflecting Pool is a Funny and Important Story, But Other Events Also Deserve the Same Amount of Attention

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The recent coverage of the Reflecting Pool by the Lincoln Memorial is funny, and another demonstration of Donald Trump destroying something he touches. However, while this episode is another example of Trump’s ineptitude, mismanagement, environmental destruction, and endangering living organisms (a duck died,) there are other events happening that merit more news coverage than this. … Read more

(UPDATED) Arizona Democratic Congressional Reaction to Trump’s Apparent Unpublished America-Last Deal with Iran

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Several of Arizona’s Congressional Democrats have weighed in on the still officially unpublished page-and-a-half memorandum signifying an armistice between the United States, Israel, and Iran that is the first step in a 60-day process to negotiate a more permanent arrangement. Or more accurately, what they heard is in it, based on scuttlebutt, what the Iranians … Read more

Representative Yassamin Ansari Reacts to the Death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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The nation’s lone Iranian American Representative in Congress, Arizona’s Yassamin Ansari, had a measured and well-thought-out response following the announcement of the death of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following United States and Israelis airstrikes today. Posting on social media, Representative Ansari wrote: “Khamenei was the epitome of evil. For decades, he oversaw the torture, imprisonment, … Read more