Update to Authoritarian Arizona GQP Leadership Adopts Rules To End Transparency And Accountability. Jim Small at the Arizona Mirror writes, Fear and loathing in the Arizona legislature The Republicans who run our state legislature are terrified. They’re terrified that their policy proposals are deeply unpopular. Terrified of facing even a tiny bit of accountability. Terrified … Read more
Let’s return to those halcyon days of yesteryear – 2016 – when corporations around the country were threatening to pull up stakes from states that were passing anti-LGBTQ legislation. Corporate Boycotts Become Key Weapon in Gay Rights Fight: The battle for LGBTQ rights has demonstrated the power of boycotts — or the threat of them … Read more
Russia is a terrorist state ruled by a homicidal sociopath. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. Putin ordered the Chechen capital, Grozny, laid to waste. Tens of thousands of Chechen civilians were killed. Russia’s wars in Chechnya offer a grim warning of what could be in Ukraine. Putin order the world heritage site of the … Read more
“The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde. Senator Joe Manchin is a cynical self-interested politician. He is trying to preserve his federal coal subsidies which make him wealthy, while at the same time denying American families, in particular America’s children, the basic assistance they need. And he … Read more
The anti-democracy, pro-Covid MAGA/Qanon Trump death cult Sedition Party is suffering from collective insanity. They even turned on their “Dear Leader” on Saturday. Huffington Post reports, Trump Booed At His Own Rally For Finally Telling The Truth About Something: The most honest moment of Donald Trump’s Saturday night rally came when he gently urged his … Read more