The Washington Post reports, ‘Blue’ suburban moms are mobilizing to counter conservatives in fights over masks, book bans and diversity education: Dozens of suburban moms from around the country dialed into an Ohio-based Zoom training session last month with the same goal — to learn how to combat the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric from parents whose … Read more
Arizona’s unofficial and unelected “31st Senator,” Cathi Herrod of the Center for Arizona Policy, is having a good week (for her) with the Christian Right’s annual “Culture War Week” in the Arizona legislature. Using the Mississipi 15 week abortion law currently under review before the U.S. Supreme Court as a model, Republicans are once again … Read more
There are only two critical issues confronting the Arizona legislature this session: (1) addressing our water supplies due to an ongoing mega drought and climate change; and (2) addressing the “fiscal cliff” our idiot Republican legislators created for our public school system when they tried to reverse the will of the voters in passing the … Read more
American history has been been a steady advance of expanding rights to include those citizens who were excluded from the rights and privileges of citizenship at the founding of the nation, towards the goal of creating “a more perfect union.” Fundamental rights once granted – to freed slaves, to women, to racial minorities, to religious … Read more
Just like Hitler Youth back in the day. Update to The MAGA/QAnon Cult Turns to Book Banning – Can Book Burning Be Far Behind? Asked and answered. The Washington Post reports, ‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books: Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) attacked Terry McAuliffe … Read more