If white privilege, and male privilege, and white male privilege, don’t exist, why do things like this keep happening?
Below is a tale of two AZ legislators. Ceci Velasquez is a former Democratic Arizona State Representative from LD29 (West Phoenix). In 2016, Velasquez was forced to end her reelection campaign when it was revealed she had been charged with misusing food stamps. Velasquez pleaded guilty Oct. 25 to a misdemeanor count of unlawfully using […]
Yes, Roe v Wade will be overturned soon. Yes, they can put you in jail for a miscarriage in Arizona once that happens. Here’s how.
In 2017, a Tennessee woman was charged under that state’s abortion ban. 2017, not 1917. Started thinking about writing this article, in the way I have done it, when I had a conversation with our 22 year old legal assistant about Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court, and Arizona’s trigger law A.R.S. 13-3604, which becomes […]
Stop with this “don’t talk about your opponents!” nonsense
The thing is, I keep starting blog posts, which have tended to take a day or more to complete in most cases (not writing, but finding time to edit and format) but the news cycle changes etch-a-sketch quickly so I often abandon them but, screw it, I’m finishing this one. OMG you should have seen […]
Arpaio not off to an auspicious start
Why, oh why, for my first post back in months does it have to be about the bad stench we thought we had (at least) extinguished in 2016? Here is the exclusive @abc15 / @OHPredictive poll – @RealSheriffJoe cuts @kelliwardaz base in half, leaving @RepMcSally in the lead to replace Senator @JeffFlake . pic.twitter.com/kmRCNs844a — […]
“Moderate” Martha McSally votes to yank health care from millions
Martha McSally stood up in GOP conference meeting and said let's get this "fucking thing" done. Yes, direct quote — per members and aides. — Erica Werner (@ericawerner) May 4, 2017 About ending protections from lifelong coverage caps on children born with illnesses, making being a rape or domestic violence victim a preexisting condition, etc. […]
Call your Rep and Senators Flake and McCain, now!
I’m old enough to remember the outraged protests from the right against the Affordable Care Act as it made its way through Congress to President Obama in 2009-10. It was being shoved down our throats, we were told. No one voting on the bill had really read it, supposedly. Tyranny! A number of House members […]
What all “pro-life Democrats” must do to earn my trust.
Oh yes, am watching this tonight. There’s been an uproar on the left the past week over Bernie Sanders giving a full-throated endorsement to a Democratic Omaha mayoral candidate with a troubling anti-choice record (warning: autoplays) while seeming to give the cold shoulder to, then finally endorsing after much criticism, pro-choice Georgia candidate for Congress […]