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Tom's rules of politics, the latest in an occasional series: anyone who complains about political machines is probably trying to build one of their own.

Who knew that Joni Ernst was so goth?

In a time of increasing wildfire risk, the legislature's priority is to shield Arizona's wealthiest corporations from responsibility. coppercourier.com/opinion/opin...

One of the buzzwords that I hate is "unintended consequences." If the opposition clearly states, on the record, in public, what will happen if a given course of action moves forward, and the powers-that-be go ahead with it anyway, then the consequences are clearly intended.

Folks this week have been making a lot out of the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride. This is actually incorrect. The anniversary of the release of Midnight Ride by Paul Revere and the Raiders actually does not come for another two weeks, May 6. youtu.be/IP8G4clUJBY?...

The Accountant 2, which continues the tale of a neurodivergent accountant who is also some kind of cold badass special forces type, premieres within 24 hours of RFK Jr.'s comments about autism. Who would have thought that a silly action movie was more reality-based than a speech by an HHS Secretary?

Its worth remembering that Arizona's "Confederate Heritage" is largely bunk. www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...

Tired of businesses making things where it’s like “if you don’t have time for lunch, Sponk is a full meal replacement drink” first of all fuck you I want time for lunch

Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.

Just a reminder that there are still nationalist elements in Russia that call for the return of Alaska and former colonial outposts in California.

Rather than a long post detailing my experiences at the state capitol this week, I will leave it at this: for folks who claim that they have the people, the power of a righteous cause, and an ascendant movement on their side, they sure seem frightened, angry and miserable.

One day late, but happy Arizona Statehood Day to those who celebrate.

Prediction: Kid Rock and Lee Greenwood will be doing the halftime show next year. There will be a lot of flags, crosses and praise for the President, but it will totally not be political.

We need to come up with a better metaphor for deferred maintenance than "kicking the can down the road."

I guess the good news is that this all means Ted Nugent, the scribe of such life-affirming entries into the Great American Songbook as "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang," "Cat Scratch Fever" and "Jailbait," will finally get that long-deserved Kennedy Center Honor. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Meanwhile, at the Arizona State Capitol...

THE INCREDIBLE HULK #181: an analogy for the current moment. Canada is represented by Wolverine, feisty, resilient and punching above his weight. The US is represented not by the noble Captain America, but the Hulk, a dumb and impulsive brute who somehow forgot that Canada is a sovereign country.

I have said it for years, trans women would be welcomed as sisters of Themyscira.

Opinion | The way to avoid tragedies like yesterday's crash is to use hiring practices that put only the most qualified people in important federal jobs. by Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr.

Senator Adam Schiff torched Kash Patel: "Mr. Patel may be, I don't know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI Director in history who felt it necessary to plead the 5th." BOOM! 🔥

In arguing for a bill that was effectively a book ban, a 70-something committee chair waxed nostalgic for his own school days, when everything was better and no one complained. This was the same era when my mother had her mouth washed out with soap for speaking Spanish on the playground.

This one is being heard in committee at the State House today. I am waiting for similar prohibitions on time travel, lycanthropy and turning lead into gold.

Schedule F is back - and so are the 1870s.

I didn't hear anyone complain about DEI when we needed someone to be first through the breach at Fort Wagner.

Do any of you have an address where I can send Pete Hegseth a bottle of champagne to congratulate him on his confirmation? Thanks in advance.

Rep. Andy Biggs began the process of running for Governor today. Having worked with Mr. Biggs, I can safely say that there are few people who have less of the patience or temperament required for the day to day work of running a state. Bloviating won't cut it when people depend on real results.

The current moment demands that we come up with more precise definitions of "chud," "chode," and "twerp." It is impossible to discuss the neandercrats who now populate the public discourse without agreeing to proper terminology to describe them.

Admittedly, we have not given the executive order forbidding the CDC from talking about bird flu enough time to work. Pretending that the problem doesn't exist will eventually lower the price of eggs. Just wait, you'll see.

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.

The 14th Amendment merely codified existing practice that has its roots in English Common Law. Anyone who says otherwise is full of shit. I could cite sources here but you all have access to the Google machine, so you can find this for yourself just like I did.

Musk's support for a far-right political party in Germany was just an awkward twitch resulting from his autism. We shouldn't make so much of it.

It’s funny how DEI Democrats want government diversity when it comes to race, religion, and gender, but they don’t care about representation of alcoholics, wife beaters, and Russian agents. by Charlie Kirk

1/ Buried in Trump's flurry of Executive Orders is a line that halts funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. That means withholding funds for projects like the I-10 expansion, investments in Sky Harbor and Mesa Gateway Airports and upgrades to our water infrastructure.

When we stopped to eat, a Phoenix station was on the teevee with breathless man-on-the street commentary from enthusiastic dudes in red hats. They talked to one lone dissenter, a woman wearing a black Stinkweeds cap. Stinkweeds remains the best thing about Phoenix.

I’m not watching. The 13th Amendment specifically says that I do not have to listen to white people on MLK Day. And I respect the Constitution.

Somebody decided he actually didn’t want that smoke.

It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.

(1/4) In a sense we have come to our Nation's Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our great republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every Anerican was to fall heir."

Vivek Ramaswamy has apparently decided to run for Governor of Ohio. This is because he believes that the state deserves an executive who is even more smug than John Kaisich.

If you’re coming to Bluesky from TikTok, the best advice I can give you is that every post is always 100% serious and should be responded to with a severe earnestness no matter what

As the Good Book (tm) says, "Let he who has never sank two nonprofits, been credibly accused of s*xual assault, and been habitually drunk at his workplace, throw the first stone."

If you missed Senator Warren Petersen's comments on water policy, here is the nutshell treatment: our groundwater management policies continue to be successful, therefore they should be repealled.

In honor of the opening of the Legislative Session today, here is my annual posting of the greatest bill ever passed by an Arizona legislature.

Let's make this clear: anyone who calls for President Biden to pardon the January 6 insurrectionists is insincere and just pursuing a byline, clicks, and a potential berth on a podcast or cable talking-head show as some sort of transgressive contrarian. This is the golden age of bullshit.

"We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'. There wasn't as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin', On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of America." Doesn't quite fit the rhyme scheme does it?