The attempt to link trans identity to violence is part of a larger effort on the right to identify new targets in the culture wars, serving up fresh meat to a GOP base that’s long idealized racism, heterosexism, classism, and other forms of prejudice. There’s a bait and switch at work here, with rightwing officials and pundits designating trans people as the new public enemy number one. This shift springs from the political reality that bigotry against gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals is now widely considered to be beyond the pale. More

Competition for Colorado River water is fierce and, according to the guiding legal principle of prior rights, the tribes have the oldest rights and therefore should have adequate allotments. In fact, they don’t, and the worst off is the Navajo Nation, whose average per capita water consumption is 7-10 gallons per day, compared with the national average of 88, the New Mexico average of 81, Utah’s of 169, and Arizona of 146 gallons per day, according to an amicus brief by DigDeep Right to Water Project. More

So the truth is out: the three so-called liberals on the supreme court are phonies. More precisely, they, like most of their conservative brethren, are corporate hacks. We learned this a couple of weeks ago, when the high court ruled against Steven Donziger, a climate-activist attorney, long persecuted and then literally prosecuted by Chevron. In a pro-corporate decision about as subtle as a heart attack, seven of the nine justices declined to hear Donziger’s appeal of a criminal contempt decision involving his representation of Indigenous Ecuadorians against Chevron. Two far-right justices dissented. More