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Reporter at Arizona Mirror, formerly reported for The Arizona Republic. Signal: JerodMacEvoy.07 http://SeeDisclaimer.com He/Him "smart little loser"

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Judge gives Arizona 8 months to fix unconstitutional school funding system | Arizona Mirror A judge gave Arizona lawmakers 8 months to fix unconstitutional school construction funding in a case dating to 2017

“If lawmakers appeal the ruling, they will delay critical funding and force districts to divert more money away from classrooms just to keep aging buildings in working order.”

story via @jimsmall.bsky.social

06.03.2026 01:04 👍 12 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
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Arizona families say AHCCCS left autistic children stranded without therapy options Arizona autism families rally at the Capitol as AHCCCS contractors drop ABA therapy providers, sparking lawsuits

“It means hope, security, stability, and a bright future for our kids. We see the progress firsthand. Early intervention is proven to be effective. Our family is proof of that.”

story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

06.03.2026 02:19 👍 14 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
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'They're giving me up to die' A federal judge placed Arizona's prison health care in receivership after 14 years of unconstitutional neglect and preventable deaths

“A 15-minute phone call to finish up 22 years of marriage”: Inside the 14-year legal battle over Arizona’s broken prison health care system — and the people it failed

06.03.2026 16:10 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

As a millennial, I’m very tired of this headline.

06.03.2026 17:39 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.

“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

04.03.2026 23:03 👍 8877 🔁 2657 💬 137 📌 124
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Border Patrol is now using a ‘carry your papers’ law to target legal immigrants in Arizona For the first time in Arizona, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are using a Cold War-era law to ticket legal immigrants for minor offenses like not carrying their immigration documents

“The idea that we are a place where everybody has to carry their papers is not American. That’s not the kind of country that I think a lot of people think we should be.”

story via @azcir.org

05.03.2026 17:42 👍 120 🔁 63 💬 1 📌 3
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Kristi Noem fired as DHS secretary after bruising Senate hearing | Arizona Mirror Trump fires DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and names Sen. Markwayne Mullin as her replacement

Noem is the first high-profile Cabinet official to leave her role in Trump's second term

05.03.2026 20:10 👍 31 🔁 12 💬 8 📌 1
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Trump's second tariff push faces immediate legal challenge from two dozen states Two dozen states sue to block Trump's new tariffs, calling the 1974 law he's relying on archaic and misapplied

“If he had the support of Congress, he could have legally passed his tariffs by now. But the truth is he doesn’t have the support of Congress, nor does he have the support of the American people, and he is doing an end run.”

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

05.03.2026 20:22 👍 45 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1

It’d be really cool if accounts like this shared links to their sources rather than referencing another outlet’s work for engagement.

05.03.2026 16:58 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 1
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Air Wisconsin turns to ICE The Appleton-based airline now plays a role in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, flying between detention centers. Explore how its flight patterns have changed since its sale to a f…

A regional airline in Wisconsin has begun providing charter services for federal immigration authorities:

05.03.2026 15:29 👍 65 🔁 51 💬 10 📌 5

imagine if the US had a data privacy authority

05.03.2026 17:14 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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How crisis pregnancy centers turned federal poverty and housing funds into an anti-abortion network | Arizona Mirror Eight states directed more than $150 million in federal poverty funds to crisis pregnancy centers since 2017, with little oversight or accountability

“They are so good at being so deceptive about who they are and truly what kind of services they provide that they really have been able to really dupe a lot of stakeholders.”

story via @kelciemmorris.bsky.social

05.03.2026 16:25 👍 28 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 2
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Another $5.6 million from ICE to Palantir, in part for its continued work on ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement), which we revealed in January to be the Palantir tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid

www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

05.03.2026 17:25 👍 240 🔁 154 💬 8 📌 6
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Bellingcat’s New Tool to Explore Historical and Spatial Flight Data Turnstone can visualise historical trends in flight data or filter them by geography, aircraft type and other parameters.

Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict? Context is everything. That’s why we built Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical flight data to allow researchers to explore flight patterns over time and in specific locations. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

05.03.2026 14:35 👍 258 🔁 103 💬 2 📌 2

I actually do think it’s funny how scandalized all the death streamers and news ghouls flying their drones into people’s backyards looking for blood stain shots were acting like no no no ma’am THIS is crossing a line

05.03.2026 15:13 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

"The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs... and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”" www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

05.03.2026 02:39 👍 394 🔁 165 💬 28 📌 41
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Bill to regulate license plate readers in Arizona may be dead after GOP pushback Arizona's license plate reader bill stalls after GOP pushback over surveillance and public records concerns

“The Fourth Amendment is not a suggestion. It is a command to the government. You do not search people without probable cause or without a warrant. A government that watches everything controls everything.”

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

05.03.2026 01:03 👍 38 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 2

Ok, uh, that isn't Karoline Leavitt though.....

04.03.2026 19:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Satellite imagery shows strike that destroyed Iranian school was more extensive than first reported The images suggest that precision munitions struck other buildings, including a clinic that was also inside the complex.

EXCLUSIVE: The strike that destroyed a school in Minab, Iran was larger than has been previously reported. A nearby clinic was also hit.

The evidence suggests a precision strike against an IRGC base that was adjacent to the school.

www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

04.03.2026 17:51 👍 266 🔁 123 💬 17 📌 22
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www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

04.03.2026 18:27 👍 54 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
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Homeland Security Investigates Remarks of Border Patrol Leader Gregory Bovino

DHS Investigates Gregory Bovino’s Remarks About Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

04.03.2026 18:28 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Arizona Jewish leader: West Bank renaming bills are Christian nationalists co-opting Judaism Arizona Republicans passed bills replacing "West Bank" with biblical terms, drafted by a Christian nationalist group, drawing criticism

“It is an attempt to impose their biblical messaging and values on our country, and it is a tremendous threat. It is undermining our democracy.”

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

03.03.2026 23:22 👍 36 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 4
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Just a fake Karoline Leavitt account on X posting an AI generated video of Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs saying something she never said. The midterms are going to be full of this.

Context on the vetoed bill from last year:

azmirror.com/briefs/hobbs...

03.03.2026 20:26 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1
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ICE arrests tripled in Arizona last fiscal year as street operations surged - AZ Luminaria This story is published in partnership with CALÓ News, a nonprofit, community-centered newsroom uplifting Latinos in Arizona and California. Immigration arrests in Arizona more than tripled in Fiscal ...

For months, immigrant communities and advocates said arrests were rising here. Newly analyzed ICE data show Arizona arrests more than tripled last fiscal year

With @calonews.bsky.social

03.03.2026 17:08 👍 17 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

03.03.2026 14:16 👍 2136 🔁 1417 💬 59 📌 164

Rep. Gillette now thanking anti-Muslim hate group founder of Act for America for helping him with these resolutions.

28.02.2026 17:44 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

NEW: More evidence that those who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election are working with Trump administration officials to set the rules for the 2026 midterms. @dougbockclark.bsky.social

28.02.2026 14:20 👍 1067 🔁 531 💬 36 📌 33
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Arizona Republicans want schools to teach fetal development but not sex, STIs or abortion Arizona Republicans advanced bills requiring fetal development lessons while banning abortion information in public schools

Anti-abortion activists said voters were too ignorant about fetal development and abortion to understand what they were voting for when they made abortion a constitutional right

story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

28.02.2026 01:33 👍 12 🔁 16 💬 7 📌 0
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'We need guardrails': Gallego doubles down on DHS funding fight over ICE reforms Sen. Gallego says Democrats won't fund DHS until Trump agrees to ICE reforms, including ending racial profiling and requiring warrants

“All of these very sane requests that the American public wants have been rejected.”

story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

28.02.2026 01:51 👍 35 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1
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'Debunked conspiracy theories are not a legal basis' for Trump to take over elections, Mayes says | Arizona Mirror Arizona officials say a draft executive order to seize federal control of elections is unconstitutional and based on debunked claims

“No president has the constitutional authority to 'take control' of elections,” AG Kris Mayes said

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

27.02.2026 22:44 👍 61 🔁 36 💬 8 📌 1