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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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Yeah a local public records request I finally got fulfilled after a year of waiting. Going through and making notes now.

10.03.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just 2,319 more pages to sift through

10.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Been trying to track down the subpoena but have not gotten a copy myself.

10.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI cameras are everywhere β€” and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

'Flock Flocked up'

How a license plate camera misread unraveled one man's life.

Horrifying story of Flock misreading plates.

The driver was then mauled by a police dog while officers comment he is acting like a petulant child.

The license plates weren't stolen, and he was the registered owner

10.03.2026 04:35 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Wild statement to release literally two days after children were shot at with a pellet gun outside a Phoenix mosque.

09.03.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Much like the AI, I failed to count them.

09.03.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ah yes, to be an American, holding my rifle with two magazines with my three fingered right hand as the flag floats behind me.

09.03.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Election 'audit' contractor says he still has photos of 2020 Maricopa County ballots An election audit contractor says he still has ballot images when state law says they should have been destroyed after two years.

I mean, I still have questions about this....

azmirror.com/2025/12/19/e...

09.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A question I've been trying to get answered today tbh.

09.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#43 in CAIR-FOUNDATION INC v. DESANTIS (N.D. Fla., 4:25-cv-00516) – CourtListener.com ORDER GRANTING 24 MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION. Signed by JUDGE MARK E WALKER on 3/4/2026. (baf)

Also worth noting that a similar designation in Florida was barred by a federal judge.

β€œOnce again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

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09.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A tweet by the Arizona Senate Republicans announcing that they'll be voting on a House Concurrent Resolution next week that designates the Council on Islamic American Relations a terrorist organization.

A tweet by the Arizona Senate Republicans announcing that they'll be voting on a House Concurrent Resolution next week that designates the Council on Islamic American Relations a terrorist organization.

The lawmaker who proposed this designation has said that an anti-Muslim hate group helped him with it, has called Muslim's "fucking savages" and has based the accusations on decades old claims that critics have called "constitutionally questionable."

azmirror.com/2026/02/26/g...

09.03.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

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Maricopa County pushes back on Trump's viral claim of FBI election records subpoena | Arizona Mirror Maricopa County says it has not received an FBI subpoena for election records, contradicting a claim Trump shared Monday

β€œMaricopa County runs elections in accordance with the law. We have not received a subpoena at this time but will cooperate if that were to occur.”

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

09.03.2026 18:16 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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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

β€œIf 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 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 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

β€œIt 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 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 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

β€œA 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 β€” and the people it failed

06.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

06.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 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.

β€œOnce again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

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Border Patrol is now using a β€˜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

β€œThe 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 πŸ‘ 120 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 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 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 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

β€œIf 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 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 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 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 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 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 5

imagine if the US had a data privacy authority

05.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 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

β€œThey 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 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 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...

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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 πŸ‘ 286 πŸ” 115 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

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 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜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 β€” and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs... and the chat was renamed after what one member described as β€œNazi heaven.”" www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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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

β€œThe 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

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