🤦🏻♀️ "#Arizona Senate Passes Bill Preventing Presidents From Ballot Removal Under #14thAmendment
As states eagerly await the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on if #Trump should be allowed on the ballot for supporting an insurrection, Arizona Republicans took the first step on Monday to ensure Trump won’t be removed from their state’s ballot"
A perfect (and perfectly scary) title from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) —
"If a Cactus Can't Survive This, Neither Can You"
You might’ve seen recent headlines about saguaro cacti keeling over in Arizona after spending nearly a month above 110° Fahrenheit (43°C).
Not even a week later, The Washington Post ran this absurd story: “Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.”
I’m not linking to it. That’s how bad it is.
It’s not just getting a little hotter. It’s getting so hot that saguaro cacti are deflating in the desert. They evolved roughly 20,000 years ago. They’ve spent millennia adapting to a hot desert environment. They live up to 200 years in the hottest, driest environments on the planet. These cactuses are saying, “I can’t take it anymore,” and sagging over dead.
And we’re being told we can adapt.
I got curious about what temperature the human body can actually withstand, and it’s somewhere around 108°F (42°C). That’s when your proteins start to denature. A wet bulb temperature beyond 95°F (35°C) can kill a person in about six hours. No amount of heat tolerance can save anyone from that.
It strikes me as just a little ridiculous that out here in reality, parts of the world are becoming absolutely uninhabitable, and wellness writers are just now telling us to start building up our heat tolerance.
It feels like we’re being prepared and conditioned to start blaming heat deaths on someone’s “low heat tolerance,” as if it’s just another precondition that helps them rationalize indifference in the face of mass death.
He abandoned his first wife and their children in Missouri.
His second wife was a 12 year old Mexican girl. He abducted her and after a complaint submitted his resignation to President Buchanan before he was fired.
BREAKING: Sen. Kyrsten #Sinema just announced that she's NOT running for re-election to the #Senate. #Arizona
ADDED: WaPo: Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) entered the race more than a year ago, while Kari Lake, a former gubernatorial candidate and TV news anchor, is widely expected to nab the Republican nomination.
🙄 Former Donald Trump lawyer John #Eastman pleaded not guilty in Phoenix on Friday on charges related to allegedly participating in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in #Arizona.
#Water pumped from deep underground helps #alfalfa grow at the Saudi-owned Fondomonte farm in the Butler Valley, in western Arizona
Saudi Arabia bans industrial scale farming of alfalfa, to protect its limited water supplies.
So they grow it in a #US desert and ship it back home, using AZ’s scarce water.
Perspective: The prior republican admin even blocked efforts to track the amount of water being used. #Arizona get saudi the fuck out. #natsec
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#Arizona AG Kris Mayes announces the State Grand Jury has returned indictments in the state's 2020 fake electors scheme.
The following individuals are named as defendants, per the AG: Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten, and Michael Ward.
Charges include fraud, forgery, and conspiracy – class 2, 4, and 5 felonies. #legal
👀”Chair of #Arizona GOP Party will resign on Wed after leaked audio appeared to show him attempting to pay #KariLake not to run for office in 2024.
Jeff DeWit said audio was “selectively edited”…chose to resign because he was threatened by members of Lake’s team that more tapes would be released if he did not step down”
👀“In phone call in late 2020, #Trump tried to pressure #Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to overturn election results, saying that if enough fraudulent votes could be found it would overcome Trump’s narrow loss in Arizona..
Trump also repeatedly #Pence to call Ducey, prod him to find the evidence…Pence called Ducey several times to discuss election though he did not follow Trump’s directions…
#Arizona Supreme Court has denied failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate #KariLake's motion to transfer the appeal of her dismissed election contest directly to the state's highest court — again. A trial court rejected her contest twice for lack of evidence. #legal
"Yesterday, former president Trump released a video celebrating state control over abortion; today, a judicial decision in Arizona illuminated just what such state control means. With the federal recognition of the constitutional right to abortion gone since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, old laws left on state books once again are becoming the law of the land."
Beneath all the complicated #ColoradoRiver issues is a big, simple question that media hasn't adequately covered or even really approached: why don't #Indigenous communities have water? Literally just WHY. Without crazy loopy wonky theatrics. Ag has water. #Arizona Suburbs have water. Why don't tribes?
Finally, @ProPublica and HCN are addressing that question. It's a major investigative series. They've published the first of their findings:
The Frasher Foto Postcard Collection https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6s2019xp/ hosts over 5,000 picture postcard views of California and the Southwest taken by Burton Frasher in the 1910s–1950s. Among the many shots of landscapes and people are street scenes, offering a time-travel tour of early 20th-century American signmaking.
The world's 3rd largest copper deposit is in #Arizona. It's essential to #RenewableEnergy projects. Resolution Copper wants to extract it. But the copper is beneath Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, AKA Oak Flat.
“Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us,” says Wendsler Nosie (San Carlos Apache) of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area.
Do you prefer Arizona's flag with this outline?