br00t4c, 4 days ago to Arizona

Digested week: Snakes alive! Depardieu smacks snapper while Sunak slips up | Emma Brockes

#arizona

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/24/digested-week-snakes-alive-depardieu-smacks-snapper-while-sunak-slips-up

br00t4c, 4 days ago to Arizona

The Arizona Trial that Reveals Our Border Dysfunction

#arizona

https://progressive.org/latest/the-arizona-trial-that-reveals-our-border-dysfunction-davidson-20240523/

GottaLaff, 4 days ago to Arizona

👏🏻Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill allowing #Arizona doctors to perform #abortions in #California

The California Democrat signed legislation drafted in response to the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that a near-total ban on abortion from 1864 is enforceable in the state.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gavin-newsom-signs-bill-letting-arizona-doctors-perform-abortions-cali-rcna153836

TucsonSentinel, 4 days ago to Tucson

Arizona tax revenues dip in April after months of steady growth https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052324_tax_revenue/arizona-tax-revenues-dip-april-after-months-steady-growth/
Arizona sales taxes have grown slowly since the fiscal year began in July 2023, but that growth has significantly weakened in 2024, and the state took in $93 million less than that new forecast in April, thanks largely to disappointing sales tax collections that continue to trend downward.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 4 days ago to Tucson

Arizona tax revenues dip in April after months of steady growth https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052324_tax_revenue/arizona-tax-revenues-dip-april-after-months-steady-growth/
Arizona sales taxes have grown slowly since the fiscal year began in July 2023, but that growth has significantly weakened in 2024, and the state took in $93 million less than that new forecast in April, thanks largely to disappointing sales tax collections that continue to trend downward.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Biden cancels $7.7 billion in student loan debt https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052324_student_loans/biden-cancels-77-billion-student-loan-debt/
President Joe Biden on Wednesday wiped out another $7.7 billion in student loan debt for 160,000 people, bringing the total amount of debt forgiveness under his administration to $167 billion for nearly 4.8 million people.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Why more veterans & active duty service members are dying by suicide than in battle https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052324_military_suicide_op/why-more-veterans-active-duty-service-members-are-dying-by-suicide-than-battle/
Despite recent calls to action to improve suicide prevention within the military, suicide rates remain elevated among service members, and an estimated four times as many active duty service members and veterans died by suicide as died in battle since 9/11.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Why more veterans & active duty service members are dying by suicide than in battle https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052324_military_suicide_op/why-more-veterans-active-duty-service-members-are-dying-by-suicide-than-battle/
Despite recent calls to action to improve suicide prevention within the military, suicide rates remain elevated among service members, and an estimated four times as many active duty service members and veterans died by suicide as died in battle since 9/11.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Kari Lake didn’t dispute a talk show host’s false claim her opponent supports veteran suicides https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052324_lake_veteran_suicide/kari-lake-didnt-dispute-talk-show-hosts-false-claim-her-opponent-supports-veteran-suicides/
Kari Lake appeared on the show of an Islamaphobic conspiracy theorist who has espoused white nationalist views and offered no pushback when host Laura Loomer claimed her combat veteran opponent in the U.S. Senate race wants his fellow veterans to kill themselves.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Tucson Council plays turf game with RTA https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052324_council_rta_no_op/tucson-council-plays-turf-game-with-rta/
The Tucson City Council has treated RTA Next for three years the same way four-year-old Blake treated spinach on his plate. Sneer at it. Poke it with a fork. Move it around. Hope it goes away.
#Tucson #Arizona

TexasObserver, 5 days ago to politics

The Texas Observer and Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting have found that armed vigilantes have forged relationships with local and federal law enforcement—ties that appear to elevate risks of violence in already volatile #border regions. From Francesca D'Annunzio and Avery Schmitz: https://www.texasobserver.org/border-vigilantes-law-enforcement-texas-arizona/

#politics #USpol #news #immigration #extremism #police #Texas #Arizona #Mexico

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

FC Tucson starts league season with match against familiar foe Ventura County Fusion https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/052324_fc-tucson/fc-tucson-starts-league-season-with-match-against-familiar-foe-ventura-county-fusion/
FC Tucson is scheduled to play against Ventura County in Ventura on Friday night in their first league match of the season. It would be easy to be bitter about Ventura’s role in keeping the local side from the playoffs last season, but the team learned some important lessons.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Border vigilantes are blurring the lines of law enforcement https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052324_border_vigilantes/border-vigilantes-are-blurring-lines-law-enforcement/
All along the border, organized vigilante groups are filming themselves conducting patrols, taking photos of themselves alongside law enforcement, and sharing footage online to solicit donations - actions that appear to elevate the risk of violence in already volatile areas.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Pima County issues air pollution advisory for Thursday https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052324_air_ozone/pima-county-issues-air-pollution-advisory-thursday/
Air pollution in the Tucson metro area, including moderate concentrations of ground-level ozone, prompted an advisory Thursday from Pima County that some residents should avoid intense physical outdoor activity.
#Tucson #Arizona

br00t4c, 5 days ago to Arizona

Republican uses AI to write legislation regulating deep fakes

#arizona #republican

https://www.rawstory.com/artificial-intelligence-2668366026/

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Members of U.S. Senate face a vote on whether they support contraception access https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052324_birth_control_support/members-us-senate-face-vote-whether-they-support-contraception-access/
U.S. senators will go on record next month with whether they support legislation from Democrats that would guarantee access to contraception — a right currently upheld by two Supreme Court cases, but one that has been singled out by a conservative justice.
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Arizona AG join lawsuit, sues Ticketmaster, Live Nation over live concert monopoly https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052324_mayes_livenation/arizona-ag-join-lawsuit-sues-ticketmaster-live-nation-over-live-concert-monopoly/
Az AG Mayes joined the the Justice Department and a coalition of states in an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment, accusing them of them of monopolistic control as "gatekeeper for the delivery of nearly all live music in America today.”
#Tucson #Arizona

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Arizona House advances immigration resolution amid racial profiling claims https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052324_border_entry/arizona-house-advances-immigration-resolution-amid-racial-profiling-claims/
Arizona's Senate floor session ended in chaos Wednesday as members of the gallery shouted out in protest of a voter resolution that would establish illegal border entry as a state crime.
#Tucson #Arizona

br00t4c, 5 days ago to Arizona

Eiron, The Goddess of Irony, Laughed So Hard She Farted

#arizona

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/05/23/eiron-the-goddess-of-irony-laughed-so-hard-she-farted-75/

br00t4c, 5 days ago to Arizona

Arizona Dad Who Shot His 2 Kids to Death Was Honored by Church for Father's Day

#arizona

https://heavy.com/news/brock-mater/

BigAngBlack, 5 days ago to Arizona

In one of the US’s hottest deserts, utilities push gas rather than solar | #Arizona | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/gas-peaker-plant-republicans-fort-mohave-arizona

> In Fort Mohave, Arizona, even Republican voters are fighting gas power plants as utilities try to lock in fossil fuels

br00t4c, 5 days ago to Arizona

In one of the US's hottest deserts, utilities push gas rather than solar

#arizona

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/gas-peaker-plant-republicans-fort-mohave-arizona

TucsonSentinel, 5 days ago to Tucson

Giuliani, Arizona GOP leaders plead not guilty in election interference case https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052224_election_interference/giuliani-arizona-gop-leaders-plead-not-guilty-election-interference-case/
Updated: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani railed against his latest indictment over his role in the 2020 election in a Maricopa County courtroom Tuesday morning.
#Tucson #Arizona

br00t4c, 5 days ago to Arizona

AZ Republicans Seem Nice. I'll Bet They're A Blast At Parties

#arizona #republicans

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/05/az-republicans-seem-nice-ill-bet-theyre

br00t4c, 5 days ago to Arizona

Kari Lake's MAGA lawyer dodges disciplinary hearing in effort to avoid disbarment: report

#arizona #karilake

https://www.alternet.org/kari-lakes-lawyer-hearing/