Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyVerum Signal @verumsignal.com · 29/09/2026A starter pack for this fall's debates: reporters and newsrooms covering the statewide races in Arizona, California, Maine, Michigan, Iowa and New York. One tap follows them all. go.bsky.app/Qm1jyrn 002
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 29/09/2026Timothy Courchaine said there is "no reason for concern," but Adrian Fontes vowed not to hand over the voter rolls story via @jerodmacevoy.comazmirror.comU.S. attorney tells AZ officials feds won't back down on scouring voter data for noncitizensArizona voter rolls dispute: U.S. attorney says feds won't back down; Fontes refuses to hand over the data without a court order 42620
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoySasha Hupka @sashahupka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEW: An investigation by Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell found 52 of 60 potential noncitizens flagged by a error-prone federal system known as SAVE are actually citizens. Last week, SCOTUS said President Donald Trump's administration can use the tool. Read: www.votebeat.org/arizona/2026...votebeat.org52 out of 60 voters flagged as noncitizens in key Arizona county turn out to be citizensMaricopa County’s GOP recorder said he had found 60 noncitizens who had cast a ballot. Upon closer investigation, though, the real number is only eight. 29353
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 28/09/2026“Almost the entire state was surgically removed from the Axon Bill’s reach, with no conceivably reasonable or legitimate justification for the omission.” story via @jerodmacevoy.comazmirror.comOpponents of Axon's Scottsdale project take fight over voter rights to appeals courtAxon Scottsdale law: Residents appeal to overturn a statute they say unconstitutionally blocked a vote on Axon's HQ project 1123
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 28/09/2026This is wild. Hacking the gov't cause the gov't said you were full of it is something else. 030
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/20261. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵 461540564
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Neo-nazis don’t even have to bother trying the forgiveness arc anymore before getting a splashy profile they just gotta be a little sad their racist grift didn’t work out 17413
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026A separate Nevada ruling settled the same legal question, Mayes argues, so the outcome in Arizona 'must be the same' story via @jimsmall.bsky.socialazmirror.comAfter 9th Circuit ruling, Mayes pushes to revive her gambling case against KalshiAG Kris Mayes wants the 9th Circuit to lift the injunction blocking Arizona's gambling case against Kalshi 184
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026A building at Mesa Gateway Airport was designed to hold 157 ICE detainees. At one point this year, it held 777. We were the first to report the facility existed and that it was horribly overcrowded. That kind of reporting is why we're asking for 80 new donors to celbrate our 8th anniversary.azmirror.comDonate | Arizona Mirror 12111
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyNoah VanDowe @vandowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Candace Owens calls Jeremy Boreing a "Jeffrey Dahmer character" who "never liked" Charlie Kirk, Alex Jones says Laura Loomer is a "twisted harpy," and Mark Levin calls Tucker Carlson a "thug bastard" This week in right-wing podcast wars 👇 @mmfa.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/candace-owen...mediamatters.orgPodcast Wars: A “Jeffrey Dahmer character,” a “twisted harpy,” and a “thug bastard”Welcome to Media Matters’ regular debrief on the Podcast Wars. This week, Candace Owens stood at the center of the smoldering right-wing media civil war, exchanging fire with a variety of conservative... 128813
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026Eight years ago today, the Arizona Mirror launched with four journalists and no paywall. It's still free to read, and any newsroom can still republish it for free. For our birthday, we're looking for 80 new donors by Monday night. Will you be one?azmirror.comDonate | Arizona Mirror 22111
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 25/09/2026Today is the 8th anniversary of the @azmirror.com and to celebrate I'm going to share one of my favorite stories from each of those 8 years! 1115
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026Houston PD accounted for nearly a third of searches of one Arizona agency's Flock system, alarming privacy advocates story via @jerodmacevoy.comazmirror.comWho's tracking Arizona drivers through Flock cameras? Often, it's police from other states.Arizona license plate data: Out-of-state police are among the heaviest users of Flock cameras surveillance data, records show 12311
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026The same aircraft used in Iran and other foreign wars is now surveilling U.S. communities, with no answers on what data it collects story via @jerodmacevoy.comazmirror.comWar-zone surveillance comes home as Predator drones fly loops over Arizona border townsArizona border drone: An Army Predator built for warzones is flying over border towns, alarming privacy advocates 65648
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026“It is not optional for the Commission and its representatives to enforce the provisions of the (Citizens Clean Election Act) at issue here,” the commissioners said in their response to the candidates' lawsuit. Story by @caitlinsievers.bsky.socialazmirror.comClean Elections tells court it must investigate Green Party fraud claimsThe Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission says that its investigation into whether two Green Party candidates fraudulently qualified for campaign funding is squarely within the scope of its legal... 0116
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026Kris Mayes derided Warren Petersen's two years as a lawyer and his backing from a firm she sued while he called her a partisan who weaponized the office story via @glorihuh.bsky.socialazmirror.comArizona AG rivals Mayes and Petersen trade attacks over experience, donors and deportationArizona attorney general debate: Mayes and Petersen clash over immigration, experience and the 2020 election 2117
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026Republican Elijah Norton and Democrat Nick Mansour each cast the other as too partisan to be trusted with the state's money story via @jerodmacevoy.comazmirror.comNorton, Mansour trade attacks over risk and partisanship in treasurer debateArizona treasurer debate: Norton and Mansour clash over a $10 billion trust fund and who's too partisan for the job 133
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".bit.lyHeads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could be a risk to all humanityThe heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world — or at least its people. 194444199
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026NEW: Yesterday, 404 Media broke news of the FBI breach. Now, we've discovered it has exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.404media.coFBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking UnitThe FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed. 13032401609
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 23/09/2026I need to find a better way to organize my handwritten notes (my preferred note taking method). This is just from this year. Used to have a whole box of them that sadly burned up in a storage shed fire that had notes from the start of my career. 140
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 22/09/2026“People don’t have to be against the death penalty to recognize a dollar is poorly invested. Things that keep our community safer cost a lot less, and it might mean that we don’t have to deal with this issue.”azmirror.comArizona spends millions on the death penalty. Victims' families want it on cold cases.Arizona cold cases: Homicide victims' families urge the state to fund unsolved murders over the death penalty 22410
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 23/09/2026Young Diné voters are preparing to cast their first ballots as the Nation weighs marriage equality, economic opportunity, basic services and whether their government can deliver via @lookoutnews.bsky.socialazmirror.com'What’s the point?': Inside a Navajo Nation election marked by distrustYoung Diné voters are preparing to cast their first ballots as the Nation weighs marriage equality, economic opportunity, basic services and whether their government can deliver 0179
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoySean Scully @seanibus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Advocates say money Arizona spends litigating capital cases would do more good invested in unsolved murders, crime labs and survivor support, report @azmirror.com and @statesnewsroom.com buff.ly/ozC7d4obuff.lyArizona spends millions on the death penalty. Victims' families want it spent on cold cases.Arizona cold cases: Homicide victims' families urge the state to fund unsolved murders over the death penalty 042
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyNPR @npr.org · 23/09/2026The First Amendment defined the right to free speech and a free press. But a free press doesn't just happen. It's something we must protect. Your support is essential to our ability to provide journalism that upholds your right to know. Donate now: n.pr/4hgyjzz 1333975
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyJim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How it started How it's going Voter registration in this district is R+12. Trump won it by 15 points in 2024. The electoral environment is so toxic for Republicans right now that this district is in play. And dozens more like it across the nation. 2102
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 22/09/2026TPUSA’s longtime pop culture turned MAHA podcaster Alex Clark said she hid her recent marriage to debut the news on her spinoff podcast and the first episode was literally “sex isn’t optional.” That’s what Yrēfy is putting their money into (who runs the studio where Clark makes her TPUSA podcast). 2329
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 23/09/2026I get a lot of interesting emails but this is a first. 050
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyJim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Republicans are increasingly scared they're going to lose the #azleg this year for the first time since 1966. This mailer in a Tucson-area legislative district from the Senate GOP Victory PAC begs voters to support the Republican to avoid "one-party control." We've mostly had that for 60 years! 2176
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 22/09/2026I approached one of these towers to photograph it for a story on border surveillance and its impact on local communities. It swiveled and looked at me and another reporter as we approached it. CBP denied my FOIA for the footage. azmirror.com/2026/02/19/h... 03315
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyJess Hamzelou @jesshamzelou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This vital and devastating investigation by my brilliant colleagues @eileenguo.bsky.social and @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social is an absolute must-read. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can't it catch people before they die? www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1...technologyreview.comThe US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver. 176
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 21/09/2026If you missed me on KJZZ this morning. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...kjzz.orgThe company behind a major Arizona charter school chain is under criminal investigationThe CEO of American Leadership Academy is under scrutiny, as his political action committee is being investigated for allegedly funneling corporate money to Republican legislative candidates 0199
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyTom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026FBI warns ICE agents not to trust any women willing to date them gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-ic... 901932411
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 18/09/2026Virgin Galactic's White Knight Two appears to be heading into the Valley. They have a hanger at Mesa Gateway airport. 161
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 18/09/2026Military contractor aircraft are back at the Arizona border with Mexico today. Read more about that here: azmirror.com/2026/08/13/m... 041
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comHow Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per MonthBrown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. 18878474
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyJon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It didn't matter if CBP officer Luis Uribe's victims were sex workers, a prosecutor told jurors this week. It's possible for a sex worker to be raped, he told them. "Sex workers," he said, "can be credible." The jury agreed. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...chicago.suntimes.comCustoms officer guilty of using gun, badge to sexually assault women in Chicago suburbsJurors concluded that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe sexually assaulted four sex workers in 2022, convicting him of a series of crimes that could put him in prison for the rest ... 10676199
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyAndy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As the TeamPCP cybercrime group carried out an unprecedented spree of software supply chain hacking this year, it had been infiltrated by an undercover analyst from Google's threat intel division. Google watched from inside, warned victims, even disrupted extortions. www.wired.com/story/an-und...wired.comAn Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply Chain Hacking GangTeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group has revealed it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner c... 26725
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op... 181375745
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyLEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news · 17/09/2026NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social & our editor-in-chief went to the Kirkiversary at Utah Valley University last week & held our pee in while a lady screamed about Kirk dying in a satanic ritual & a Democratic PAC compared Destiny to Tyler Robinson, saying they're both "innocent until proven guilty"leftcoastrightwatch.orgWE WENT TO THE ONE-YEAR CHARLIE KIRKIVERSARY & THERE WERE NO BATHROOMS OPEN... | Left Coast Right Watch“Charlie Kirk died as a ritual, a Satanic ritual. Mormons are on the Epstein list. Mormons are on the Epstein list. Ritual, ritual, Charlie Kirk died as a ritual,” a sunburnt woman in a black dress ch... 24626
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 17/09/2026The ad brands Trump-endorsed Republican Jay Feely a "rubber stamp" for the president's unpopular agenda story via @jerodmacevoy.comazmirror.comDemocratic group launches $1M ad blitz highlighting Jay Feely’s allegiance to Donald Trump314 Action is spending nearly $1M on ads branding Arizona’s Jay Feely a ‘rubber stamp’ for Trump in a key race 0156
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 16/09/2026Remember when Facebook purposefully put sad or happy content into people's feeds (without telling them) to see how social media impacts people's moods and they found it had major impacts......yeah www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo... 1133
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-Evoyamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.motherjones.comThe Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.” 121507703
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyCNN @cnn.com · 15/09/2026FBI Director Kash Patel lashes out when pressed by Senator Peter Welch about the FBI's potential involvement in the 2026 election. See more: cnn.it/3UK7Djk 157326
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 15/09/2026Attorneys for the PAC defended the contributions as legal — but said if they were, in fact, illegal, the blame lies squarely on its former treasurer, who has since been fired story via @jerodmacevoy.comazmirror.comCriminal probe targets PAC funded by charter school management companyAn investigation into the Educational Freedom Fund is probing whether a charter school founder’s PAC funneled corporate money to the GOP 1149
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyTask & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 15/09/2026Space Force has weapons in orbit, Air Force secretary says trib.al/HP19WSVtrib.alSpace Force has weapons in orbit, Air Force secretary saysThe first public acknowledgement comes after months of talk about Space Force building out its offensive capabilities in space. 41212
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 12/09/2026Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier accused the commission of violating their First Amendment rights and trying to "bully and intimidate" them into dropping their campaigns story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.socialazmirror.comGreen Party candidates in fraud probe sue Clean Elections to block possible repaymentTwo candidates under fraud investigation filed a Clean Elections lawsuit to block a demand to repay $4.7M 1129
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyArizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 14/09/2026Pietro Graza was granted protection from deportation to Brazil because he feared torture due to his sexuality. He says he was shackled for 36 hours and taken to a hotel where he and other deportees remain in legal limbo. story via @jwashing.bsky.social/@lookoutnews.bsky.socialazmirror.comICE deported a gay Brazilian man to Equatorial Guinea. Now he’s gone silent.Pietro Graza was granted protection from deportation to Brazil because he feared torture due to his sexuality. He says he was shackled for 36 hours and taken to a hotel where he and other deportees re... 21013
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-Evoyamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Wrote about documenting ICE arrests during a surge in southwest Florida -- and how no one wanted any of the footage.turtlediaries.netICE is Still SurgingDispatch from an immigration surge in southwest Florida 181424617
Reposted by Jerod MacDonald-EvoyJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...404media.coCops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box. 352195733