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Verum Signal @verumsignal.com · 29/09/2026
A 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
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 29/09/2026
Timothy Courchaine said there is "no reason for concern," but Adrian Fontes vowed not to hand over the voter rolls story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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U.S. attorney tells AZ officials feds won't back down on scouring voter data for noncitizens
Arizona voter rolls dispute: U.S. attorney says feds won't back down; Fontes refuses to hand over the data without a court order
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Sasha Hupka @sashahupka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: 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...
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52 out of 60 voters flagged as noncitizens in key Arizona county turn out to be citizens
Maricopa 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.
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Arizona 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.com
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Opponents of Axon's Scottsdale project take fight over voter rights to appeals court
Axon Scottsdale law: Residents appeal to overturn a statute they say unconstitutionally blocked a vote on Axon's HQ project
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 28/09/2026
RIP
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 28/09/2026
This is wild. Hacking the gov't cause the gov't said you were full of it is something else.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. 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. 🧵
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Neo-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
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
A separate Nevada ruling settled the same legal question, Mayes argues, so the outcome in Arizona 'must be the same' story via @jimsmall.bsky.social
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After 9th Circuit ruling, Mayes pushes to revive her gambling case against Kalshi
AG Kris Mayes wants the 9th Circuit to lift the injunction blocking Arizona's gambling case against Kalshi
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
A 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.
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Donate | Arizona Mirror
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Noah VanDowe @vandowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Candace 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...
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Podcast 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...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
Eight 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?
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Donate | Arizona Mirror
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 25/09/2026
Today 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!
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
Houston PD accounted for nearly a third of searches of one Arizona agency's Flock system, alarming privacy advocates story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Who'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
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
The 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.com
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War-zone surveillance comes home as Predator drones fly loops over Arizona border towns
Arizona border drone: An Army Predator built for warzones is flying over border towns, alarming privacy advocates
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Arizona 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.social
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Clean Elections tells court it must investigate Green Party fraud claims
The 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...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
Kris 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.social
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Arizona AG rivals Mayes and Petersen trade attacks over experience, donors and deportation
Arizona attorney general debate: Mayes and Petersen clash over immigration, experience and the 2020 election
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
Republican Elijah Norton and Democrat Nick Mansour each cast the other as too partisan to be trusted with the state's money story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Norton, Mansour trade attacks over risk and partisanship in treasurer debate
Arizona treasurer debate: Norton and Mansour clash over a $10 billion trust fund and who's too partisan for the job
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".
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Heads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could be a risk to all humanity
The 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.
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
NEW: 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.
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FBI Hack Exposed 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.
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 23/09/2026
I 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.
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Arizona 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.”
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Arizona 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
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 23/09/2026
Young 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.social
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'What’s the point?': Inside a Navajo Nation election marked by distrust
Young 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
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Sean Scully @seanibus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Advocates 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/ozC7d4o
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Arizona 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
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NPR @npr.org · 23/09/2026
The 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
Statement on White House bans from Thomas Evans, NPR’s Editor in Chief: Barring journalists from the White House because the president dislikes their reporting is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, and NPR condemns it without qualification.The American public has a right to know what its government is doing in its name — not only the coverage a president finds flattering, but the full and accurate account of the use of power and public resources.That right belongs to the public, and it is not the president's to revoke. The press, and specifically public media, exists to conduct that accounting to every American, in every community, in service to the public interest.NPR and our Member stations will continue to uphold these First Amendment rights, and to stand with any news organization targeted for its reporting.
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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How 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.
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TPUSA’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).
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 23/09/2026
I get a lot of interesting emails but this is a first.
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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Republicans 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!
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 22/09/2026
I 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...
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Jess Hamzelou @jesshamzelou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This 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...
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The 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.
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 21/09/2026
If you missed me on KJZZ this morning. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
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The company behind a major Arizona charter school chain is under criminal investigation
The 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
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FBI warns ICE agents not to trust any women willing to date them gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-ic...
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 18/09/2026
Virgin Galactic's White Knight Two appears to be heading into the Valley. They have a hanger at Mesa Gateway airport.
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 18/09/2026
Military contractor aircraft are back at the Arizona border with Mexico today. Read more about that here: azmirror.com/2026/08/13/m...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: 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...
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How 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 Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It 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...
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Customs officer guilty of using gun, badge to sexually assault women in Chicago suburbs
Jurors 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 ...
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As 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...
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An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply Chain Hacking Gang
TeamPCP 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...
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026
It’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...
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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.news · 17/09/2026
NEW 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"
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WE 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...
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 17/09/2026
The ad brands Trump-endorsed Republican Jay Feely a "rubber stamp" for the president's unpopular agenda story via @jerodmacevoy.com
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Democratic group launches $1M ad blitz highlighting Jay Feely’s allegiance to Donald Trump
314 Action is spending nearly $1M on ads branding Arizona’s Jay Feely a ‘rubber stamp’ for Trump in a key race
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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 16/09/2026
Remember 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...
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amanda 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.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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CNN @cnn.com · 15/09/2026
FBI 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
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 15/09/2026
Attorneys 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.com
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Criminal probe targets PAC funded by charter school management company
An investigation into the Educational Freedom Fund is probing whether a charter school founder’s PAC funneled corporate money to the GOP
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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 15/09/2026
Space Force has weapons in orbit, Air Force secretary says trib.al/HP19WSV
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Space Force has weapons in orbit, Air Force secretary says
The first public acknowledgement comes after months of talk about Space Force building out its offensive capabilities in space.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 12/09/2026
Risa 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.social
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Green Party candidates in fraud probe sue Clean Elections to block possible repayment
Two candidates under fraud investigation filed a Clean Elections lawsuit to block a demand to repay $4.7M
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 14/09/2026
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 remain in legal limbo. story via @jwashing.bsky.social/@lookoutnews.bsky.social
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ICE 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...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Wrote about documenting ICE arrests during a surge in southwest Florida -- and how no one wanted any of the footage.
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ICE is Still Surging
Dispatch from an immigration surge in southwest Florida
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
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Cops 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.
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