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EIC of @azmirror.com ~ Journalist ~ Public records gladiator ~ Foul-mouthed ~ Street taco fiend ~ Fascism is un-American ~ Posts are my own ~ Never tell me the odds

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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 7h
A survey found 82% of Arizonans oppose selling trust land to housing developers, even as GOP lawmakers press the idea story via @glorihuh.bsky.social
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Selling Arizona trust land won't guarantee more housing, land chief tells lawmakers
The state land chief says selling Arizona trust land won't guarantee more housing gets built, as Republican rage about leases for solar farms
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 8h
“But if something like this had crossed my desk, I would have said, ‘You can’t pay for this ad. It is clearly illegal.’ It’s that clear a violation of law and it’s really corrosive to democracy.”
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Trump uses $20M in Homeland Security funds for 'clearly illegal' ads featuring himself | Arizona Mirror
Democrats say $20M in DHS money is paying for 'clearly illegal' ads featuring President Trump before the midterms
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 10h
Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier can refile if the Clean Elections Commission ultimately orders them to return the money they're accused of obtaining by fraud story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social
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Judge dismisses 'sham' Green Party candidates’ lawsuit against agency investigating them
Clean Elections lawsuit dismissed: A judge won't block the fraud probe of two Green Party candidates until it's finished
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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 11h
They've never been battle-tested in a general election and it shows
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 12h
On Monday, Eric Schmitt helped pass a bipartisan college sports bill. On Tuesday, he mixed up the Atlanta Hawks and Iowa Hawkeyes, used the bad information to accuse Jack Smith of perjury and called him a “dirtbag.” #moleg #mogov
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Commentary: Eric Schmitt’s Hawks-Hawkeyes blunder and the politician he’s become • Missouri Independent
Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over a Hawks-Hawkeyes mix-up, highlighting how his political style has changed.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 12h
“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation,” Jack Smith told senators
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GOP senator bungles 'dirtbag' attack on Jack Smith unravels over a basketball mix-up | Arizona Mirror
Jack Smith Senate hearing: The former special counsel defended his Trump investigations as Republicans attacked his work
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 13h
Are data centers about to become very popular?
A pie chart mostly in blue, with a yellow wedge. Blue is the portion that is no. yellow is the portion that is no, but in yellow.
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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 13h
Every day, I come around a little more to the theory that there's some secret "Brewster's Millions" type prize for Trump if Republicans lose badly enough in this election. Nothing else makes sense.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 14h
The outlets argue Trump's ban is intended to "cow" journalists and that he's signaled other "fake news" outlets could be next
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News orgs banned from White House accuse Trump of First Amendment violation | Arizona Mirror
Trump White House press ban: CNN, MS Now and Politico ask a judge for a longer order protecting access before the TRO expires Oct. 8
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14h
yes when i think of the people in my life I've watched weep in despair for lack of affordable childcare options i think "urban, affluent voters"
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 15h
Both sides see the coming Congress as a turning point, though filibuster rules make any change a steep climb
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Anti-abortion groups worry Hyde Amendment’s 50-year run could end with new congressional majority | Arizona Mirror
50 years after it barred federal funding for abortion, advocates debate whether the Hyde Amendment can survive a new Congress
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So is Todd gonna personally present the case to the Ft. Pierce grand jury or….? Because if you can’t even persuade Joe DiGenova or Kurt Olsen to do it….who’s left?
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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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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 28/09/2026
The voters were flagged earlier this year by a federal voter verification tool that is known to produce false positives, and Recorder Justin Heap referred them to county prosecutors for review story via @sashahupka.bsky.social & @votebeat.org
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Maricopa County investigated 60 suspected noncitizen voters. 52 are citizens, 8 are not.
Most Maricopa County voters flagged as potential noncitizen by an error-prone federal system are actually citizens, according to prosecutors
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

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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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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 28/09/2026
71% of Americans worry AI will cost jobs, but political polarization and Trump's opposition to regulation has Washington polarized
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‘Dumbfounds us all’: Congress struggles with policies rippling from AI development | Arizona Mirror
AI regulation Congress: Lawmakers warn about AI's risks but are unlikely to act before the midterms
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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This truly is horrifying. Not only is he unlawfully spending OUR money on a political ad, the whole point of the ad is that roughly half of the country consists of enemies who must be conquered.
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Sean Scully @seanibus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The State of Arizona stands ready to pursue all legal avenues, up to and including criminal prosecution, to safeguard the privacy of our voters," the Democratic secretary of state and attorney general say, report @azmirror.com and @statesnewsroom.com buff.ly/fnMIzuH
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Mayes, Fontes say the Trump administration may be breaking the law to scour Arizona voter data
Arizona voter privacy: Mayes warns a federal noncitizen-voter search may break the law as the Supreme Court weighs in
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 28/09/2026
$8 a month: one dollar for every year we've covered Arizona. That $96 a year keeps accountability journalism free for everyone who needs it. azmirror.com/donate
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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Additionally, a huge swath of Republicans in Congress and in every office down the ballot only has political experience in the Trump era. It's not normal politics, but they don't know that, and don't know how to function in it. Same with the consultants advising them.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 26/09/2026
Mayes and Fontes said they'll consider legal action, even criminal charges, if voters' personal data is being misused story via @glorihuh.bsky.social
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Mayes, Fontes say the Trump administration may be breaking the law to scour Arizona voter data
Arizona voter privacy: Mayes warns a federal noncitizen-voter search may break the law as the Supreme Court weighs in
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 25/09/2026
OPINION | We should not be debating how to divide the shortage. We should be asking how to end it — and build the fully staffed, fully supported public schools our children deserve.
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Commentary: You can't strengthen Arizona schools by dismantling the team behind our teachers
Prop. 320 Arizona schools: Why a 60% classroom-spending mandate is the wrong fix for the state's teacher shortage
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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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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
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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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
Dr. Heidi Overton sidestepped questions on mifepristone as senators from both parties questioned whether she has the votes to be confirmed
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Trump's FDA nominee draws bipartisan skepticism over abortion pill and vaccines | Arizona Mirror
FDA nominee confirmation hearing: Dr. Heidi Overton draws bipartisan skepticism over the abortion pill and vaccine policy
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 24/09/2026
The GAO tallied more than $20 million in waste as the agency raced to reach a goal of holding up to 100,000 immigrants at once
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ICE wasted millions expanding detention without a plan in Trump push for mass deportation | Arizona Mirror
ICE detention waste: A GAO report finds DHS squandered more than $20 million rushing to expand immigration detention
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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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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new NYT focus group is out, and it's bound to be full of the same morons that are present in every NYT focus group, but because I love making fun of the median voter I'm going to be posting my thoughts on it
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Opinion | Paxton, Talarico and the Senate Race in Texas: 12 Voters Discuss
The group discusses the economy, the president and the U.S. Senate race in Texas.
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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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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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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 23/09/2026
Republicans changed SNAP eligibility to fund Trump's tax cuts in last year's One Big Beautiful Bill, leaving 5 million low-income Americans without food aid
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Arizona SNAP enrollment fell by half as 5 million Americans so far have lost food aid | Arizona Mirror
Tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose access to food assistance each month, even as Congress debates slowing down major cuts to federal food stamps. New data from the U.S. Department of Agri...
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Make America Hospitalized Again
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The concept of being a state A.G. and writing a brief that tosses aside a U.S. Supreme Court order that had no dissents like this in favor of talking about how a three-judge Eighth Circuit panel acted "unanimously" — a court below the U.S. Supreme Court — in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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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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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TPUSA is very good at winning GOP primary elections. Their track record in statewide general elections, at least in Arizona, is about as bad as it gets.
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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They are scared, and they should be. The political environment is toxic, Dems are largely flush with cash and they have (mostly) good candidates in all the right races. But it's a midterm, and lots of voters habitually vote GOP down the ticket. Still, the GOP fear is new. And telling.
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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've covered legislative elections since 2004. There have been blue surges as AZ has become purple: 2006, 2018, 2020, 2022. I've never ever seen this kind of doomerism messaging from Republicans. This year is different. Trump is so impossibly toxic it will hurt all GOP. How bad is the question.
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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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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 · 22/09/2026
“Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly … Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?”
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‘Drive them into hell’: Trump tells UN he'll make a deal with Iran or 'annihilate' it | Arizona Mirror
Trump UN Iran speech: President threatens to 'annihilate' Iran or reach a deal as war costs mount and approval sinks
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 22/09/2026
OPINION | Jake Hoffman discredited himself by trying to use his government post to target Katie Hobbs, whom he’s getting paid handsomely to defeat in November via @elviadiaz.bsky.social
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Republican Sen. Jake Hoffman’s probe into Katie Hobbs is a pay-to-play mess of its own
Jake Hoffman discredited himself by trying to use his government post to target the governor whom he’s getting paid handsomely to defeat
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Met with 36 journalists in NYC this week to talk about climate change and economic trends and as depressing as that reality is, what takes the cake was learning that McClatchy, right after recent mass layoffs at the Miami Herald, posted positions for influencers at pay exceeding most reporters.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 21/09/2026
“Unless you’re wearing a T-shirt that says, ‘I’m here to draw the blood of endangered species,’ you’re basically off the hook. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, go crazy, we’re not gonna prosecute you.”
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Trump wildlife official quietly clears the way for developers and loggers to kill endangered species | Arizona Mirror
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public
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