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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nothing says "I hate AI and its impacts" like using AI to make an image denouncing AI

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Found a photo of Trump's new campaign advisor

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AZGOP Chairman Sergio Arrellano implies that Kris Mayes really didn't win her election in 2022: "We only lost the AG office by 280 votes. Maybe." mailchi.mp/azgop/newsle...

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here we have a right-wing talk show host spelling out the crisis right now for the GOP. This is exactly what Crane is seeing in a district that was drawn to be safely Republican.

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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 · 22/09/2026

Similar messaging in a north Phoenix state Senate race, as well, where the GOP is attacking the Democrat and pleading with voters to maintain "balance" in government instead of "total one-party control of government." This is a desperate argument, and hints at how badly internal polls are.

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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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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now hearing word that Rod Torfulson’s Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuck has pulled out of the Ed Sheeran tour.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Clean Elections tomorrow will consider Ralph Heap's (GOP Corp Comm candidates) request to withdraw from the public financing system. The reasons "stated at the hearing" by his attorney can be summed up thusly: "What do you mean we have to follow all of the Clean Elections rules?!?!" Should be fun.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Reported in a story that was written by AI!

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

however will I recover? (spoiler: by giving money to Eli Crane, apparently)

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Warren Petersen rushed through a proposal to amend the AZ Constitution to outlaw police unions in the state, but those unions still turn around and endorse him. It's pretty incredible.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This may be one of the dumbest political attacks I've ever seen. A Democratic politician voted for Democratic presidential nominees? Get the fainting couch.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A judge has nixed Prop 145, the GOP attempt to preemptively override the almost-certainly-going-to-pass Protect Education Act (Prop 212) to regulate universal private school vouchers. The court ruled the measure violates the Single Amendment rule and is unconstitutional

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

These two GOP lawmakers voted for HCR2040. Fair enough if their position is that it was written to do something that they didn't intend, and didn't understand. It seems NO ONE at the #azleg understood what it did. But it's gobsmacking how, since it was in plain language in the bill summary even.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Well the #AZGOV rhetoric has escalated quickly

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hugh Lytle put $2 million of his own money into running for governor under the No Labels Party banner. Through the end of June, he'd spent more than $900,000 securing his place on the ballot and trying to win over primary voters. Terri Ann Hourihan spent $36,000 and won.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

FWIW, Katie Hobbs' spending on campaign infrastructure and blanketing Arizona in media buys in the second quarter is *DOUBLE* what Andy Biggs has raised for his entire campaign

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Kyrsten Sinema and Heather Ammel, the woman whose then-husband was sleeping with Sinema while a member of her security detail, want a federal judge to keep large parts of discovery and depositions under seal. Ammel is suing Sinema under North Carolina's "alienation of affection" law.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The gambit from the AZ Education Association teachers union to trade its initiative curbing universal vouchers for a promise that GOP lawmakers won't put a measure on the ballot to basically defund them just failed in the Senate. Looks like it failed because Sen. Janae Shamp is absent.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Barely 5 months ago, Trump said Susan Collins should never be elected again after she voted against his war

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Seems like this story really should have mentioned that Warren Petersen divorced his wife in 2023, meaning this legislation that he's pushing would allow him to stop paying alimony

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I really don't understand why the Arizona Capitol Times has a cowboy hat beat, but it's fucking stupid

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Guessing Rep. Moore wasn't a fan of Looney Tunes as a child? Or maybe it made him feel funny inside, who knows

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is quite the boast from Warren Petersen in his latest #AZAG press release. First, his "managing" of those cases and briefs is done by the private attorneys he's hired with taxpayer money. And I doubt anyone who isn't in his family or on his payroll has ever called him that.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Karen Marie Northcutt embezzled $826,000 from Prescott Area Habitat for Humanity. She faces at least 10 years in prison.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is truly embarassing: AZ Treasurer candidate Katherine Haley is bragging about getting 15% in a poll, but trying to spin it as though she's dominating her opponent... who got 13%. Not only are they statistically tied, but it means that like 70% of voters are undecided.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

RAGA is making big TV ad reservations for November. They're not (yet) throwing money at defeating Kris Mayes for #AZAG.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Of course the D-Backs are cool with this, why not

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We'll be hearing a lot about the Purcell Principle with all of the last-minute redistricting going on. It's named after longtime Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell, who was the defendant in the lawsuit that resulted in the caselaw that now bears her name.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Democrat Mark Robert Gordon, a voting rights attorney and activist, has dropped out of the #AZ01 race to replace David Schweikert. His departure comes a day after the DCCC threw its weight behind Marlene Galán-Woods.

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

He gleefully caused these deaths

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The AZGOP's big fundraiser this year will be headlined by Dr Oz

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I guess bone spurs only hinder you in war, not in space

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's polls like this that give every Republican up and down the ballot night terrors

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Chips Kachari has me rolling

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Warren Petersen has the Gateway Pundit stamp of approval to be #AZAG because ... <checks notes> ... he has exactly zero actual experience as an attorney With friends like these...

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My man clearly doesn't understand what Protestantism was protesting The only time American Protestants give two shits about the pope is when he says something they don't like, and it's been like that forever

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Bluesky status page seems to be inoperable, so

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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Even Republicans are turning on Trump apnorc.org/projects/few...

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