I’m not going to hail Barrett and Roberts for allowing us to count our votes. It’s a huge win for democracy, but it shouldn’t have even been a question. That we were one vote away from disenfranchising votes is all the more reason to expand the court in 2029.

🛑 Democrats warned this referral ignored how schools actually operate and would punish small and rural districts with impossible constitutional mandates. 🤷🏽‍♂️ Now Republicans are seeing the consequences of rushing bad policy and we’re fighting to fix it. #Senate #AZLeg

Today, Supreme Court extremists struck down the nearly 100 year old precedent that shielded independent agencies from damaging political interference. Learn more about this precedent and the impact the Trump v. Slaughter decision will have on Americans’ lives: https://ampr.gs/43YBfuD

No legislative veto. Hampered oversight. No agencies outside of presidential control. No attempt to meaningfully enforce the power of the purse statutes. This is the Court’s doing.

Republicans hastily sent these chaotic and vague ballot referrals through on the very last day of session. Now they're scrambling because they know Arizonans don't want this. Dems will keep fighting these vindictive referrals, including working to stop them from reaching the ballot.

🚨 PRESS RELEASE: Democrats Force Bipartisan Budget Deal, Win Historic Data Center Moratorium and Save Healthcare for 40,000 Arizonans. ⬆️ #AZLeg #Budget #Democrats #AnArizonaWeCanAfford

➡️ Arizona already has a law that prevents taxpayer dollars from being used for union activities. 🤷🏽‍♂️ So why HCR 2040? Republicans are creating a problem that doesn’t exist. What started as an attack on teachers’ unions could put police and firefighter unions at risk, too. #AZLeg #Arizona #Democrats

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

Thank you @nalactionfund.bsky.social for your endorsement! I'm proud to fight for all immigrant communities against the attacks we continually see from Republicans.

Amazing - a player named Freeman scoring for Team USA today, on #Juneteenth

As cities all over the US enjoy the business that World Cup teams and fans bring, recall that this opportunity was snatched from Arizona thanks to Trump's war of choice in Iran. So much for Republicans being good for business.

“The question really isn’t, ‘Where do voters stand on this? Where are Arizonans?’ It’s about why are Republican politicians standing in the way of access to basic healthcare rights?”

Fonda: This isn’t the first time that Americans’ rights have come under attack. But this time, what is really different from the last century is that the attacks are coming from every part of the government: the executive, the legislative, and the Supreme Court.

AZ state leg approved a 3 yr pause on data center tax exemptions, thx to Dems, incl De Los Santos, Garcia, @priya4az.bsky.social https://www.calonews.com/arizona/arizona-approves-bipartisan-budget-prioritizing-local-tax-relief-data-center-moratorium/article_73227089-a6ce-4629-a4ea-e1716e4b8548.html

We’re proud to endorse @priya4az.bsky.social as she runs to continue representing AZ State Senate, District 18! 🎉 As Senate Democratic Leader, she led her caucus and actively spoke out on the violations by ICE and Border Patrol. We know she will fight to defend our democracy!

Q: Are you concerned about the latest inflation numbers that came out this morning? TRUMP: No, I love it. I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over -- do you know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil? You know who doesn't know? Iran until right now.

Cowardly

Data centers are asking just too much for too little in return. I'm pausing the release of any new data center tax incentives in Illinois — and I'm calling on the General Assembly to act in veto session to make sure data centers are paying their fair share.

The 10,500 diesel backup generators attached to data centers in Virginia produce enough pollution to harm public health in the region even if used rarely, according to a new analysis of emissions permits for The Post. https://wapo.st/4wSVnvi

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

Really important graphic on what drowning really looks like

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Misappropriated spending by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office includes $4,070 to train and test whether to buy a horse, $3,259 for car washes and $1,261 in travel expenses to research buying a boat — for deputies who work in the desert. With @azluminaria.org

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

A typical electric car costs about $6,000 more than a comparable gasoline car. With a $6,000 higher up-front cost, $27,000 lower fuel cost, and $14,000 lower maintenance cost, at today's prices a typical electric car costs about $35,000 less than a typical gasoline car over the vehicle's lifetime.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Once again, consumers get screwed. You shouldn't be footing the bill for utilities' lobbying. Congress should pass my Ethics in Energy Act, which would address this exact problem and prevent utilities from using your hard earned payments to fund their political activity.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Number of people receiving food stamps in Arizona has fallen by around 50% as of March compared to a year earlier, including about 200,000 children who have lost their benefits. Those numbers are showing up in the lines at Arizona food banks.

"Especially over the last 15 years, the Court's corrupt majority has more & more openly adopted the stance that you have a powerful presidency for Republicans & a weak one for Dems. They won’t allow Dems to enjoy the fruits of political power when they win it, & that’s just an untenable situation."

Washington is debating suspending the 18.4¢ federal gas tax. But nobody is talking about the REAL tax Americans are paying: the Iran war premium. It’s adding roughly $1.35 per gallon right now, costing drivers about $571 million today alone. Over 71 days? Nearly $28 billion.

Virginia’s entry into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is a major step toward ending a system where a handful of swing states decide presidential elections for everyone else.

Sam Alito, a week ago: "vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South.... '[T]hings have changed dramatically' in the decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act" #SegregationSam #JimCrowJohn

There’s no reason to perpetuate the legal myth that human beings in robes can save democracy

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

Is anyone going to mention that Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were all young lawyers on the Florida recount case in 2000 when George W. Bush stole the election? They should have recused themselves on all voter suppression & election stealing cases, but such cases are their raison d'etre.

I have said this before and I will say it again, but it is my firm belief that given the blatant and naked corruption exhibited by some members of the Roberts Court, decisions of the Roberts Court should not be treated as precedentially binding on later courts.

Florida just ignored its constitution to gerrymander. Ohio has repeatedly defied court rulings to gerrymander. The legal infirmity here, which is wholly invented, is also piddling next to those. Revise the statute and push the map approved by voters into force.

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

Utterly unconscionable. The courts will allow gerrymandering to favor Republicans and win them extra seats, but step in to prevent Democrats from doing the same. Voters in every district, please see how Republicans are steamrolling you at every turn to please their master.

"Musk pledged two years ago to build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis to guarantee that his xAI servers wouldn’t deplete the city’s groundwater" "Now that Musk’s first data center is up and running, construction on the recycling facility has come to an abrupt halt"

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

Virginia Supreme court has thrown out the voter-passed redistricting referendum, restoring the GOP's seats - the day after Tennessee legislators steamrolled Dems to eliminate the last Dem seat vacourts.gov/static/opini...

Solar on canals reduces water evaporation by 70% and algae growth by 85% #energysky -- via pv magazine usa:

reminder, "Abundance" is a right-wing sausage party