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8 Million Attendees, One Day, No Kings. Indivisible announced that 8 million people joined the third No Kings nationwide protest, held across 3,300 events on Saturday, March 28. It was the largest single‑day nonviolent protest...
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8 Million Attendees, One Day, No Kings.
Indivisible announced that 8 million people joined the third No Kings nationwide protest, held across 3,300 events on Saturday, March 28. It was the largest single‑day nonviolent protest in U.S....
https://blogforarizona.net/8-million-attendees-one-day-no-kings/
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"God Speed Artemis II": After Over 50 Years, Humanity is Finally Returning to the Moon From N.A.S.A About F--king Time. From NASA Mission Commander Reid Wiseman Pilot Victor Glover...
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"God Speed Artemis II": After Over 50 Years, Humanity is Finally Returning to the Moon
From N.A.S.A About F--king Time. From NASA Mission Commander Reid Wiseman Pilot Victor Glover Mission Specialist Christina Koch Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen These are the four astronauts taking humanity back...
https://blogforarizona.net/god-speed-artemis-ii-after-over-50-years-humanity-is-finally-returning-to-the-moon/
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Trump is a coup plotter and a criminal. Put him under the jail with a Dem Congress this fall. Investigate, impeach, indict, incarcerate!
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So much for ‘obliterated’ nukes and ‘no boots on the ground’. Trump is plunging us into a morass and inviting disaster.
#IranWar
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Johnson blinked. ICE will remain unfunded pending reforms and the rest of DHS gets a CR. Victory! ✌🏻
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Mike Johnson caves to John Thune in DHS standoff
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) put out a joint statement with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), effectively surrendering in the standoff on Department of Homeland Security funding and agree...
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-2676651207/
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House and Senate Move Forward on Internal Reforms Congress is taking steps toward procedural reform, including changes to how legislation is handled and how lawmakers engage during...
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House and Senate Move Forward on Internal Reforms
Congress is taking steps toward procedural reform, including changes to how legislation is handled and how lawmakers engage during hearings.
https://blogforarizona.net/house-and-senate-move-forward-on-internal-reforms/
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Oh yeah, no worrying historical references here.. 😳
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The Constitution's Elections Clause gives YOUR STATE the power over how you vote—not the president. Trump's mail voting EO is an illegal overreach. Courts have already said so.
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"That is Not His Decision to Make" and "Disgusting Overreach": Arizona Reaction to Trump's Unconstitutional Executive Order Restricting Mail-In Voting
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"That is Not His Decision to Make" and "Disgusting Overreach": Arizona Reaction to Trump's Unconstitutional...
Again citing big lies on voter fraud associated with mail-in voting and other policy issues, American Duce Wannabe Donald Trump signed an Unconstitutional Executive Order restricting access to that ballot...
https://blogforarizona.net/that-is-not-his-decision-to-make-and-disgusting-overreach-arizona-reaction-to-trumps-unconstitutional-executive-order-restricting-mail-in-voting/
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ICE is proving it cannot run a detention facility without a body count. Why allow them to open more, and thereby kill more? 🤯
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ICE detention deaths triple as Surprise facility plans move forward
As deaths in ICE custody climb sharply nationwide, the plans to build a large detention facility in Surprise continue.
https://www.azfamily.com/2026/03/31/ice-detention-deaths-triple-surprise-facility-plans-move-forward/
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Certainly an unauthorized and wasteful and unnecessary war is a good reason for, anyone, anyone? Bueller? Impeachment... And anyone? Removal from office…
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Thousands more US troops are heading to the Middle East
Thousands of additional U.S. troops are heading to the Middle East as the Trump administration has insisted that progress has been made in talks with Iran and has threatened to escalate the war if a d...
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-us-troops-deployment-aircraft-carrier-7c015aa5156525fcc95c42897de52e0f
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When Diplomacy Sounds Like a Threat Karoline Leavitt said the quiet part out loud: if negotiations go badly, death is on the table. That is not diplomacy. It is a...
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When Diplomacy Sounds Like a Threat
Karoline Leavitt said the quiet part out loud: if negotiations go badly, death is on the table. That is not diplomacy. It is a warning.
https://blogforarizona.net/when-diplomacy-sounds-like-a-threat/
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Hell No: Republicans Want to Cut Health Care More to Pay for Trump's War of Choice Against Iran Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are ushering in a Golden Age...for...
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Hell No: Republicans Want to Cut Health Care More to Pay for Trump's War of...
Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are ushering in a Golden Age...for America's Billionaires, Oil Companies, War Profiteers, and Family and Friends who are gaming the system at the expense and...
https://blogforarizona.net/hell-no-republicans-want-to-cut-health-care-more-to-pay-for-trumps-war-of-choice-against-iran/
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Mayor Sartor also says that DHS proposed a reimbursement for property tax loss and claims they will allow for site tours by local leadership. He says the Surprise city manager and Phoenix ICE field deputy director will be meeting over the next few weeks to discuss plans about the concentration camp.
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Surprise Mayor Sartor says that DHS promised they will operate the concentration camp the size of seven football fields across from a school and neighborhood with “limited visibility in the community.” He also said “transportation will happen discreetly to minimize community impact and disruption.”
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Surprise Mayor Kevin Sartor gave a press conference about an hour ago regarding the planned concentration camp in an industrial warehouse at 13290 W. Sweetwater Ave and a meeting between the city and ICE/DHS. 🧵 on what he said below.
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Mark Levin just put a stake in the heart of the GOP with his proxying for Trump on putting ground troops in Iran.
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https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2038056352669430230?s=20
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8 Million Attendees, One Day, No Kings. Indivisible announced that 8 million people joined the third No Kings nationwide protest, held across 3,300 events on Saturday, March 28. It was the largest single‑day nonviolent protest...
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8 Million Attendees, One Day, No Kings.
Indivisible announced that 8 million people joined the third No Kings nationwide protest, held across 3,300 events on Saturday, March 28. It was the largest single‑day nonviolent protest in U.S....
https://blogforarizona.net/8-million-attendees-one-day-no-kings/
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New Online Scams Target Seniors – and 10 Ways to Beat Them Cybersecurity expert Scotty Ward identified the most treacherous online and social media scams that swindlers use to rip off seniors. Ward...
https://blogforarizona.net/new-online-scams-target-seniors-and-10-ways-to-beat-them/
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Cartoons of the Week
https://blogforarizona.net/cartoons-of-the-week-135/
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Insight Arizona Interviews Dr. Terry Lebya Ruiz, Democratic Candidate for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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Insight Arizona Interviews Dr. Terry Lebya Ruiz, Democratic Candidate for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction.
My podcasting partner Andrew Sheesley and I sat down in person with Dr. Ruiz to talk about her campaign to becomes Arizona's next SPI prior to her recent ice cream...
https://blogforarizona.net/insight-arizona-interviews-dr-terry-lebya-ruiz-democratic-candidate-for-arizona-superintendent-of-public-instruction/
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Arizona Democratic House Delegation Rails Against Continuing Trump-Johnson-MAGA DHS Shutdown With their support for continuing the shutdown at the Department of Homeland...
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Arizona Democratic House Delegation Rails Against Continuing Trump-Johnson-MAGA DHS Shutdown
With their support for continuing the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security during a time of war against a leading sponsor of global terrorism, are Donald Trump and Mike...
https://blogforarizona.net/arizona-democratic-house-delegation-rails-against-continuing-trump-johnson-maga-dhs-shutdown/
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Phoenix City Council Approves Tracking System for Federal Immigration Enforcement Abuses From Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego's social media. Not wanting to go down the road of...
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Phoenix City Council Approves Tracking System for Federal Immigration Enforcement Abuses
From Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego's social media. Not wanting to go down the road of major United States cities besieged by ICE agents running rampant, like Chicago and Minneapolis, the...
https://blogforarizona.net/phoenix-city-council-approves-tracking-system-for-federal-immigration-enforcement-abuses/
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Take a ★Justice For All★ Petition to No Kings Day and put a Public Defender in Immigration Court
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Take a ★Justice For All★ Petition to No Kings Day and put a Public Defender in Immigration Court
When you go to No Kings Day on Saturday (locations below), bring a Pima County Justice For All petition to put a Public Defender in Immigration Court. My mother was...
https://blogforarizona.net/take-a-%e2%98%85justice-for-all%e2%98%85-petition-to-no-kings-day-and-put-a-public-defender-in-immigration-court/
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"Let's be Real": Hypocrite Trump Votes By Mail In Donald Trump's world, there are two Americas. There is the America, populated by his corporate and Twenty First Century Fortune 500 Gilded Age seeking supporters who...
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"Let's be Real": Hypocrite Trump Votes By Mail
In Donald Trump's world, there are two Americas. There is the America, populated by his corporate and Twenty First Century Fortune 500 Gilded Age seeking supporters who deserve every privilege...
https://blogforarizona.net/lets-be-real-hypocrite-trump-votes-by-mail/
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I guess that this means AZSen Johnny K is fine with the behavior of ICE violating the civil rights of citizens and non-citizens alike - and the de facto death sentence for any opposition to ICE!
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Arizona Senate Majority Leader Blasts Phoenix Resolution Limiting ICE Operations
By Zachery Schmidt Arizona Senate Majority Leader John Kavanagh is criticizing the city of Phoenix for its resolution restricting federal immigration enforcement. Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, told The ...
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2026/03/25/arizona-senate-majority-leader-blasts-phoenix-resolution-limiting-ice-operations/
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Who's running for AZ Legislature in LDs 17 to 21 in 2026 July Primary AZ Sec. of State was listed the official candidates who filed nominating petitions for Arizona's legislature for 2026. The...
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Who's running for AZ Legislature in LDs 17 to 21 in 2026 July Primary
AZ Sec. of State was listed the official candidates who filed nominating petitions for Arizona's legislature for 2026. The deadline to file was 5 p.m. on March 23, 2026. https://apps.arizona.vote/electioninfo/Election/68...
https://blogforarizona.net/whos-running-for-az-legislature-in-lds-17-to-21-in-2026-july-primary/
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Photo Gallery of 2026 Tucson Japanese Festival Our Southern AZ Japanese Cultural Coalition (SAJCC) hosted its 10th festival on March 21, 2026 at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center (TCCC), 1288 W. River Rd. We started...
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Photo Gallery of 2026 Tucson Japanese Festival
Our Southern AZ Japanese Cultural Coalition (SAJCC) hosted its 10th festival on March 21, 2026 at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center (TCCC), 1288 W. River Rd. We started up in...
https://blogforarizona.net/photo-gallery-of-2026-tucson-japanese-festival/
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Reaction To Trump Placing ICE Agents at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport Despite an apparent bipartisan deal that would have funded the Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, because of his...
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Reaction To Trump Placing ICE Agents at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport
Despite an apparent bipartisan deal that would have funded the Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, because of his insistence on passing the Voter Suppression SAVE Act, and his apparent...
https://blogforarizona.net/reaction-to-trump-placing-ice-agents-at-phoenixs-sky-harbor-airport/
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Juan Ciscomani, Your Supreme Leader is Vile and Disgusting (But, You Probably Know That Anyway) American hero Robert Mueller (left) and the guy who's glad he's dead Robert...
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Juan Ciscomani, Your Supreme Leader is Vile and Disgusting (But, You Probably Know That Anyway)
American hero Robert Mueller (left) and the guy who's glad he's dead Robert S. Mueller III, 81, died Friday night. He came from a privileged background, but unlike many of...
https://blogforarizona.net/juan-ciscomani-your-supreme-leader-is-vile-and-disgusting-but-you-probably-know-that-anyway/
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the U.S. press usually goes comically out of their way to downplay or ignore widespread U.S. corruption, but the historically criminal Trump administration is really forcing them to strain their euphemisms
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Trump just sucks at his job. He has the mind of an infant and the emotional regulation of a toddler.
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war-allies/686423/
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Another Weekend of Mentally Unhinged Behavior and Incompetence from the Intellectually Challenged Mad King in the Oval Office
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Another Weekend of Mentally Unhinged Behavior and Incompetence from the Intellectually Challenged Mad King in...
Another weekend of mentally unhinged behavior and incompetence from the intellectually challenged Mad King in the Oval Office. Remember when Donald Trump and his MAGA band of reactionary white nationalist...
https://blogforarizona.net/another-weekend-of-mentally-unhinged-behavior-and-incompetence-from-the-intellectually-challenged-mad-king-in-the-oval-office/
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Dems Rally Over Corned Beef and Camaraderie at Rollicking St. Patrick's Day Party Nearly 150 Democrats flocked to the annual St. Patrick's Day Party staged by the Democrats of Greater...
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Dems Rally Over Corned Beef and Camaraderie at Rollicking St. Patrick's Day Party
Nearly 150 Democrats flocked to the annual St. Patrick's Day Party staged by the Democrats of Greater Tucson at the exclusive Don Martin-i Club. A cavalcade of 20 candidates and...
https://blogforarizona.net/dems-rally-over-corned-beef-and-camaraderie-at-rollicking-st-patricks-day-party/
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Cartoons of the Week
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Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari Reports on "Slavery-Inhumane Conditions by Design" at Florence and Eloy Detention Centers-American Concentration Camps
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Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari Reports on "Slavery-Inhumane Conditions by Design" at Florence and Eloy Detention...
"Policy by Design" "This is modern-day slavery supported by a failing immigration system and an administration that is not interested in fixing it." "They don't care if people die. I...
https://blogforarizona.net/arizona-representative-yassamin-ansari-reports-on-slavery-inhumane-conditions-by-design-at-florence-and-eloy-detention-centers-american-concentration-camps/
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Trump Lifts Oil Sanctions on...Wait for It...Iran, the Nation We are at War Against To quote Dr. McCoy from Star Trek: The Motion Picture: "What the hell kind of strategy is this?" Not...
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Trump Lifts Oil Sanctions on...Wait for It...Iran, the Nation We are at War Against
To quote Dr. McCoy from Star Trek: The Motion Picture: "What the hell kind of strategy is this?" Not wanting to see a blood bath at the polls on election...
https://blogforarizona.net/trump-lifts-oil-sanctions-on-wait-for-it-iran-the-nation-we-are-at-war-against/
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Good info for folks in rural areas seeing their hospitals close. There is exactly one guy to blame: Trump!
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Why rural hospitals close
What makes small town healthcare different
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-HEALTH/RURAL-HOSPITALS/zgpolkmdbvd/
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Officials across the U.S. push to remove Cesar Chavez's name from streets, parks and holidays
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
We should not honor pedophiles! That also means NOTHING should be named for ANYONE alleged to have abused girls in the EPSTEIN FILES - including TRUMP!
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Officials across the U.S. push to remove Cesar Chavez's name from streets, parks and holidays
Allegations that the man long hailed as a civil rights icon and labor movement pioneer sexually abused minors and women have forced a reckoning over spaces that bear his name.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cesar-chavez-day-places-name-removed-abuse-allegations-dolores-huerta-rcna264116
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In Arizona's MAGA Republican Controlled State Legislature, Helping Pigeons Gets Attention over Giving Arizonans Paid Family Leave
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In Arizona's MAGA Republican Controlled State Legislature, Helping Pigeons Gets Attention over Giving Arizonans Paid...
The ads really do write themselves in this case. On March 18, Arizona Legislative District (LD) Eight Representative Brian Garcia posted the below social media video where he chastises MAGA...
https://blogforarizona.net/in-arizonas-maga-republican-controlled-state-legislature-helping-pigeons-gets-attention-over-giving-arizonans-paid-family-leave/
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Hobbs, Sundareshan, and De Los Santos React to Budget Negotiation-Prop 123 Impasse with MAGA Republicans Furious that Arizona Legislative MAGA Republicans are...
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Hobbs, Sundareshan, and De Los Santos React to Budget Negotiation-Prop 123 Impasse with MAGA Republicans
Furious that Arizona Legislative MAGA Republicans are stubbornly clinging to unpopular positions like unneeded tax cuts for billionaires, sticking it to teacher unions and families on food stamps, putting corporate...
https://blogforarizona.net/hobbs-sundareshan-and-de-los-santos-react-to-budget-negotiation-prop-123-impasse-with-maga-republicans/
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AG Mayes Goes After Trump Again on Fair Housing and Environmental Protection According to reporting by Punchbowl, Donald Trump recently told Mike Johnson, when the Speaker suggested...
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AG Mayes Goes After Trump Again on Fair Housing and Environmental Protection
According to reporting by Punchbowl, Donald Trump recently told Mike Johnson, when the Speaker suggested moving on the Bipartisan Senate passed Housing Construction Reform Bill, that "No one gave a...
https://blogforarizona.net/ag-mayes-goes-after-trump-again-on-fair-housing-and-environmental-protection/
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$200 Oil is Coming. Get Ready to Pay $7 per Gallon at the Pump. Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego told federal regulators to prepare emergency contingency plans. A month ago, anyone predicting $200-a-barrel oil...
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$200 Oil is Coming. Get Ready to Pay $7 per Gallon at the Pump.
Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego told federal regulators to prepare emergency contingency plans. A month ago, anyone predicting $200-a-barrel oil would have been dismissed as alarmist. Not anymore. Today, Brent Crude is...
https://blogforarizona.net/200-oil-is-coming-get-ready-to-pay-7-per-gallon-at-the-pump/
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AZ Courts rightly put this kibosh on this deeply stupid and standing-less lawsuit seeking to scrub a fifth of Arizona voters from the rolls!
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Federal appeals court tosses Arizona GOP lawsuit seeking to purge 1.27 million voters | Arizona Mirror
The 9th Circuit upheld dismissal of an Arizona GOP lawsuit to purge 1.27 million voters, finding the claimed harm speculative
https://azmirror.com/briefs/federal-appeals-court-tosses-arizona-gop-lawsuit-seeking-to-purge-1-27-million-voters/
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We definitely need a primary challenger for this twat in ‘28!
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Fetterman explains why he crossed party lines to support Mullin for DHS chief | CNN Politics
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman cast the deciding vote Thursday to advance Markwayne Mullin’s nomination to serve as US Department of Homeland Security secretary, crossing party lines to send President...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/19/politics/john-fetterman-mullin-dhs-vote
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Trump appointed commission votes to break federal law by putting Trump’s glowering mug on a legal tender coin. Collector interest will be high because these things are gonna be destroyed by the truck load!
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Trump-appointed panel approves 24-karat-gold coin featuring his face
Federal law says living presidents can’t appear on currency, but commission approves design for US’s 250th birthday
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/trump-coin-24-karat-gold
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Ciscomani Gets an F in Foreign Policy, Trump Fails the Whole War A Thai tanker burns after Iran attack in the Straits of Hormuz (Agence-France Presse news agency) Congressman Juan Ciscomani jumped to...
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Ciscomani Gets an F in Foreign Policy, Trump Fails the Whole War
A Thai tanker burns after Iran attack in the Straits of Hormuz (Agence-France Presse news agency) Congressman Juan Ciscomani jumped to attention to support two major armed incursions by his...
https://blogforarizona.net/ciscomani-gets-an-f-in-foreign-policy-trump-fails-the-whole-war/
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Only 10% of federal workers who responded to a survey said they had trust in their agencies’ political leaders, according to the Partnership for Public Service.
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Federal Workers Say They Are Demoralized and Less Engaged Under Trump
President Donald Trump’s campaign to reshape the federal workforce has left in its wake demoralized employees who have lost confidence in their ability to do their jobs, according to a new survey by the Partnership for Public Service.
https://bloom.bg/3Pk660y
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Anyone want to help get the word out that TPUSA is trying to take over an energy and water board election in Phoenix?
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