Chris Wright is a climate arsonist whose position can be summarized by saying, yeah, climate change is happening and it's totally worth it.
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Happy 100th Day of Session

Election year or not, I doubt we see any real progress on the budget before Day 150

Voting rights groups open new legal front against Trump's push to collect state voter data | Arizona Mirror Common Cause sued to block DOJ from building a national voter list using data from at least a dozen states ahead of the 2026 midterms

“Trump’s DOJ is building a system designed to imprison the ballot box and silence millions of eligible voters. We won’t stand by while Americans’ rights to privacy and voting are under attack.”

Green Party governor candidate her own party called a 'sham' survives two ballot challenges | Arizona Mirror Risa Lombardo, the Arizona Green Party governor candidate called a "sham" by her own party, survived two ballot challenges to stay on the ballot

A judge invalidated 40% of Risa Lombardo's signatures but found she still had enough to remain on Arizona's July 21 primary ballot

story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

Show me the money: Businesses line up for $166B in refunds from Trump's illegal tariffs | Arizona Mirror CBP launched a tariff refund portal Monday for $166B in duties struck down by the Supreme Court, but small businesses say the process is complex

“Small business owners should not have to jump through hoops to get back money they never should have had to pay. We need a refund process that is simple, accessible, and fast.”

Alma & Consuelo Hernandez beat legal efforts to boot them off legislative ballot Sisters and state lawmakers Alma and Consuelo Hernandez can remain on the ballot for their races for the Arizona Legislature this year.

The Tucson state lawmakers will remain on ballot despite tens of thousands of dollars in campaign-finance fines

story via @tucsonsentinel.com

The "flood the zone with shit" strategy in action

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

This is the first of what I hope will be many pieces in the Mirror from @elviadiaz.bsky.social, who is one of the most insightful writers on Arizona politics, government and culture

The "no more foreign wars" president boasted about starting the Iran War, capturing Venezuela's president in a military raid and hinted that the US would soon invade Cuba.

Those are kitchen table issues in 2026, right?

A historically unpopular Trump came to Phoenix to rally the base by bragging about Iran Trump rallied the MAGA faithful in Phoenix, endorsing Andy Biggs for governor and Warren Petersen for AG as the GOP eyes 2026

Trump president came to Phoenix to gin up support for Republicans in 2026 — not by reaching out to those disaffected voters but instead by rallying the MAGA faithful

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

I know Gosar has repeatedly denied having Parkinson's or any other neurological condition, but he is very clearly afflicted with something degenerative

Surprise ICE detention plan scaled back from 1,500 beds to 542 | Arizona Mirror New DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin scaled back a Surprise, Arizona ICE detention facility from 1,500 to 542 beds amid city pushback

The city will also receive $300,000 a year for lost property taxes after negotiations with Secretary Markwayne Mullin

Among a mountain of bad-faith factual claims and frivolous constitutional arguments, Eastman's ultimate plan was for VP Pence (or Sen. Grassley) to *knowingly violate the Electoral Count Act* and let SCOTUS block any subsequent lawsuits on political question grounds. Just shit from start to finish.

Also, hoping the lady who says Obama is guilty of treason, the guy who thinks Trump is Jesus, the lady sleeping with her security detail and who drinks on the job, and the guy who harvests raccoon penises will vote the president mentally unfit for office doesn't seem like the soundest strategy.

Poorly executed: The politics behind executions Aaron Gunches killed a man on the Beeline Highway in 2002. His girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend came to visit and overstayed his welcome. The two exes quarreled, it turned physical, and the woman hit her ex-...

Ultimately, I believe that decision rests with AG Mayes and not Hobbs, though it's clear that Hobbs supports it.

I think politics is clearly the answer, as money is needed to effectively campaign, but is hardly a guarantee of victory.

Mark Kelly: Pentagon can't cite a single case supporting Hegseth's effort to strip his rank | Arizona Mirror Lawyers for Sen. Mark Kelly urge an appeals court to block Hegseth from stripping his Navy rank over the "Don't Give Up the Ship" video

The Trump administration is arguing the senator's "unique sway over the military" cuts against First Amendment protections — an argument Sen. Mark Kelly's lawyers call unprecedented

Kelly, Gallego urge DHS to halt planned ICE detention facilities in Surprise and Marana | Arizona Mirror Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego are urging DHS to halt planned ICE detention facilities in Arizona's Surprise and Marana amid concerns

EXCLUSIVE: Arizona's two Democratic senators want DHS to stop expansion in Surprise and Marana until the public gets full transparency on costs, capacity and community impact

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Easily the funniest part of this story is the "small government" Republican talking about how he's spent his career trying to increase the power of every post he's been elected to.

It's almost as if Wilhoit's Law became sentient.

Katie Hobbs sitting on $7.2M war chest, outraising both GOP challengers combined six to one | Arizona Mirror Gov. Katie Hobbs raised $2.1M in Q1, giving her a $7.2M war chest that dwarfs her GOP challengers Andy Biggs and David Schweikert combined fundraising

Katie Hobbs's first quarter haul was fueled by Big Law, tech and entertainment donors, including Shonda Rhimes and Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer

story via @jimsmall.bsky.social

Voters face a crowded 2026 ballot as legislators push back against citizen-led initiatives | Arizona Mirror More than a third of 2026 ballot measures focus on democracy, with redistricting fights dominating as Trump pushes GOP states to redraw maps

Dozens of bills nationwide are aiming to make it harder for citizens to put measures on the ballot, shifting more power to state legislatures

Look, someone has to pay for this illegal war and cut taxes for the obscenely wealthy. Why shouldn't it be poor people and hungry kids?

Trump says he’s going after Medicaid fraud, but is mostly targeting 'political enemies' in blue states | Arizona Mirror The Trump administration is taking aim at what it calls rampant fraud in state Medicaid programs. But by focusing almost exclusively on Democratic-led states, it has handed ammunition to critics who s...

Experts say Medicaid fraud has no partisan pattern, but the administration's list of targets reads like a map of Trump's political enemies

The concept of rejecting a sex criminal is so inconceivable to conservatives that they have to invent conspiracies to explain it. Because they can't imagine any scenario where they wouldn't go to the mat to defend one of their own accused of heinous things.

The forced birth party is at it again

Republicans block Iran war vote, again, as poll shows voters blame Trump for gas prices 2-to-1 | Arizona Mirror The Senate blocked an Iran War Powers Resolution 47-52 for the fourth time, with only Rand Paul breaking GOP ranks against Trump's war authority

It's the fourth time that Senate Republicans have rejected attempts to stop Trump's war in Iran

We may never see a quote with higher hubris than "the Pope needs to be careful when he talks about matters of theology"

Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Court clears the way for entrepreneur Hugh Lytle to run for Arizona governor as an independent | Arizona Mirror A judge dismissed the last challenge to Hugh Lytle's Arizona governor bid, ruling a UPS Store address on his petitions didn't mislead voters

“The judge’s decision is not a personal win for me,” Lytle said. “It’s a win for the voters, for democracy and for Arizona’s growing Independent movement which gains momentum every day.”

story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

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