Arizona Right Watch
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BREAKING: We’ve documented significant clearing of protected desert land inside Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Quitobaquito Springs for the Trump admin’s second border wall that will run parallel to the existing 30-foot-tall wall. Read: sl1nk.com/jrbj7yv
In about a week, we will be back to our coverage of the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearings which should be coming to their conclusion. The defense team is again asking for the death penalty to be taken off the table. Help us continue our on-the-ground coverage.
LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH@lcrw.news · 2d agoHey everyone! Next week I start my trip out to Utah for the next round of hearings in the Charlie Kirk murder case. I’m missing pay from work to do this, so I really need the support to get by once I’m back. Please share or contribute if you can
did our rooftops all survive the dust storm last night (no)
I went on @democracynow.org this morning to discuss reporting I did for @lookoutnews.bsky.social on the binational tree sit blocking border wall construction in southern Arizona. www.democracynow.org/2026/8/19/ar...
Activist Tree-Sit in Ancient Cottonwood Continues Against Border Wall Construction in Arizona
A protest camp in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of President Trump’s border barrier with Mexico. At the center of the ...
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Today land defenders on the Mexico side of the border joined in on the tree sit-in protest, halting construction of both sections of the double wall. A banner hangs between the trees on each side of the AZ-MX border reading “From Minnesota to Mexico resistance is fertile.” Support them here:
Protect Lochiel
Help us stop them from destroying ancient cottonwood trees and cultural sites at the border
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LOOKOUT News@lookoutnews.bsky.social · 4d agoThe predominantly queer and femme activists take turns in the canopy and keep camp below: a kitchen, a support center, ceremonies and gatherings, all aimed at stopping a 27-mile double wall from cutting through the San Rafael Valley.
The government waived 66 laws to build a half-billion-dollar border wall. Activists in Lochiel, Arizona have spent 2+ weeks trying to stop it by keeping someone 50 feet up a centuries-old cottonwood around the clock.
Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, who hosted neo-Nazi Jake Lang at his church, is a Turning Point USA affiliate and appears as a listed speaker on their TPUSA Rise website, which is kinda their rebranding of BLEXIT after their split with Candace Owens.
Kate Burns@katerqburns.bsky.social · 5d agoJake Lang speaking at Paster Lorenzo’s 180 church in Detroit ahead of Tuesday’s “crusade” on Dearborn city council. I tried to upload the video but keeps coming back with an error. He says Muslims are “breading like cockroaches”
New York Times had this vile disgusting bigot speak at their annual summit on “bridging political divides” btw, lmfao what a joke
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d agoMuslims make up about 1% of the U.S. population. Many don’t want to “Islamify” anything. Christian Nationalist groups like Turning Point USA are hyping this phantom xenophobic threat as a pretext for their own extremist agenda.
It’s bad enough these AI slop sites are ripping off actual writers but digitally cosplaying as a Latina journalist to do so is just fucking egregious
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy@jerodmacevoy.com · 4d agoWhy are y'all using AI authors to rewrite my work?
Sahuarita police chief John Noland praised the plan to give ICE agents electric shock gloves. The entire Sahuarita police department (in a town of 35K) has had the electric gloves for about two years. Noland also brags that he showed off the shock gloves to the ICE Field Office Director of Phoenix.
SPD chief applauds ICE's investment in 'Compliance Gloves'
The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will soon be spending $20 million to equipment officers with gloves that can deliver electric shocks ...
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DEA agents are increasingly arresting immigrants, according to recent comments by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes
DEA vehicle spotted at Tucson raid as agents shift to immigration work - AZ Luminaria
During a Tucson raid last week, photos taken by observers show one vehicle standing out with a clear agency name: DEA, or Drug Enforcement Administration. That agency has traditionally focused on enforcing drug laws, including targeting people who produce and sell prohibited drugs. But under the Trump administration’s crackdown, DEA agents are increasingly arresting immigrants, […]
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unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 7d agoNew: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
According to the summit website, Mark Kelly is at this. jfc
Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 6d agoHappening now at a “Democracy Summit 2026”: A debate between live streamer Destiny and Alex Stein, the internet troll most famous for calling AOC a “big booty Latina” who recently was pretending to be a poop-eating Indian at a Frisco city council meeting
Activists have set up a protest camp in the Arizona border town of Lochiel to prevent the destruction of a grove of ancient cottonwood trees. Federal contractors plan to destroy the grove to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New: 3 yrs ago I published exposé revealing Richard Hanania used pseudonym to write for Nazi sites Ever since I've watched centrist media rehabilitate him, accepting his ludicrous claim to have left white nationalism behind. My look at what it means, for @marisakabas.bsky.social' The Handbasket
You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
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After an early morning raid in Tucson questions swirl, including about what happens to children left behind after a parent is taken by immigration authorities This is part of a new effort by AZLu to cover immigration more closely, called Borderland Bulletins azluminaria.org/2026/08/13/a...
After early morning Tucson raid, 5 detained and few answers - AZ Luminaria
Tiff Williams was walking their dog around 6 a.m. Thursday in their north side Tucson neighborhood when they saw a commotion at the house across the street. Williams watched as agents spilled out of...
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Humane Borders, who maintains water drop sites along the borderlands and has long tracked migrant deaths along the AZ-Mexico border, reports that the Pima Co. Medical Examiner confirmed “19 new migrant deaths for July and 13 for June.” This marks 73 confirmed remains this year, up from last year.
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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH@lcrw.news · 2w agoHey everyone! We need your help! We’re raising funds to head back out to Utah to cover the Charlie Kirk murder hearings. I’m taking a pay cut at work to head out there so I need your help making the difference and offsetting our travel costs. Anything helps!
AJ's Police Chief Michael Pooley supported a measure this last legislative session that would've made ALPR data exempt from public records. He spoke at the Capitol and also opposed a Republican measure that would've put major restrictions on ALPR use.
ABC15 Arizona@abc15.com · 2w agoWATCH LIVE: Apache Junction PD officials are discussing an officer who is accused of improperly using a license plate reader to locate a family member.
AZ GOP candidate and recently fired Turning Point Action worker Robert Wallace (who also works for anti-LGBTQ hate group Gays Against Groomers)is being publicly accused of sexually inappropriate conduct by another recent TPUSA departee and local SovCit Matthew Tucciarone.
Proud of this collaboration between @lookoutnews.bsky.social and @highcountrynews.org, an interview with Karla Saenz, trans activist and immigrant who for for rights and recognition inside Eloy Detention Center. www.hcn.org/issues/58-8/...
What it’s like inside Eloy’s detention center as a trans woman - High Country News
A trans Venezuelan asylum seeker details 44 days inside one of the country'sdeadliest detention centers — and why she refuses to stop fighting.
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Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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🚨 NEW: Wall Watch, the first interactive map tracking border wall and buoy barrier construction across the entire U.S. Mexico border. Community powered, continuously updated, publicly accessible. Report what you're seeing or explore the data 🗺️🔗🦂: wallwatch.theborderchronicle.com?ref=theborde...
From me: ''No Trespassing': Tohono O'odham Nation warns border wall' contractorshttps://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2026/08/08/no-trespassing-tohono-oodham-nation-warns-wall-contractors/91226849007/
'No Trespassing': Tohono O'odham Nation warns border wall contractors
Amid news that federal contractors may enter tribal lands to build border wall, Tohono O'odham Nation have placed no trespassing signs.
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Call to action from tree defenders: 💩 Yuck! Complicity in border violence really stinks! ☎️🚽☎️🚽☎️🚽 Call Stamback Services Monday Aug. 10 between 10am-1pm PT! They are the only provider of portapotties for this section of the wall. Tell them to end their contract with Fisher Sand & Gravel immediately
Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow@ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 2w agoTonight in Tucson was the book launch for @jwashing.bsky.social’s How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention, a timely read on ICE concentration camps and how communities have come together to successfully stop these crimes against humanity. Highly recommend.
