OPINION | The One Big Beautiful Bill Act should be measured in lives lost, not dollars saved

Republicans cut healthcare spending. Now Arizonans are paying the price.

A doctor warns Arizona healthcare cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are raising premiums and closing hospitals

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The Hobbs administration says the court reached for a ‘remedy of last resort’ before trying lesser fixes in the 14-year case story via @jimsmall.bsky.social

Arizona says judge turned to ‘last resort’ fix for prison healthcare too soon

Arizona is fighting the prison healthcare receivership, asking a judge to pause the receiver’s takeover while it appeals

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OPINION | Did Andy Biggs just make identity politics part of his Latino outreach? Highlighting running mate Sine Kerr’s Mexican heritage signals Biggs is chasing Hispanic voters — but it won’t be enough on its own via @elviadiaz.bsky.social

Andy Biggs wants Latino votes. Touting Sine Kerr’s heritage won’t deliver them.

Biggs Latino outreach leans on running mate Sine Kerr’s Mexican heritage, but that alone won’t win Hispanic votes

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Sorry if this is obvious, but it's important to understand: When powerful people show up on a newspaper op-ed page like this, it's not to reach an audience. It's not 1985; they have much more direct and effective ways of doing that. What they are after is borrowed legitimacy.

Arizonans will decide in November whether schools should scrutinize who uses which bathrooms during school sports events. Republicans have framed it as a safety issue while critics warn it will only lead to intrusive policing and humiliation. By @glorihuh.bsky.social

Critics say 'Protect Girls Sports' act will lead to intrusive bathroom policing | Arizona Mirror

Arizonans will decide in November whether schools should scrutinize who uses which bathrooms during school sports events.

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Rewatched “2000 Mules” recently for a podcast we’re doing later this week and it is really difficult to put into words just how aggravatingly stupid that film was and how depressing it is to think about the impact it had in GOP politics, regardless.

The best advice in an AI training I took was this: Treat AI like you treat your worst intern. Would you let your worst intern write a story without checking it before publishing? Hell no. Would you implicitly trust their research? Hell no. Outsourcing things blindly to AI will end badly.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown@enbrown.bsky.social · 2d ago

AI-written police reports! What could go wrong? www.techdirt.com/2026/07/30/a... (Reports about cops morphing into frogs, for one thing)

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Gov. Hobbs says the reductions threaten farms, chipmakers and national security as the state weighs its legal options story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

The Trump administration's ‘draconian’ water cuts could gut Arizona’s Colorado River supply

A federal plan could impose Arizona Colorado River cuts of up to 77%, which state leaders warn would devastate the economy

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Anyone crossing Arizona’s southern border without authorization now risks state criminal charges while the legal case plays out story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

Bid to freeze Arizona’s ‘Secure the Border Act’ fails, but fight isn’t over

A judge let Arizona Secure the Border Act stand after opponents failed to block the law that lets state officials jail immigrants

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🤡🤡🤡

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 5d ago

July 2nd: "THE EVIDENCE SHOWS WE WILL PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT HEARN WILLFULLY DESTROYED PROPERTY AT THE LINCOLN REFLECTING POOL." July 31: Charges against Hearn dropped. The damage was “the result of flawed installation by the contractor." www.youtube.com/live/XlTuBJi...

People who do this shit should be banned from flying, full stop.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d ago

Evangelist Whitney Lynn uses most of her flights as an opportunity to share her faith. This week, her sermon got her kicked off a flight and clips of her removal racked up millions of views on social media. She called the situation “spiritual warfare.”

“Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation’s history. They are suffering still, many ruined, and I felt that they should be given compensation for what has been done to them,” Trump wrote

Trump defends fund to pay ‘great American Patriots’ who attacked the US Capitol to overturn an election | Arizona Mirror

Trump’s anti-weaponization fund for Jan. 6 defendants is stalling his AG nominee as two GOP senators withhold support

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Between 3 and 7 million people could lose coverage under requirements tied to work, school or volunteering

Medicaid work rules move forward as judge denies bid from AZ, other states, to halt them | Arizona Mirror

States will have to meet a Jan. 1 deadline to implement new Medicaid work requirements, after a federal judge denied 25 Democratic-led states’ request to pause implementation of the rule. The broad ta...

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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.

Andy Biggs picked Trump appointee Sine Kerr, a dairy farmer and former state legislator, as his lieutenant governor

Andy Biggs chooses Sine Kerr for running mate, leaning into rural Arizona

Andy Biggs running mate Sine Kerr, a former state senator and dairy farmer, will join the GOP ticket for lieutenant governor

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For the second election cycle in a row, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is refusing to debate her Republican opponent story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

Katie Hobbs says she won’t debate Andy Biggs, opting instead to tour the state

For the second election cycle in a row, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is refusing to debate her Republican opponent.

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“The First Amendment... requires courts to exercise substantial deference to a religious institution's own doctrinal conception of ‘confession’ or ‘confidential communication,’” the court ruled story via @jerodmacevoy.com

High court says churches, not judges, define a ‘confession’ when it comes to reporting child abuse

The Arizona clergy reporting ruling shields LDS Church leaders who didn’t report a father’s child abuse

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This is a factual sentence: Amid an outbreak of explosive diarrhea and with measles cases at a 35-year high, America’s top health official, who has an affinity for roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. My column, tragically: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Move over, cyclosporiasis. RFK Jr. is hosting a cooking show. | Opinion

America's top health official, who has an affinity for picking up roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. Barf.

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The agency said plans could shift based on intelligence, as Democrats warn against federal interference in state-run elections

ICE has no plans to target polls, DHS says — but leaves the door open for mass enforcement | Arizona Mirror

DHS says ICE has no plans to target polling places in November, responding to Senate Democrats’ concerns

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"Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating 'exploitable trust' with others." www.wired.com/story/ai-sca...

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Rapidly becoming convinced that one major immediate impact of AI diffusion is a massive uptick in the sophistication and scale of scams and hacks. Seeing it everywhere.

Stand at the bus stop and say this, and you'll end up institutionalized. Stand up on a campaign rally stage, and...

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 7d ago

Colorado GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx says God has given him a "gift" to uncover people's demons and rid them of evil spirits through a specialized prayer. Marx says you, too, can learn how to do it. The eight-part course is $99. www.9news.com/article/news...

Eight in 10 voters say protecting access matters, but rising costs and Medicaid cuts rank higher on their list of worries story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

Abortion matters to voters — but it may not mobilize them, poll suggests

A battleground abortion poll found the issue still sways Arizona voters, though a ‘believability gap’ blunts its impact

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And just like that, we're one step closer to RFK Jr's forced labor camps for neurodivergent people and folks battling depression becoming a reality

Jill Lawrence@jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 7d ago

I will never get used to reading leads like this: "DOJ will no longer enforce its own guidance around...a 1999 landmark Supreme Court case that held that unnecessarily segregating people with disabilities in institutions is a form of discrimination under the ADA." www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The bipartisan panel flagged ‘serious questions’ about the order’s legality but said a challenge is premature

Dueling appeals rulings on Trump mail-ballot order push fight toward high court | Arizona Mirror

An appeals court let the mail ballot order Trump issued proceed, splitting with an earlier ruling and pointing to the Supreme Court

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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.

The ruling says the GOP tried an unprecedented move to bar voters and future legislatures from reforming school vouchers story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Judge tosses GOP voucher measure that would have blocked all future reforms

A judge tossed the Arizona voucher ballot measure Prop. 145, ruling it would have blocked all future reforms

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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