Rolando Garcia
@rlnsanz.github.io
academic in tech, databases 📚💿 Chicano 🇺🇸🇲🇽 boy dad 🚂 yogi 🍃
Lake Powell is hitting dangerously low levels. If water drops too far, the hydroelectric plant would shutdown, and energy costs in Arizona could spike for millions, especially rural communities. We need leaders who are going to step up and hit the negotiating table for our precious water rights.
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Monday blocked the Trump administration’s ban on nonpartisan groups helping newly naturalized U.S. citizens register to vote — finding the ban was likely driven by intentional discrimination against new citizens www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Court blocks Trump ban on voter registration help for new citizens, finding likely intentional discrimination
Senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly portrayed immigrants' political participation as an electoral threat.
democracydocket.com
Another day, another packed house full of hardworking individuals. Today, I spoke in front of Navajo students honored with the Chief Manuelito Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship helps support their journey to colleges and universities. I couldn't be more proud of their achievement.
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
404media.co
NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...
Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – again
Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.
gillianbrockell.com
It was an honor to speak at the annual Navajo Housing Authority Service Awards. Housing is not a partisan issue. We need to invest in housing organizations and expand access to safe housing for all Arizonans. I will continue supporting commonsense solutions. Congratulations to those awarded tonight!
U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation
The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.
wsj.com
Children are being locked up, traumatized, and abused with our taxpayer dollars. Parents with no criminal record are being separated from their families. It’s unconscionable.
This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong.
Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
I just conducted an oversight visit at the Dilley ICE detention center. After speaking directly with families and children being held inside, here are my first reactions. ⬇️ #ShutDownDilley
NEW: DHS' top number-cruncher just left the department -- and blasted the administration's "war on immigrants" on the way out. He's one of the very few DHS officials to step down and speak out publicly against this White House. Me in @wired.com ... www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...
DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
wired.com
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
cbsnews.com
Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan discuss w/me their book, Regime Change. Listen to how close Trump came to suspending habeas corpus. “It was put back on the shelf. But like all ideas with Trump, these are loaded weapons on the shelf.” From @lawfaremedia.org ... 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKzq...
Lawfare Daily: Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Discuss Their Bestseller, ‘Regime Change’
YouTube video by Lawfare
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A flip last night in Arizona. Matt Orlando, who was endorsed by local Dems, seems to have won mayoral race in Chandler, Arizona's 4th largest city. Orlando beat GOP state Representative Jeff Weninger, and he will replace Mayor Kevin Hartke—who retired to run for the state House as a Republican.
86 people in a single ICE holding room, "all jostling for space in a closet of humanity that smelled of sweat, urine and feces." What would we call it anywhere else? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
(Reuters) - The interest rate on the most popular type of U.S. home loan crept up again last week to the highest since last August with little prospect for an immediate break for would-be homebuyers, thanks to inflation-wariness among Federal Reserve officials and across bond markets. 6.69%
From Flagstaff to Holbrook to Window Rock, I am meeting with voters across Arizona 2 to hear their voices on Primary Day. Make sure to cast your ballot today, and stay safe with all the monsoon rain! Polls close at 7pm!
companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
404media.co
Democrats, especially on Oversight, are ready to issue subpoenas, hold hearings, and open investigations when we take back the House. This corrupt Administration must be held accountable.
Chinese AI labs catching up with US ones but giving away their models for free — to be modified as well as used — is kicking off meltdowns and internecine conflict in the AI industry. As I wrote this week, the implications are BIG www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chea...
AI’s Wider Availability Is Good for China, Not Great for OpenAI and Anthropic
Intelligence “too cheap to meter” could threaten the leading AI labs, while creating opportunity for their competitors.
wsj.com
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
bostonglobe.com
16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year.
Why are people buying so many CDs?
Collectors, affordable prices, and big K-pop albums.
theverge.com
Ashley Brouillette has identified her ex-husband, David Brouillette, as the officer who fatally shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday. She said she learned he was the officer responsible when he called her on Wednesday. n.pr/44xGCBl
Ex-wife says ICE agent who killed man in Maine had racist beliefs, violent tendencies
Ashley Brouillette has identified her ex-husband, David Brouillette, as the officer who fatally shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday. She said she learned he was the officer responsible when he called her on Wednesday.
n.pr
