AZ Alison
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SahM, engineer & environmental professional, facility manager, volunteer. Pays attention. Civically engaged. Loves Harry Potter (but strongly disagrees with JRK). Fascinated by British Alchemical Literature. Anti-Stratfordian. Literature Teaches Empathy.
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AZ Alison
@noblebirth.bsky.social
· Feb 20
"Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president". ~ Ezra Klein
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AZ Voters! It is VERY important that you read and respond to this newsletter.
NEW WEEKLY! Lawmakers have intro'd more bills this year than ever before, and in the confusion, a few good ones are getting heard. They need your support! Here's how to do it 👇
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February 9, 2026
The glut nobody wanted. Eight good eggs. Lawmakers behaving badly. Why good bills so rarely get a hearing. This might be our longest report ever.
weekly.cebv.us
February 8, 2026 at 6:44 PM
AZ Voters! It is VERY important that you read and respond to this newsletter.
AZ Voters! Look at the Civic Engagement Beyond Voting post. Our state Legislature is OUT OF CONTROL!
February 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM
AZ Voters! Look at the Civic Engagement Beyond Voting post. Our state Legislature is OUT OF CONTROL!
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Lindsey Vonn did not crash because of her ACL.
I got up early this morning to watch the women's downhill event at the Olympics. I watched the whole event, from the pre-show to Team USA's Breezy Johnson posting the gold-winning time to Lindsey Vonn being medevaced off the mountain.
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I got up early this morning to watch the women's downhill event at the Olympics. I watched the whole event, from the pre-show to Team USA's Breezy Johnson posting the gold-winning time to Lindsey Vonn being medevaced off the mountain.
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February 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Lindsey Vonn did not crash because of her ACL.
I got up early this morning to watch the women's downhill event at the Olympics. I watched the whole event, from the pre-show to Team USA's Breezy Johnson posting the gold-winning time to Lindsey Vonn being medevaced off the mountain.
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I got up early this morning to watch the women's downhill event at the Olympics. I watched the whole event, from the pre-show to Team USA's Breezy Johnson posting the gold-winning time to Lindsey Vonn being medevaced off the mountain.
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Lindsey Vonn didn't crash because of her ACL. She crashed because she took a hard line and her arm and ski pole caught a gate. She crashed because she was competing to win. If she were in her early 20s and hadn't torn her ACL, the same damn thing would have happened.
February 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Lindsey Vonn didn't crash because of her ACL. She crashed because she took a hard line and her arm and ski pole caught a gate. She crashed because she was competing to win. If she were in her early 20s and hadn't torn her ACL, the same damn thing would have happened.
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Update: Yep, it's all one bill. @azcebvus.bsky.social has the scoop: weekly.cebv.us/2026-02-09/
February 9, 2026
The glut nobody wanted. Eight good eggs. Lawmakers behaving badly. Why good bills so rarely get a hearing. This might be our longest report ever.
weekly.cebv.us
February 8, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Update: Yep, it's all one bill. @azcebvus.bsky.social has the scoop: weekly.cebv.us/2026-02-09/
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He’s a racist white nationalist. Full Stop.
Russell Voight: “I think you have to rehabilitate Christian Nationalism"
MO Sen. Josh Hawley:
“…Christian nationalism … founded American Democracy"
Listen at mark 1:08 & mark 3:40
youtu.be/UQjdwsZhE_Q
Russell Voight: “I think you have to rehabilitate Christian Nationalism"
MO Sen. Josh Hawley:
“…Christian nationalism … founded American Democracy"
Listen at mark 1:08 & mark 3:40
youtu.be/UQjdwsZhE_Q
February 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
He’s a racist white nationalist. Full Stop.
Russell Voight: “I think you have to rehabilitate Christian Nationalism"
MO Sen. Josh Hawley:
“…Christian nationalism … founded American Democracy"
Listen at mark 1:08 & mark 3:40
youtu.be/UQjdwsZhE_Q
Russell Voight: “I think you have to rehabilitate Christian Nationalism"
MO Sen. Josh Hawley:
“…Christian nationalism … founded American Democracy"
Listen at mark 1:08 & mark 3:40
youtu.be/UQjdwsZhE_Q
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Be done with these criminals!
February 7, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Be done with these criminals!
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Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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It is no wonder Ukraine is holding out for a real peace deal. This video is insane.
February 7, 2026 at 10:47 PM
It is no wonder Ukraine is holding out for a real peace deal. This video is insane.
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The Birther-in-Chief's disgusting history of racism has its own page on Wikipedia.
See for yourself, here: shorturl.at/UQaXQ
See for yourself, here: shorturl.at/UQaXQ
February 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
The Birther-in-Chief's disgusting history of racism has its own page on Wikipedia.
See for yourself, here: shorturl.at/UQaXQ
See for yourself, here: shorturl.at/UQaXQ
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There are 1 septillion stars in our observable night sky...and one Luna. 8.3 billion humans on this planet...one singular you. Dont you ever forget that a light and tidal force you may be to someone else in this lifetime. 🤍💫
February 6, 2026 at 5:08 AM
There are 1 septillion stars in our observable night sky...and one Luna. 8.3 billion humans on this planet...one singular you. Dont you ever forget that a light and tidal force you may be to someone else in this lifetime. 🤍💫
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🤯 ICYMI: Read the shocking details of an ESA voucher-funded strip mall school that failed Arizona families. ProPublica shares firsthand accounts of the impact on students when a voucher school shuts down without warning — and zero accountability from the state.
www.propublica.org/article/ariz...
www.propublica.org/article/ariz...
Arizona Regulators Closed a Failing Charter School. It Reopened as a Private Religious School Funded by Taxpayers.
Arizona’s acclaimed voucher program provides zero transparency into private schools’ history, academic performance or financial sustainability to help parents make informed school choices.
www.propublica.org
February 5, 2026 at 10:18 PM
🤯 ICYMI: Read the shocking details of an ESA voucher-funded strip mall school that failed Arizona families. ProPublica shares firsthand accounts of the impact on students when a voucher school shuts down without warning — and zero accountability from the state.
www.propublica.org/article/ariz...
www.propublica.org/article/ariz...
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Should there limits in how many ethics violations before disqualification from running for office?
Yes.
11 is 11 to many
#VoteHobbs
Yes.
11 is 11 to many
#VoteHobbs
February 6, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Should there limits in how many ethics violations before disqualification from running for office?
Yes.
11 is 11 to many
#VoteHobbs
Yes.
11 is 11 to many
#VoteHobbs
Friends@First Mesa served 4800+ clients last year with a 100% volunteer staff and in‐kind donations of food, clothing and cooled space.
If you have AZ tax liability, please consider a tax credit donation to FriendsatFirst.org.
#AZTaxes
#TaxCredit
#QualifyingCharitableOrg2anization
If you have AZ tax liability, please consider a tax credit donation to FriendsatFirst.org.
#AZTaxes
#TaxCredit
#QualifyingCharitableOrg2anization
February 7, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Friends@First Mesa served 4800+ clients last year with a 100% volunteer staff and in‐kind donations of food, clothing and cooled space.
If you have AZ tax liability, please consider a tax credit donation to FriendsatFirst.org.
#AZTaxes
#TaxCredit
#QualifyingCharitableOrg2anization
If you have AZ tax liability, please consider a tax credit donation to FriendsatFirst.org.
#AZTaxes
#TaxCredit
#QualifyingCharitableOrg2anization
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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TEXAS — “Get out of my house!! U.S. and they’re inside my house with no warrant. They broke a window.”
Trump’s ICE goons terrorize a citizen family, including attacking a man when he closes the door as they leave.
Terrorizing families.
www.instagram.com/reel/DUZl6RO...
Trump’s ICE goons terrorize a citizen family, including attacking a man when he closes the door as they leave.
Terrorizing families.
www.instagram.com/reel/DUZl6RO...
February 6, 2026 at 4:03 AM
TEXAS — “Get out of my house!! U.S. and they’re inside my house with no warrant. They broke a window.”
Trump’s ICE goons terrorize a citizen family, including attacking a man when he closes the door as they leave.
Terrorizing families.
www.instagram.com/reel/DUZl6RO...
Trump’s ICE goons terrorize a citizen family, including attacking a man when he closes the door as they leave.
Terrorizing families.
www.instagram.com/reel/DUZl6RO...
It can happen here - in Pa. coal country
I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids
My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids
My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont, Pa., that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in a $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Every American needs to watch this:
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The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
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In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
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February 5, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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Another interesting way to look at it is Russia has lost approximately the same amount of soldiers in Ukraine in 4 years as the United States has combining every fatality in every war in American history! 🤯 Big ☠️ war
United States military casualties of war - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Another interesting way to look at it is Russia has lost approximately the same amount of soldiers in Ukraine in 4 years as the United States has combining every fatality in every war in American history! 🤯 Big ☠️ war
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Until Citizens United is overturned, every serious statewide campaign requires a lot of money. The real question isn’t whether money exists, it’s whether a candidate changes positions because of it. If that happens, fair game, expose it.
That should be the red line.
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That should be the red line.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Until Citizens United is overturned, every serious statewide campaign requires a lot of money. The real question isn’t whether money exists, it’s whether a candidate changes positions because of it. If that happens, fair game, expose it.
That should be the red line.
13.
That should be the red line.
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