https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/6033/ Split among Mormon women could matter in Arizona governor’s race #AndyBiggs #Arizona #ChurchMember #DonaldTrump #JohnGiles #KatieHobbs #LocalGovernment #MormonWives #MormonWomen #RepublicanNationalCommittee #StateGovernment #TylerMontague
#katiehobbs — Public Fediverse posts
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#Arizona governor sides with #TohonoOodham in fight against #BorderWall
by Howard Fischer, Sep 25, 2026
"Gov. #KatieHobbs is siding with the #TohonoOodhamNation in its bid to at least delay work on a border wall the federal government wants to build along its boundary with #Mexico.
" ' #Arizona's own record demonstrates that vigorous border security does not require disregarding #tribalSovereignty ,' Justin Cox, a private attorney representing Hobbs, told the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He said the state has achieved 'major enforcement results'' through cooperation with the tribe.
"But Hobbs is not asking that the 62-mile double-layered 30-foot-high steel and concrete barrier be canceled entirely — at least not at this point. Nor is she taking a position on the underlying legal question of whether the land where the twin walls are being proposed belongs to the tribe or the federal government.
"What she wants is to stop further work while these issues are worked out."
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https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_f2815db6-3ac3-41aa-a096-f5486b5961b5.html#USPol #IndigenousSovereignty
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Arizona sees highest reduction in food stamp recipients after HR 1, study finds https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/28793/ #Arizona #ArizonaDining #ArizonaFood #ArizonaGroceryStores #ArizonaRestaurants #BigBeautifulBill #DonaldTrump #ErrorRate #FoodStamps #GovKatieHobbs #Hr1 #KatieHobbs #RepAdelitaGrijalva #RepAndyBiggs #RepDavidSchweikert #SNAP
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SNAP benefits: 400,000 Arizona residents have lost food assistance https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/27716/ #Arizona #ArizonaDining #ArizonaFood #ArizonaGroceryStores #ArizonaRestaurants #Az #AzPolitics #KatieHobbs #MaricopaCounty #News #people #Phoenix #politics #Us
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High error rate on food stamps could cost Arizona $280M https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/25132/ #Arizona #ArizonaDining #ArizonaFood #ArizonaGroceryStores #ArizonaRestaurants #budget #cost #Covid19 #economy #EconomyOfTheUnitedStates #GovernmentFinances #KatieHobbs #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram
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https://www.europesays.com/news/76885/ Arizona Gov. Hobbs vetoes bills celebrating Charlie Kirk’s life | Arizona #AndyBiggs #Arizona #CharlieKirk #governor #Headlines #KatieHobbs #News #PhoenixCityCouncil #ScottsdaleCityCouncil #TopStories
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https://www.europesays.com/people/217917/ A whiplash election year enters its final stretch as Trump holds wild cards #AaronFord #AmyKlobuchar #AndyBeshear #AndyBiggs #AngelaAlsobrooks #AriFleischer #BarackObama #DonaldTrump #Elections #GeorgeWBush #JoeBiden #KatieHobbs #KevinStitt #LisaDemuth #MarkGordon #MikeJohnson #Politics #RobSand #SuzanDelBene #WashingtonNews
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https://www.europesays.com/news/72537/ Grand Canyon braces for more storms after deadly flash flood, about 15 people still missing #APTopNews #Arizona #AZStateWire #ChristopherWeber #Climate #ClimateAndEnvironment #ColoradoRiver #columbia #Evacuations #Floods #GeneralNews #Headlines #HollyRamer #JeffreyCollins #JulieWalker #KathyMcCormack #KatieHobbs #NationalParkService #NationalParks #Nevada #News #NVStateWire #Storms #TopStories #USNews #UTStateWire #Utah #weather
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https://www.europesays.com/news/64107/ Democratic Arizona Gov. Hobbs picks ex-GOP Mayor Giles as running mate #2026Elections #AndyBiggs #Arizona #ArizonaStateGovernment #AZStateWire #Conservatism #DonaldTrump #DougDucey #DrewSexton #elections #GeneralNews #Headlines #JoeBiden #JohnGiles #KamalaHarris #KariLake #KatieHobbs #MarkKelly #Mesa #News #Politics #Religion #RubenGallego #TopStories #USDemocraticParty #USNews #USRepublicanParty #WashingtonNews
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A clearly significant jump in opioid overdose deaths post Gov Ducey's (R) 2016 #opioid law signing that weren't even tracked until then. It leveled off during the COVID-19 pandemic, dropped in 2024 after #AZ elected Gov #KatieHobbs (D), & then jumped right back up in 2025 to a National high under #Trump's 2nd term alleged immigration hybrid war on drugs crackdown & his combined #GOPedo #DOGE healthcare defunding. Not Great nor Healthy.
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Judge seizes control of Arizona’s prisons healthcare system
Less clear is what Silver would do if the receiver decides the only way to fix the system…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #company #contract #court #Health #Healthsystem #judge #justice #KatieHobbs #Law #lawsuit #Prison #prisonhealthcare #silver
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Politics Unplugged Podcast: Headlines with Stacy Pearson and Marcus Dell’Artino
If you want a good cry, Sarah Damoff knows…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #america #arizonalegislature #arizonapolitics #ballotmeasures #esavouchers #fireunion #geopolitics #KatieHobbs #policeunion #Politics #politicsunplugged #Publiceducation #schoolfunding #Schoolvouchers #specialsession #TaxpayerMoney #Teachersunion #unitedstatesofamerica #UnitedStatesPolitics #USPolitics #usapolitics
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https://www.europesays.com/3091324/ Politics Unplugged Podcast: Headlines with Stacy Pearson and Marcus Dell’Artino #america #ArizonaLegislature #ArizonaPolitics #BallotMeasures #EsaVouchers #FireUnion #geopolitics #KatieHobbs #PoliceUnion #Politics #PoliticsUnplugged #PublicEducation #SchoolFunding #SchoolVouchers #SpecialSession #TaxpayerMoney #TeachersUnion #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStatesPolitics #US #USPolitics #USA #UsaPolitics
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Trump backs Andy Biggs for governor but threatened to end his career during Kevin McCarthy speaker fight
by Katie O’Shaughnessy, Cronkite News June 25, 2026 WASHINGTON – Rep. Andy Biggs faced President Donald Trump’s wrath…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #2026midterms #andybiggs #arizona #DonaldTrump #EliCrane #housespeaker #JohnLeganski #KatieHobbs #kevinmccarthy #maga #presidentialendorsement #trump #TurningPointUSA
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https://www.europesays.com/3087746/ Trump backs Andy Biggs for governor but threatened to end his career during Kevin McCarthy speaker fight #2026Midterms #AndyBiggs #arizona #DonaldTrump #EliCrane #HouseSpeaker #JohnLeganski #KatieHobbs #KevinMccarthy #maga #PresidentialEndorsement #trump #TurningPointUSA
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Trump won over more Latino voters in 2024. Can he keep them? https://www.byteseu.com/2042898/ #AdrianFontes #AlbertRodriguez #DonaldTrump #EarlWilcox #Elections #JanBrewer #JoeArpaio #JoeBiden #KamalaHarris #KatieHobbs #KrisMayes #Politics #RonnieMartinez #SandraRamirez #USNews #WashingtonNews
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https://www.europesays.com/people/41400/ Potential 2028 presidential candidates gather in L.A. for Democratic fundraiser #AndyBeshear #conversation #DemocraticFundraiser #DemocraticGovernor #event #GavinNewsom #GretchenWhitmer #JoshStein #KatieHobbs #LosAngelesTimes #NorthCarolina #PresidentialBid #PresidentialCandidate #SeveralAttendee #TimWalz #WesMoore
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https://www.europesays.com/2901592/ Relaunched Arizona Space Commission targets growth in space industry #AerospaceGrowth #ArizonaSpaceCommission #ArizonaSpaceIndustry #ArtemisIi #azfamily #KatieHobbs #PhoenixNews #space #SpaceEconomy #SpaceJobsArizona #StemFunding
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https://www.europesays.com/2856177/ César Chavez accused by labor rights leader Dolores Huerta and others of sexual abuse #activism #america #arizona #AZStateWire #BarackObama #BenRayLujn #California #DoloresHuerta #GavinNewsom #GeneralNews #GregAbbott #Hispanics #JoeBiden #KatieHobbs #MartinLutherKingJr #Politics #RaceAndEthnicity #Religión #RosaParks #SexualAbuse #TeresaLegerFernndez #TimKeller #USNews #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USTopics #USA #USANews #WomensRights
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César Chavez accused by labor rights leader Dolores Huerta and others of sexual abuse
#UnitedStates #US #USA #activism #america #arizona #AZStateWire #barackobama #BenRayLujn #California #DoloresHuerta #GavinNewsom #generalnews #gregabbott #Hispanics #JoeBiden #KatieHobbs #MartinLutherKingJr. #Politics #Raceandethnicity #Religión #rosaparks #sexualabuse #TeresaLegerFernndez #TimKeller #U.S.News #unitedstatesofamerica #USnews #USTopics #USAnews #womensrights
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César Chavez accused by labor rights leader Dolores Huerta and others of sexual abuse
Labor rights activist Dolores…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Activism #arizona #AZStateWire #BarackObama #BenRayLujn #California #DoloresHuerta #GavinNewsom #Generalnews #GregAbbott #Hispanics #JoeBiden #KatieHobbs #MartinLutherKingJr. #Politics #Raceandethnicity #Religion #RosaParks #Sexualabuse #TeresaLegerFernndez #TimKeller #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Women'sRights
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The country can’t keep holding its breath for Arizona
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Arizona Diamondbacks News 3/10: USA Tops Alek Thomas, Mexico https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/616989/ #AaronJudge #AdrianGonzalez #AlexWeiner #Arizona #ArizonaDiamondbacks #ArizonaSports #ArizonaDiamondbacks #Baseball #CorbinCarroll #Diamondbacks #DominicanRepublic #GeraldoPerdomo #JesusLuzardo #KatieHobbs #KevinGinkel #MajorLeagueBaseball #Miami #MLB #PaulSewald #PaulSkenes #Phillies #RomanAnthony #RyanThompson #SaltRiverFields #SeattleMariners #TeamMexico #ThirdInning #ToreyLovullo #WorldBaseballClassic
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Gov Katie Hobbs vetoes Charlie Kirk memorial license plate bill in Arizona
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is facing fierce backlash after…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #arizona #CharlieKirk #KatieHobbs #Politics #TurningPointUSA #UnitedStates #Us #USA
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https://www.europesays.com/2830100/ Gov Katie Hobbs vetoes Charlie Kirk memorial license plate bill in Arizona #arizona #CharlieKirk #KatieHobbs #Politics #TurningPointUSA
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Gov Katie Hobbs vetoes Charlie Kirk memorial license plate bill in Arizona
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is facing fierce backlash after…
#Politics #arizona #CharlieKirk #KatieHobbs #TurningPointUSA
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Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter crashes, killing pilot and trooper
FLAGS…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #AmandaBrewer #America #arizona #AZStateWire #BeckyDaggett #FederalAviationAdministration #Flagstaff #FraternalOrderofPolice #Generalnews #Gunviolence #Helicoptercrashes #JasminParra #KatieHobbs #Lawenforcement #MichaelHunt #RobertSkanky #SeanConnolly #SendtoAppleNews #Shootings #U.S.news #UnitedStatesofAmerica
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Katie Hobbs, who is running for Governor in Arizona, has received $100.81.
Jon Ossoff, who is running for US Senate in Georgia, has received $100.81.
Chris Mann, who is running for Attorney General in Kansas, has received $100.63.
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Avez-vous reconnu la gouverneure de l’Arizona Katie Hobbs ? Découvrez son parcours ici
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https://www.epocinfo.fr/journal.php?no=1900
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Earlier today over on her #Threads account, my governor #KatieHobbs posted her #Thanksgiving greeting to over 10k followers and zero of them had made a single comment after 9 hours. Is Zuckerberg team fiddling with algorithms again?
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Where is bi former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema now?
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/where-is-kyrsten-sinema-now
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Where is bi former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema now?
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/where-is-kyrsten-sinema-now
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The 10 states that have passed pro-LGBTQ+ bills — or defeated the most anti-LGBTQ+ ones — in 2025
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/10-states-pro-lgbtq-bills
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The 10 states that have passed pro-LGBTQ+ bills — or defeated the most anti-LGBTQ+ ones — in 2025
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/10-states-pro-lgbtq-bills
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/547793/ Gov. Hobbs launches prescription drug discount cards #AZ #AzPolitics #GovtShutdown #Health #KatieHobbs #Medication #News #People #Politics #UK #UnitedKingdom #us
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Gov. Hobbs launches prescription drug discount cards
PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs launched an initiative with the Arizona Department of Health Services to allow…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Medication #az #AzPolitics #govtshutdown #Health #KatieHobbs #people #politics
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/161506/ Gov. Hobbs launches prescription drug discount cards #AZ #AzPolitics #Éire #GovtShutdown #Health #IE #Ireland #KatieHobbs #Medication #News #People #politics #US
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Gov. Katie Hobbs, business leaders to visit Mexico amid trade uncertainty https://www.byteseu.com/1466891/ #Arizona #ArizonaMexicoCommission #business #BusinessLeaders #KatieHobbs #Mexico #MexicoCity #PhoenixSuns #PresidentDonaldTrump #TradePartnership #TradingPartner #VicePresident
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If the web analytics team working for #KatieHobbs re-election get enough referral traffic to her campaign site coming from BlueSky, maybe she'll get a Bsky account. Please SHARE/LIKE but most importantly >> visit her site from THIS link to give them pointers back to BlueSky. katiehobbs.org #ARIZONA
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Diamondbacks to remain at Chase Field for 30 years after approval of renovation bill https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/361102/ #Arizona #ArizonaDiamondbacks #ArizonaDiamondbacks #AZStateWire #Baseball #Diamondbacks #JeffWeninger #KatieHobbs #MLB #MLBBaseball #Sports #TexasRangers
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ADOT, eX² Technology partner in the Valley | News
Cox Communications has signed a long-term agreement to lease fiber along Interstate 17, a step that is set…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Internet #arizonacommerceauthority #arizonadepartmentoftransportation #CoxCommunications #ex²technologyandwecomfiber #KatieHobbs #Technology
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Chase Field to remain Diamondbacks home after Gov. Katie Hobbs signs HB 2704 https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/291276/ #Arizona #ArizonaDiamondbacks #ArizonaHouseOfRepresentatives #ArizonaDiamondbacks #Baseball #ChaseField #DerrickHall #Diamondbacks #HB2704 #IncomeTax #JeffWeninger #KatieHobbs #MaricopaCountyBoardOfSupervisors #MaricopaCountyStadiumDistrict #MLB
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Arizona lawmakers work to recapture taxes at Chase Field to pay for repairs, upgrades https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/288460/ #Arizona #ArizonaDiamondbacks #ArizonaDiamondbacks #AZ #AzPolitics #Baseball #Diamondbacks #KateGallego #KatieHobbs #MaricopaCounty #MLB #news #people #Phoenix #Politics #Sports #Us
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs surveys wildfire damage along Grand Canyon’s North Rim
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs toured the destruction left by …
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #arizona #Arizonastategovernment #AZStateWire #Climate #Climateandenvironment #donaldtrump #Fires #Generalnews #KatieHobbs #nationalparkservice #politics #StefanLa-Sky #U.S.news #UnitedStatesofAmerica #Wildfires
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7Kn_Db8w0&t=4s
Andy Biggs thinks he can eliminate courts. AZ MUST defeat him.
He'll likely beat Robson in the primary. Much like Kari Lake, this is good for Democracy as Robson is a better candidate.
However bad you think this could be, you're underestimating. He is dangerous, hateful, racist, fascist and stupid, much like his savior..trump.
Don't f-around. Get behind Katie Hobbs NOW & support consistently. No purity test nonsense.
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Dem governor ripped as ‘total disgrace’ after vetoing bill limiting Chinese land ownership near military bases: https://newscats.org/dem-governor-ripped-as-total-disgrace-after-vetoing-bill-limiting-chinese-land-ownership-near-military-bases
#Arizona, #KatieHobbs, #China, #Veto, #ChineseLandOwnership, #SB1109, #OpenfortheCCP
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The house in #Arizona just passed bills to allow up to 10% of the state's treasury (including retirement funds for teachers, firemen, etc) to be "invested" in cryptocurrency. This gives Arizona the dubious distinction of being more fiscally irresponsible than even pro-crypto states like Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Montana, whose attempts at similar bills were defeated in their legislatures.
I suspect hilarity will ensue in just a few years if this actually gets signed into law by #KatieHobbs.
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Hobbs was elected Arizona Governor in 2022.
She won her election by 0.67%, or 17,117 votes.
Hobbs narrowly beat conspiracy theorist Kari Lake, who is a passionate promoter of the big lie that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 presidential election, but the election was stolen from him.
Hobbs (D) received 50.3% of the vote, and Lake (R) received 49.6%.
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The Democratic Victory Fund includes three governors eligible to run for reelection in 2026: Katie Hobbs, Tina Kotek, and Tony Evers.
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#KatieHobbs #TinaKotek #TonyEvers #Arizona #Oregon #Wisconsin #US #Politics
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#Gallego said in a stmnt that he welcomed Arizonans “to join our team & help defeat #KariLake & her dangerous plan to ban #abortion & hurt Arizonans”
Gallego has maintained a consistent lead in most surveys of the race.When Lake ran for gov in 2022, her abrasive campaign roiled #Republicans. Her #divisiveness & fervent embrace of #Trump’s #BigLie helped #Democrat #KatieHobbs win.After she lost, Lake filed a series of frivolous lawsuits, asserting w/o evidence that the election had been rigged.
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#Arizona #Governor #KatieHobbs’ #signing of the #repeal of a #CivilWar-#era #ban on nearly all #abortions was a #stirring #occasion for the #women working to ensure that the #19thCentury #law remains in the #past.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WomensRights #Abortion #AbortionRights #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-arizona-women-1864-hobbs-d617843b7616c5c7f8a55424fd52dfa0
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#DemocratsDeliver #KatieHobbs #Arizona #Abortion
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signs repeal of 1864 abortion ban https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/arizona-governor-signs-repeal-1864-abortion-ban-rcna150364
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[Audio] #Arizona #legislature #votes to #repeal the #state's #CivilWar-era #abortion #ban.
After weeks in the #nationaldebate on #AbortionRights, #Arizona #lawmakers #vote to #repeal the total #ban on #abortions. #Governor #KatieHobbs will sign.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Arizona #WomensRights #Abortion #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
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#Arizona's #Democratic #Governor #KatieHobbs #vetoes 13 #RepublicanParty #bills including one that sought to #erase #trans #folks from #publiclife.
“As I have said time and again, I will not #sign #legislation that #attacks Arizonans," declared Gov Hobbs.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
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#Ohio man who acknowledged making #DeathThreats in voicemails left for then- #Arizona Secy of State #KatieHobbs during the 2022 #election season was sentenced Mon to 2½ yrs in prison.
Joshua Russell had pleaded guilty to a fed charge of making an interstate #threat against #Hobbs, a Dem who was AZ’s chief #elections officer in 2022 & is now the state’s gov.
#law #PoliticalViolence #MAGA #Trump #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
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Governor canceling $2B in medical debt for up to 1M Arizonans https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4510049-arizona-governor-canceling-2-billion-medical-debt/
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via @arizonamirror
If #Hobbs is serious about protecting #groundwater, she must work to close the #mining loophole
by Russ McSpadden
February 12, 2024"In her first State of the State address just over a year ago, Gov. #KatieHobbs was unequivocal about her commitment to tackling one of the state’s greatest challenges: our dwindling #water supply.
“Our groundwater should be used to support #Arizonans, not foreign business interests,” she said in that speech, referring to the Saudi Arabian conglomerate #Fondomonte. Over the past few years, Fondomonte has been pumping unlimited amounts of groundwater in La Paz County for alfalfa crops that it ships to feed cows on the other side of the earth.
"Though the Hobbs administration has already canceled one of Fondomonte’s four leases and says it won’t renew the others when they’re up this month, the problem doesn’t end with Saudi agriculture.
"It’s also mining companies that take advantage of loopholes in the state’s water laws to maximize profit at the expense of Arizonans — including mining giants #RioTinto and# BHP.
"Because of intense pressure from #lobbyists, when lawmakers adopted the much-heralded #ArizonaGroundwaterManagementAct in 1980 they exempted #mines from groundwater regulation, even when located in #ActiveManagement Areas — state-designated areas where groundwater pumping is controlled. That means that mines can pump unlimited amounts of water without paying the state a dime.
"This exemption was controversial in 1980. Today it’s existentially dangerous.
#ResolutionCopper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto and BHP, is a perfect example. Their proposed mine at #OakFlat — about 70 miles east of #Phoenix in the #TontoNationalForest and within the Phoenix Active Management Area — would pump 250 billion gallons of desert groundwater over the life of the project.
"That’s 17 million gallons of water every day for four decades.
"Under current water prices, that equates to $404 million worth of groundwater that Resolution Copper will get for free. Arizona won’t see a cent for it. And it’s more than likely that the copper ore from Oak Flat will be exported to China for smelting, again depriving local communities of economic benefit.
"This limitless pumping would happen even as the #megadrought that has plagued the #AmericanSouthwest for the past two decades is likely to worsen, straining the #ColoradoRiver and #Gila rivers even more and making us all more reliant on groundwater aquifers.
"If left intact, the mining loophole will facilitate construction of Resolution’s massive mine. The extreme water pumping from the #EastSaltRiverValley will lead to groundwater depletion and subsidence, threatening to deplete wells and damage infrastructure.
"The #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, where I work, has been fighting for decades to stop this mine, and Canadian mining company Hudbay’s disastrous plan to mine for copper in the #SantaRita Mountains south of #Tucson (in the Tucson Active Management Area).
"Both projects would devastate surrounding fragile #ecosystems, pushing endangered species like the #MexicanSpottedOwl closer to the brink of #extinction. They would also destroy sacred #TribalLands and gulp down massive amounts of water when other users are being asked to conserve.
"Handing mines unlimited access to Arizona’s precious desert groundwater would be an injustice to Arizona’s #Tribes and every resident of this state.
"Fortunately, Hobbs has the vision and courage to fight for a secure water future for Arizona. It is time for her to work with legislators to close the mining loophole in Arizona water law and subject mines to the same groundwater pumping limits that apply to other entities within the state’s Active Management Areas.
"We’re hopeful she will work to block #ResolutionCopperMine and other terrible mining projects like #Hudbay’s. At the very least, it’s time for mining giants to pay for the water they use just like the rest of us."
#WaterIsLife #HumanRightsViolations #CulturalGenocide #CopperMining #Mining #CorporateColonialism #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousNews #SaveOakFlat #IndigenousRights #Apache
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Advocates demand halt to #uranium #mine near the #GrandCanyon
#EnergyFuels says #nuclear power is necessary to fight #ClimateChange, but #Indigenous tribes fear losing their homes
By Matthew Rozsa
January 31, 2024"The Grand Canyon truly lives up to its name, being the largest canyon on Earth and one of the most popular national parks in America. But due to #UraniumMining in the area, some advocates are warning it could become the site of a future #EnvironmentalDisaster, which threatens to make one Indigenous village 'extinct.'
"More than 80 groups signed onto a statement on Monday — representing Indigenous communities, scientists and environmental nonprofits such as the #SierraClub and the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity — directed at President #JoeBiden and #Arizona Gov. #KatieHobbs, demanding they close the #PinyonPlain uranium mine, which is located near the Grand Canyon.
"'We have a choice in front of us. Allowing the Pinyon Plain mine to proceed is subjecting this landscape and its interconnected waters to a legacy of devastation and disregarding the rights of the #IndigenousPeoples on the land,' Sanober Mirza, Arizona program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, said in the statement. 'Or we can choose a different path — one that holds a promise of protecting the Grand Canyon’s cultural sanctity, its people and natural resources.'
"To understand why the mine's opponents feel so strongly, one can turn to #AmberReimondo, who work as energy director at a conservationist non-profit called the #GrandCanyonTrust. Reimondo explained to Salon by email that, on the one hand, #Biden permanently banned mining operations on nearly 1 million acres of federal managed lands by creating the #BaajNwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in August 2023. Yet the Pinyon Plain mine was #exempt from this prohibition, and Reimondo argues that the impact on the region has been 'several fold.'
"'What they've created here is a long-term, slow motion #EnvironmentalDisaster."
"'The Grand Canyon region as a whole and especially the location of the mine, is deeply significant to Indigenous cultures and is a place where tribal members have conducted #ceremonies, collected medicine, hunted, and more, for centuries,' Reimondo said. 'The mine also overlies critical and complex [and] not well understood groundwater systems. One #aquifer in particular — the #RedWallMuavAquifer — is the sole source of water for the remote #HavasupaiVillage of #Supai inside the Grand Canyon. The mine poses a #contamination threat to these #groundwater resources not just today, but importantly, after the mine's mere 28-month operational lifespan has concluded and the mining operator 'cleans up' and moves on.'
"Supai is so remote, it's only accessible only by helicopter or an 8-mile mule ride or hike, Reimondo explained, noting that if the newly-oxygenated groundwater comes into contact with nearby rocks, minerals like #arsenic and #uranium will be dissolved by the groundwater and enter aquifers used by the local community and essential to local ecology, including #HavasuFalls. Taylor McKinnon, Southwest Director for the Center for Biological Diversity, expressed similar concerns.
"'Ultimately, this mine is going to require political leadership,' McKinnon told Salon in an interview, referring to both the Biden and #Hobbs administrations. 'Those administration's agencies have the authority to fix this problem if they so choose, and that's what they should do.'
"We have detailed strenuously for years that neither regulators nor industry can ensure against the permanent and irretrievable damage to Grand Canyon's aquifers and springs," McKinnon added. "This mine was approved originally in 1986, under a record of decision from the US Forest Service under a presumption that it was highly unlikely that the mine would encounter groundwater, and further unlikely that if it did, it had the potential to contaminate deeper aquifers in the springs that they feed. Subsequent state permitting from the #ArizonaDepartment OfEnvironmentalQuality has basically parroted those same assumptions.'
"Yet McKinnon alleges that in 2016 the mine punctured a perched aquifer, causing roughly 10 million gallons of water per year to drain into the mine workings. From there he asserts that a surface pond formed with water that has concentrations of uranium and arsenic far in excess of the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA)'s water quality standards. Not only does this threaten the local endangered and endemic species, but it also impacts the nearby Havasupai tribe.
"Havasupai means 'people of the blue-green water,' McKinnon said. "It's their longstanding cultural identity, and it is the water they drink, they farm with and that provides for all of their tourism economy because it is this just a beautiful series of massive verdant waterfalls that flow through the village and down into a series of waterfalls and pools where people camp and they derive tourism dollars.'
"In a 2022 letter of opposition, the Havasupai Tribal Council, laid out what is at stake in the uranium mining controversy.
"'Our identity as a people is intrinsically intertwined with the health of #HavasuCreek and the environment to which it gives life,' the tribe’s letter explained. 'We use this water for drinking, #gardening and irrigating, municipal uses, and #cultural and #religious uses. If the water source becomes contaminated like we have seen in other areas of Arizona due to uranium mining, we will no longer be able to live in our homes and Supai Village will become extinct.'
"These fears are based on precedent. The nearby #NavajoNation is scattered with old uranium mines — over 500, in fact — awaiting cleanup, exposing locals to risk of '#LungCancer from inhalation of #radioactive particles, as well as #BoneCancer and impaired kidney function from exposure to #radionuclides in drinking water,' according to the EPA. Likewise, members of the #UteMountain #Ute tribe in #WhiteMesa, Utah have protested against uranium mines they say have contaminated local groundwater, air and even wildlife."
https://www.salon.com/2024/01/31/advocates-demand-halt-to-uranium-mine-near-the-grand-canyon/
#NoNukes #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #NoMining #UraniumMining #NuclearPowerNoThanks #IndigenousActivism
