Spectacular sky!

Tech-washing / Google quietly building Trump's AI surveillance wall

Despite previous assurances from #Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in 2020 that Google was "not working on any projects associated with immigration enforcement at the southern border," contract documents show Google is now central to a #CBP project upgrading video surveillance towers in #Arizona.

https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/

#techwashing
#sureveillancecapitalism
#usa #technoimperialism

Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61 https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040525_head_start_cuts/head-start-turning-60-federal-child-care-program-may-not-make-it-61/
Head Start - the federal-to-local program that funds child care and other support for the poorest families in America - is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, but Project 2025, the policy handbook the Trump administration has been following, calls for eliminating the program altogether.
#Tucson #Arizona

Bird of the Day — Abert's Towhee, Arizona 2025

DEI undoing undermines hard-won accommodations for disabled people https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040525_diabled_dei/dei-undoing-undermines-hard-won-accommodations-disabled-people/
From halting diversity programs that benefit people with disabilities to staffing cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Trump administration has taken a slew of actions that harm those with impairments or chronic health conditions.
#Tucson #Arizona

Is this true?

Arizona legislation to allow death row executions by firing squad or gas chamber?

I know cruelty is the point, but this is basically crying out for blood.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdLXPHSS/
#uspol #arizona #deathpenalty #firingsquad #gaschamber

@-@ anyone here work in health insurance especially in Arizona? A mental health facility is threatening my wife who’s very vulnerable right now with balance billing if they do not pay money we do not have up front before they leave the facility. As far as I am aware, balance billing is illegal in Arizona.

They were transferred from the CRC in Tucson to this facility

Boosts super appreciated

Chinese woman commits suicide at Az Border Patrol station; BP failed to conduct welfare checks https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040325_yuma_bp_death/chinese-woman-commits-suicide-az-border-patrol-station-bp-failed-conduct-welfare-checks/
Updated: A 52-year-old woman committed suicide at the Border Patrol station in Yuma on Saturday after she was taken into custody by agents in California, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal said, blasting the agency for not conducting proper welfare checks.
#Tucson #Arizona

3 inmates dead after fight at Az State Prison in Tucson https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040425_prison_deaths/3-inmates-dead-after-fight-az-state-prison-tucson/
Three inmates were killed in an "altercation" on Friday morning at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson, officials said.
#Tucson #Arizona

#Arizona #PBS #Amazon

'Arizona PBS is now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

A new partnership between PBS and Amazon brings the station’s primary, high-definition broadcast channel, along with the 24/7 PBS KIDS channel, to Prime Video’s free, ad-supported streaming television, or FAST, offerings, which means viewers will be able to access the channels via the Prime Video app, web and Fire TV.'

(Apparently also available to non-Prime users)

https://news.asu.edu/20250403-local-national-and-global-affairs-arizona-pbs-now-free-stream-prime-video-viewers-us

Election certification refusals could gain legal protection under Arizona GOP proposal https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040425_election_certification/election-certification-refusals-could-gain-legal-protection-under-arizona-gop-proposal/
A measure sponsored by Tucson Rep. Rachel Keshel would prohibit the Arizona attorney general from prosecuting members of a county board of supervisors if they refuse to certify election results.
#Tucson #Arizona

Trump slammed for ‘covertly’ withholding FEMA funds from blue states https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040425_fema_funds/trump-slammed-covertly-withholding-fema-funds-from-blue-states/
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration had violated his order to halt sweeping freezes to federal funding by withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to at least 19 states, a “covert” effort to punish states with so-called sanctuary laws for immigrants.
#Tucson #Arizona

GOP budget would add an ‘unprecedented’ $5.8 trillion to deficit, analysis finds https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040425_budget_deficit/gop-budget-would-add-unprecedented-58-trillion-deficit-analysis-finds/
The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released an analysis showing the budget resolution Republicans plan to adopt later this month would allow Congress to add up to $5.8 trillion to the deficit during the next decade.
#Tucson #Arizona

Chinese woman commits suicide at Az Border Patrol station; BP failed to conduct welfare checks https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040325_yuma_bp_death/chinese-woman-commits-suicide-az-border-patrol-station-bp-failed-conduct-welfare-checks/
A 52-year-old woman committed suicide at the Border Patrol station in Yuma on Saturday after she was taken into custody by agents in California, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal said, blasting the agency for not conducting proper welfare checks.
#Tucson #Arizona

Chinese woman commits suicide at Az Border Patrol station; BP failed to conduct welfare checks https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040325_yuma_bp_death/chinese-woman-commits-suicide-az-border-patrol-station-bp-failed-conduct-welfare-checks/
A 52-year-old woman committed suicide at the Border Patrol station in Yuma on Saturday after she was taken into custody by agents in California, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal said, blasting the agency for not conducting proper welfare checks.
#Tucson #Arizona

As Arizona parents plead for disability funding, Republicans blame governor https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040425_disability_funding/as-arizona-parents-plead-disability-funding-republicans-blame-governor/
As families anxious they’ll lose vital services for kids with disabilities at the end of the month gathered at the Arizona Capitol, GOP lawmakers didn’t allow them to testify and instead heard testimony about finances, and spoke at length about how the situation was the fault of Gov. Hobbs.
#Tucson #Arizona

Az Supreme Court: ‘Unborn human being’ in abortion ballot description wasn’t partisan https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040425_ballot_description/az-supreme-court-unborn-human-being-abortion-ballot-description-wasnt-partisan/
Nearly eight months after the Arizona Supreme Court allowed “unborn human being” to be included in a description of the state’s abortion rights initiative, the court explained why it determined the phrase wasn’t politically biased.
#Tucson #Arizona

Economists blast calculations for ‘bombshell’ Trump tariffs as faulty while stocks plunge https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/040425_tariff_calculations/economists-blast-calculations-bombshell-trump-tariffs-as-faulty-while-stocks-plunge/
Markets and business owners in the United States and around the world reeled following President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping and steep tariffs that are not “reciprocal” but rather punish many countries that U.S. importers heavily rely on.
#Tucson #Arizona