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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Pima County NDA confirms Amazon is behind Project Blue data center  - AZ Luminaria Pima County agreed to keep Amazon Web Services’ role in Project Blue secret for five years, according to a non-disclosure agreement obtained by Arizona Luminaria. The deal, signed in 2023, sheds new l...

The non-disclosure agreement also says the county will not share the name of the final user for Project Blue with county personnel unless it is legally obligated.

Living without air conditioning in Tucson’s deadly heat  - AZ Luminaria Thousands in Tucson endure record-breaking heat without reliable air conditioning. Families share how they survive deadly summers with few resources.

From a mother evicted and grieving her brother, to a woman rotating between shelters and her car, to families in a mobile home park with failing power — Tucson residents show what it takes to survive in extreme heat

The latest on efforts to build a data center in the Sonoran Desert:

Pima County's jail healthcare provider has been in consistent violation of certain performance indicators over the past year, @jwashing.bsky.social reports

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same, gonna do what I can to make it happen!

fall lookbook!

Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land - Inside Climate News The Western Apache and a coalition of environmental groups have fought for years against the Resolution Copper mine, which would become one of the country’s largest at the cost of a site revered by th...

While President Trump calls opposition to the Resolution Copper mine that would destroy a sacred site for Western Apache people “anti-American,” I have the actual details on what’s happening and why the mine is so controversial.

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Taken: What happens after an LA immigration raid Their families won’t know what happened to them. They’ll be shackled, whisked away to another state, forced to subsist for days on potato chips, apples, water, and the occasional cold sandwich.

Immigration enforcement in America's second largest city:

"The masked agents pull up quickly. They jump out of unmarked vans or trucks. They wear blue jeans or battle fatigues. They approach Latino men, at times yelling and carrying assault rifles."

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The West's data centers suck (water and power) - High Country News From simple searches to chatGPT, the big digital buildup threatens the grid and water supplies.

AI-processing data centers require massive amounts of energy and water, and relatively low power prices, state tax incentives, and lax regulations are attracting them to the West, threatening water supplies and straining the grid.

Local reporting uncovered Amazon was behind the water-guzzling data center slated for the desert. Residents fought against the data center. Today, the city council unanimously voted against Project Blue.

If you care about local journalism that drives impact, consider donating to @azluminaria.org!

Tucson City Council rejects Project Blue data center amid intense community pressure - AZ Luminaria The Tucson city council voted unanimously Wednesday against bringing the massive and water-devouring Project Blue data center — tied to tech giant Amazon — into city limits. After weeks of escalating ...

Responding to vehement opposition and public service journalism, Tucson's mayor/council unanimously vote to reject a mega data center project from Amazon.

Tucson ain't Eddington.

Read @yanak.bsky.social‬'s latest from city hall.
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Tucson City Council rejects Project Blue data center amid intense community pressure - AZ Luminaria The Tucson city council voted unanimously Wednesday against bringing the massive and water-devouring Project Blue data center — tied to tech giant Amazon — into city limits. After weeks of escalating ...

The Tucson city council unanimously rejected the Project Blue data center today.

That comes after weeks of dogged organizing plus our little team @azluminaria.org going hard on helping Tucson understand who was behind this project and its impact on our community

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Pima County Supervisors vote to lobby against AZ sales tax exemptions for data centers - AZ Luminaria Just steps outside the Aug. 5 Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting in downtown Tucson, protesters held signs, hung banners, and made clear to passing motorists and county officials they were again...

And earlier today, Pima County supervisors voted to release a memo on NDAs and push to revoke tax exemptions, @jwashing.bsky.social reports

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Project Blue data center inevitable says Tucson council member Nikki Lee - AZ Luminaria Council member Nikki Lee said Tuesday that the Project Blue data center may be built no matter what the Tucson City Council decides.

My latest on Project Blue: The mega data center has more site options and will be built “regardless of what the City of Tucson decides,” said one council member Tuesday

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5 Ways that Trump Rapidly Ramped Up Immigration Detention Through threats and incentives, the administration conscripted local jails, federal prisons and private companies to detain immigrants.

The Trump administration is using federal jails and facilities as well as reopening shuttered facilities to detain a historic number of immigrants, the Marshall Project team reports

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The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

The Trump administration’s deportation machine has made women invisible targets.

If you’ve ever wondered, like me, what happens to all the women ICE detains:

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident.

She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

City annexation filing reveals next steps for Project Blue data center - AZ Luminaria Even before its first public meeting on a controversial and long-secretive 290-acre data center project, the city of Tucson had already filed a petition with the Pima County Recorder’s Office to begin...

More on Tucson's Project Blue, the Amazon data center project cloaked in secrecy for years.

@yanak.bsky.social and I pieced together more of the timeline, finding that City of Tucson officials moved to annex the land BEFORE the first public hearing on the project.

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Averaged out, a journalist has been killed every 3 days since the conflict began.

For millions in US mobile home parks, clean and safe tap water isn’t a given Millions of people living in mobile home parks don't enjoy the same drinking water protections that Americans are accustomed to.

Nearly 70% of mobile home parks running their own water systems violated safe drinking water rules in the past five years

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Invisible Crisis | Michael Friedrich In his new book “There Is No Place for Us,” Brian Goldstone highlights the invisible crisis of working homelessness.

So important to remember when writing about homelessness: In no state today can a minimum-wage worker afford a two-bedroom apartment.

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Amazon Web Services is company behind Tucson’s Project Blue, according to 2023 county memo - AZ Luminaria Amazon Web Services is revealed to be the company behind the Project Blue data center proposed for Tucson.

For much of this summer, a public process to bring a massive data center to Tucson moved ahead w/o revealing the company behind the center

Now, through public records, we can share that the company is Amazon Web Services

by @jwashing.bsky.social and I

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Amazon Web Services is company behind Tucson’s Project Blue, according to 2023 county memo - AZ Luminaria Amazon Web Services is revealed to be the company behind the Project Blue data center proposed for Tucson.

🚨Scoop🚨
The mysterious giant data center planned for Tucson is named in a 2023 doc we obtained from Pima County: Amazon Web Services.

The data center—H20 and electricity intensive—has sparked fierce public pushback

Latest w/ @yanak.bsky.social for @azluminaria.org
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Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...

"“We have this list of people that the U.S. government has not formally acknowledged in any real way and we pretty much have no idea if they are in CECOT or someplace else"

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Hispanic journalist in Atlanta detained by ICE speaks out Mario Guevara tells the AJC about his month behind bars, and his once positive feelings toward Donald Trump.

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

5 questions with Tucson’s housing director: “Simply we don't have enough housing to address the need” - AZ Luminaria Tucson needs more housing. There are upward of 2,000 people living on the streets and in emergency shelters. At the same time, the city is expected to see nearly 50,000 new residents over the next dec...

Some highlights from my conversation with Tucson's housing director:

- Much of the affordable housing is manufactured housing
- The city stopped building affordable housing basically from 2013 to 2023 and just restarted
- There are simply not enough houses

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Hobbs Signed Ten Bills Modeled From Far-Right Playbooks, Including Project 2025 The bills identified by LOOKOUT and Arizona Mirror echo language from groups like The Heritage Foundation.

Important reporting by @torigantz.bsky.social on the bills based on project 2025-esque model legislation and signed by AZ gov Hobbs

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They clean up after natural disasters. Now they’re getting sick. Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the grueling work of cleaning and rebuilding after natural disasters has taken a toll on their bodies. T...

As the Texas flood clean up continues, I'm thinking about how after the tragedy of a natural disaster, its often immigrant workers that come in to clean up and are left to fend for themselves amid loosely regulated worker safety rules

by @mizamudio.bsky.social

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Tucson education grants in limbo as $6B federal freeze targets “leftwing agenda” - AZ Luminaria More than $6 billion in federal education funds are on hold, putting Tucson after-school programs, teacher training and more at risk.

At Tucson Unified School District, $6 million in federal funding for everything from teacher training to after-school programs and English language instruction is on pause as a federal grant review is underway, @shannonconner.bsky.social reports

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