Stephen Lemons
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“I’ll tell you right out, I’m a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.”
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Guy took Charlie Kirk's name in vain...
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Gila County Attorney sued by man axed for ‘Rot in Hell Charlie Kirk’ post
Gila County Attorney Bradley Beauchamp fired an employee for the Facebook post last year. Was it protected speech?
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February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Guy took Charlie Kirk's name in vain...
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Guy took Charlie Kirk's name in vain...
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Gila County Attorney sued by man axed for ‘Rot in Hell Charlie Kirk’ post
Gila County Attorney Bradley Beauchamp fired an employee for the Facebook post last year. Was it protected speech?
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February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Guy took Charlie Kirk's name in vain...
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Last year, a low-level employee of the Gila County Attorney's Office took a bathroom break and posted "Rot in Hell Charlie Kirk" on his personal Facebook. He got fired for it.
Now he's suing on free speech grounds.
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Now he's suing on free speech grounds.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
Gila County Attorney sued by man axed for ‘Rot in Hell Charlie Kirk’ post
Gila County Attorney Bradley Beauchamp fired an employee for the Facebook post last year. Was it protected speech?
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February 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Last year, a low-level employee of the Gila County Attorney's Office took a bathroom break and posted "Rot in Hell Charlie Kirk" on his personal Facebook. He got fired for it.
Now he's suing on free speech grounds.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
Now he's suing on free speech grounds.
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The self-appointed TV watchdogs who were so common in the late ’70s and early ’80s…raised a huge public stink about any show that might be too intense for a timid 6-year-old with a nervous disorder. maggiemcneill.com/2022/02/01/d...
Diary #605
Probably every bibliophile suffers from that syndrome where they buy books and then take a very long time to get around to reading them. I’m certainly no exception, but I also do it with DVD…
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February 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
The self-appointed TV watchdogs who were so common in the late ’70s and early ’80s…raised a huge public stink about any show that might be too intense for a timid 6-year-old with a nervous disorder. maggiemcneill.com/2022/02/01/d...
When a New Times reporter asked to see his phone to confirm, Miller asked if he could look at the reporter’s phone. New Times immediately agreed to such an exchange, but Miller reneged on the mutual look-see.
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Pinal County Attorney used Signal to skirt public records law
Republican prosecutor Brad Miller denied that he has Signal on his phone, but Phoenix New Times has seen the messages.
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January 22, 2026 at 6:44 PM
When a New Times reporter asked to see his phone to confirm, Miller asked if he could look at the reporter’s phone. New Times immediately agreed to such an exchange, but Miller reneged on the mutual look-see.
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Glendale city councilmember Lupe Conchas has pushed for ending unaccountable city council "slush fund" stipends.
At the same time, he posted on Facebook to ask people to send him money directly via cash apps to help with home repairs.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
At the same time, he posted on Facebook to ask people to send him money directly via cash apps to help with home repairs.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
Glendale official asked for cash while blasting council ‘slush fund’
Lupe Conchas wants to end oversight-free city council stipends. At the same time, he asked people to send him money directly.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Glendale city councilmember Lupe Conchas has pushed for ending unaccountable city council "slush fund" stipends.
At the same time, he posted on Facebook to ask people to send him money directly via cash apps to help with home repairs.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
At the same time, he posted on Facebook to ask people to send him money directly via cash apps to help with home repairs.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
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Last week, we asked Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller if he used Signal. He said no. We asked if Signal was on his phone. He said no.
Today, we have a story about Brad Miller using Signal to avoid public records disclosures.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
Today, we have a story about Brad Miller using Signal to avoid public records disclosures.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
Pinal County Attorney used Signal to skirt public records law
Republican prosecutor Brad Miller denied that he has Signal on his phone, but Phoenix New Times has seen the messages.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Last week, we asked Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller if he used Signal. He said no. We asked if Signal was on his phone. He said no.
Today, we have a story about Brad Miller using Signal to avoid public records disclosures.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
Today, we have a story about Brad Miller using Signal to avoid public records disclosures.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
"Arizona woman: Musk’s PAC owes me thousands for petition signatures" www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona...
Arizona woman: Musk’s PAC owes me thousands for petition signatures
The world's richest man paid $47 a signature during the 2024 election. One Arizona woman says his PAC stiffed her as much as $12,000.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Arizona woman: Musk’s PAC owes me thousands for petition signatures" www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona...
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Perhaps they should rename the Streisand Effect the Sinema Effect.
After all, Kyrsten Sinema basically took the Chandler AI data center project from undercovered and likely to happen to dead as a doornail.
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After all, Kyrsten Sinema basically took the Chandler AI data center project from undercovered and likely to happen to dead as a doornail.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
Thumbs down: Chandler kills Sinema-backed data center in 7-0 vote
Sinema lobbied hard for the data center, but her involvement created exactly the opposition she tried to sweeping away.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Perhaps they should rename the Streisand Effect the Sinema Effect.
After all, Kyrsten Sinema basically took the Chandler AI data center project from undercovered and likely to happen to dead as a doornail.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
After all, Kyrsten Sinema basically took the Chandler AI data center project from undercovered and likely to happen to dead as a doornail.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
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Sinema lobbied hard for the data center, but her involvement created exactly the opposition she tried to sweeping away.
Thumbs down: Chandler kills Sinema-backed data center in 7-0 vote
Sinema lobbied hard for the data center, but her involvement created exactly the opposition she tried to sweeping away.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sinema lobbied hard for the data center, but her involvement created exactly the opposition she tried to sweeping away.
It's official" Kyrsten Sinema is as good a lobbyist as she was a politician. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/chandle...
Thumbs down: Chandler kills Sinema-backed data center in 7-0 vote
Sinema lobbied hard for the data center, but her involvement created exactly the opposition she tried to sweeping away.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It's official" Kyrsten Sinema is as good a lobbyist as she was a politician. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/chandle...
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I really wish people could get it through their fool heads that "The Cloud" is really just a euphemism for "somebody else's computers."
LOL. No.
December 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I really wish people could get it through their fool heads that "The Cloud" is really just a euphemism for "somebody else's computers."
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When Kyrsten Sinema spoke in favor of an AI data center at an Oct. 16 Chandler City Council meeting, she failed to mention she was there as a paid lobbyist.
Now, Sinema may have created an opposition she hoped to avoid.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
Now, Sinema may have created an opposition she hoped to avoid.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
Kyrsten Sinema is getting paid to push for a Chandler data center
When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
When Kyrsten Sinema spoke in favor of an AI data center at an Oct. 16 Chandler City Council meeting, she failed to mention she was there as a paid lobbyist.
Now, Sinema may have created an opposition she hoped to avoid.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
Now, Sinema may have created an opposition she hoped to avoid.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
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NEW: Emails show Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan fielded a request from ICE to house detainees in county jails.
In one, Sheridan lamented a federal court order that prevents MCSO from partnering with ICE.
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In one, Sheridan lamented a federal court order that prevents MCSO from partnering with ICE.
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Sheriff considered request to house ICE detainees in county jails
Emails show Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan had at least preliminary discussions with immigration authorities.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
NEW: Emails show Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan fielded a request from ICE to house detainees in county jails.
In one, Sheridan lamented a federal court order that prevents MCSO from partnering with ICE.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
In one, Sheridan lamented a federal court order that prevents MCSO from partnering with ICE.
By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:
You know he wants to…
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Sheriff considered request to house ICE detainees in county jails
Emails show Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan had at least preliminary discussions with immigration authorities.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
You know he wants to…
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When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.
Kyrsten Sinema is getting paid to push for a Chandler data center
When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.
Emails reveal that Kyrsten “Revolving Door” Sinema has been lobbying for an AI data center in Chandler since at least June. She likes to diss NIMBYs, but her comments to the city council pissed them off big time, records show.
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Kyrsten Sinema is getting paid to push for a Chandler data center
When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Emails reveal that Kyrsten “Revolving Door” Sinema has been lobbying for an AI data center in Chandler since at least June. She likes to diss NIMBYs, but her comments to the city council pissed them off big time, records show.
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“MCSO and Maricopa County had an incentive to allocate and overstate what should be regular operating costs to the Melendres Fund so that MCSO could bypass the State constitutional spending limit"
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How the sheriff’s office milked a racial profiling case for $163M
What do a golf cart, cable TV and car washes have to do with following a federal judge's order to stop racially profiling?
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October 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“MCSO and Maricopa County had an incentive to allocate and overstate what should be regular operating costs to the Melendres Fund so that MCSO could bypass the State constitutional spending limit"
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Federal judge smacks Trump admin for bogarting Tucson murder suspect
Score one for Laura Conover
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Score one for Laura Conover
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Federal judge smacks Trump admin for bogarting Tucson murder suspect
The Trump administration has refused to hand over a murder suspect facing charges in Tucson. A judge now says it has to.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Federal judge smacks Trump admin for bogarting Tucson murder suspect
Score one for Laura Conover
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Score one for Laura Conover
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So much for federalism, much less posse comitatus. "Trump deploys troops to Portland, authorizing ‘full force’ if necessary" wapo.st/4pKK5pq
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September 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
So much for federalism, much less posse comitatus. "Trump deploys troops to Portland, authorizing ‘full force’ if necessary" wapo.st/4pKK5pq
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As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
What the world needs now is another Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1 detainee dead, 2 critically wounded after shooting at Dallas ICE facility
A shooter, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, killed a detainee and injured two others outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas after firing from a nearby rooftop Wedne...
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September 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
What the world needs now is another Martin Luther King, Jr.
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AI will soon have a say in approving or denying Medicare treatments
Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the fe...
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September 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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