Pima Precinct 275

08/15/2026

𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐀 𝐎𝐍𝐄-𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐏𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 — 𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐂 𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 “𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐍” 𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration is about to turn the screws on Iran harder than any regime in modern history has ever faced.

𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺, Bessent told Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Thursday night.

Bessent runs 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐮𝐫𝐲, the Treasury's answer to the Pentagon's Operation Epic Fury, and he's already got a track record — his sanctions push last year helped trigger an inflation crisis that sent Iranians into the streets in mass protests. Now he's pairing new economic isolation with President Trump's ongoing naval blockade choking off Iran's oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz.

𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺, '𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘊𝘶𝘣𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘻𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.' 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘻𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘯, Bessent said, explaining why he thinks this 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 succeeds where past pressure campaigns stalled.

He wasn't finished with Democrats either, calling those who think Iran has never been stronger 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥, 𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵.

𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝.

08/15/2026

😮

🚨 BREAKING: RFK Jr. says the Biden administration gutted the HHS office that guarded $2.2 trillion a year in taxpayer health care payments, leaving six people to watch the whole thing!

Health and Human Services processes about 4 million payment transactions a day across 50 states and five territories. Kennedy says that when Xavier Becerra took over the department, 80 people were assigned to program integrity, and Becerra moved 76 of them out.

By the time Kennedy arrived, he says only six were left.

In his own words:

“My predecessor, Xavier Becerra, when he came into my agency, there were only 80 people in program integrity, 80 people. This is for 50 states and five territories. These are the people who are monitoring $2.2 trillion dollars in payments annually from my agency!”

“We do 4 million transactions a day. There’s only 80 people looking at those. Xavier Becerra came in and transferred 76 of them out!”

“And it was an invitation for the fraudsters to come in and steal everything!”

Kennedy pointed to Los Angeles, where his department has shut down hospice operations that billed the government roughly $6,000 a month for patients who never existed.

He described tens of billions of dollars in Los Angeles County lost to fake medical equipment claims and phony autism services, “all stolen because nobody was minding the STORE!”

That money was supposed to cover a dying man’s final weeks and a child’s therapy sessions.

It went to criminals who figured out that nobody was checking the front door.

Californians should sit with one more fact.

Xavier Becerra is the Democratic nominee for governor, and his name is on the ballot this November. He wants the keys to a state budget bigger than most countries run, after leaving six people to guard $2.2 trillion.

Thank you Sec. Kennedy for cleaning up Biden’s corruption!

08/15/2026

I wonder if this is true, greed is evil

Tucker Carlson didn't turn on Trump because he's "America First," and he didn't do it because of the war in Iran.

He did it because a company owned by Barack Obama paid him $40 million.

According to public records, Obamacorp, the for-profit arm of Obama's financial holdings, sent the payment to Carlson's LLC a week before he went live and smeared Trump's good name.

Just like everything else bad people say about our president, Carlson's trash was bought and paid for.

08/15/2026

Gov. Hobbs has touted progress on Colorado River negotiations, but federal plans now require Arizona to take the largest water cuts—up to 77% in 2027–28. Hobbs says she’ll keep pushing for equitable reductions, while critics argue the talks failed to protect Arizona’s share.
https://azfreenews.com/2026/08/hobbs-promised-arizona-water-rights-were-protected-a-month-later-feds-mandated-greatest-cuts-to-arizona/

08/15/2026

FYI

08/12/2026

🚨BREAKING: The Postmaster General has announced that the USPS will not deliver mail-in ballots for the 2026 midterm elections to states that refuse to comply with President Trump’s election integrity executive order.

States that do not provide voter rolls or cooperate with federal efforts to verify citizenship and eligibility will not receive USPS services for mailing ballots.

This is a major step to enforce clean voter rolls and ensure only eligible American citizens can vote.

08/12/2026

Can this be true??

FBI Director Kash Patel has opened an investigation into Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's husband for selling access to his wife for millions of dollars.

"If you have a case coming up before the Supreme Court," said Patel, "You can plead it, privately, to one of nine justices for the cool price of $500,000."

Patel says the FBI is looking into at least seven cases that Brown-Jackson compromised, and her husband is the common denominator.

"The judicial ethics committee can deal with her. I have my sights set on him."

08/12/2026

If sap gloves & taser had a baby…

𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐈𝐋𝐒 $𝟐𝟎 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂 𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐃𝐔𝐄 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to spend up to $𝟐𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 on a piece of hardware straight out of a spy movie: the 𝐂𝐓𝐆-𝟓 𝐆.𝐋.𝐎.𝐕.𝐄., short for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. According to a DHS contract notice, the devices are due for delivery by March 31, 2027, and will be issued to agents making arrests in the field.

The glove has to touch bare skin — it doesn't work through hair or clothing — and delivers up to 𝟑𝟖𝟎 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐬 that, per the manufacturer's own manual, “inhibits and distracts the subject from performing coordinated muscle movement.” Agents are told to use no more than two gloves on a subject at once, for no more than 15 seconds. Manufacturer Compliant Technology Group markets it as a “wearable de-escalation device.”

CNN's own segment gave away the game before it even started. “𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘩, 𝘯𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘗𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢?” reporter Brian Todd deadpanned, before airing the company's own demo video: an agent takes a subject down in about three seconds, and — in the network's own words — “𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘱.”

That's the headline buried under the sarcasm. A tool that ends a struggle in three seconds and lets the subject walk away is 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐫, 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧, 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐦 — for the agent, and for the person being arrested.

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐧𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 — 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥?

08/12/2026

Rep. Paul Gosar urged the VA to implement Office of Inspector General recommendations after an audit found widespread failures in the Veterans Community Care Program, including improper eligibility decisions, missing documentation, and an estimated $440M in unnecessary spending in early FY25.
https://azfreenews.com/2026/08/gosar-calls-for-va-reforms-following-inspector-general-audit-finding-widespread-community-care-failures/