ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Since we're sharing our fondest Kristi Noem memories: Mine was the day she came to Phoenix and lied repeatedly about the quality of Arizona's elections, leaving us at New Times to weigh the grammatical nuances of using "most bullshit" in a headline www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/false-a...

Ruben Gallego endorsed Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who had a Nazi-linked tattoo until alarmingly recently. Platner says he didn't know what it meant, but having had it for 18 years is a bridge too far for many Democrats.

trans guy rescues a baby from Lake Michigan then gets a burger as soon as he’s discharged from the hospital is as Chicago a story as they come

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

A man shot his way into a Phoenix family home. Kids and called 911. The dad subdued the attacker. Everyone told police. Then a cop responding to the scene shot the father. Read @zhbuchanan.bsky.social on the footage + audio from a deadly police shooting. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...

BC covers media meltdowns like the Post's with unparalleled care and thoroughness. everyone in this blighted industry gets a measure of dignity from his work. bsky.app/profile/brya...

On Monday afternoon, federal agents raided several Zipps Sports Grill locations in the Valley. The raid at Park Central drew a crowd of roughly 200 protesters, leading to more agents descending on the site. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...

Kole Calhoun, the former Diamondbacks outfielder and ASU star, called Alex Pretti's killing "murder" on Instagram and said the Trump administration's immigration crackdown “blatantly racist." Story:

C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto

I gotta hand it to Sinema, I genuinely never know what to expect when I see her name in a headline bsky.app/profile/zhbu...

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of her reelection launch today, I spoke with @repyassansari.bsky.social to reflect on her first year. Ending private, for-profit ICE detention centers is a top priority for Ansari, who has witnessed their "horrific" conditions firsthand. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona...

We have an opening! Come work for me!

we're on the ICE beat at @phoenixnewtimes.com — here with a scoop about a sheriff's office in Arizona that signed a million-dollar contract to cooperate with the feds. the deal contains what appears to be a plush junket fund for the man in charge bsky.app/profile/zhbu...

Avelo Airlines has faced pressure from activists to stop shuttling immigrants out of the country for ICE.

The face of a white woman who is coming to terms with not being in the boys’ club.

Lot of days I miss my colleagues at Patriot Act. Today especially. Would've been an incredible Wednesday to walk into that office.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

I'd hate to have the name Bieber in Ontario after tonight

Nine innings now feels like an amuse-bouche. Bring on the insomniac doubleheader.

More than 100 writers, journalists, and scholars call for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist detained in the U.S. today for doing his job—and now facing imminent deportation. Share the letter and join the call to #FreeMario: pen.org/press-releas...

you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds

An important message from the president of Antifa 😂 🤭

Wrote about the real people who spent money and time and hope coming to Arizona for the Charlie Kirk memorial. Decent people simply inhabit a different reality from what Trump and Steven Miller pedaled www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/kirk-fu...

Chicago keeping art alive:

The US capital is being flooded with military troops at the direct order of the president and media is barely talking about, because the president didn't say "I am doing authoritarianism" but "the military is here to fight crime"

this one

I am not an economist but at a guess, I think this comes from the interplay between “massive tax on imported produce” and “randomly grab the people who pick crops in the US and put them in concentration camps” 🤔

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

anyways, love to live in a city of 3 million people from around the world where I take transit and walk and explore, and be told by a guy whose main interaction with the world is driving from his gated suburban community to his gated golf course that I am the one "living in a bubble"

we need a word that means "a constituent component of burnout." it should be separate from work at large. some work is fulfilling, invigorating. other days are full of [thing that accumulates to burn you out]. best I got is "sludgework." suggestions welcome.

love to share a venomously droll @zhbuchanan.bsky.social hed. shout-out @phoenixnewtimes.com as always

for anyone who looks at the predicted electoral college realignment in 2030 and starts running around with their hair on fire, here's the blue state problem in a nutshell: people want to live there but can't build more houses

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

With all due respect to the AM social media team, I don’t think they understand what they’re dealing with here.

they're driving the country into abysmal debt to build exorbitant detention centers where they will imprison you once you are too broke to afford a home bsky.app/profile/nico...

God bless the Scots

historians are shining right now

I guess this is the GOP's version of Swan Lake

Late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, a Phoenix police chopper spent 15 minutes buzzing Maryvale. Why? So the pilot could spell the name "ALEX" in the sky. From @tjlheureux.bsky.social:

BBC will no longer broadcast ‘high risk’ performances

hey guys I read wikipedia and it turns out we're all gonna die at the end. so we can just not, anymore. bsky.app/profile/drew...

non-New Yorkers might wonder why everyone seems so delirious tonight. welp, this is the rare instance when rich assholes tried and *failed* to fuck over the city for everyone else. you love to see it.

Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on: -free buses -rent freeze -halal cart for $8 instead of $10 -taxing the 1% -no cost childcare -city-owned grocery stores -a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response -building affordable housing -why Cuomo sucks