Tim Steller
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Column: Once again, a local family and Tucson itself are the focus of intense attention due to a sensational crime. Overall it sucks to be in this position again. It's also exposed our sheriff and the careless desire to turn a member of the victim's family into a suspect.
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Tim Steller's column: Spotlight on Tucson exposes sheriff, global gossips
For Star subscribers: Once again, a sensational crime has made Tucson the focus of global attention. That's not a good thing, as a local family's suffering is compounded by the
https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/article_7f8facc3-5d0a-4a82-93a8-b382bb728035.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
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Dave Vetter
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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Brian Hiatt
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Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
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Joe Noonan
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Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington
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‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/02/09/absolute-hell-irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-by-ice-since-september/
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Jacob Silverman
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I'll be at the Tucson Festival Books next month appearing on three panels about tech power, democracy, and whistleblowing (alongside Reality Winner).
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Tucson Festival of Books | Jacob Silverman
https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?action=display_author&id=71503
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We Left With All Of My Popehats
2 days ago
Taking responsibility for your actions is a tool of Western Imperialist hegemony
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Keith Olbermann
2 days ago
Bad Bunny: TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA
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Column: Once again, a local family and Tucson itself are the focus of intense attention due to a sensational crime. Overall it sucks to be in this position again. It's also exposed our sheriff and the careless desire to turn a member of the victim's family into a suspect.
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Tim Steller's column: Spotlight on Tucson exposes sheriff, global gossips
For Star subscribers: Once again, a sensational crime has made Tucson the focus of global attention. That's not a good thing, as a local family's suffering is compounded by the
https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/article_7f8facc3-5d0a-4a82-93a8-b382bb728035.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
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Capitol Media Services
4 days ago
Judge rules that a whole bunch of restrictions on abortion are illegal and unenforceable in wake of voters approving Prop 129 and putting a "fundamental right" to the procedure in the AZ Constitution. More details coming.
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Judge strikes down several Arizona abortion restrictions
A series of state laws restricting abortion run afoul of a constitutional amendment approved in 2024 by voters, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Greg Como said in a ruling released
https://tucson.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_ee20bcb3-e85b-44c1-a36f-502d3891c0f0.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
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Political Notebook: In late January, a delegation of 3 elected officials from little South Tucson visited Colombia for an emergency gathering of global progressives. The mayor even met Colombia's president. Learn was that was about and more in today's Political Notebook.
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Political Notebook: South Tucson delegation made Colombia visit
For Star subscribers: The tiny town of 5,000 sent three elected officials to an international conference in Colombia last month. Why? Find that and more on RTA, DHS and TUSD
https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/article_6c069134-ff4d-4f43-ad7c-fb6135da5b44.html
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Arizona Daily Star
5 days ago
Learn about Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, and her life in Tucson. From her family, career at the University of Arizona, and faith, to her role as a
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Who Is Nancy Guthrie? Inside the life of Savannah Guthrie’s mother and Tucson community leader
Learn about Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, and her life in Tucson. From her family, career at the University of Arizona, and faith, to her role as a
https://tucson.com/news/local/article_0da38303-0049-412d-ae95-b08574c50218.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
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Max Berger
6 days ago
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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The three children of Nancy Guthrie have released a video to their mom, about their mom, and to her potential abductors. Guthrie, 84, the mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing from her Tucson-area home for almost four days.
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Savannah Guthrie to abductor: 'We're ready to talk'
The Guthrie siblings took to social media Wednesday to plead for the return of their 84-year-old mother, Nancy, who went missing from her Tucson home over the weekend.
https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_b6ea070e-c5b6-4d58-beed-e91ee2e7a9dc.html
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Senator Bernie Sanders
6 days ago
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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This is so clearly the game.
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Kashana
6 days ago
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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Will Stancil
6 days ago
Guys they are really, really not winning It sucks what they’re doing to our country, and my city especially God only knows how much damage they’ll do before they’re stopped, much of it irreversible But they are very much not winning
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Marisa Kabas
6 days ago
Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.
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John Moe
6 days ago
The free-roaming turkeys of Saint Paul, Minnesota: - are enormous - don’t know where they’re going - have no plans or motivations - don’t understand roads - or anything at all, really
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I recently learned the phrase "imperial boomerang." Lately the idea hasbeen discussed often, not using that phrase. It's part of Greg Grandin's point in his Pulitzer Prize winning book "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America." We are feeling the boomerang.
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Column: Tucson-area residents are seeing pervasive ads that suggest the new regional transportation plan will fix potholes. That's misleading. But if voters pass RTA Next and its tax extension, a sizable chunk of money would go to major-road rehabilitation in the city.
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Tim Steller's column: RTA won't fix potholes, would rehabilitate roads
For Star subscribers: The ads saying the new regional transportation plan will fix Tucson potholes are misleading. RTA Next won't do that, but it puts almost $200 million toward rebuilding
https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/article_8f0e2b62-a982-4d8c-a687-07a90b19b267.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest
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Has anyone seen a piece about the new Epstein release showing his involvement with the global nationalist project and its billionaire supporters? I've seen dribs and drabs suggesting this but nothing that brings the evidence together. Here's Epstein's 2016 exchange with Peter Thiel about Brexit.
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Matt Novak
7 days ago
Here's the full post in the Star Tribune liveblog for posterity since it doesn't have a stable URL to link to:
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The Pima County sheriff now says that investigators believe Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was abducted from her Tucson-area home. This happened overnight Saturday into Sunday.
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Investigators believe Nancy Guthrie was abducted from Tucson home
Investigators believe Nancy Guthrie was taken from her home against her will, possibly in the middle of the night, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said late Monday afternoon.
https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_6cf24f54-5701-4815-b3cf-6d36ac115b0a.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
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Rusty Foster
8 days ago
This whole heap is gonna go public soon. So he made twitter investors whole with AI venture money and soon he’ll make the AI investors whole with public equity market money, on the back of an enterprise the US government won’t allow to fail.
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The mother of Today Show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie is missing from her home near Tucson. The Pima County Sheriff's Department is treating it as a crime.
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Tucson case of Savannah Guthrie's missing mom probed as crime
The Pima County Sheriff's Department has been searching for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie since noon Sunday.
https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_7aec28d3-c2fc-47d1-acf1-d84707e9ed72.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
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Listening to Springsteen's "Streets of Minneapolis," I thought he overall met the moment. But some of the lines had real clangers that bugged me as the song became an earworm. So I edited his lyrics, trying to smooth out the clunky lines, delete some "blood" references, and add other details.
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Emily Bregel
9 days ago
Immigration detention facilities in Florence, AZ are quietly managing a measles outbreak, with three cases identified there as of Friday, but information shared with the public has been limited and delayed, to the concern of volunteers who help recently released detainees.
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Measles outbreak at ICE detention centers in Arizona prompts quarantine
DHS's delay in addressing the three confirmed measles cases, and their location, has been frustrating for migrant-aid volunteers trying to understand the scope of the outbreak in Pinal County.
https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_637bb63e-44f4-4987-a206-2f1792274922.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
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Seth Cotlar
9 days ago
4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do.
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U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...
https://www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u-s-citizen-injured-by-federal-agents-in-salem-who-demanded-to-see-papers-union-says/
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Column: As protests over ICE actions surge, Tucson police and protesters have managed to maintain a relatively good relationship. Still, the expectations that both have of each other will be challenged as immigration operations continue.
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Tim Steller's column: Peace prevails between police, protesters but risks remain
For Star subscribers: A surge in protests over federal immigration enforcement has made Tucson police jump into action. It's gone well so far, but ICE actions and protester reactions could
https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/article_78626a7d-a80c-4cc4-83f8-9c9677bf0131.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest
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Mark Jacob
10 days ago
He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.
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Neil Stenhouse
10 days ago
Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100
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AxisPHX
11 days ago
Tucson Showing Up. Tucson stands with Minnesota and everyone impacted by ICE’s harmful enforcement. Thank you Tucson.
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#adelitagrijalva
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Miles Klee 🦉
11 days ago
Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
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Political Notebook: The new chair of the Arizona GOP is a son of Mexican immigrants who grew up speaking Spanish in Tucson. That, and more on the upcoming RTA election and immigration politics.
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Political Notebook: Tucson native, son of immigrants, now Arizona's GOP chair
For Star subscribers: Sergio Arellano took over the chairmanship of the Arizona GOP, a position he controversially lost five years ago. That plus: The sides line up in RTA election,
https://tucson.com/news/local/government-politics/article_714a2c1c-53a3-402b-a41c-62ae67f10909.html
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Tim Murphy
11 days ago
there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content
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Scott Shapiro
12 days ago
Calling the Gestapo “the Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.
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"In theater" is military jargon. It refers to the "theater of operations" where combat and other military operations are taking place. But the theaters he's referencing are for US federal agents inside the United States.
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Matt Novak
13 days ago
We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
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Bruce Springsteen
13 days ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Column: For the second time in two months, a person has died in Tucson over an attempted theft at a convenience store. Last time it was an accused shoplifter; this time it was a clerk. It's good people want to stop brazen thievery, but these deaths were unnecessary.
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Tim Steller's column: Another needless Tucson death over store theft
For Star subscribers: People want to stop shoplifters, but they don't know retailers are already using video to build cases against them. So it's doubly tragic that Tucsonans are dying
https://tucson.com/news/local/column/article_9f3f5ba5-3a00-437d-abe1-fa638002c84e.html
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Senator Ron Wyden
14 days ago
I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
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Will Stancil
13 days ago
Bari Weiss has one tactic and it’s this tedious revolution from above. The complaint seems to be that institutions sometimes exclude people who are friends with billionaires, and need to be revolutionized by opening the door to the entire flock of pathetically inept nepobabies and mediocrities.
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Dom Ervolina
14 days ago
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant
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A Border Patrol agent shot and wounded somebody near Arivaca, Arizona today. Protests are occurring outside the Tucson hospital where the shooting victim is being treated. I'm find this all a bit premature. We still have almost no idea what happened.
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1 critically wounded in Border Patrol shooting south of Tucson
A person described as a "suspect" was shot and wounded Tuesday morning and flown by helicopter to Tucson, authorities say.
https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_50cb181d-b064-47fa-9a4a-22b917969e96.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
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MrTom 👾
14 days ago
Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!
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Matthew Gertz
14 days ago
The Bari Weiss plan is for CBS News to employ fewer reporters charged with finding things out and more (right-skewing) commentators charged with telling them what to think. Same playbook Wash Post is using.
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After rocky start, Bari Weiss to cut staff, add commentators at CBS News
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss came in with a mandate to reshape coverage. She is set to announce plans for newsroom cuts and the hiring of many new commentators.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689849/after-rocky-start-bari-weiss-to-cut-staff-add-commentators-at-cbs-news
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Jon Cooper
15 days ago
John Fetterman’s wife Gisele posted this in response to last week’s killing by federal agents in Minneapolis. Incredibly, the senator himself has not yet said anything publicly or issued any statements.
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Jonathan M. Katz
16 days ago
Let's reset the terms of the debate.
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When will he resign?
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