"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.

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

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 @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

I'll be at the Tucson Festival Books next month appearing on three panels about tech power, democracy, and whistleblowing (alongside Reality Winner). tucsonfestivalofbooks.org?action=displ...

Taking responsibility for your actions is a tool of Western Imperialist hegemony

Bad Bunny: TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA

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. tucson.com/news/local/s...

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. tucson.com/news/state-r...

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. tucson.com/news/local/s...

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

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

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. tucson.com/news/local/c...

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.

This is so clearly the game.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

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

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.

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

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.

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. tucson.com/news/local/s...

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.

Here's the full post in the Star Tribune liveblog for posterity since it doesn't have a stable URL to link to:

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. tucson.com/news/local/c...

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.

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. tucson.com/news/local/c...

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.

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. tucson.com/news/local/b...

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. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

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. tucson.com/news/local/s...

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.

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

Tucson Showing Up. Tucson stands with Minnesota and everyone impacted by ICE’s harmful enforcement. Thank you Tucson. #tucson #iceout #adelitagrijalva #solidarity

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

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. tucson.com/news/local/g...

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

Calling the Gestapo “the Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.

"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. www.oxfordreference.com/abstract/10....

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.

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

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. tucson.com/news/local/c...

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:

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.

1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant

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. tucson.com/news/local/b...

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

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. www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...

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.

Let's reset the terms of the debate. theracket.news/p/when-will-...