If you want to attend a sporting event to watch the game, there's nothing like basketball but if you want to attend a sporting event and not watch the game, baseball is basically the GOAT sport

The weird thing about AI though is that it's the youngest who are most skeptical. Take a look at this new NYTimes/Siena polling. AI is mostly bad: 18-29: 47% 30-44: 43% 45-64: 32% 65+: 24% Just 17% of Americans 18-29 say AI is mostly good.

Column: The situation got worse in Gaza after spring semester 2024, and now war has spread to Lebanon and Iran. So what happened to the protests on the U of A campus that were so common then? The decision to build encampents was a key turning point, then Trump's election. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, wow you’re really good at this

Column: The students at Sahuaro High don't see a local celebrity leading their mathematical finance class. That's because Chuck George's era as one of Tucson's beloved TV meteorologists ended in 2013. After years away, he's back to teaching Tucsonans, in class and on TV. tucson.com/news/local/s...

The @pressfreedomtracker.us has recorded nearly 200 LAPD press freedom violations involving journalists. On May Day, reporters were handcuffed and struck with batons. With the World Cup coming to LA, FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social challenged LAPD to prevent an international incident. Watch ⬇️

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Michael Lev column: The NCAA Tournament is going to expand. There will be a second “First Four” out west. No city is better suited to host it than Tucson.

This court invented immunity from prosecution for a president they favored.

The FBI's probe into Atlantic magazine journalist @sfifz787.bsky.social's reporting on Director Kash Patel shows complete disregard for the First Amendment and for the FBI’s supposed mission of stopping crime. Read our statement:

Because of course they are. Riddle me this: if The Atlantic just made it all up, how could there be a leak to investigate? www.ms.now/news/fbi-inv...

Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. https://cnn.it/4tWQsrr

The conflict over a huge new data center near Tucson goes on. Tucson Water has shut off service during construction. The developers said they did everything right. tucson.com/news/local/g...

City officials have shut off water access to the proposed Project Blue data centers complex, and are demanding reimbursement, after discovering what they call unauthorized use of city water at

Looking ahead to mid-May, there is now pretty strong inter-ensemble agreement regarding the development of a much more pronounced Western ridge once again, with the potential for a significant heatwave at that time. This would mark a major pattern shift, so stay tuned!

Column: The drawbacks associated with Rio Nuevo are familiar, but the benefits of ending it would be negligible and would stop the clear improvements being made in central Tucson. If it's "crony capitalism," it's working for Tucson. tucson.com/news/local/c...

The GOP majority in the Legislature has proposed eliminating the Rio Nuevo district. This would be a big blow to Tucson. Rio Nuevo has been controversial for some of the decisions it's made, but the overall positive impact in central Tucson has been undeniable. tucson.com/news/state-r...

In 2024, my colleague @emilyhamer.bsky.social and I revealed wrongdoing in a Tucson church. The pastor was charged with two counts of failing to report child sexual abuse. A judge ruled Monday that he is incompetent and must enter a program for restoration to competency. tucson.com/news/local/c...

Column: Cesar Chavez was never charged nor convicted, but the U of A building named for him may soon be changed. Neither was Kemper Marley charged or convicted for the car-bomb killing of reporter Don Bolles, but nobody is moving to change the building named for Marley. tucson.com/news/local/s...

with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

Israeli strike kills journalist after ongoing attacks blocked rescuers, Lebanon says

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani. Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Column: Sen. Ruben Gallego has portrayed himself as a rare Democrat who knows how to talk to working-class men. But Gallego's embrace of big pickups, hot women and crypto looks different in light of his friendship with ex-Rep. Eric Swalwell, an accused sexual predator. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

The ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative ($38 billion to convert commercial warehouses into a network of massive detention centers) is not being built primarily by GEO Group and CoreCivic. ICE is turning to a crop of relatively untested contractors. A look at who. 🧵

Political Notebook: Look at the polling -- you'll likely find a reason that Sen. Mark Kelly, the Tucson Democrat, voted against selling bulldozers and bombs to Israel. Also, why he's polling well as a possible candidate for president. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Big Pasta is throwing things at the wall to see what sticks

Another one of these: Oklahoma woman jailed for 6 months in Maryland after a false match by facial recognition software. She had never set foot in Maryland her entire life. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Column: Tucson's new police chief, Monica Prieto, has much in common with the last one, in terms of her long local background and her vision. It may be enough to put Tucson police on a firmer footing and bring a better response to our persistent public-safety problems. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pete-...

Corruption and authoritarianism aren't distinct problems, they're two sides of the same coin. Kleptocracy and autocracy go hand in hand, each dependent on the other to sustain itself.

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

I honestly don't think Gosar looks any worse than he did a few years ago.

Note that this post effectively admits that Trump and his entire admin have been lying for the last 7 weeks about Iran having been close to a nuclear bomb, with Trump reverting to the position he took just weeks before the war began that Iran's nuclear material had been effectively "obliterated."

🚨: After years of controversy surrounding UAGC, UA's online body, the federal education department has now dropped efforts to recoup $72 million from the UA to cover student loan debt from those who were defrauded by the former Ashford University. tucson.com/news/local/e...

Crypto is Mary Kay for Men 💄

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

ICYMI, RFK Jr. was in Arizona, including a stop in the Tucson area, for around five days last week. Nobody in the general public or press was invited to his events except the last one at a tribal casino. tucson.com/news/local/s...

So JD Vance traveled to Hungary to endorse a candidate who appears likely to lose and then went to Pakistan to fall on his face with the Iran negotiations. Truly an impressively terrible international trip.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act pours so much money into wall-building, $47 billion, that CBP is now considering double-walling the entire U.S.-Mexico border. A few favored companies are getting rich off building pointless border walls that destroy natural systems. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Column: People are surging to Tucson food banks again as they are cut off from food stamps thanks to last year's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Meanwhile, we're pouring ever more money into the gaping maw of the military-industrial complex. Priorities, priorities. tucson.com/news/local/c...

- 'America has the military power to do whatever it wants anywhere in the world' - immediately loses war to Iran.

You never miss professional diplomats until they're gone

I haven't heard much about ICE operations, outside of the airports, lately. But people tell me they're around every day. On Monday, there was a confrontation in a South Tucson parking lot in which an ICE agent pepper-sprayed observers, @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...

For the humanity's sake, this must be a TACO Tuesday.

Column: The missile that struck a school in Iran, killing scores of girls, was almost certainly made at Raytheon in Tucson. It raises the question: How can you ethically build missiles when the people deciding where to fire them have dismissed the idea of ethics in war? tucson.com/news/local/c...

“The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cited Othman Atta, the executive director of the mosque, as saying that deportation documents focused on Sarsour's arrest by Israeli authorities as a teenager living in the West Bank to argue he ​provided material support for extremists.” Sarsour is 53 years old.