if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

The fact that Kristi Noem’s husband has big balloon breasts is the most wholesome thing about her.

Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.

Such a waste of a rare opportunity.

The University of Arizona's men's basketball team is back in the Final Four for the first time in an unbelievable 25 years. I reported on that Final Four in Minneapolis. This was my favorite story from there, including an interview with Lute Olson's college coach. tucson.com/article_6299...

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

So there may be 1.4 billion people in China, but the number of people with THAT name are probably in the single digits. Why? Because the character tu 吐 means to spit or vomit. Needless to say, it is unusual for it to be in a name. (4/x)

NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes? LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help? LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead

Column: It took almost a week for the city of Tucson to stop a serious leak of potable water. In the end, we probably lost enough water for more than 100 homes for a year. It's these episodes of incompetence that erode faith in our local governments. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Political Notebook: The Pima County Board of Supervisors isn't determined to try to remove Sheriff Chris Nanos even as it demands information from him. That, plus more on Oro Valley, the recall, and a Turning Point spokesman who targeted Vail teachers. tucson.com/news/local/s...

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

Remember the national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border? The troops are still here, even if Border Patrol agents have been sent to do interior enforcement.

I'm on NPR today talking about the relationship between Silicon Valley and Saudi Arabia, two authoritarian forces with deep pockets and mutual interests. www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

Gambling companies are tweeting lies as if it's legitimate news because it brings more attention to them. Facts matter. Slippery slope when gambling companies that leagues and media outlets are partnered with are lying to fans. It undermines all of sports.

This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears (read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

Column: Tucson's city government has preferred broad social explanations and solutions for crime. Now, a new survey is trying to reveal one of our key public-safety factors: Unreported crime. It should show how much worse our crime problem is than we know. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

Scoop: 13 US airports will see ICE agents at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints on Monday, a source with knowledge of the plans told CNN. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Column: Pima County Sheriff Nanos's questionable responses to Nancy Guthrie's disappearance and the revelation he obscured a poor work history in El Paso justify the effort to recall him. The voters who favored him by 495 votes in 2024 may not want him as sheriff anymore. tucson.com/news/local/c...

Nancy Guthrie's three children, including NBC "Today" host Savannah Guthrie, sent a new message Saturday to the Tucson community through KVOA News Channel 4.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is again abusing his power, this time to threaten outlets reporting on the war in Iran. Newsrooms and lawmakers must push back. The U.S. doesn’t have state-run media, even if Carr and Trump wish it did. FPF's Caitlin Vogus writes:

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

Marc Andreessen: "The unexamined life is the only life worth living"

Column: Usually, Tucson Electric Power faces limited opposition to its proposed rate increases, leading to a comfortable result for them. This time, TEP wants a 14% increase and is facing a frontal challenge of the profits these monopolies make from captive customers. tucson.com/news/local/s...

An innovative idea emerged last year: Tucson would become home to a baseball team playing in the Mexican Pacific winter league. In the end, the federal government would not issue the visas that would allow the team to play here. It was just one of several unlucky events. tucson.com/sports/subsc...

Journalists widely reported on the deposition videos of former DOGE staffers because they're important and newsworthy. Ordering them removed can't be squared with the First Amendment. The court should immediately lift this unconstitutional prior restraint.

wow! Rand Paul begins Markwayne Mullin's hearing by confronting him about comments he made describing Paul as a "freakin' snake" & "celebrating" Paul getting assaulted "I wonder if someone who applauds political violence is right to lead an agency that has struggled to accept proper use of force"

Fun to see how the erroneous predictions line up with how the crypto super PACs were spending. I've spoken before about how Polymarket — despite its PR claims about being more accurate than polls — is often a better signal of what crypto holders WANT to have happen.

Really great reporting from @sergioolmos.bsky.social and team documenting how the same federal agents have moved from city to city over the past year to inflict violence on the public.

The tech chudlords do not recognize anger, resentment and a desire for dominance as feelings. No one on Earth needs a gender studies course more than these guys.

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

In a cool twist, I was able to give Salman Rushdie a copy of the section of today’s paper with this column in it. Rushdie was hanging out in the authors’ hospitality area, and an author I was about to interview onstage happened to have a copy of today’s Star. He let me give part of it to Rushdie.

Column: In February 1989, a Tucson Muslim leader’s fate became tragically tied to that of author Salman Rushdie As I write this, I’m waiting to hear Rushdie speak at the Tucson Festival of Books. The Tucson man, Rashad Khalifa, was assassinated in January 1990. tucson.com/news/local/c...

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Political Notebook: The lack of an alternative to RTA Next was one of the key factors that drove Propositions 418 and 419 to a surprisingly comfortable victory this week. Plus, more on TUSD's borrowing from a workers' comp account to pay for a new headquarters. tucson.com/news/local/g...

This is so dangerous. These are the people killing academic scholarship. Here he explains that a grant focused on females in the Holocaust is DEI because it "focuses on Jewish cultures" ⬇️

here’s a crazy fact: more Americans have been killed in disputes over parking spots than on the NYC subway this year

Tucson was supposed to host Iran's national soccer team for about two weeks in June before their first World Cup game. Tucson would have treated the squad with the respect due any national team for an international event like this, not the malice that Pres. Trump is expressing.

So close to getting it. Over time, ALL these models have a chance of escaping their developers and becoming independent. None of them can be trusted with decisionmaking in war.

The FBI thinks you are fucking stupid. Iran has zero capability to cross the Pacific and sea-launch a drone attack on California. This is too fucking dumb for me to comment on further.

Banned.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Column: Tucson Unified School District borrowed $16.7 million from its insurance accounts and spent down $40 million in savings. Now it is one of Arizona’s school districts in highest financial risk. Decisions like these helped put them in this current position. tucson.com/news/local/c...

Again, reporting by my colleague @emilyhamer.bsky.social has led to criminal charges being brought against a man accused of sexual abusing boys at a Tucson church. This is the third criminal case resulting from reporting that Emily and I started publishing in Nov. 2024. tucson.com/news/local/a...

Is one of them Markwayne Mullin?

Political Notebook: The pro-RTA Next campaign, fueled by construction-industry dollars, has spent more than $1.3 million more than the puny anti-RTA Next campaign. That and more on Props. 418 and 419 as the window for Pima County voters to cast their ballot closes. tucson.com/news/local/s...

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?