I don’t ever want to hear anyone say “the raids aren't as bad.” this is the last 2 days. lataco.com/daily-memo-d...

Nearly a quarter of HIV-related deaths in Maricopa County involved people who were housing insecure, a @lookoutnews.bsky.social investigation of medical examiner data found www.lookoutnews.org/lookout-repo...

The number of children in Nevada taken from their families due to housing has been rising since eviction moratoria and pandemic supports went away nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/03/h...

@nodesertdatacenter.com has been one of the most energetic and fast-growing organizing efforts I've covered - this summer it was a loose group of people opposed to a water-heavy development, and its closing out 2025 as a national model for fighting data centers azluminaria.org/2025/07/21/t...

Nearly 1400 people have been ordered into Pima County’s Restoration to Competency program to see if they can stand trial That can mean more than a year in jail, waiting. My colleague @jwashing.bsky.social writes about when jail becomes a mental health facility azluminaria.org/2025/11/24/w...

Today, Tucson City Council is discussing a proposed ordinance that would create a new offense of "drug-related loitering". Indications that could trigger an arrest for this include officer knowledge of a prior drug conviction, or the so-called "fent fold." tucsonaz.hylandcloud.com/221agendaonl...

A new ordinance under consideration in Tucson would allow police to arrest people who raise a “reasonable suspicion that they are about to engage” in public drug use azluminaria.org/2025/11/18/a...

NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...

Rest in power to Sister JoAnn Persch - I met her at the Broadview detention center circa 2010-ish, where she was among a group that lay down in front of a deportation bus blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/s...

Wrote about the contentious Project Blue — a massive proposed data center in Tucson AZ — for my first feature with @theguardian.com! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nice to see homies at national outlets running full features on this story. Homies at local indie nonprofit outlet @azluminaria.org have been keeping a steady vigilance on this story, which has led to greater community engagement, which led to greater national significance. A virtuous news cycle.

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

The non-disclosure agreement also says the county will not share the name of the final user for Project Blue with county personnel unless it is legally obligated.

From a mother evicted and grieving her brother, to a woman rotating between shelters and her car, to families in a mobile home park with failing power — Tucson residents show what it takes to survive in extreme heat

The latest on efforts to build a data center in the Sonoran Desert:

Pima County's jail healthcare provider has been in consistent violation of certain performance indicators over the past year, @jwashing.bsky.social reports azluminaria.org/2025/09/11/s...

While President Trump calls opposition to the Resolution Copper mine that would destroy a sacred site for Western Apache people “anti-American,” I have the actual details on what’s happening and why the mine is so controversial. insideclimatenews.org/news/1908202...

Immigration enforcement in America's second largest city: "The masked agents pull up quickly. They jump out of unmarked vans or trucks. They wear blue jeans or battle fatigues. They approach Latino men, at times yelling and carrying assault rifles." calmatters.org/investigatio...

AI-processing data centers require massive amounts of energy and water, and relatively low power prices, state tax incentives, and lax regulations are attracting them to the West, threatening water supplies and straining the grid.

Local reporting uncovered Amazon was behind the water-guzzling data center slated for the desert. Residents fought against the data center. Today, the city council unanimously voted against Project Blue. If you care about local journalism that drives impact, consider donating to @azluminaria.org!

Responding to vehement opposition and public service journalism, Tucson's mayor/council unanimously vote to reject a mega data center project from Amazon. Tucson ain't Eddington. Read @yanak.bsky.social‬'s latest from city hall. azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...

The Tucson city council unanimously rejected the Project Blue data center today. That comes after weeks of dogged organizing plus our little team @azluminaria.org going hard on helping Tucson understand who was behind this project and its impact on our community azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...

My latest on Project Blue: The mega data center has more site options and will be built “regardless of what the City of Tucson decides,” said one council member Tuesday azluminaria.org/2025/08/05/t...

The Trump administration is using federal jails and facilities as well as reopening shuttered facilities to detain a historic number of immigrants, the Marshall Project team reports www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/01/t...

The Trump administration’s deportation machine has made women invisible targets. If you’ve ever wondered, like me, what happens to all the women ICE detains:

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident. She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

More on Tucson's Project Blue, the Amazon data center project cloaked in secrecy for years. @yanak.bsky.social and I pieced together more of the timeline, finding that City of Tucson officials moved to annex the land BEFORE the first public hearing on the project. azluminaria.org/2025/07/28/c...

Averaged out, a journalist has been killed every 3 days since the conflict began.

Nearly 70% of mobile home parks running their own water systems violated safe drinking water rules in the past five years apnews.com/article/mobi...

So important to remember when writing about homelessness: In no state today can a minimum-wage worker afford a two-bedroom apartment. thebaffler.com/latest/invis...

For much of this summer, a public process to bring a massive data center to Tucson moved ahead w/o revealing the company behind the center Now, through public records, we can share that the company is Amazon Web Services by @jwashing.bsky.social and I azluminaria.org/2025/07/21/a...

🚨Scoop🚨 The mysterious giant data center planned for Tucson is named in a 2023 doc we obtained from Pima County: Amazon Web Services. The data center—H20 and electricity intensive—has sparked fierce public pushback Latest w/ @yanak.bsky.social for @azluminaria.org azluminaria.org/2025/07/21/a...

"“We have this list of people that the U.S. government has not formally acknowledged in any real way and we pretty much have no idea if they are in CECOT or someplace else" www.404media.co/flight-manif...

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

Some highlights from my conversation with Tucson's housing director: - Much of the affordable housing is manufactured housing - The city stopped building affordable housing basically from 2013 to 2023 and just restarted - There are simply not enough houses azluminaria.org/2025/07/18/5...

Important reporting by @torigantz.bsky.social on the bills based on project 2025-esque model legislation and signed by AZ gov Hobbs www.lookoutnews.org/policies-fav...

As the Texas flood clean up continues, I'm thinking about how after the tragedy of a natural disaster, its often immigrant workers that come in to clean up and are left to fend for themselves amid loosely regulated worker safety rules by @mizamudio.bsky.social publicintegrity.org/environment/...

At Tucson Unified School District, $6 million in federal funding for everything from teacher training to after-school programs and English language instruction is on pause as a federal grant review is underway, @shannonconner.bsky.social reports azluminaria.org/2025/07/03/t...

Following the passage of the budget bill, more than 55% of Arizona hospitals could soon be operating in the red, and some could close their doors altogether, healthcare advocates warn www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

The U.S. had 675,000 people internally displaced by conflict and disasters in 2022, per the International Displacement Monitoring Center api.internal-displacement.org/sites/defaul...

The Senate Republican bill would cut SNAP by $186 billion - 22% by the final year. This would be by far the largest SNAP cut in history and would rip food assistance away from millions of households, including families with kids and veterans.

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

People living in South Tucson, a small town tucked inside the city limits of Tucson, have dealt with water contamination since the 1950s. @cacuella.bsky.social reports on ongoing efforts to address the issue azluminaria.org/2025/06/24/f...

'It's so terrifying to go to court because you have no idea if you've been selected today. It's like playing Russian roulette.' @bgirledukate.bsky.social on the people arrested when they attend their immigration court hearings beyondthebordernews.substack.com/p/heres-what...

The regular utility protections dont apply to residents in master-meter mobile home parks, which means a mistaken utility bill can lead to residents losing their homes My latest on the reality of living in one of Pima County's last types of affordable housing: azluminaria.org/2025/06/25/b...

On the men disappeared into CECOT: Peñaloza’s mother said her son is hard-working, principled, and respectful. He’s a trained refrigerator technician. He’s a good cook who can dress up humble meals like vegetarian arepas or rice with tomato sauce www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...

1. In the wake of Trump threats, multiple trans clinics in safe states have stopped providing care. Parents feel abandoned as governors apply no pressure. One therapist reported an uptick in suicidal ideation among those denied care. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

A recovery court set to open with federal funds in an area hard hit by the opioid crisis has been stalled since a grant was cut. One look at the ways federal funding cuts are rolling back harm reduction work on the ground: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/06/17/n...

A look at the rules, enforcement tactics and ordinances that already shape where people without shelter can — and can’t — rest in Tucson as the city weighs increasing enforcement azluminaria.org/2025/06/13/t...