J Sutton

J Sutton

@jlsaz.bsky.social

Tucson, bikes, water, plants, law

515 followers230 following1.3K posts

*internal screaming*

Sam@samd.bsky.social

we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water

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Replying to @coffeequeen1.bsky.social

Democrats need to study the hell out of My Cousin Vinny and embrace their inner Joe Pesci from that movie. Keep things simple and direct, right to the point. They lose people by talking too much or doing too much explaining.

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In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

law.berkeley.eduArtificial Intelligence PolicyEffective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

Michael Deeley didn't have an airplane ready to flee the country in case the 60ft jump didn't work just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open)@hulkhoquinn.bsky.social

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

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Replying to @espiers.bsky.social

As for the men wondering why women wait so long to come forward: because it's humiliating, you dumb fucks. Not because we did anything wrong but because of the way society views survivors and the fact that we're always put on trial too if we report it--as if we're also the perpetrators

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TBH, I think Steve is giving the Court too much credit here. It's not at all clear to me that they've shown up with a fire extinguisher as opposed to, say, a bag of marshmallows and some hot dogs.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social

Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

There are a lot better ways to spend this money.

KJZZ Phoenix@kjzz.org

Arizona lawmakers are tripling the size of the state’s legal fund for potential lawsuits about sharing water from the Colorado River. The new state budget will add $6 million to the pool of money, which was first set up in 2025, bringing the fund to a total of $9 million.

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The University of Arizona has recently released a new report highlighting the huge impacts of tribal agriculture throughout the Grand Canyon State — including 2,300 jobs and $750 million in total economic output statewide.

kjzz.orgArizona’s tribal agriculture industry contributes $750M in economic output, new report saysThe University of Arizona has recently released a new report highlighting the huge impacts of tribal agriculture throughout the Grand Canyon State — including 2,300 jobs and $750 million in total econ...

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Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a study identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability. (Published July 2025)

propublica.org“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global ThreatA new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

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Republican partisans on the Supreme Court have gone from putting their thumb on the scale, as in the days of Bush v. Gore or even Citizens United, to setting their whole ass on it.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: SCOTUS acts immediately on Alabama redistricting, vacating earlier decisions blocking the 2023 map and sending cases back to the district court — over the objection of Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Walking through the park, I overheard a five-ish-year-old girl say, “The birds are ringing,” & her mom gently laughed, & then the girl said, “The bird KEEPS ringing, Mom,” & her Mom said, lightheartedly, “Well, you better pick it up,” & then the girl paused, looked at her shoes, & started crying.

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yet another day of the Supreme Court right-wing majority dragging us back to the 1960’s 🙄 Equality is not a difficult concept. #VotingRights #Dissent

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Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

Can we do the ACC next?

Phoenix New Times@phoenixnewtimes.com

Turning Point invested heavily in a pro-industry slate of candidates for the massive utility, and mostly lost. Read the full story: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-srp-elections-big-loss-turning-point-candidates-40658264/

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you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

This is lawyer for "wtf are you talking about." Straight to his face. I have a new hero.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Alito then tries to distinguish between WKA's parents vs. other Chinese laborers blocked, suggesting that's why their kids got citizenship. Wang: "No, Justice Alito, I don't think that's a plausible explanation"

I am not sure why we aren't panicking yet. [Dog / fire / "this is fine" meme?]

Phoenix New Times@phoenixnewtimes.com

Cuts are coming to Arizona’s water supply. We just don’t know yet how bad they’ll be, and now the state is lawyering up in preparation for a long legal battle over water rights. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-colorado-river-water-battle-what-to-know-40622532/

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NEW at SCOTUS: emergency religious-liberty application from Apache plaintiffs seeking to halt a land swap for a copper mine that would destroy a sacred indigenous site in Arizona

Immigration law is "a maze of hyper-technical statutes and regulations that engender waste, delay, and confusion for the Government and petioners alike." (And that's from the 2d Cir in 2002. Things have not improved, to put it mildly.) Scrap the INA. Start over.

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Watching the US argue Resolution doesn't have to pay us, the public, for the massive amounts of copper it wants to extract from under our public land.

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vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

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The DCCC is paying for a mobile billboard in Tucson calling Congressman Juan Ciscomani - “The Congressman Who Stole Health Care” based on his vote for the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Let me know if you see in the wild.