Tim Steller

Column: The US government is playing a Tucson judge for a fool. They are flying ICE planes over and even into the central African country that the federal judge has ordered an Arizona man removed from. But they are finding excuses to avoid picking the man up. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Column: Voters face another long list of state propositions when they open their ballots. There are two main reasons why we're getting so many referrals from the state Legislature and one simple way to handle them. I run down all eight for those still waiting to vote. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

He is remarkably consistent in supporting alleged perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence and attacking their victims

Meteorologists say they've never seen a tropical storm so incredibly off-putting and lacking in charisma.

Column: The measure that caps Pima County's spending may be antiquated, established in 1980. But it limits spending more concretely than just electing supervisors every four years can, especially with a Dem super-majority with an ambitious social agenda. tucson.com/news/local/s...

YOU CAN SEE YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING

It's official: The bill to upgrade Chiricahua National Monument to national park status was signed Tuesday by President Donald Trump.

NEW: From an airplane, Aristides Fernandez Garcia—one of the Cubans ICE expelled to the Central African Republic—says he’s on his way to Bolivia via Ethiopia, Turkey and Colombia. He thanks supporters & the other third-country nationals in CAR. “God willing, soon we’re all going to go to the US.”

when critics of bari weiss say that she is not a journalist, we mean that literally. she does not respect or even appear to understand the values of the profession. everything for her is propaganda. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

Column: When the New York Times looked for an Arizona politician victimized by threats, they found one in Tucson. Locals know, though, that she and her supporters have been perpetrators as well as victims. "These are total provocateurs," one political rival said. tucson.com/news/local/s...

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A leading University of Arizona cancer researcher, Rachna Shroff, spent most of her career studying gastrointestinal cancers and trying to find cures. She has now died after battling a form

Column: Even to a sheriff born in Tucson in the 1860s, it was clear why public executions were a bad idea. The fact that this is lost on the U.S. secretary of defense today says something bad about him and something good about long ago Pima County Sheriff Nabor Pacheco. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Dario Amodei of Anthropic is Very Normal and Can Be Trusted With the Future of Humanity: “…in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death.” blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/m...

The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.

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This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

"Rogue AI agents acted on their own" is the new "officer involved shooting"

Column: Whatever the U of Arizona does to cut down on hazing and other abuses at fraternities, it will have to be different from before to have a long-term effect. Abuses have gone on for decades, despite crackdowns, and are rooted in twisted efforts to promote manliness. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Political Notebook: The divided vote over a big raise for Tucson's city manager reflects a political divide that may open up in next year's mayoral race. Plus, more on the funding and political alliances for and against Prop. 421, the TEP franchise agreement vote. tucson.com/news/local/g...

Crypto is spending $30 million against Sherrod Brown, who is running for Senate in Ohio. Give him a follow and watch this race. It's a glimpse of our future.

i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.

imagine how triggered the libs will be when I roll coal on them using russian diesel

I can’t help but notice that ICE keeps claiming that people it shoots were trying to ram the agents with a car, and then video keeps proving that’s a lie.

The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Column: This border sheriff isn't a drug-war believer anymore, but he plays one on TV. Santa Cruz County's David Hathaway had a career in DEA and stars in ads for Attorney General Kris Mayes, but his own views are skeptical of U.S. drug-war and border policies. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Funny how Marco Rubio tries to differentiate himself from all the other children of recent immigrants who are now getting removed from the country by the master he now serves. Rubio, you see, is a descendent of *the West*

This is the journalist who first covered Ahmed’s story back in July, and she’s done admirable ongoing coverage since then. Give her a follow. 🙏

"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

The hammer has come down on fraternities at the University of Arizona. Amid ongoing reports of misconduct, the university suspended all fraternity activities. There have been surges of fraternity misbehavior before, but I don't know of anything like this ever happening. tucson.com/news/local/e...

the tech industry is about to invent books

The University of Arizona will freeze tuition and fees for all undergraduate and graduate students next year.

Column: Some merchants are demanding changes to the parking setup on Tucson's historic boheman row, North Fourth Avenue. There are problems with the meters not working on the avenue, but parking is not the root of the problem, and fixing the meters won't fix Fourth. tucson.com/news/local/s...

It was this month, October, in 1959 when Robert Zimmerman started using the stage name Bob Dillon at the Ten o’clock Scholar in Minneapolis. He’d just arrived from Hibbing for his first year at the University of Minnesota and was trying to make a (new) name for himself at the folk clubs of Dinkytown

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people

Column: The cooler weather means that ideal tree-planting season is arriving in Tucson. Expert gardeners say it's time to stop planting citrus and other water-sucking, non-native fruit trees. The summer heat has just grown too hot and winter is too warm. tucson.com/instagram/ar...

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

For my nearly 30 years at the Arizona Daily Star, @tucson.com, USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) has been a major presence, most recently as half-owner. Now, finally, USA Today Co. has acquired the Star in a trade of papers with Lee Enterprises. I'm feeling hopeful. tucson.com/news/local/a...

Column: As Pres. Trump becomes a liability to Republican candidates. Rep. Juan Ciscomani is proclaiming how bipartisan he has been. It's only true if you leave aside the most important votes he has cast, on issues like Medicaid and food aid, tariffs and the Iran war. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Independent analyses say Rep. Juan Ciscomani has been bipartisan and effective. But those measures prize small moves and miss the big moments, when Ciscomani sided with Trump.

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

Gov. Katie Hobbs is siding with the Tohono O'odham Nation in its bid to at least delay work on a border wall the federal government wants to build along its

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.