Tim Steller

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Local news operations could do that. Different sort of event, but years ago when Asarco miners went on strike here in southern Arizona, we ran a box every day in the business section with some basic stats, like the number of days on strike, and new developments.

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.

Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
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I'll be at the Tucson Festival Books next month appearing on three panels about tech power, democracy, and whistleblowing (alongside Reality Winner).
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Taking responsibility for your actions is a tool of Western Imperialist hegemony

Bad Bunny: TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA

We don’t know 100% what happened. Maybe “apparently abducted” would have been better.

Tim Steller's column: Spotlight on Tucson exposes sheriff, global gossips For Star subscribers: Once again, a sensational crime has made Tucson the focus of global attention. That's not a good thing, as a local family's suffering is compounded by the

Column: Once again, a local family and Tucson itself are the focus of intense attention due to a sensational crime. Overall it sucks to be in this position again. It's also exposed our sheriff and the careless desire to turn a member of the victim's family into a suspect.
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Judge strikes down several Arizona abortion restrictions A series of state laws restricting abortion run afoul of a constitutional amendment approved in 2024 by voters, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Greg Como said in a ruling released

Judge rules that a whole bunch of restrictions on abortion are illegal and unenforceable in wake of voters approving Prop 129 and putting a "fundamental right" to the procedure in the AZ Constitution. More details coming. tucson.com/news/state-r...

Political Notebook: South Tucson delegation made Colombia visit For Star subscribers: The tiny town of 5,000 sent three elected officials to an international conference in Colombia last month. Why? Find that and more on RTA, DHS and TUSD

Political Notebook: In late January, a delegation of 3 elected officials from little South Tucson visited Colombia for an emergency gathering of global progressives. The mayor even met Colombia's president. Learn was that was about and more in today's Political Notebook.

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Who Is Nancy Guthrie? Inside the life of Savannah Guthrie’s mother and Tucson community leader Learn about Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, and her life in Tucson. From her family, career at the University of Arizona, and faith, to her role as a

Learn about Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, and her life in Tucson. From her family, career at the University of Arizona, and faith, to her role as a

If nothing else, the files give a great window into how power works in this country and world.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Here's the Instagram video by Savannah Guthrie, Annie Guthrie and Camron Guthrie, sending a message to their mother and her potential captors.
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Savannah Guthrie to abductor: 'We're ready to talk' The Guthrie siblings took to social media Wednesday to plead for the return of their 84-year-old mother, Nancy, who went missing from her Tucson home over the weekend.

The three children of Nancy Guthrie have released a video to their mom, about their mom, and to her potential abductors. Guthrie, 84, the mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing from her Tucson-area home for almost four days.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

That's kind of bizarre.

This is so clearly the game.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Guys they are really, really not winning

It sucks what they’re doing to our country, and my city especially

God only knows how much damage they’ll do before they’re stopped, much of it irreversible

But they are very much not winning

Maybe Germany, Spain, Japan. The concept was conceived as a way of explaining Nazi Germany.

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.

Facts that bear repeating.

The idea: The repression and violence that we use in foreign countries and against foreign migrants eventually are used at home against us. When we run out of frontiers and conquests, when we wall off our borders, the security apparatus we've built doesn't just disappear. It is turned against us.

The free-roaming turkeys of Saint Paul, Minnesota:

- are enormous
- don’t know where they’re going
- have no plans or motivations
- don’t understand roads
- or anything at all, really

I recently learned the phrase "imperial boomerang." Lately the idea hasbeen discussed often, not using that phrase. It's part of Greg Grandin's point in his Pulitzer Prize winning book "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America." We are feeling the boomerang.

No, corrected it in the non-paper version. Add 000. In other words, $139 million

Tim Steller's column: RTA won't fix potholes, would rehabilitate roads For Star subscribers: The ads saying the new regional transportation plan will fix Tucson potholes are misleading. RTA Next won't do that, but it puts almost $200 million toward rebuilding

Column: Tucson-area residents are seeing pervasive ads that suggest the new regional transportation plan will fix potholes. That's misleading. But if voters pass RTA Next and its tax extension, a sizable chunk of money would go to major-road rehabilitation in the city.
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Has anyone seen a piece about the new Epstein release showing his involvement with the global nationalist project and its billionaire supporters? I've seen dribs and drabs suggesting this but nothing that brings the evidence together. Here's Epstein's 2016 exchange with Peter Thiel about Brexit.