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Arizona Republic reporters to strike for 2 days to protest low pay, unfair working conditions tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
For two days, unionized reporters at the Arizona Republic and 24 other newsrooms and across the country will walk off the job in order to send a message to parent company Gannett about unfair working conditions.

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Border Patrol agents kill tribal member on Tohono O'odham Nation tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A member of the Tohono O'odham Nation was shot and killed in front of his home by U.S. Border Patrol agents Thursday night. Raymond Mattia was fired at 38 times, family members said.

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Judge finds against Kari Lake, reaffirms Hobbs was elected Arizona governor tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A judge rejected on Monday claims by failed GOP candidate Kari Lake of misconduct in the 2022 election, again affirming that Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs was elected Arizona governor last November.

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Short circuit: Tucson voters rebel against TEP deal, now it's time to get to work tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Prop. 412 — an election that would have allowed Tucson Electric the continued right to access public rights of way for repairs — died a sputtering, sparkly death Tuesday. All sides have until 2026 to come up with a new deal.

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The ugly truth behind 'We Buy Ugly Houses' tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
HomeVestors of America has developed a system for snapping up problem properties, but while part of the company mission is a promise not to take advantage of anyone who doesn’t understand the true value of their home, franchisees use deception to pursue rock-bottom prices.

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Judd Legum

Elon Musk, who claimed to be a "free speech absolutist," is censoring tweets in Turkey ahead of critical elections at the request of the autocrats currently in power

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Wednesday deadline to mail back ballots in Tucson's Prop. 412 special election tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Wednesday is the suggested deadline for voters to return ballots by mail in Tucson's special election to approve or refuse a new franchise agreement with Tucson Electric Power.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D.

Sister Senators: In SC, the only female senators (3 R's, 1 Ind, 1 Dem) as a block are refusing to allow the Republican supermajority legislature to pass a near-total abortion ban. An abortion ban is about controlling women and they will not be controlled.
news.yahoo.com/unexpected-wome

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Heidi Li Feldman

Early indications that the shooter in #Allen was a neo-nazi. washingtonpost.com/nation/2023 #GunViolence

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<snapping fingers while humming>

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Nearly 25% of Arizona Daily Star newsroom laid off tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
From the top editor on down, the Arizona Daily Star staff was cut by nearly one-quarter on Monday, as the newspaper's corporate chain owners told local journalists they were being laid off.

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For Tim Butler of the Psychedelic Furs, blood is thicker than rock'n'roll tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Four decades after the Psychedelic Furs' debut, co-founding member Tim Butler reflects on the road out of Middlesex, England. Most well-known in the U.S. for the the theme for "Pretty in Pink," the band is back after a long break, and has an upcoming stop in Tucson.

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Local rightwing talk radio talker JT Harris wins Az Supreme Court appeal in defamation case filed by GOP candidate Daniel McCarthy. Overblown hyperbole FTW.

azcourts.gov/Portals/0/Opinion

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Cory Doctorow

Today's a big day for users of @creativecommons images: #Flickr has declared zero tolerance for #CopyleftTrolls, predators who exploit a bug in out-of-date versions of the CC licenses in order to threaten good-faith users of CC images who make minor errors in the way they credit the images.

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Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org

RT @SawyerHackett
Holy shit. This is the guy who Greg Abbott has promised to pardon for murder.

This is ONE PAGE of the 76 just released. Here, Daniel Perry says “I will only shoot the [protestors] in front and push the pedal to the metal.”

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Tucson Sentinel

Teachers at Tucson's BASIS charter school overwhelmingly vote to form union tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Updated: By a 2-1 margin, teachers at Tucson's acclaimed BASIS Tucson North school voted to unionize Wednesday evening, making the Northeast Side charter the first in Arizona to have staff organize.

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Rex Scott: Schools owe a special duty to trans kids, who are too often taught to despise themselves tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
"Every adult owes every child the right to feel protected and cherished. If we do anything less, we are harming these kids. We must show that we have learned from a painful past that 'otherizing' any child is dangerous, shameful and wrong." — Pima County Supervisor Rex Scott

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T. T. Perry

ChatGPT is a single-player language game with a computer opponent. ;)

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Tucson Sentinel

Teachers at Tucson's BASIS charter school overwhelmingly vote to form union tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
By a 2-1 margin, teachers at Tucson's acclaimed BASIS Tucson North school voted to unionize Wednesday evening, making the Northeast Side charter the first in Arizona to have staff organize.

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3) & how long until he/she realizes they're not getting paid...

Via @emptywheel:

I feel like every time #Trump gets a new lawyer, legal journalists should secretly write down their prediction for,
1) how long it'll be until Trump blows off this lawyer's instructions
2) whether this lawyer will be among the ones who gets his phones seized

& to be clear, today's new #lawyer is Todd Blanche. Joe Tacopina might be lucky enough to be sidelined before he gets in too deep.
t.co/GcYVSAKmrL

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