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TUSD is exploring a ballot measure for more school funding. What’s on the table 👉 azluminaria.org/2025/05/27/tus…

Sen. Mark Kelly and Pima County are working to convince Castelion, a startup missile manufacturer founded by former Space-X employees, to come to the Tucson area azluminaria.org/2025/05/27/a-n…

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Tucson residents are cutting down Arundo donax to revive a hidden stream in Tanque Verde. Their work is making the water flow again. 📖: azluminaria.org/2025/05/29/tuc…

Is the Wells Fargo building Tucson’s new downtown library? County supervisors will vote next week. azluminaria.org/2025/05/29/pim…

‘It feels like a trap’: Families devastated as San Antonio court hearings end in ICE arrests ksat.com/news/local/202…

Six gray whales have died in the San Francisco Bay area in just the past week alone, bringing the total number of stranded whales to 15 so far this year as authorities rush to figure out what could be causing the sudden deaths. abcnews.link/uTf34Xi

“#Gaza: a war on children. In addition to heavy bombardments, starvation is threatening the future of the children in Gaza. What’s urgently needed is a political will to allow the UN and partners to provide assistance at scale without hindrance or interruption. Allow us to do

Late on Wednesday evening, Elon Musk announced his exit from the government. “It is hard to think of any other unelected official who has done so much harm to the U.S. government in such a short period of time,” Susan Glasser writes. nyer.cm/YmLHI40

There is a gap between “what the Trump administration says about its mass deportation campaign in court, where it is required to tell the truth, and what officials say in public as they attempt to blunt criticism,” writes Nick Miroff: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

The selling of the presidency is the most successful business venture of Donald Trump’s career, David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic Daily. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

I speak here about the humanitarian crisis facing Gaza, as well as Israel’s decision to starve Palestinians and deny them supplies to treat their diseases on top of the bombs already falling on them. Give it a watch!

'Well, we all are going to die': Joni Ernst spars with town hall crowd over Medicaid ow.ly/zP9V106auVi

NEW: Of 238 men deported to the prison in #ElSalvador, DHS data shows: -130 are labeled as having no U.S. criminal histories aside from immigration violations; -32 had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.; - 6 of those were violent crimes. propublica.org/article/trump-…

The largest Medicaid cuts in US history, which, if signed into law, would sever healthcare for the poorest Americans in order to offset massive tax cuts for the wealthy, have a curious new defense: “Well, we all are going to die.” motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

Tremendous impact. 🎉🎉 Prompted by Connecticut Mirror ProPublica Investigation, Connecticut Legislature Approves Towing Law Reforms propublica.org/article/connec… Ginny Monk Dave Altimari

The Dixon Trail neighborhood in Escondido, just north of San Diego, California, is the first in the US to be fully fire mitigated above the state’s requirements to prevent wildfire spread

California House Democrats demand that the National Weather Service restore some terminated workers and begin hiring new forecasters after it halted around-the-clock operations at its Sacramento and Hanford weather forecasting offices. nbcnews.com/science/scienc…

The whirlwind four months of Elon Musk clashing with officials and wielding literal and metaphoric chain saws in Washington had left his businesses in a weakened financial state — and some of President Trump’s advisers are happy to send him off. wapo.st/3SpXgwF