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Tucson, AZtheintercept.com/staff/ryan-dev…Joined March 2009

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“I think it’s a mistake to expand Title 42, one, because it will make the humanitarian crisis worse, and two, because the far-right extremists in the Republican Party are not engaging in a policy debate,” told reporters.
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"It's a clown car of absurdities here. The people that are coming up with these ideas are totally misinformed about what really is going on." How Montana's hard right political turn shattered a biologist's faith in the state to recover grizzly bears.
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I just returned from Montana where a new legislative session is underway with a historic Republican supermajority. I spoke with famed bear biologist Chris Servheen about how the state's lurch to the right changed his mind about delisting grizzlies
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Killer reporting on a wild and evolving story.
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🚨🚨🚨SCOOP🚨🚨🚨 For @thisisinsider, I talked to former FBI agent Charles McGonigal's ex-lover about his cash-fueled double life. Here is what she told me... businessinsider.com/charles-mcgoni
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If you aren’t already, follow for coverage of a truly historic trial opening up in NYC. This a big one.
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NEW: Mexico’s former top cop is on trial in New York. Genaro García Luna, the "architect" of the drug war, is accused of working with organized crime. Will the U.S. government be implicated? Here's what we may expect from the trial: interc.pt/3iOucRb
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Documenting the shipping container wall being removed from the Coronado National Forest yesterday -- this time standing on the Mexico side. Big news: work crews have removed 257 containers out of a total 923 in a week. At this rate they should all be out by February.
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Latest on the shipping container border wall mess in southern Arizona: Coronado National Forest has just issued a temporary area closure notice starting January 3, 2023 through March 15, 2023 to begin removing the containers that the governor illegally installed.
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This is an incredible account by and of the lengths Italian authorities have gone to target, infiltrate and prosecute humanitarian aid organizations rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean. US-Mexico border parallels abound.
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If you haven’t following Arizona’s “shipping container wall” debacle, please read this story of spontaneous resistance and solidarity by , and check out the accompanying thread:
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“How Neighbors in the Borderlands Fought Back Against Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s Illegal Wall — And Won.” A story I’ve been working on the past couple months — about people with nobody to count on but each other who achieved something nobody expected theintercept.com/2022/12/14/dou
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“How Neighbors in the Borderlands Fought Back Against Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s Illegal Wall — And Won.” A story I’ve been working on the past couple months — about people with nobody to count on but each other who achieved something nobody expected
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At the depot, it looked like the governor’s contractors were trying to get containers out in a hurry and left a huge muddy mess. When we arrived the department of transportation was closing a lane to clean it up
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At this very moment, the governor's contractors are hurriedly moving scores of containers that they've been keeping in a vacant lot near the border, north to a state prison complex on the edge of Tucson. first noted the activity yesterday.
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On Tuesday, along I-10 in Southern Arizona, dozens, if not hundreds, of shipping containers were hauled one-by-one westbound along the highway from unincorporated Cochise County to the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson. twitter.com/UR_Ninja/statu…
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Some significant breaking developments on Arizona's shipping container saga. After nearly two months of inaction and just hours after our story published, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against the governor over his illegal container wall.
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How a group of locals, enviros & protesters shut down Ducey’s illegal boxcar border wall. ’s reporting for is intimate & piercing. Reads almost like a novel. Deveraux was on scene day after day. This is a rare gem of journalism.
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