ABOVE: Friends, coworkers and family watch as U.S. immigration officials raid several Mississippi food processing plants, including this Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. The early morning raids were part of a large-scale operation targeting owners as well as undocumented employees. (Photo: Rogelio V. Solis, AP) As Rachel Maddow says, “Watch what … Read more
Does the leadership of I.C.E. have any decency? According to the Washington Post, they apparently knew where the close to 700 illegal immigrants that they arrested on Wednesday, worked in Mississippi. CNN published a piece showing photographs of I.C.E. agents at some of these facilities where the illegals worked. Instead, they decided to arrest many … Read more
Tucker Carlson is a privileged white rich boy who got his start in media only because of his father’s extensive connections — Richard Warner Carlson is a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles who was also president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America. He … Read more
Above: Texas Rangers parade down Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, circa 1916. Photograph: Courtesy Robert Runyon Photograph Collection. Life and death on the border: effects of century-old murders still felt in Texas. Many reporters have described the recent mass shooting in El Paso, Texas as the worst modern-day massacre of Mexican-Americans in American history. The qualifier … Read more
The current occupant of the White House has been referred to by this writer as: The 2016 Popular Vote Loser (Hillary Clinton received almost three million more votes from the people) The KKK endorsed Candidate (because they supported him in 2016) Individual One (stemming from the Michael Cohen case) Tiny (Stormy Daniels description) Well, the … Read more