Heartbreaking. And an indictment of our country in so many ways

A public service (immigration enforcement) makes normal life impossible.
The right wing tells a story about undocumented immigrants exploiting America, but the truth is closer to the opposite. They perform the tasks we won't while we systematically deny them health care, retirement, or normalcy.

My family is like yours, and for sure the ones who came later were (at best) looked askance at by the ones who came before. “Heritage” means nothing except racism and a desire to be the one ‘inheriting’ rights, privilege, and wealth

Incuriosity about the past, and an unlimited willingness to reinvent the wheel, is one of the most puzzling intellectual pathologies

One of those cases - oddly frequent - where a non-Muslim seems drawn to the extremism and violence that the prevailing culture tells them is part of Islam.

My very fun 20’s (mid 1980s). When Prince played the Armory. When the Folklife Festival was a huge event.

The abrupt moves left aid workers and communities with no time to find other sources of funding, food or medicine. Political appointee Tim Meisburger told senior USAID staff that the strategy was “shock and awe.” (He declined to comment) 6/x

Safe enough for many, but not for gay people, or impoverished foreigners generally

Africa’s tragedy is structural: Predatory elites, tribalised politics, and the total collapse of any legitimate monopoly on violence ensure that extremists of every stripe flourish while moderates are exterminated. External patrons aggravate the problem.