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Though not mentioned by Times, the selection of “Deportee” is highlighted in a Rolling Stone headline as “an Ode to Deported Workers, [That] Has Never Been More Relevant.” On multiple levels, the haunting words and tones of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee” have even more resonance today.

For a nation of immigrants—none of us are native, save Indigenous peoples—immigration has long been controversial, especially of those less desired due to race or ethnicity, other than enslaved people dragged in by chains. Restrictive immigration laws date to as early as a 1790 act which required immigrants to be “free white persons.” Similar racist intent characterized the notorious 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, which gave special preference to white immigrants from Northern and Western Europe.

But the nation has also long depended on the hard labor—from the fields to transcontinental railroads to garment factories, construction, and meat processing plants of today—of immigrants of color who could be exploited with low wages, harsh living conditions, and coercive threats of deportation.

Unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump, Stephen Miller and his fellow immigrant haters have adopted the most racist and militaristic practices of the past, and the same disregard to who is rounded up. They have escalated the mass deportations to new depths, flagrantly flaunting court orders, with masked secret agents in unmarked vehicles kidnapping people and terrorizing immigrants and communities of color.

Free Gui: Guilherme “Gui” Silva, a Brazilian immigrant, lawyer, and muralist, was detained by ICE earlier this month on San Juan Island in Washington state. Silva was a lawyer in Brazil, and moved to the US about eight years ago to pursue his art. He has a four-year-old daughter with his now ex-wife, and is expecting a child in just a few months with his wife Rachel Leidig. Two Fridays ago, masked ICE agents followed Silva from his home in unmarked vehicles, pulled him from his car, confiscated his cellphone, and detained him. When he asked to see an arrest warrant, they refused. Silva is married to an American citizen and is currently in legal proceedings to apply for a green card. The only blemish on his record that the Seattle Times was able to find was a $100 speeding ticket. The Department of Homeland Security said they detained him because he overstayed his tourist visa, which, let’s say it again together: is a civil violation.

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It’s not just that he really, really wants this scandal to go away since it has been turning swaths of his normally cult-like base against him.

No, there’s another element – and a brutal one for the president. It’s where the story was published: in the Wall Street Journal, whose conservative opinion side has often backed him and whose news side has a reputation for ensuring that explosive stories are bulletproof: accurate in their facts and fully prepared to stand up under legal scrutiny.

It’s not just that he really, really wants this scandal to go away since it has been turning swaths of his normally cult-like base against him.

No, there’s another element – and a brutal one for the president. It’s where the story was published: in the Wall Street Journal, whose conservative opinion side has often backed him and whose news side has a reputation for ensuring that explosive stories are bulletproof: accurate in their facts and fully prepared to stand up under legal scrutiny.

”Anything we do that is not optimizing getting people out of cars and getting them to a bus stop, or allowing them to walk from their neighborhood to a school with their kids, or ride, walk & roll around Portland— If we are not prioritizing that —then every other little piddly, marginal thing we do for the climate is much less important, because most of our emissions come from automobiles… and I think it’ll save us money in the long run.”

”These cuts will significantly impact all of our stations, but will be especially devastating to smaller stations and those serving large rural areas. Many of our stations which provide access to free unique local programming and emergency alerts will now be forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” CEO Paula Kerger said. “Without this federal support, Native and rural communities stand to lose critical lifelines that connect them to the rest of the nation.”

After summer comes to an end, and voters start paying attention to what was actually in it and what is about to be done to them. Maureen Comey, the prosecutor in the Gillane-Maxwell trial, and who helped the Southern District of New York prepare the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein, was fired on Wednesday by Attorney General Pam Bondi. Maureen Comey is the daughter of FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired back in 2017, after Comey refused to stop looking into Russiagate.

The New York Times reporting that Maureen Comey was fired late Wednesday night in a short letter that said her firing was based on powers granted to the president in Article 2 of the Constitution. I believe it's the Payback Clause. Trump is a strong believer in paying people back, unless it's what he owes on his bill.

The Times also reporting that Trump is now claiming the Epstein files, which Pam Bondi refuses to release, were written by Democrats, including chief among them, James Comey, in order to embarrass Donald Trump. But James Comey is, or at least was, a Republican.

After summer comes to an end, and voters start paying attention to what was actually in it and what is about to be done to them. Maureen Comey, the prosecutor in the Gillane-Maxwell trial, and who helped the Southern District of New York prepare the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein, was fired on Wednesday by Attorney General Pam Bondi. Maureen Comey is the daughter of FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired back in 2017, after Comey refused to stop looking into Russiagate.

The New York Times reporting that Maureen Comey was fired late Wednesday night in a short letter that said her firing was based on powers granted to the president in Article 2 of the Constitution. I believe it's the Payback Clause. Trump is a strong believer in paying people back, unless it's what he owes on his bill.

The Times also reporting that Trump is now claiming the Epstein files, which Pam Bondi refuses to release, were written by Democrats, including chief among them, James Comey, in order to embarrass Donald Trump. But James Comey is, or at least was, a Republican.