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AT&T funded the Texas abortion ban

SIMILAR to old east germany's stasi, and north korea's requirement that everyone watch and report on everyone else including family, I do not understand the people of Texas tolerating the state's move to an authoritarian government. This law banning abortion, even in the case of rape or incest, and the toleration and support of this law by the people of Texas is disturbing and shows too many Texans would have been very comfortable in the third reich and would be very comfortable in the prc, n korea, venezuela, saudi arabia and afghanistan. PLEASE sign this petition to AT&T telling them to stop donations to all Texas politicians who voted for and / or support this law AND if you are an AT&T customer consider leaving them for another service provider. From UltraViolet ....

Can you sign the petition and demand AT&T stop funding abortion extremists? 

This is a red alert from Texas: S.B.8, the law that bans abortion at just six weeks of pregnancy and puts bounties on anyone who may have helped someone access abortion care has gone into effect in Texas after the Supreme Court refused to stop it in a dastardly 5-4 decision under the cloak of night. Abortion has been virtually banned in Texas.¹ And AT&T funded the politicians who passed this bill. 

Under this law, anyone who "aids or abets" an abortion could face legal consequences, including a friend or family member who gives a woman a ride to a clinic, or abortion care providers who provide non-medical services.² This horrifying law is perhaps the most far-reaching anti-abortion law ever. The law essentially bans abortion by restricting abortion after six weeks, before many people even know they are pregnant. But that's not all.

It gets worse: Anti-abortion extremists are getting ready to move through similar laws in other states in the South and Midwest. Now, with the blessing of the Supreme Court. The implications for abortion rights, and so many other rights, are vast and dire.

How do these extreme laws keep getting introduced and passed? Mega-corporations like AT&T, which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, hold massive power and fund anti-women candidates. The #ReproReceipts compiled by UltraViolet show that AT&T has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to sponsors of this law, including state Representative Jeff Leach. AT&T gave Rep. Leach $15,000 in 2020. That is big bucks in a state-level race and often can mean the difference between a candidate winning or losing. In fact, AT&T supported four of the five primary sponsors of this law in 2020, according to internal UltraViolet research. 

If AT&T feels consumer heat for funding the politicians behind this law, we might be able to force AT&T to speak out against the law and stop funding the extremist politicians behind it. 

Thanks for speaking out!

--Sonja, Kathy, Melody, Lindsay, Shaunna, Kimberly, Maria, Elisa, KaeLyn, KD, Iris, Bridget, Katie, Isatou, Meena, and Jaya, the UltraViolet Action team 

Sources:

1. After Silence From Supreme Court, Texas Clinics Confront Near-Total Abortion Ban, The New York Times, September 1, 2021

2. Ibid. 

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Veteran NBC News Reporter Resigns, Says Network 'Could No Longer Keep Up With The World' & NBC News veteran warns of 'Trump circus' in 2,228-word farewell 2JAN19

IT is too bad William Arkin didn't have the courage to raise these issues in his reporting for NBC, that he didn't have the courage to risk being fired by NBC for challenging the cowardliness of American mainstream media, the perpetual warstate that our nation has become, endorsed and promoted by republicans and too many Democrats as well as most religions in America and the greed and war profiteering of the military-industrial complex. His after the fact condemnation is as hypocritical as the proclamations by republican politicians who just resigned because of their "disgust and disappointment" with drumpf / trump and republican politics after supporting his election, voting for his policies while in office and not opposing the drumphian / trumpian candidates running to replace them in office. Arkin has his profits from being mainstream media while being aware of the damage to the nation and world being done and is now trying to be a prophet. It will be interesting to see how often he proclaims his new message and what he does to actually address the issues he raises.....
Veteran NBC News Reporter Resigns, Says Network 'Could No Longer Keep Up With The World'

William Arkin

Journalist William Arkin has been at NBC News on and off for thirty years, as a military analyst, a reporter, and a consultant. Arkin is a critic of what he calls "perpetual war" and the "creeping fascism of homeland security." His memo of resignation touches on those facts and the fact that “the world and the state of journalism [are] in tandem crisis.” CNN: 

"I find it disheartening that we do not report the failures of the generals and national security leaders," he said. "I find it shocking that we essentially condone continued American bumbling in the Middle East and now Africa through our ho-hum reporting."

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He said that most of his critiques of NBC apply to the rest of the news media, as well.

Years ago, he said, "particularly as the social media wave began, it was clear that NBC (like the rest of the news media) could no longer keep up with the world. Added to that was the intellectual challenge of how to report our new kind of wars when there were no real fronts and no actual measures of success."

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Arkin is inclined to agree with some of Trump's isolationist instincts, though he called Trump an "ignorant and incompetent impostor."

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"And yet," he wrote, "I'm alarmed at how quick NBC is to mechanically argue the contrary, to be in favor of policies that just spell more conflict and more war."

He warns that the world is becoming more polarized.

There is not a soul in Washington who can say that they have won or stopped any conflict. And though there might be the beloved perfumed princes in the form of the Petraeus' and Wes Clarks', or the so-called warrior monks like Mattis and McMaster, we've had more than a generation of national security leaders who sadly and fraudulently have done little of consequence. And yet we (and others) embrace them, even the highly partisan formers who masquerade as "analysts". We do so ignoring the empirical truth of what they have wrought: There is not one county in the Middle East that is safer today than it was 18 years ago.

Here’s his take on the state of media. 

….our biggest challenge as we move forward is that we have become exhausted parents of our infant (and infantile) social media children. And because of the "cycle," we at NBC (and all others in the field of journalism) suffer from a really bad case of not being able to ever take a breath. We are a long way from resolving the rules of the road in this age, whether it be with regard to our personal conduct or anything related to hard news. I also don't think that we are on a straight line towards digital nirvana, that is, that all of this information will democratize and improve society. I sense that there is already smartphone and social media fatigue creeping across the land, and my guess is that nothing we currently see -- nothing that is snappy or chatty -- will solve our horrific challenges of information overload or the role (and nature) of journalism. And I am sure that once Trump leaves center stage, society will have a gigantic media hangover.

This is a lengthy piece, over 2,200 words, worth reading in its entirety. There is indeed information overload in this media saturated age. There’s a bandwidth of information available and people catch what they can, some much more than others. Getting the entire picture is all but impossible. Therein lies the rub. 

Here is the full text of Arkin's memo.

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January 4 is my last day at NBC News and I'd like to say goodbye to my friends, hopefully not for good. This isn't the first time I've left NBC, but this time the parting is more bittersweet, the world and the state of journalism in tandem crisis. My expertise, though seeming to be all the more central to the challenges and dangers we face, also seems to be less valued at the moment. And I find myself completely out of synch with the network, being neither a day-to-day reporter nor interested in the Trump circus.

I first started my association with NBC 30 years ago, feeding Cold War stories to Bob Windrem and Fred Francis at the Pentagon. I became an on-air analyst during the 1999 Kosovo War, continuing to work thereafter with Nightly News, delighting and oftentimes annoying in my peculiar position of being a mere civilian amongst THE GENERALS and former government officials. A scholar at heart, I also found myself an often lone voice that was anti-nuclear and even anti-military, anti-military for me meaning opinionated but also highly knowledgeable, somewhat akin to a movie critic, loving my subject but also not shy about making judgements regarding the flops and the losers.

When the attacks of 9/11 came, I was called back to NBC. I spent weeks on and off the air talking about al Qaeda and the various wars we were rushing into, arguing that airpower and drones would be the centerpiece not troops. In the new martial environment where only one war cry was sanctioned I was out of sync then as well. I retreated somewhat to writing a column for the Los Angeles Times, but even there I had to fight editors who couldn't believe that there would be a war in Iraq. And I spoke up about the absence of any sort of strategy for actually defeating terrorism, annoying the increasing gaggles of those who seemed to accept that a state of perpetual war was a necessity.

I thought then that there was great danger in the embrace of process and officialdom over values and public longing, and I wrote about the increasing power of the national security community. Long before Trump and "deep state" became an expression, I produced one ginormous investigation -- Top Secret America -- for the Washington Post and I wrote a nasty book -- American Coup -- about the creeping fascism of homeland security.

Looking back now they were both harbingers for what President Obama (and then Trump) faced in terms of largely failing to make enduring change.

Somewhere in all of that, and particularly as the social media wave began, it was clear that NBC (like the rest of the news media) could no longer keep up with the world. Added to that was the intellectual challenge of how to report our new kind of wars when there were no real fronts and no actual measures of success. To me there is also a larger problem: though they produce nothing that resembles actual safety and security, the national security leaders and generals we have are allowed to do their thing unmolested. Despite being at "war," no great wartime leaders or visionaries are emerging. There is not a soul in Washington who can say that they have won or stopped any conflict. And though there might be the beloved perfumed princes in the form of the Petraeus' and Wes Clarks', or the so-called warrior monks like Mattis and McMaster, we've had more than a generation of national security leaders who sadly and fraudulently have done little of consequence. And yet we (and others) embrace them, even the highly partisan formers who masquerade as "analysts". We do so ignoring the empirical truth of what they have wrought: There is not one county in the Middle East that is safer today than it was 18 years ago. Indeed the world becomes ever more polarized and dangerous.

As perpetual war has become accepted as a given in our lives, I'm proud to say that I've never deviated in my argument at NBC (or at my newspaper gigs) that terrorists will never be defeated until we better understand why they are driven to fighting. And I have maintained my central view that airpower (in its broadest sense including space and cyber) is not just the future but the enabler and the tool of war today.

Seeking refuge in its political horse race roots, NBC (and others) meanwhile report the story of war as one of Rumsfeld vs. the Generals, as Wolfowitz vs. Shinseki, as the CIA vs. Cheney, as the bad torturers vs. the more refined, about numbers of troops and number of deaths, and even then Obama vs. the Congress, poor Obama who couldn't close Guantanamo or reduce nuclear weapons or stand up to Putin because it was just so difficult. We have contributed to turning the world national security into this sort of political story. I find it disheartening that we do not report the failures of the generals and national security leaders. I find it shocking that we essentially condone continued American bumbling in the Middle East and now Africa through our ho-hum reporting.

I'm a difficult guy, not prone to either protocol or procedure and I give NBC credit that it tolerated me through my various incarnations. I hope people will say in the early days that I made Brokaw and company smarter about nuclear weapons, about airpower, and even about al Qaeda. And I'm proud to say that I also was one of the few to report that there weren't any WMD in Iraq and remember fondly presenting that conclusion to an incredulous NBC editorial board. I argued endlessly with MSNBC about all things national security for years, doing the daily blah, blah, blah in Secaucus, but also poking at the conventional wisdom of everyone from Matthews to Hockenberry. And yet I feel like I've failed to convey this larger truth about the hopelessness of our way of doing things, especially disheartened to watch NBC and much of the rest of the news media somehow become a defender of Washington and the system.

Windrem again convinced me to return to NBC to join the new investigative unit in the early days of the 2016 presidential campaign. I thought that the mission was to break through the machine of perpetual war acceptance and conventional wisdom to challenge Hillary Clinton's hawkishness. It was also an interesting moment at NBC because everyone was looking over their shoulder at Vice and other upstarts creeping up on the mainstream. But then Trump got elected and Investigations got sucked into the tweeting vortex, increasingly lost in a directionless adrenaline rush, the national security and political version of leading the broadcast with every snow storm. And I would assert that in many ways NBC just began emulating the national security state itself -- busy and profitable. No wars won but the ball is kept in play.

I'd argue that under Trump, the national security establishment not only hasn't missed a beat but indeed has gained dangerous strength. Now it is ever more autonomous and practically impervious to criticism. I'd also argue, ever so gingerly, that NBC has become somewhat lost in its own verve, proxies of boring moderation and conventional wisdom, defender of the government against Trump, cheerleader for open and subtle threat mongering, in love with procedure and protocol over all else (including results). I accept that there's a lot to report here, but I'm more worried about how much we are missing. Hence my desire to take a step back and think why so little changes with regard to America's wars.

I know it is characteristic of our overexcited moment to blast away at former employers and mainstream institutions, but all I can say is that despite many frustrations, my time at NBC has been gratifying. Working with Cynthia McFadden has been the experience of a lifetime. I've learned a ton about television from her and Kevin Monahan, the secret insider tricks of the trade and the very big picture of what makes for original stories (and how powerful they can be). The young reporters at NBC are also universally excellent. Thanks to Noah Oppenheim for his support of my contrarian and disruptive presence. And to Janelle Rodriguez, who supported deep expertise. The Nightly crew has also been a constant fan of my too long stories and a great team. I continue to marvel as Phil Griffin carries out his diabolical plan for the cable network to take over the world.

I'm proud of the work I've done with my team and know that there's more to do. But for now it's time to take a break. I'm ever so happy to return to writing and thinking without the officiousness of editorial tyrants or corporate standards. And of course I yearn to go back to my first love, which is writing boring reports about secret programs, grateful that the American government so graciously obliges in its constant supply. And I particularly feel like the world is moving so quickly that even in just the little national security world I inhabit, I need more time to sit back and think. And to replenish.

In our day-to-day whirlwind and hostage status as prisoners of Donald Trump, I think -- like everyone else does -- that we miss so much. People who don't understand the medium, or the pressures, loudly opine that it's corporate control or even worse, that it's partisan. Sometimes I quip in response to friends on the outside (and to government sources) that if they mean by the word partisan that it is New Yorkers and Washingtonians against the rest of the country then they are right.

For me I realized how out of step I was when I looked at Trump's various bumbling intuitions: his desire to improve relations with Russia, to denuclearize North Korea, to get out of the Middle East, to question why we are fighting in Africa, even in his attacks on the intelligence community and the FBI. Of course he is an ignorant and incompetent impostor. And yet I'm alarmed at how quick NBC is to mechanically argue the contrary, to be in favor of policies that just spell more conflict and more war. Really? We shouldn't get out Syria? We shouldn't go for the bold move of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula? Even on Russia, though we should be concerned about the brittleness of our democracy that it is so vulnerable to manipulation, do we really yearn for the Cold War? And don't even get me started with the FBI: What? We now lionize this historically destructive institution?

Even without Trump, our biggest challenge as we move forward is that we have become exhausted parents of our infant (and infantile) social media children. And because of the "cycle," we at NBC (and all others in the field of journalism) suffer from a really bad case of not being able to ever take a breath. We are a long way from resolving the rules of the road in this age, whether it be with regard to our personal conduct or anything related to hard news. I also don't think that we are on a straight line towards digital nirvana, that is, that all of this information will democratize and improve society. I sense that there is already smartphone and social media fatigue creeping across the land, and my guess is that nothing we currently see -- nothing that is snappy or chatty -- will solve our horrific challenges of information overload or the role (and nature) of journalism. AndI am sure that once Trump leaves center stage, society will have a gigantic media hangover. Thus for NBC -- and for everyone else -- there is challenge and opportunity ahead. I'd particularly like to think and write more about that.

There's a saying about consultants, that organizations hire them to hear exactly what they want to hear. I'm proud to say that NBC didn't do that when it came to me. Similarly I can say that I'm proud that I'm not guilty of giving my employers what they wanted. Still, the things this and most organizations fear most -- variability, disturbance, difference -- those things that are also the primary drivers of creativity -- are not really the things that I see valued in the reporting ranks.

I'm happy to go back to writing and commentary. This winter, I'm proud to say that I've put the finishing touches on a 9/11 conspiracy novel that I've been toiling on for over a decade. It's a novel, but it meditates on the question of how to understand terrorists in a different way. And I'm undertaking two new book-writing projects, one fiction about a lone reporter and his magical source that hopes to delve into secrecy and the nature of television. And, If you read this far, I am writing a non-fiction book, an extended essay about national security and why we never seem to end our now perpetual state of war. There is lots of media critique out there, tons of analysis of leadership and the Presidency. But on the state of our national security? Not so much. Hopefully I will find myself thinking beyond the current fire and fury and actually suggest a viable alternative. Wish me luck.

GOLF CARTS

DRUMPF SUPPORTER

Estas personas Loved Trump. Hasta que su amigo fue quitado. 27FEB17

Esto desde  + Mother Jones  dice todo .... Sólo tiene que esperar hasta que estas personas pierden su seguro de salud !!!!!

Estas personas Loved Trump. Hasta que su amigo fue quitado.

Una comunidad que apoya Trump ve a uno de sus miembros preciadas detenidos en un allanamiento Trump y se pregunta, ¿qué ha pasado?

TOM PHILPOTT -FEB-. 27, 2017 19:06

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En un lunes  pieza ,  The New York Times  servido uno de los acertijos de Trumpism en una bandeja, al vapor como un montículo justo chamuscado de fajitas. Por un lado ....

Juan Carlos Hernández Pacheco - acaba de Carlos a la gente de West Frankfort - ha sido el encargado de La Fiesta, un restaurante mexicano en esta ciudad de 8000, durante una década. Sí, siempre saludaba a la gente con gusto en el restaurante de decoración alegre, conocida por sus fajitas de carne y pollo. ... [U] no la noche el pasado otoño, cuando el cuerpo de bomberos estaba luchando contra un incendio de dos alarmas, el Sr. Hernández apareció de repente con las comidas para los bomberos. ¿Cómo se organizó un Día de apreciación del Cumplimiento de la Ley en el restaurante el pasado verano como agentes de policía se enfrentan a la crítica en todo el país. ¿Cómo tomó parte en casi todos los comité de la comunidad o esfuerzo de caridad - el Rotary Club, cáncer de recaudación de fondos, días de limpieza, incluso becas para los Cardenales, los equipos de deportes de la escuela secundaria, que son el orgullo de esta ciudad.

En el otro:

Preguntar a los residentes de este cruce de caminos de extracción de carbón sobre la decisión del presidente de Trump para reprimir a los inmigrantes indocumentados y la mayoría ofrecen ninguna protesta. Trump, quien ganó fácilmente este municipio del Sur de Illinois en su mayoría blancos, está haciendo lo que prometió, dicen. Como Terry Chambers, un peluquero en la calle principal, lo puso, el presidente simplemente quiere "para deshacerse de los huevos podridos."

Carlos, pilar de la comunidad amada, recientemente se recogió en una redada de inmigración. Y ahora algunos de los ciudadanos de pie de West Frankfort, Ill., Están desconcertados.

"Creo que la gente tiene que hacer las cosas de la manera correcta, siga las reglas y obedecer las leyes, y creo firmemente en eso", dijo Lori Barron, el dueño de A'Fairs pelo de Lori, un salón de belleza. "Pero en el caso de Carlos, creo que se podría haber hecho más por la gente de aquí que este lugar nunca le ha dado. Creo que es absolutamente terrible que podía ser quitado."

No puedo pensar en una instantánea más aptos de la política de inmigración de Trump: demonizar, perro, y cuando sea posible, y detener a las  mismas personas que nos alimentan.  Antes de Trump se hace, supongo que muchos más estadounidenses se sienten el desconcierto que corren por West Frankfort.

TOM PHILPOTT

Tom Philpott es el corresponsal de alimentos y ag de  Mother Jones . Él puede ser alcanzado en tphilpott@motherjones.com, o en  Twitter  en @tomphilpott.

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Akhyaarey Kuwani Jeceshahay Trump. Ilaa waxay Friend lagu sii qaaday. 27FEB17

THIS ka  + Mother Jones  waxaa oo dhan ayaa sheegay in .... Just sugaan ilaa dadkan furo caymiska caafimaadka ay !!!!!

Akhyaarey Kuwani Jeceshahay Trump. Ilaa waxay Friend lagu sii qaaday.

bulshada A in ay taageerayaan Trump arkaa mid ka mid ah xubnihiisa qiimeeyeen xiray weerar Trump ah iyo yaabab, waxa kaliya dhacay?

TOM PHILPOTT JAN. 27, 2017 7:06 PM

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In Monday a  piece ,  The New York Times  kor u adeegeen mid ka mid ah conundrums of Trumpism xeedho, wux- sida taallo ciid ah oo kaliya-gubay of fajitas. Dhinaca mid ....

Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco - Carlos oo kaliya in ay dadka West Frankfort - ayaa tababare ee La Fiesta, makhaayad Mexico magaaladan ee 8000, muddo toban sano ah. Haa, mar walba uu salaamay dadka diiran makhaayad ku faraxsan qurxiyey, caan ku ah lo'da iyo digaag fajitas ay. ... [O] habeenkii ne dayrta la soo dhaafay, marka Waaxda Dabka la dagaalamaya dabka laba-alarm ah, Mr. Hernandez si lama filaan ah u muuqday la cunto damiyayaasha. Sidee ayuu u marti Maalin Mahadnaqa Law Enforcement makhaayad xagaagii hore sida askari oo bilays ah ayaa lagu naqdiyay dalka ku baahsan. Sidee ayuu ka qayb qaatay oo kaliya oo ku saabsan guddiga bulshada kasta ama dadaal samafal - Club Rotary ah, kansarka fund-raisers, maalmood nadiifinta, xataa deeq Redbirds ah, kooxaha ciyaaraha dugsiga sare, kuwaas oo kibirka magaaladan.

Dhinaca kale waxaa:

Weydii dadka degan this laysaan dhuxul-macdanta ah oo ku saabsan go'aanka Madaxweynaha Trump ee in la qab qabto on muhaajiriinta aan sharciga lahayn iyo ugu bixiyaan dibad lahayn. Mr. Trump, kuwaas oo si fudud ku badisay this gobolka Illinois koonfurta inta cad, waxaa samaynayaan wixii uu u ballanqaaday, waxay is-odhan. Sida Terry Chambers, rayiislaha on Main Street, waa inuu ku shubaa, madaxweynaha rabo "in laga takhaluso oo ka mid ah ukunta xun."

Carlos, tiirkii jecel yahay ee bulshada, ayaa dhawaan helay soo gaaray weerar socdaalka. Haddaba qaar ka mid ah muwaadiniinta upstanding of West Frankfort, Ill., Waa flummoxed.

"Waxaan qabaa in dadku u baahan yihiin in ay wax u qabtaan sida saxda ah, raac xeerarka oo Adeeca sharciyada, iyo waxaan si adag u aaminsan yihiin in," ayuu yiri Lori Barron, milkiilaha Lori ee Timaha A'Fairs, qurxinta dumarka ah. "Laakiin in ay dhacdo Carlos, waxaan u maleynayaa inuu ku samaysay laga yaabaa in badan oo dad badan halkan meeshan abid isaga laga siiyey. Waxaan qabaa in gabi ahaanba laga cabsado in uu la qaadi karaan."

Anigu ma aan ka fikiri kartaa sawir ka badan oo waxbaridda ee siyaasadda ajinebiga Trump ee: demonize, hound, iyo marka ay suurtogal tahay, iyo raajiso ah  dadka aad yaa inaga quudiyaan.  Ka hor inta Trump la sameeyo, waxaan beensheegayaal ahayna ma in Americans badan oo dheeraad ah waxa uu dareemayaa dhacdhaco hadda lagu xaaqayo West Frankfort.

TOM PHILPOTT

Tom Philpott waa Wariyaha cuntada iyo ag ee  Mother Jones . Waxa uu la gaaray karaa tphilpott@motherjones.com, ama on  Twitter  at @tomphilpott.

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Ces gens ont aimé Trump. Jusqu'à ce que leur ami a été enlevé. 27FEB17

CE de  + Mère Jones  dit tout .... Attendez jusqu'à ce que ces gens perdent leur assurance santé !!!!!

Ces gens ont aimé Trump. Jusqu'à ce que leur ami a été enlevé.

Une communauté qui a soutenu Trump voit un de ses membres précieux détenus dans un raid de Trump et se demande, ce qui vient de se passer?

TOM PHILPOTT FÉVRIER 27, 2017 19:06

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Dans un lundi  morceau ,  The New York Times a  servi jusqu'à l' une des énigmes de Trumpism sur un plateau, à la vapeur comme un monticule juste poêlé de fajitas. D'un côté ....

Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco - juste Carlos à la population de West Frankfort - a été le gérant de La Fiesta, un restaurant mexicain dans cette ville de 8000, pendant une décennie. Oui, il a toujours accueilli chaleureusement les gens au restaurant agréablement décoré, connu pour ses bœuf et de poulet fajitas. ... [O] ne nuit l'automne dernier, lorsque le service d'incendie a été aux prises avec un incendie à deux alarmes, M. Hernandez est soudainement apparu avec des repas pour les pompiers. Comment il a organisé une Journée d'appréciation application de la loi au restaurant l'été dernier que les agents de police ont été confrontés à la critique à travers le pays. Comment il a pris part à peu près tous les comités de la communauté ou de l'effort de charité - le Rotary Club, le cancer des collectes de fonds, les jours de nettoyage, même des bourses pour les Redbirds, les équipes sportives des écoles secondaires, qui font la fierté de cette ville.

De l'autre:

Demandez les résidents de ce charbonnières carrefour au sujet de la décision du président Trump à sévir contre les immigrants sans papiers et la plupart offrent aucune protestation. M. Trump, qui a facilement remporté ce principalement blanche sud du comté de l'Illinois, est en train de faire ce qu'il a promis, disent-ils. Comme Terry Chambers, un coiffeur sur la rue Main, le mettre, le président veut simplement "pour se débarrasser des mauvais oeufs."

Carlos, pilier de la communauté bien-aimée, a obtenu récemment ramassé dans un raid de l'immigration. Et maintenant quelques-uns des honnêtes citoyens de West Frankfort, Ill., Sont flummoxed.

"Je pense que les gens ont besoin de faire les choses de la bonne façon, suivre les règles et obéir aux lois, et je crois fermement en ce que", a déclaré Lori Barron, le propriétaire de A'Fairs Hair Lori, un salon de beauté. "Mais dans le cas de Carlos, je pense qu'il a peut-être fait plus pour les gens d'ici que cet endroit ne lui a jamais donné. Je pense qu'il est absolument terrible qu'il pouvait être enlevé."

Je ne peux pas penser à un aperçu plus apte de la politique d'immigration du Trump: diaboliser, chien, et , si possible, et de détenir les  gens qui nous nourrissent.  Avant Trump est fait, je suppose que beaucoup plus d' Américains vont se sentir le désarroi maintenant balayer West Frankfort.

TOM PHILPOTT

Tom Philpott est la nourriture et ag correspondant de  Mère Jones . Il peut être atteint à tphilpott@motherjones.com, ou sur  Twitter  à @tomphilpott.

2016 Pres élections , déportations , drumpf / trump pence , hypocrisie , ICE , les immigrants , Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco , La Fiesta , le nationalisme , le racisme , les immigrés sans - papiers , West Frankfort IL , la xénophobie

These Folks Loved Trump. Until Their Friend Was Taken Away. 27FEB17

THIS from +Mother Jones says it all....Just wait till these people loose their health insurance!!!!!

These Folks Loved Trump. Until Their Friend Was Taken Away.

A community that supported Trump sees one of its prized members detained in a Trump raid and wonders, what just happened?

TOM PHILPOTTFEB. 27, 2017 7:06 PM

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In a Monday piece, The New York Times served up one of the conundrums of Trumpism on a platter, steaming like a just-seared mound of fajitas. On the one hand ....

Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco — just Carlos to the people of West Frankfort — has been the manager of La Fiesta, a Mexican restaurant in this city of 8,000, for a decade. Yes, he always greeted people warmly at the cheerfully decorated restaurant, known for its beef and chicken fajitas. ... [O]ne night last fall, when the Fire Department was battling a two-alarm blaze, Mr. Hernandez suddenly appeared with meals for the firefighters. How he hosted a Law Enforcement Appreciation Day at the restaurant last summer as police officers were facing criticism around the country. How he took part in just about every community committee or charity effort — the Rotary Club, cancer fund-raisers, cleanup days, even scholarships for the Redbirds, the high school sports teams, which are the pride of this city.

On the other:

Ask residents of this coal-mining crossroads about President Trump's decision to crack down on undocumented immigrants and most offer no protest. Mr. Trump, who easily won this mostly white southern Illinois county, is doing what he promised, they say. As Terry Chambers, a barber on Main Street, put it, the president simply wants "to get rid of the bad eggs."

Carlos, beloved pillar of the community, recently got picked up in an immigration raid. And now some of the upstanding citizens of West Frankfort, Ill., are flummoxed.

"I think people need to do things the right way, follow the rules and obey the laws, and I firmly believe in that," said Lori Barron, the owner of Lori's Hair A'Fairs, a beauty salon. "But in the case of Carlos, I think he may have done more for the people here than this place has ever given him. I think it's absolutely terrible that he could be taken away."

I can't think of a more apt snapshot of Trump's immigration policy: demonize, hound, and when possible, and detain the very people who feed us. Before Trump is done, I'm guessing that a lot more Americans will be feeling the bewilderment now sweeping West Frankfort.

TOM PHILPOTT

Tom Philpott is the food and ag correspondent for Mother Jones. He can be reached at tphilpott@motherjones.com, or on Twitter at @tomphilpott.