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Jan 13, 2025 | 
smirkingchimp.com | Sarah Towle
Everyone's talking about mass deportations: how much they'll cost; how they'll tank the economy; how they'll tear communities apart, even if the Trump regime can’t realistically corral and expel the millions of people living and working and raising families without status in the US. Even if their promise was only ever meant to stoke terror and drive the MAGA base to the polls.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
peoplestribune.org | Sarah Towle
The following article was originally published by Sarah Towle on Tales of Humanity From the Borderlands on July 19, 2024, and is republished here with permission. If you would like to republish this article, please seek the author’s permission. “We must deport the millions of illegal (sic) Migrants (sic) who Joe Biden has deliberately encouraged (sic) to invade (sic) our Country (sic),” reads The Heritage Foundation’s marching orders, called Project 2025, prepared for a Trump 2.0 presidency.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | Sarah Towle |Rob Maurer
Deterring with walls has never worked, except to inflict misery. And why the 100-year birthday of a federal agency tasked with people-hunting is nothing to celebrate. Deterring with walls has never worked, except to inflict misery. And why the 100-year birthday of a federal agency tasked with people-hunting is nothing to celebrate.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Sarah Towle
The U.S. Border Patrol turns 100 this year, marking a century of hunting people; stoking vigilante violence; and erecting physical, technological, and bureaucratic barriers—many lethal—against human beings in need. But walls have never been the solution. Indeed, they are the reason cruelty, chaos, and corruption prevail at our crossroads, especially along the U.S. frontier with Mexico.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Sarah Towle
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
michiganpublic.org | Sarah Towle
On today's Stateside, following two recent deaths in the Grand Rapids area involving law enforcement officers, we heard local activist Aly Bates on the community mood, and GR police chief Eric Winstrom on use-of-force training and protocols. After that, we listened in to retired chemist Al Vanderplow tell his remarkable story about a brush with death. For Al, a visit to a workshop after his sudden heart attack led to a rekindled love for bluegrass music.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
billwolfe.substack.com | S. Kirk Walsh |Cheryl Bostrom |Sarah Towle |Daniel Mason
I was talking to a writer friend when the conversation got around to our summer reading plans. We both had a long list of books we wanted to read, but we acknowledged that our desire to read seemingly every book out there was not realistic. So what we have is a wish list from which we’ll read several books and then, at the end of summer, we’ll magically transform it into our Fall reading wish list. Anyway, that conversation made me wonder what other writers were hoping to read this summer.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
writersdigest.com | Sarah Towle
I had already embraced the idea of possibly doing my own audiobook when a production company reached out through my publisher, She Writes Press, to offer me “a deal.” Though they did not initially disclose the details, I was advised to just take it. That this was every author’s dream. (Why Audiobooks Are Skyrocketing, and How Writers Can Take Advantage.)But was it the dream for me? I wasn’t sure. I am a singer and sometime podcaster, so I have some experience on the mic.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Sarah Towle |Bill Maher |Alok Vaid-Menon
Maher calls out idiocy wherever he sees it, with a comedic delivery that veers between a stiletto and a sledgehammer. The comedian argues that the arts of moderation and common sense must be reinvigorated. Some people are born snarky, some become snarky, and some have snarkiness thrust upon them. Judging from this book, Maher—host of HBO’s Real Time program and author of The New New Rules and When You Ride Alone, You Ride With bin Laden—is all three.
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Apr 6, 2023 | 
aljazeera.com | Sarah Towle
Ever unwilling to accept accountability, former President Donald Trump liked to blame his predecessor in the Oval Office, Barack Obama, for building human cages at ports of entry to the United States. In reality, cages and cells have been a feature of the US immigration system, under one euphemism or another, since the 19th century. This includes the detention of families.
