“From The Depths,” William Balfour Ker

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.

His argument fails even on its own terms.

Appreciated this convo with Adweek on writing #fiction in hard times. With my coauthor, celebrated film director Andrew Davis
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Last night, every Senate Democrat voted for my amendment calling for a $17 an hour federal minimum wage while every Republican but 1 opposed it. The movement to raise the minimum wage to a living wage is growing.

In 2025, a job must lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it.

America is solidly in our, “Scream ourselves to sleep, shit ourselves awake” era.

@sanders.senate.gov: "Focus on the needs of working people... Healthcare system is broken, childcare system is broken, housing crisis of enormous consequence, climate change is threatening the entire planet... Stay focused on what is important to working people, expose the hypocrisy of Trump."

The top health care companies in America spent 95% of their profits to make their CEOs & stockholders obscenely rich.

How many Americans would be alive today if those companies spent $2.6 trillion on disease prevention and primary care, instead of stock buybacks and dividends?

It's day 22 and he still doesn't have a plan to lower your prices.

Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.

And now the price of coffee is going to go thru the roof…#waronbreakfast 🤬

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