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Daily Bread for 3.3.23: When Neither Sympathy Nor Empathy Are Present

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 41. Sunrise is 6:25 AM and sunset 5:47 PM for 11h 21m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 85.8% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1931, the United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national…

Bigotry, City, Conservative Populism, Conspiracy Theories, Cruelty, Culture, Daily Bread, Kulturkampf

Daily Bread for 3.2.23: The Late Pete Carril’s Approach Applied to Whitewater’s Politics

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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 39. Sunrise is 6:27 AM and sunset 5:46 PM for 11h 18m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 79.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission will meet at 6 PM and there will be a Whitewater Aquatic and Fitness…

Bigotry, Cruelty, Daily Bread, Immigration, Migrants, Nativism, Trump, Trumpism

Daily Bread for 9.17.22: The Secret History of Family Separation

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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with high of 82. Sunrise is 6:37 AM and sunset 7:00 PM for 12h 22m 27s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 53.4% of its visible disk illuminated.   On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia sign the final…

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Daily Bread for 8.9.22: The Alex Jones Verdict

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 77. Sunrise is 5:55 AM and sunset 8:04 PM for 14h 08m 55s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 90.4% of its visible disk illuminated.   Whitewater’s Public Works Committee meets at 6 PM.   On this day in 1974, as a direct…

City, Crime, Cruelty, Education, Ethnicity, Immigration, Local Government, Mendacity, Migrants, Police, Race, University, UW System

‘Do Deportations Lower Crime? Not According to the Data’

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Anna Flagg writes Do Deportations Lower Crime? Not According to the Data: In one of Donald J. Trump’s earliest moves as president, days after his inauguration, he revived the deportation program known as Secure Communities. Proponents argue that it helps prevent crime and also increases the police’s ability to solve crime through collaboration with federal…

America, Bigotry, Cruelty, Immigration, Migrants, Religion, Trump

Moral Monday at the Borderlands

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From Facebook: Moral Monday at the Borderlands: Faith leaders, congressional leaders and people whose conscience compels them, come together to demand an end to child detention; that all refugees seeking asylum are granted due process; that that the 14th Amendment granting equal protection under the law for all persons is upheld; that human rights are…

Cruelty, Health, Hunger, Immigration, Migrants, Misconduct

‘Hungry, Scared and Sick’

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Simon Romero, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Manny Fernandez, Daniel Borunda, Aaron Montes and Caitlin Dickerson report Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex. (‘An out-of-the-way border station in the desert outside of El Paso has become the epicenter of outrage over the Trump administration’s policies on the southwest border‘): CLINT, Tex. —…