Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 61. Sunrise is 6:38 and sunset is 4:38 for 10 hours of daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 0.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1972, Home Box Office (HBO) launches.
In this beautiful city, residents endured a falsely styled press conference with hysterical nativist accusations from a conspiracy-addled United States Senator. From this beautiful city, out went a poorly considered and poorly composed letter to then-President Biden that brought only pressure against immigrant residents. In this beautiful city, after that letter, this city was expressly mentioned in a federal executive order as a target of federal overreach against immigrants. Many of these immigrants understandably fled the city rather than trust in the protection to which they were as residents entitled. Some of the special-interest men in town declared that, following the departure of these immigrants, Whitewater’s housing affordability challenge would somehow be solved. (Needless to say, while those men have achieved self-enrichment, their public policy positions have been a principal cause over the last twenty years of the affordability problems residents now face.)
A restrictive immigration position is both wrong and economically self-destructive: Defiance of three centuries of free-market labor theory is a misguided impulse. Voluntary exchange and freedom of contract call for limited government interference in the marketplace. Instead, we have had in this nation only extreme interference with workers and protesters, including our own nonviolent citizens killed on our nation’s streets.
And yet, and yet, in places closer to our southern border, places that know immigration better than we in this city will ever know immigration, those residents have sensibly turned away from aggressive and economically ignorant immigration enforcement —
See Javier Figueroa, How the Democrats won back the US-Mexico border (‘Democratic candidates carried all 10 House districts in the region neighboring Mexico’), El País, November 7, 2026 and Associated Press Race Calls, All the Calls, November 8, 2026.
This beleaguered federal administration will, in desperation, only intensify its efforts. No one should be surprised — this is the ineluctable direction of authoritarian populism: ever more extreme until it meets its ruin.
And so and so, bad goes to worse— Trump replaces Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller as the White House chief of staff: