El Paso, Texas has a good solid border wall, along the city proper’s entire border with Ciudád Juárez, and extending a long distance beyond both cities’ limits, far out into the desert. El Paso is blessed with a Republican mayor, and apparently, border enforcement is in reasonable shape. Perhaps it is for this reason that […]
The word was the ember and the forest was my life.
― Jimmy Santiago Baca, “Coming into Language,” March 3, 2014
We’re at the Flip ‘n Chicken sharing food, swapping stories about El Paso, and philosophizing about what it means to be an educator in the Early Childhood program at Oregon Coast Community College.
His looks are a cross between Lee Trevino (golfer from El Paso) and my buddy the muralist from El Paso, Mario Colin.
Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious.
“If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim,” Bayoumi wrote in the British Guardian newspaper on August 6, US President Donald Trump “would be lobbing accusations such as ‘Islam hates us’ in the direction of Muslims and not lecturing the public about video games.”
The gun lobby has hijacked the Second Amendment, which was intended for citizen militias to provide domestic “security” without a standing army. The amendment is a dangerous relic, never clearer than after El Paso and Dayton, writes Joe Lauria. By…Read more →
As a series of recent mass shootings have brought renewed demands for the U.S. government to do something to address the spike in “lone wolf” violence, the Trump administration’s decision to blame internet privacy, controversial websites like 8chan, and social media for the shootings has raised eyebrows from across the political spectrum, particularly in light of claims that Trump’s recent rhetoric about immigrants may have incited some of the shooters.
RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou discuss the the Dayton, Ohio shooting in which nine people and the suspect were killed, and the El Paso, Texas Walmart shooting where 22 people were killed before the gunman was taken alive.
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by NoahWords matter. Herr Trump built his psychotic campaign and his psychotic presidency on particularly hateful words. We all know what they are. They don't have to be repeated here. He runs whole Neo-Nazi rallies on those words. His fellow racists don their little red KKK MAGA hats and cheer his every evil word at those rallies.
