S__eattle is Dying begins with footage captured by a drone as it rises above a homeless encampment on the south side of the city, eventually revealing the shimmering towers of Seattle’s urban core. This, the third documentary on homelessness made by local news anchor Eric Johnson and aired on KOMO News (a holding of Sinclair Broadcasting), is not a story about the homeless themselves,
ByBrian Platt
In May of last year, I wrote a piece for Jacobin about the violence on the US-Mexico border. The point of the piece was to push back against the idea that the depravities and violence of ICE and the Border Patrol are unique manifestations of the Trump presidency. Rather, I attempted to show that the border regime was created to grind up immigrant lives – lives that have no value because of their legal status, their race/ethnicity, their economic class, and because they tend to die in places far from the public eye. They become grim statistics that are safely ignored as we go about our days trying to keep our jobs, make rent, and generally scrape by.
ByBrian Platt
I am writing under considerable torment and mental strain, for I know that before this night is over, I will likely be dead. Penniless, I can bear the torture no longer. I have tried to drown myself in alcohol and the fat clouds of my vape, but the madness inside grows, tearing at me, threatening to swallow me whole. Forgetfulness? Only in death can I forget what I have seen.
ByProfessor Ambrose J. Hoag
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Friends of the show Ryan Archibald and Brendan McElmeel are back to finish our discussion of the Byzantine structure of higher education institutions. We uncover the rot at that core of higher education and, guess what, it's the same rot that is hollowing out everything in America!
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