Fear, Fraud, and Fort Bragg: Dispatches from a Country on the Brink

ICE raids haunt graduations, tax cuts mask looting, and Trump’s Black Hawk gospel thunders over Los Angeles, but coal miners just won a round, and that’s no small thing.

Good morning. In Los Angeles, graduations are now held under the silent menace of black-windowed SUVs and whispered warnings on the Ice Block app. Middle schoolers in pressed shirts and floral leis were shuffled in early and herded off campus before ICE could make an appearance, not because of any confirmed threat, but because the fear is now a permanen…