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Brian Small Jun 9, 2025

> ... to be choked with hate
May well be of all evil chances chief.
If there's no hatred in a mind
Assault and battery of the wind
Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.

> An intellectual hatred is the worst,
So let her think opinions are accursed.

- poetryfoundation.org/poetrymag…

#JeffreyStClair's FB post on #TerryMoran's honest depiction of #StephenMiller as hate-motivated kept these parts of the poem #PrayerForMyDaughter by #WBYeats in mind.

A quick search got me to some background without the need to sift through FB..
- axios.com/2025/06/08/abc-terry…
- https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1931728449497858066/photo/1

A Prayer for My Daughter

There is no obstacle But Gregory's Wood and one bare hill Whereby the haystack and roof-levelling wind, Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed; And for an hour I have walked and prayed Because of the great gloom that is in my mind. My mind, because the minds that I have loved, The sort of beauty that…

The Poetry Foundation

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bsmall2 Jun 15, 2025

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> ... this crackdown is personal for Stephen Miller. As I report in my book, Hatemonger, when he was a high school student in Los Angeles, he frequently antagonized his Latino and immigrant classmates, telling them to, quote, “speak English” and to go back to their home countries. Back then, he was criticized for his views, and he has spent his career trying to punish the communities that rejected him.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/10/los_angeles_protests_trump_military_deployment

#DefendLA #JeanGuerrero #HateMongers #DefendPeople
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Chaos & Cruelty: Trump Deploys Thousands of Soldiers to Put Down Anti-<span class="caps">ICE</span> Protests in Los Angeles

President Trump has inflamed tensions over immigration raids in Los Angeles, which his top adviser Stephen Miller described as an insurrection. “They want protesters to react violently to distract from what is really happening, which is that families are being separated, our communities are being devastated, and the people of Los Angeles are standing up to say, 'We will not stand for this,'” says Jean Guerrero, New York Times contributing opinion writer and author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda. Meanwhile, she notes Trump’s budget bill would fund a massive expansion of federal immigration enforcement and turn it into a threat to the civil rights of everyone.

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bsmall2

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> This is a vision of America where you are American only if you choose hate. And if you choose love or compassion, you are part of what is poisoning the blood of this country... not surprised to see the president coming after innocent people who are not just the immigrants in our communities, but the people who are defending them.. white.. Black..Brown.. all different colors,.. expressing their humanity.. compassion for the other.

#USAHate #AmericanHate #USACompassion
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