"I dreamed I was a perfect smile"
Can someone please remind me where this phrase came from, who said it or wrote it, decades ago? Boomers may know.
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Daily Memo from L.A. TACO: ICE Activity Has Doubled Since Last Week
At least 31 people were taken this week from San Diego to L.A.
30 by ICE and one by CBP.
“All numbers are based on L.A. TACO’s reporting; the true number is assumed to be much higher. This is the minimum number of detainments.”
By Memo Torres, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Erwin Recinos
March 20, 2026
“Trump Moves to Leverage ICE Deployment at Airports Amid DHS Funding Dispute”
“Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told reporters that the threat to “use ICE agents as a general kind of militia or state police is contrary to the Constitution, the law of the United States, and common sense.””
A large Baronial style former warehouse on the corner of Ingram Street and Brunswick Street in Glasgow. It was designed by R.W. Billings and was built in 1854. In the 1980s, as part of the Merchant City redevelopment, the internal building was demolished while the facade was retained and a new, modern building was constructed behind it. This allowed it to find a new use while retaining both its original feel and the local streetscape.
New York Times editorializes today with rare honesty about Trump's penchant for lying:
"From his first announcement of the attack on Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump has issued a stream of falsehoods about the war. ...
He has lied about the reasons for the war and about its progress, in an apparent attempt to disguise his poor planning and the war’s questionable basis."
#Trump #Iran #war #lies #disinformation #NewYorkTimes
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/opinion/iran-war-trump-lying.html
From my friend Marvin Kalb, the last correspondent personally hired by Ed Murrow at CBS News:
“The many years I was able to contribute to CBS Radio will remain highlights in my life, each and every report. I worked with the best in the business, Murrow, Severeíd, Collingwood, Schorr, Kendrick, Burdett, Townsend and so many others. I am proud of every one, of every moment. Poor CBS!”
Today in Labor History March 21, 1937: Palm Sunday, cops killed 19 unarmed men, women and children marching in a protest in Ponce, Puerto Rico. They injured another 200 civilians. The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party organized the march to commemorate the abolition of slavery in 1873 and to protest the imprisonment of the party’s leaders by the U.S. The police used Thompson submachine guns, rifles and pistols, shooting marchers in the back, during the Ponce Massacre. A commission placed the blame for the massacre on the U.S. appointed governor of Puerto Rico, Blanton Winship. However, no one, including Winship, nor any of the shooters, were ever prosecuted or punished.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #ponce #massacre #PuertoRico #colonialism #slavery #abolition #prison
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