Generational Protest

On Friday, my 12-year-old granddaughter, Daisy, was named Student of the Month and the award noted her courage.

Also on Friday, she stayed out of school in solidarity with the people protesting in Minneapolis.

For six decades, I have covered events, including demonstrations as a journalist. For the great majority of that time, I followed the code of ethics for journalists to not get involved in activities that might suggest a bias or otherwise compromise my objectivity.

When I was young and just starting out, I saw no contradiction in being a journalist and an activist at the same time. I wrote about being arrested in a civil rights demonstration, for example, in my college newspaper.

Now I am old, frail and retired. Recent events have compelled me to return to the position I held as a much younger man.

Friday afternoon, I attended an anti-ICE protest with Daisy. It is now time to be a citizen.

HEADLINES:

• ‘Worst-case scenarios’: How Democratic election officials are preparing for potential Trump intrusion in the midterms (CNN)

• Another government shutdown has started, but a Senate breakthrough over DHS funding means it may be brief (Yahoo)

• Protesters take to streets nationwide to decry ICE tactics in Minneapolis (WP)

• ‘This isn’t America anymore’: Thousands rally against ICE in SF’s Dolores Park (SFGate)

• Federal Judge Denies Request to Temporarily Block ICE Surge in Minnesota (NYT)

• ICE launches nationwide program for covert surveillance of immigrants (WP)

• I’m a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here’s how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles (The Conversation)

• Thousands of new ICE watchers hit the streets after two killings (WP)

• DHS keeps making false claims about people. It’s part of a broader pattern (NPR)

• The Trump Administration Arrested Don Lemon Like He Was a Fugitive Slave (The Nation)

• Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father be released from immigration detention (CNN)

• Mike Johnson’s majority to erode as Houston elects Democrat (Axios)

• Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial (WP)

• Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion (New Yorker)

• U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues (NYT)

• RFK’s Overhauled Autism Committee Is Even Worse Than It Looks (Mother Jones)

• Danish veterans stage protest outside US Embassy (ABC)

• Israeli air strikes kill at least 32 Palestinians in Gaza, rescue officials say (BBC)

• Khamenei reappears in public for Islamic Republic’s 47th anniversary celebrations amid protests (Jerusalem Post)

• Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick face new scrutiny over Epstein ties (Al Jazeera)

• Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think? (ArsTechnica)

• LeBron James Clearly Using Golf Simulator On Bench (Onion)