Jonathan Blitzer: Our New Internment Camps
7/15/20261 hr 13 min
While ICE is still murdering people in the streets, more than 60,000 people are currently being held in ICE detention centers across the country. The largest facility is at Fort Bliss in El Paso—which was an actual Japanese internment site in WWII. Detainees there are being deprived of needed medication; some have been held incommunicado; others have reported that the tent camp was not designed for humans to live there. When the conditions are not dire enough to make detainees self-deport, guards terrorize them into submission. Plus: Cuban and Venezuelan immigrants are particularly caught in the crosshairs of the escalating deportation campaign. And Tim holds forth on Trump's goons murdering our neighbors, ICE's reckless Kavanaugh stops, the straight-up Constitutional violations the administration is encouraging, and the illegal and marauding settler groups in the West Bank.
The New Yorker's Jon Blitzer joins Tim Miller.
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First 90 secondsJemma Spag0:00
Hey, it's Jemma Spag from The Psychology of Your 20s. In a very special episode brought to you by Alliant University, I ask Dr. Sandra Espinosa, what does therapy actually do? From the science behind therapeutic change, to how clinicians approach the work, to why therapy can feel so difficult to access or even stigmatized in some families and communities, we pull back the curtain on the therapeutic process and explore what meaningful growth actually looks like.
Sandra Espinosa0:28
I didn't go to therapy until my mid tw- late twenties, I think it was almost, and it was a career that I was pursuing, and I was still nervous. I am a much better wife, daughter, friend, mom, because I'm a therapist.
Jemma Spag0:45
What makes a good therapist?
Sandra Espinosa0:46
We wanna hear your story. I tell my, my clients, "You are the expert in your story, and I am gonna be a witness to that."
Jemma Spag0:55
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Tim Miller· Host1:01
Hey everybody, we got Jonathan Blitzer today talking about his article Locked Away, uh, in The New Yorker, and it is enraging. Um, and that is appropriate because my blood pressure's been getting up the last few days. I, um, was ruminating on the various news and the podcasts we've been doing this week on the planes, trains, and automobiles that took me to get back from Des Moines on Monday night.