Bear with me while I pull back the curtain for a moment on our massive private equity package… (1/x) When she was off at Columbia studying for an MBA as part of her @Bagehots fellowship, @H_Lev came up with a great idea: Can we show our readers just how prevalent private equity is in all of our lives—and just how huge an impact it has on our society? (2/x)

1. This is a story about two men, Gaspar and Francisco, who were forced to flee their homes in the highlands of Guatemala because they dared to fight for human rights and an end to the impunity and violence that has ravaged their country for decades bit.ly/3ktHQVj 2. This is also a story about two other men, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, who saw an already broken US asylum system and decided to turn it a machine of unchecked cruelty bit.ly/3ktHQVj

1. The Trump administration loves touting the AMAZING progress it's making in building its big, beautiful border wall.

Let’s take a tour of the border and see how that’s going, shall we?

bit.ly/3fBG55R 2. Near San Diego, we’ve got smugglers cutting through the new wall, no prob

bit.ly/3fBG55R

NEW, from @Fer_Echavarri: Asylum seekers are being asked to show up at US ports of entry as early as 3:30 in the morning before their court dates in the United States—forcing some women and children to stay on the streets in dangerous Mexican border towns motherjones.com/politics/2019/… Mexican border cities have long been perilous places for Central American migrants and other asylum seekers—and now, thanks to the Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico plan, some 42,000 people have been sent there to wait on their asylum hearings motherjones.com/politics/2019/…