“White nationalists win by activating white panic, by frightening a sufficient number of white people into believing that their safety and livelihoods can only be protected by defining American citizenship in racial terms, and by convincing them that American politics is a zero-sum game in which white people only win when people of color lose.” Individual alt-right groups are often described as being in shambles. But their bleak message has been thrown a lifeline and pulled in from the fringe. Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: The White Nationalists Are Winning.

+ “This is pretty outrageous. That someone seeking justice in U.S. court is spirited away while her attorneys are arguing for justice for her? I’m not happy about this at all. This is not acceptable.” WaPo: Judge halts mother-daughter deportation, threatens to hold Sessions in contempt.