My parents said that, were it not for alcohol and drugs, it would have been unbearable. Temporary dissociation was crucial to being able to get back in over and over. I’m not suggesting people use illicit substances but occasional escapism of one former another is necessary.

The woman murdered in cold blood in Minneapolis today by ICE on behalf of Trump was not, as Sec. Noem, a "domestic terrorist." ICE agents were the domestic terrorists here—and they work for her, and ultimately him.