LAUSD’s noncooperation with ICE, music by Jeff Bridges

“I thank God that I still have this desire to do the music, that the music pushes itself through me,” says Jeff Bridges.

“I thank God that I still have this desire to do the music, that the music pushes itself through me,” says Jeff Bridges. Courtesy of Candy Clark.

The Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. The White House is asserting its power to say “no.” 

Immigration agents visited two South LA schools recently, looking for five students they said were undocumented. School officials turned them away in a test of LAUSD’s policy of noncooperation with ICE.

An autocracy journalist discusses the rise of authoritarianism in Hungary and sees parallels in some recent actions by the Trump administration.

In the 1970s and 80s, Jeff Bridges recorded songs with his childhood buddies in his West LA neighborhood. Now those songs are in the new album “Slow Magic, 1977-1978.”

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Credits

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Sarah Sweeney, Stephen Gregory, Angie Perrin, Amy Ta, Brian Hardzinski, Robin Estrin, Jack Ross, Zeke Reed