to death

“One by one, they were calling this week, saying ‘It breaks our heart, but we are scared to death to come out,’“ said Walter Zooi, executive director of the Young Musicians Foundation. “Folks are being disconnected from their families, from their communities, from these kinds of opportunities, which they love.”

Another Ukrainian, callsign 'Grinch', had been beaten to death with a shovel, one witness said.

Once again, the American people and their news media and other leaders and gatekeepers are, in the words of media scholar Neil Postman, “amusing themselves” and their democracy to death.

“I’m conflicted in my mind because I understand the plight of people coming here undocumented because that’s probably their only resource. It’s either that or starve to death wherever they live.”

“There have been many, many threats over the years aimed at me mostly ... but I think bringing kids into the equation, threatening to find them or next time they see us in public they’re going to stab my kids to death. Things like that are tough to hear as a dad.”