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Traditional banks won’t deal with money from California’s $7 billion legal weed industry, so some people in Oakland are rallying to create the first new public bank in a century. So what’s a public bank exactly?

Juan Felipe Herrera, the self-described “poet of the people,” reflects on his two-year term as America’s Poet Laureate. The son of migrant farm workers from California’s rural interior, Herrera is the second Fresno poet appointed to the position, after Philip Levine. What’s with Fresno? Herrera calls Fresno the poetry capital of the world. That’s what.

In southern California, ICE is deporting people of Mexican descent who have lived most of their lives in the U.S. and feel only a vague connection to the Mexico they’re sent “back” to. “Trump says he’s up there removing criminals,” José Armando Guerrero said from a Tijuana hotel. “I was working. I’m not a criminal.”