“Oh yeah, life goes on. Long after the thrill, of living is gone.” -- John Mellencamp
Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. "They handcuffed me and put a white bag of some kind over my head," he said, according to his sworn statement. "They took off all of my clothes and put me into a restraint chair, where they attached my hands and feet to the chair. They also put a strap across my chest. They left me naked and attached to that chair for two and a half days, including at night."
Texas state inspectors identified nearly 250 violations at facilities run by Southwest Key, the non-profit now housing migrant children separated from their parents in a converted Walmart in Brownsville, Texas.
“They walk through Mexico like it's walking through Central Park. It's ridiculous," President Trump says of migrants' journey to the U.S.-Mexico border. However, many migrants are extorted, raped, kidnapped, sold into sex slavery. They die from the heat, from the cold, from “La Bestia,” or are killed by gangs. This is the perilous journey on a migrant caravan through Mexico.
Jeff Sessions Now Says The Trump Administration "Never Really Intended" To Separate Families At The Border. They move between lies of bullshit with such ease.
Sinclair Broadcasting Group--the pro-Trump media conglomerate--forced its TV stations to air pro-Trump propaganda on family separation. This isn’t Fox News. These are local television stations across the country. And this is why the country has a good chance of falling. Politicians over the past few decades have allowed this to happen, and now because of it, the country suffers. Here’s a list of Sinclair owned television stations by state.
Facebook blocks ad for actual news claiming it's 'political'. The story? The one that broke yesterday about children at detention centers allegedly being drugged. They can’t figure out what’s real news, what’s fake news, and what’s “political content.”
America’s long history of casting suspicion and blame on non white children. Part of the rationale for these atrocities was that these children are not really children, in the way white people understand it—those families were not really families, and those people were not really people.
While the Trump admin signed an order to keep families together at the border, it will still enforce Jeff Sessions’ zero-tolerance policy which requires illegal border crossings to be prosecuted as crimes.
An immigrant detainee at a federal Bureau of Prisons facility northeast of Los Angeles has tested positive for chickenpox, and the president of the local prison guard union says he fears for the health of jailers there. He doesn’t fear for the health of the detainees, obviously.
New FBI Study Shows Mass Shooters Aren’t Loners Who Suddenly Just Snap. Rampage killers plan, give off warning signs—and mostly get their weapons legally.
The explosive film lifting the lid on sex trafficking between India and LA. “Everyone thinks it’s something that only happens in somebody else’s country, or happens far, far away,” says Noorani. “They watch the film and they realise it is down the street where they live.”
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states can collect state sales taxes from online retailers on consumer purchases.
The White House unveiled a plan today to merge the Education and Labor Departments into a single Cabinet agency: the Department of Education and the Workforce. The GOP has wanted to eliminate the Department of Education for a long time.
GOP candidate suggests diversity in America will spark a civil war. What a maroon.
Melania Trump doubles-down with "I really don't care. Do U?” jacket. All to distract you from what’s really going on. Don’t fall for it.
Senators call on the National Science Foundation to investigate the foundation's grant-making process.
Four Republican senators say a $4 million program to boost climate reporting by meteorologists is not science, but "propagandizing.”
Canadian border guards have been screening travellers using a huge, secretive US anti-terrorism database that is almost never referred to publicly, new documents reveal.
'This is how Russia could look': World Cup fans surprised by relaxed policing.
Saudi Arabia is about to spend millions to troll Qatar by turning it into an island. Yes, that’s an actual thing. Humans...so full of hate for others.
Herpes viruses linked to Alzheimer's disease in new brain research.
For some Christian voters in Oklahoma, medical marijuana is a "moral issue." Oklahoma Faith Leaders: “Their intent is to undo the influence of the church in Oklahoma - or ‘unbuckle the bible belt.’ This is why we must vote NO!” There’s no reasoning with someone who has irrationally taken their religious beliefs to such extremes.
RIP Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language. She was 46.
“There is nothing permanent except change.” -- Heraclitus
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Good night.
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