“Marco Antonio Muñoz, 39, was found on May 13 in his Texas jail cell, ‘in a pool of blood with an item of clothing twisted around his neck.'”
“Lonsdale and Luckey argue that building cheaper, more efficient systems is a virtuous pursuit, saving taxpayer dollars. Anduril’s Palantir pedigree may have prepared it for criticism.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/palmer-luckey-anduril-border-wall/
“There are now over 10,000 migrant children in government custody in 100 U.S. shelters in 14 states. All 10,000 of these children have been forcibly separated from their parents.”
“The total reflects the emerging scale of a practice that will have lasting impacts on a generation of kids who happened to arrive in the U.S. at this particular moment.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/08/immigration-family-separation-children/
“160 American-born children have a parent who could soon be ordered to leave the country; many families are relying on handouts.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/11/us/tennessee-immigration-trump.html
“He survived about 15,000 days of isolation – a form of captivity that the United Nations has denounced as torture and that scientific studies have shown is capable of inflicting severe psychological damage on individuals in less than a week.”
“McKinney said he doesn’t hold any grudges about the years he was in jail. God, he said, took all of the anger out of his heart.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/us/lawrence-mckinney-exoneration-trnd/index.html
“TSA said it had no indication the woman was in distress during the security check.”
“Instead of shaming disabled consumers who rely on straws, let’s hold producers of plastic financially responsible for their waste.”
Read more: https://psmag.com/environment/banning-straws-wont-save-the-oceans
“That drug-sniffing dogs must die in the absence of prohibition will not become a real problem unless government chooses to make it so.”