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Elizabeth Warren Condemns ICE’s “Cruel and Unnecessary” Use of Solitary Confinement, Demands Answers

theintercept.com - “According to a trove of recently released documents, a former DHS employee, and two DHS IG reports that investigated solitary confinement at ICE facilities,” ICE was using solitary confinement somet…

CO Community Gathers Outside GEO ICE Facility on Longest Day of Year

unicornriot.ninja - Aurora, CO – Friday marks the summer solstice, which is the longest day of the year. Often the solstice is an especially dangerous day for those who are walking through the desert along the U.S.-Mexi…

Threats from militia provoke shutdown at Oregon capitol, a day after GOP lawmakers fled

www.washingtonpost.com - A truck moves around the Oregon state Capitol during a protest against climate bills. (Sarah Zimmerman, File) By Reis Thebault and Reis Thebault National and breaking news reporter Email Bio Follow M…

Analysis | A dangerous confusion at the heart of Trump’s foreign policy

www.washingtonpost.com - By Greg Jaffe Greg Jaffe National security reporter Email Bio Follow June 21 at 7:55 PM A tumultuous week that brought the United States to the brink of war with Iran has highlighted an incoherence a…

Elizabeth Warren Wants to Ban Private Prisons

theintercept.com - Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Friday rolled out a plan to ban private prisons and detention facilities and stop companies from profiting off mass incarceration. The 2020 hopeful introduced the p…

Netflix and Amazon Hilariously Troll Christian Petition Trying to Get 'Good Omens' Banned

toofab.com - A Christian group has demanded Netflix cancel the "blasphemous" series "Good Omens" â€” even though the show belongs to Amazon. And the rival streaming services got in on the fun on Thursday as they …

Snowden Documents Reveal Scope of Secrets Exposed to China in 2001 Spy Plane Incident

theintercept.com - The report describes the crew’s haphazard and jury-rigged efforts to destroy equipment without proper tools and the woefully inadequate training they received for dealing with a scenario the Navy sho…

In Guantánamo Case, U.S. Government Says It Can Indefinitely Detain Anyone — Even U.S. Citizens

theintercept.com - For over 17 years, Moath al-Alwi has been held at Guantánamo Bay without charge. A Yemeni citizen, al-Alwi is one of Guantánamo’s “forever prisoners,” those whom the U.S. government has not charged w…

In Hong Kong, the Freedom to Publish Is Under Attack

foreignpolicy.com - For most of the world’s publishers, it would be very unusual for editors to take into account a country’s extradition laws before greenlighting a book. And yet, publishers and booksellers based in Ho…

What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

www.theatlantic.com - The cockpit, by contrast, was equipped with four pressurized-oxygen masks linked to hours of supply. Whoever depressurized the airplane would have simply had to slap one on. The airplane was moving f…

Jim Crow Lives On In Efforts to Block African-American and Latino Voters | DCReport.org

www.dcreport.org - Among the seemingly endless email appeals for political money, we all receive was one inviting participation on behalf of Mississippi Atty. Gen. Jim Hood, Democratic candidate for governor and the on…

Europe braces for 40 degree temperatures as forecasters warn of 'unprecedented' heatwave

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'Are u up?': Texts show cozy relationship between Paul Manafort and Sean Hannity

www.politico.com - “I feel all alone out there. Except for you and a few others, our side is not engaged,” Paul Manafort texted Fox News host Sean Hannity. | Alex Wong/Getty Images By DARREN SAMUELSOHN, KYLE CHENEY and…

"Hardhats vs. Hippies": How the Media Misrepresents the Debate Over the Green New Deal

www.commondreams.org - A recent Politico article about the Green New Deal resolution put forward in February by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) features many grumblings from blue-collar …

Amid Skyrocketing Insulin Prices, Americans Head to Canada

undark.org - The average list price of insulin in the U.S. nearly tripled between 2002 and 2013. Visual: Melissa Johnson/Flickr Insulin has become so unaffordable in the U.S. that many American diabetics and thei…

Science, Sensationalism, and the Lessons of 'Insectageddon'

undark.org - When I was growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, long before we spent our evenings drawn to the soft glow of electronic devices, I would sit down in my grandparents’ backyard on summer nights and watch the …

Carmageddon: it’s killing urban life. We must reclaim our cities before it’s too late | George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com - What is the best way of wrecking a city? Pour cars into it. Heavy traffic, 50 years of research shows, breaks up communities, disrupts social life and crushes local cultures. Noise drowns out convers…

The Dangerous Methane Mystery

www.counterpunch.org - The East Siberian Arctic Shelf (“ESAS”) is the epicenter of a methane-rich zone that could turn the world upside down. Still, the ESAS is not on the radar of mainstream science, and not included in c…

Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos - Resilience

www.resilience.org - Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it started. Imagine cows from Mexico being fed corn imported from t…

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