Heather Cox Richardson: “Yesterday, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) along with demonstrators outside Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed detention center in Newark, New Jersey.” Inmates at Delaney Hall have complied with US laws, but they have been denied due justice, and are kept in filth; denied medical care, including to the elderly and medically vulnerable; and denied due process.
“Kim posted on social media that the detainees had accurately represented conditions there. He said he found an eighteen-year-old high school student crying and saying she just wanted to graduate; a pregnant woman without full OBGYN care; a woman who had suffered a miscarriage and had no medical care; a mother who was largely separated from her four-month-old baby, the husband of an American citizen wife and child; spoiled food; a court docket showing one judge with 74 cases to handle in one day, allowing the judge about five minutes per case; a man from South America being threatened with deportation to Congo, where there is an active Ebola outbreak; and so on.
“Kim concluded: ‘Spending tens of billions of dollars from American families to perpetrate cruelty against people who aren’t violent criminals or felons is a waste of money and wrong…. Our government should focus on helping Americans afford their lives, not lock people up in for-profit detention centers where corporations like GeoGroup and CoreCivic make billions. No profiting off of human misery.'”
Here’s something I saw while walking the dog yesterday: I’ve posted photos of this fairy village occasionally over the years, but I like to check on its progress now and then.
It’s growing. The Fairy Planning and Zoning Department is hard at work.
Here’s something I saw while walking with Julie a few weeks ago: This car, parked just around the corner from our house.
The bumper sticker on the right reads in full: “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
My keen deductive powers tell me that the owner of this car is a practitioner of sapphic love.
We watched “Logan” last night, a movie in which an estranged father and daughter go on a road trip and learn they have much in common, including adamantium claws and anger management issues. Wholesome family fun. Watch it with your Dad on Father’s Day.
“When they divide up the pie in Washington, do you ever wonder who gets the biggest slice?” This 1971 anti-Vietnam ad still hits hard. Via
