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For the first time, journalists have been allowed to visit one of the camps where children—most of them the children of applicants seeking to legally enter the United States on sanctuary applications—have been taken away from parents and warehoused. And it’s not as bad as you think it is. It’s worse.
MSNBC reporter Jason Soboroff was one of those who visited a facility in Brownsville, Texas, that is known as Casa Padre. In this location, 1,469 boys were housed inside the concrete blocks of a former Walmart. What Soboroff found wasn’t just an overcrowded warren of cells, and boys lined up to receive rations. He found a facility where children are given treatment usually reserved for the most dangerous inmates at a federal prison. They’re kept locked in for 22 hours each day, and given one hour of “structured time” and only a single hour of “free time” outdoors. Each boy gets 40 square feet of living space, which is the same
A little boy in a Texas child gulag The trauma caused by separations is not the byproduct of necessary legal process – it’s a punishment designed to be grotesque to scare other migrants. It’s impossible to look at the Trump administration’s practice of migrant family separation and see it as anything other than what it is: institutionalized child abuse. By now, there have been real horror stories: parents hearing their children screaming in the next room; a man who committed suicide when his three-year-old was taken from him; children kept in what Oregon senator Jeff Merkley described as a “dog kennel”; a woman being told by a border patrol agent: “You will never see your children again. Families don’t exist here. You won’t have a family any more.” Enough of these stories […] Credit: CBS News Americans living outside of large metropolitan areas are much more likely to be obese than those who live in cities and suburbs, a public health challenge that could be shortening the lives of rural residents. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention find more than a third of rural residents, 34.2 percent, qualify as obese, while the obesity rate in metropolitan counties is a significantly lower at 28.7 percent. Rural Americans struggle with obesity more than those who live in urban areas in every part of the country. The highest obesity rates are in rural counties in Southern states; in Louisiana and Texas, the number of obese residents approaches 40 percent. The gaps between metropolitan and rural counties are most pronounced in a broader range of states including New York, Florida and Virginia. In those states, urban residents are far less likely to be obese than their rural neighbors. Public health experts said the higher rates of obesity in rural areas is a long-term trend that highlights the socioeconomic differences […] Dennis Hof, center, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada. Dennis Hof, the 71-year-old brothel owner who describes himself as the “Barnum of Booty”, is now the Republican nominee for a Nevada state assembly seat. Hof defeated the incumbent, James Oscarson, who had served three terms, in Tuesday’s primary and now has a good chance of beating Democrat Lesia Romanov in November and holding political office in Nevada. Hof, who goes by a number of nicknames including “America’s pimpmaster general”, owns seven legal brothels in Nevada, including the famous Moonlite BunnyRanch. His nomination comes as activists in Nye and Lyon counties, which have 40% of the state’s brothels, are petitioning to put an end to legalized prostitution. “This is American history,” Hof announced to the press when it was clear he had won. “I feel like right won over might and another Rino [Republican in […] Chinese photovoltaic roadway JINAN, CHINA — On a smoggy afternoon, huge log carriers and oil tankers thundered down a highway and hurtled around a curve at the bottom of a hill. Only a single, unreinforced guardrail stood between the traffic and a ravine. The route could make for tough driving under any conditions. But experts are watching it for one feature in particular: The highway curve is paved with solar panels. “If it can pass this test, it can fit all conditions,” said Li Wu, the chairman of Shandong Pavenergy, the company that made the plastic-covered solar panels that carpet the road. If his product fares well, it could have a major impact on the renewable energy sector, and on the driving experience, too. The experiment is the latest sign of China’s desire to innovate in, and dominate, the increasingly lucrative and strategically important market for renewable energy. The country already produces three-quarters of the solar panels sold […]
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