Glossary
the Guardian
Georgia detainee with prosthetic legs who objected to flooded area outside cell sent to solitary
Rodney Taylor placed in ‘restrictive unit’ for refusing to enter cell because his prosthetic legs can’t get wet
 The deportation thugs put a handicapped prisoner into solitary confinement because he informed them that that the water on the floor of the cell would damage his prosthetic legs.
WIRED
Man Jailed Over Trump Meme After Charlie Kirk's Shooting Has Finally Been Released
Larry Bushart was charged with threatening a school after reposting a Facebook meme about Trump. A Tennessee sheriff, who mourned Kirk online, dema...
 A man who posted to suggest that Charles Kirk's death was not a great loss to society was jailed for a month on a false charge of "making threats against a school". The judge demanded $2 million for bail, which kept him in jail until the charges were dropped.
The Onion
ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs
CHICAGO—His heart racing with terror as he found himself completely surrounded, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent conducting a raid on...
 (satire) *ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs.*
Daily Kos
Donald Trump Threatens Democracy
Hannah Arendt died in 1975, but it is amazing how the critique of dictators in her book The Origins of Totalitarianism published in 1951 describes ...
 Many of Hannah Arendt's comments about the rise of Hitler fit the present US situation well.
The Intercept
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
 Youtube deleted the accounts of three Palestinian human rights groups, and thus also the videos they had posted documenting various crimes or reporting on investigations into crimes. The motive for this may be that those organizations work with the International Criminal Court. But that is not a crime, merely something that a powerful corrupt official does not like.
The Onion
CDC Figures It Easier To Start Tracking People Without Measles
ATLANTA—As the agency struggles to manage a measles caseload that has erupted to its largest size in decades, the Centers for Disease Control and...
 (satire) *CDC Figures It Easier To Start Tracking People Without Measles.* Alas, it wouldn't be useful to track them. Measles is contagious - absence of measles is not.
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the Guardian
Police investigate attack against Jewish father by mob at Italian service station
Man said chants began when a cashier shouted ‘Free Palestine’ after noticing he and his son were wearing kippahs
2014: May - August Political Notes - Richard Stallman
 In Italy, a mob gathered and beat up a man that they had identified as Jewish, shouting about Palestine. This exemplifies the point that blaming all Jews, simply because they are Jews, for Israel's atrocities against Palestinians is a form of antisemitism. Plenty of Jews condemn those atrocities as
Ars Technica
Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk
The person refused to even tell health officials their address.
 A sick man in Utah has transferred his loyalty from humanity to the measles virus. Despite what has done to him, he doggedly protects its opportunities to spread to other people by refusing to tell where (that is, in which human bodies) it may be hiding.
Free-Range Kids
Short & Sweet: How We Got to Helicopter Parenting - Free-Range Kids
A friend just asked me how we got to this point — a point that she is miserably in the middle of, beside herself with guilt for missing an af...
 How helicopter parenting became a burden imposed on parents in the US.
Al Jazeera
Why has the Israeli army’s top lawyer resigned after leaking rape evidence?
Video of alleged rape of Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman went viral last year. Now the lawyer who leaked it has quit.
 Israeli prison guards were caught on video raping (and beating) a Palestinian prisoner. They were prosecuted but only for a lesser crime. The head army lawyer has resigned in protest.