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June 22, 2018

Here’s the Real Science Behind Jurassic World

Joshua A. Krisch Vocativ

Can we clone dinosaurs? Would ankylosaurus smack down an Indominus Rex? Were pteranodons always scarier than Hitchcock’s birds? What the heck was a Mosasaur, and can I have one?

June 22, 2018

The Forced Separation of Families Is Trump's 'Katrina Moment'

Jill Abramson The Guardian

Donald Trump is making George W Bush’s same fatal mistake by showing heartlessness in a time of crisis

June 22, 2018

Friday Nite Videos | June 22, 2018

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The Little Girls Blocking President Donald Trump. Battle Hymn of the Republic - Modified for Relevance. Separated From Her Mother at the Border, a Six-Year-Old Finds Her Own Way. Who is Stephen Miller? CEOs Profiting From Immigrant Detention.

The Little Girls Blocking President Donald Trump

June 22, 2018

The First Lady went to the border, but she did not accomplish as much as that little girl standing up to Trump on the cover of Time Magazine or as much as Jenny Lisette Flores.

Battle Hymn of the Republic - Modified for Relevance

June 22, 2018

We rewrote the Battle Hymn because, well . . . because it needed it.

Separated From Her Mother at the Border, a Six-Year-Old Has to Find Her Own Way

June 22, 2018

A Salvadoran woman becomes her family’s lifeline when her sister was taken to a detention facility in Texas and her niece to an Arizona shelter.

Who is Stephen Miller? Senior Advisor for Policy

June 22, 2018

The mastermind behind Trump's travel ban has been waging a war against minorities for a long time – Narrated by Debra Messing

The CEOs Profiting Off of Immigrant Detention

June 22, 2018

Few Americans know about our nation's system of immigrant detention centers. Learn more about who profits and who the prison industry helped put in power.

June 22, 2018

Quartering

Seema Reza The Quarry

What it means to bring a war back home is the subject of Seema Reza’s searing poem about our soldiers.

June 21, 2018

'This Is What Solidarity Looks Like': Mass Demonstrations at LaGuardia Airport as Kids Ripped From Parents Arrive in New York; Dozens of Parents with their Babies Occupy ICE Field Director Office

Jake Johnson Common Dreams

"We want to let them know that there are thousands of people who see them, who love them and who will fight for them." Parents with their babies occupy ICE Field Director Office. Calling for swift reunification of children with their families.