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In Her Own Words: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Describes the “Intentional Cruelty” She Saw Inside a Migrant Detention Center
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, gets in an SUV after touring the inside of the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, on Monday.Cedar Attanasio/AP On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joined a 16-member congressional delegation that got a rare glimpse inside three highly fortified migrant detention facilities, which she has referred to as “concentration…
Georgia Makes Puerto Ricans Answer Questions About Frogs and Plantains to Get a Driver’s License
Norman Shapiro/Honolulu Advertiser via AP Georgia has been requiring Puerto Rican natives seeking Georgia driver’s licenses to answer a special set of questions such as “identifying ‘what a meat filled with plantain fritter’ is called; where a specific beach is located; and ‘the name of the frog [that is] native only to PR,’” according to…
Help Me Out on New York City Rents
I need some help here from New York City natives. Here are a few average rents for one-bedroom apartments recorded in a 1993 New York Times article: At the Windsor Court, a 700-unit building at 155 East 31st Street, a one-bedroom unit that rented for…$1,650 in 1993, an 8 percent rise….At the Normandie Court at…
Warlord Backed by Trump Is Blamed for Bombing a Migrant Camp in Libya
A migrant shelter hit by an airstrike near Tripoli, Libya on July 03, 2019.Hazem Turkia/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images A Libyan warlord who has received rhetorical support from President Donald Trump is being blamed for the bombing of a detention center near Tripoli that killed at least 44 migrants Wednesday. The warlord, Khalifa Haftar, whose Libyan National…
I’ll Bet Atrios $100 That Automated Cars Will Be Just Fine
Peter Byrne/PA Wire via ZUMA After reading an article about “level 2/3” automated cars—the computer drives but you’re required to keep your eyes on the road so you can take over if you have to—Atrios says: Insurance Rates Are Gonna Skyrocket A couple liability suits and insurance companies are gonna drive these things off the…