The Bacteria Babies Need
"If you live in the industrialized world, you probably can’t pass B. infantis on to your baby. Not even if you give birth vaginally, breast-feed exclusively and eat well."
"If you live in the industrialized world, you probably can’t pass B. infantis on to your baby. Not even if you give birth vaginally, breast-feed exclusively and eat well."
"This practice—overly suspicious government officials seizing children from their parents—isn't confined to Minnesota."
"Under slavery, children were sold separately from their parents. The separation of children from their parents was also imposed on native American Indians."
"That the separations only began after a discretionary decision by the administration shows that Trump’s insistence that Democrats are obstructing a fix is nonsense."
"Now the FBI has managed to anger both major political parties and much of the country. It's demonstrated its capacity for political meddling and misuse of power—even if people disagree on who was on the receiving end. That offers a rare opportunity to pull the plug on a dangerously powerful agency at a moment when its potential for bias, arrogance, insubordination, and plain incompetence are on public display. Let's kill the FBI while we can."
"Many of its current members -- they include China, Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- have poor human rights records themselves."
It is clear officers can be impeached and removed for major crimes, but what is a “high . . . Misdemeanor?”
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (June 20, 2018) – Yesterday, a California Assembly committee passed a bill that would increase oversight and transparency of law enforcement surveillance technology. Passage of the bill would take the first step toward limiting the unchecked use of surveillance technologies that violate basic privacy rights and feed into a broader national surveillance state.…
"This appears to be an expansion of a 2017 program that sought social media information only from a subset of initially suspicious visa applicants."
"Join the hundreds of foster parents across the United States who are meeting the needs of these vulnerable children and youth in the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program."