Monday, July 24: "Biggest" Jail for Children
You mean to tell me there are small and medium-sized jails for children??
It’s never easy to identify the greatest horror the United States establishment has to offer, but I’m gonna say incarcerating children in horrifying prison conditions might just crack the top 5.
This article provides an appalling behind-the-scenes look into the biggest jail for children in New Mexico. How we as a society have allowed for children to be jailed is a question I’ll never be able to answer, similar to how we as a collective have decided that school shootings are simply a part of life here in America. That’s just the cost of doing business here in the “land of the free”.
The children housed at Bernalillo County Youth Services Center, aged 12 - 17 and strictly referred to as “residents,” never inmates, are "routinely subjected to strip searches, held for weeks in cells without toilets, and left with only a thin plastic sheet to block out the glare of hallway lights that never turn off”. The majority of these children are Hispanic or Native, thus continuing a long-standing American tradition of ruining the futures of minority children before they have a chance to live.
To be clear, a strip search is sexual assault. A strip search of children is child sexual abuse. And yet there’s no outcry from the “pro-life” brigade, no argument from the people who claim to care about protecting children. A society that does this to its children simply cannot carry on.
Side Items
X Gonna Give It to Ya: Well folks, the Muskrat is back at it again. After wasting the wealth of a small nation buying Twitter, the dumbest rich man on the planet has chosen to rename the social media app we’ve grown to know and love (or hate), changing the household brand name from Twitter to X. People will say, "they'll teach this in business school one day" about the rapid downfall of Twitter, but personally I don't think anyone needs a business class to teach them not to amplify their worst user base and then change their globally-famous brand name to something incredibly stupid, but that’s just me, a business genius
Apartheid Approval: Defenders and advocates for apartheid in Israel approved a key portion of prime minister Benny Netanyahu’s divisive plan to reshape the country’s justice system, despite protests by thousands of citizens. The vote came earlier today after a contentious legislative session in which opposition lawmakers chanted “shame” and then stormed out of the chamber. No word yet on how much “shame” these same politicians feel about occupying, oppressing, and murdering Palestinians on a daily basis
A King’s Ransom: Saudi Arabian soccer team Al-Hilal has made a record 300 million euro ($332 million) bid for Kylian Mbappe earlier today. Mbappe’s current team, Paris Saint-Germain, confirmed the offer for its player and has given Al-Hilal permission to open negotiations directly with Mbappe. One of the brightest young soccer stars on the planet is currently embroiled in a contract standoff with PSG after his recent decision not to take up the option of a 12-month extension on his deal. Instead, Mbappe plans to walk away as a free agent at the end of the upcoming season when he is widely expected to join Real Madrid