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By Joshua Craze @ TheBaffler.com, May 2023 issue
By the time Immigration and Customs Enforcement had amassed enough passengers to fill up a deportation flight to East Africa, Duol Tut Jock was ready to leave. He “wanted the waiting to end,” he said, and to “get the shackles off.” They remained on for the long flight that had taken Jock from Louisiana to Juba, the capital of South Sudan—a country that hadn’t even existed when he left Africa in 1994, merely three years old, and entered the United States. “Those shackles are cursed,” he said. It was September 2021, and we were sitting in one of Juba’s riverside bars. After ICE removes someone’s fetters, Jock told me, staring into the White Nile, “they wipe them down, and use them on the next deportee.”
Prior to his deportation in 2019, Jock had spent two years in the limbo of ICE custody [....]
Even in the absence of a ban, for women in need of abortion access, the overall picture is grim — and the worst is yet to come.
[....] Interviews we conducted with activists, doctors and lawmakers from eight countries all show that due to a combination of restrictive legislation, prohibitive medical costs and the decreasing availability of doctors willing to perform an abortion, terminating a pregnancy is increasingly becoming a nightmare for women in Europe [....]
Quite a story, nicely told w/o an axe to grind.
Culture differences abound.
(Previous thread HERE covering April 20 thru June 8; Trump indictment news starting HERE on Pericles' Trump thread)
Beijing agrees to pay Havana several billion dollars for eavesdropping facility
Man had been seen waving guns, blow torch from roof of building By ABC7 Chicago Digital Team, June 3, 2023 VIDEOS at link
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was found dead inside an abandoned warehouse in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood after a more than 12-hour standoff with a police SWAT team.
Chicago police said they responded to the incident in the 4100 block of West Chicago Avenue just after 11 a.m. Friday.
The man who police believed was armed was seen on top of the building waving what appeared to be guns and a blow torch.
Video from Chopper 7HD showed the scaffolding the man was using to display an anti-Semitic sign, the Chicago flag, the Ukrainian flag, and an upside down American flag which is a universal sign of distress.
Police blocked traffic from a six-block radius around the incident [....]
PREVIOUS CRIME NEWS THREAD HERE, covering March 22 thru May 31
State Farm also cites inflation of construction costs in statement which comes after increasing wildfires in state
The insurance giant State Farm, America’s biggest car and home insurer by premium volume, will halt the sale of new home insurance policies in California, citing wildfire risk and inflation of construction costs.
Starting on Saturday, the company will not accept insurance applications for business and personal lines property and casualty insurance. The company will still accept auto insurance applicants.
“State Farm General Insurance Company made this decision due to historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market,” the company said in a statement. [....]