March 27, 2023

Meanwhile. . .

Say Goodbye to Daily Hotel Room Cleaning

Youth at the Baltimore County Detention Center have been locked in squalid, rat-infested cells for 23 hours a day, according to a letter from the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. Youth are not separated from adults at the facility and students with disabilities are not afforded individualized educational plans, in violation of federal law. The letter reported that conditions for youth have not improved since the last time the public defender’s office conducted an investigation of the facility in 2018.  The Baltimore Sun

About 1 in 20 U.S. adults roughly 16 million people — own at least one AR-15, according to new polling data from The Post and Ipsos. The industry embraced the gun’s political and cultural significance as a marketing tool after a federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004, a Post investigation found. Ten of the 17 deadliest U.S. mass killings since 2012 have involved AR-15s. 

How Motherhood Led Elizabeth Warren to the Senate

In the 1950s, less than 10% of families with children were single-parent. In 2022, among families with children, 31% were single-parent — more than three times as common.

 

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