Prisons should exist for public safety, hopefully for rehabilitation when possible, certainly as punishment.
What they should not be there for is to provide a cheap workforce for corporations. Want to teach some job skills that the state could profit from to return some cash into the operating budget? Well, we can talk about that.
Providing companies a worker pool that you then deny parole to in order to keep them “on the job” should be a crime in itself.
Star Wars in Ojibwe. Part of an ongoing look at Native languages being used in remaking media in our nation.
Dark days are coming for the women of America. I mean, the rest of us too, but some groups are gonna take it very, very hard soon.
ProPublica on the assault on the least of us and the cruelty of America before we even take another dive with a new Trump era.
A look at prepper foods and keeping fed in a disaster. In short, have good gear, not bland stored food.
We could be in for a seismic demographic representational change in this state.
Flanagan seems good people. My only rip on her is that her husband, Tom Weber, was a great up-and-coming journalist for MPR before she became the lieutenant governor. He stepped down because of the perceived conflict of interest.
Frankly, given the conservative voice MPR has had since it changed owners, they’d have run him off anyway, but it was definitely a loss at the time.
Little did I know that there is a Comanche language version of Prey.
Genuinely, some of the best parts of the Olympics are the backstories of the competitors.
Luna Solomon is an amazing example.
This is apparently an increasingly annoying and destructive problem, and unfortunately, Americans are a lot of the issue. No surprise there.
I remembering reading about the violence in Burma back in the 80s in – get this – Soldier of Fortune magazine. They did a spread on the Karen militias who were probably about to get wiped out by the military who eventually took over the country a few years later.
Surprise, surprise. Some of them stayed alive, kept the faith, and are now leading the charge to take back Burma.