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This week has been such an insane week work-wise that basically we wouldn’t find out what was happening in the world until the evenings.  A lot happened in the world.

Over 500 migrant kids are still separated from their parents weeks after court deadline, including 23 kids under age 5.  I don’t know what the action item is here, other than to give another donation to places like the ACLU and Raices Texas.

Betsy DeVos wants to fund guns for school.

TODAY

—Manafort guilty on 8 counts
—Cohen guilty plea
—Trump nixes coal rules
—DJT hits Clapper
—Eliz. Warren speech
—Collins/Schumer meet Kavanaugh
—VP on Capitol Hill
—Nazi guard deported
—Chris Steele wins in court
—Rand on NATO/Russia
—Omarosa on Hardball
—Trump rally in WV

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 21, 2018

A sitting member of Congress is indicted and it's like the fourth biggest story of the day. Oh also he was the second lawmaker to endorse Trump. The first, Rep. Chris Collins, has also been indicted. This is real life. https://t.co/WsICzWOsjh

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) August 21, 2018

ICE detains man driving pregnant wife to deliver their baby.

Down with Silent Sam, and down with the NC State Legislature in November.

Beto O’Rourke defends NFL Players who take a knee.  He’s a good one to support, all you blue-state folks in safe districts wondering where to send your campaign contributions.

.@CoryBooker Statement after Meeting with Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh: https://t.co/jDBteAdr7H pic.twitter.com/ESWjiYcCGR

— Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) August 23, 2018

Somebody Flipped Trump's Peckerhttps://t.co/nYoT2tcUcU

— Individual-1Hat (@Popehat) August 23, 2018

Teen Vogue’s story on the women sexually harassed by former Northwestern professor (triggers).

Don’t have sex with students bingo card

This looks like a good important book that neither of us could handle actually reading (all the trigger warnings, also an amazon affiliate link)

MassPoliticsProfs shares a personal-political post

Related:  Why that feel-good news story should make you feel very bad

Guys, this is important. The “blue wave” is not a given. It’s not some inevitable thing that’s going to happen. Let’s LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES in 2016. All Democrats/liberals/progressives must pitch in & help. Register voters. Talk to your friends. Make sure they actually vote!!! https://t.co/WfzLz42NUt

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) August 20, 2018

Jenny Han talks about the importance of Asian Americans on screen and To all the boys I’ve loved before.  (Which is also a fantastic book, btw, though IIRC her first series, before this one, is a bit squicky in terms of age differences and young protagonists.)

Donate supplies and gift cards to former foster kids moving into the dorms at UCLA (I always give feminine products off these kinds of lists because they’re necessary and they’re usually one of the last things funded)

How much it costs to give birth in every state

Public pension plans with higher fees have worse performance

Stacking Pennies discusses Ambition in her 30s

The misunderstood science of sexual desire

Corn that doesn’t need soybeans or fertilizer

I added a layer to that "Put your hands in the air" Venn diagram going around. pic.twitter.com/1cvixMOyqg

— Matt Shirley (@mattsurely) August 22, 2018

This is an amazing performance

This truly is the greatest twitter scheme.  Is this the real life?

Like most people, I’m secure.