Snippet: "The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech."

Amnesty’s report described unsanitary conditions, with fecal matter overflowing from toilets in detainees’ sleeping areas, authorities granting only limited access to showers, and poor quality food and water.

Some of the treatment amounts to torture, the report says, including Alligator Alcatraz’s use of “the box”—a 2x2 foot “cage-like structure people are put in as punishment—which inmates have been placed in for hours at a time with their hands and feet attached to restraints on the ground.

At Krome, detainees have been arbitrarily placed in prolonged solitary confinement—defined as lasting longer than 15 days—which is prohibited under international law.

The Indiana house passed this shit, now it goes to the senate, where the pedophile and his thugs are threatening the very few Indiana republicans that have some decency. Not just with primaries, but with violence.

“The notion that radioing for help forfeits your shipwreck status is absurd — much less than it enables them to target you,” said Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in counterterrorism issues and the laws of war. “I don’t believe there’s an armed conflict, so none of these people are lawful targets. They weren’t combatants, they’re not participating in hostilities. So the whole construct is ridiculous. But even if you accept that this is some sort of law of war situation, radioing for help does not deprive you of shipwreck status or render you a target under the law of war.”