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Babies. They’re fucking stealing babies:

Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.

Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis. The government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where city leaders denounced the move Tuesday.

Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, resulting in a new influx of young children requiring government care. The government has faced withering critiques over images of some of the children in cages inside U.S. Border Patrol processing stations.

Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents.

“The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which provides foster care and other child welfare services to migrant children. “Toddlers are being detained.”

Rachel Maddow chokes up and cries on air as she struggles to deliver news that migrant babies and toddlers have been sent to "tender age" shelters pic.twitter.com/O6crm8cvyR

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 20, 2018

DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was hungry after a long day of ripping babies from their mothers’ breasts and decided to go to a Mexican restaurant (SERIOUSLY??!!!??) for a quick bite. Protesters were not far behind:

Part one of a video of @mdc_dsa @DC_IWW and others shouting DHS Secretary Nielsen out of a restaurant. She doesn’t need to be kidnapping #immigrantchildren to deserve this treatment. Don’t give the regime a moment of rest. #KeepFamilesTogether pic.twitter.com/B3RfraOk1E

— Smash Racism DC (@SmashRacismDC) June 20, 2018

Good! Don’t let these nazi fucks have a moment of rest. The entire video is here. Not sure if she got to finish her pollo con mole or had it sent away to some undisclosed location where it will be lost.

DHS Secretary Nielsen just got driven out of a Mexican restaurant here on 14th Street by activists. DSA, I believe. pic.twitter.com/lTKutryXBO

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) June 20, 2018

Renaming a school from a traitor who fought to keep black people enslaved to the first black president is fine by me:

RICHMOND, Va. — In a majority six to one vote, the Richmond Public School board voted Monday night to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart Elementary to Barack Obama Elementary School

Barack Obama Elementary school was chosen from a total of seven finalists.

Earlier this year the Richmond School Board voted 8-1 to rename the Northside school that honored the Confederate general.

One of the few members of the GOP who isn’t following orders… yet:

Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said he will not send the Massachusetts National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border due to the “cruel and inhumane” decision by the Trump administration to separate children from their parents as families arrive at the border.

“We told the National Guard to hold steady and to not go down to the border —period,” Baker said on Monday. “We won’t be supporting that initiative unless they change the policy.

A helicopter crew had been set to fly down later this month to work with federal officials to help track illegal activity along the border with Mexico.

Pres. Trump calls for establishment of a "space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces."

"When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space." https://t.co/NkJuIoyFEp pic.twitter.com/1b4w6NGDTC

— ABC News (@ABC) June 18, 2018

WTF is a Space Force?

In the National Defense Authorization Act, the House Armed Services Committee proposed last June the establishment of a space corps, a new branch of the military that would fall under the command of the Air Force. This branch’s relationship to the Air Force would be similar to the Marine Corps’ ties to the Navy. The space corps would have an area of responsibility that encompasses the vast expanse outside of the Earth’s atmosphere.