Tear Jerkers

“I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.” Sarah Jeong in The Verge: How to tear gas children.

+ “The 7-year-old Gresham girl who was detained on her way to see the doctor last month is only eating bread with mayonnaise and her family has to purchase water because the water provided at the Texas detention center where they’re being held is undrinkable.” (In a twist that seems all too predictable in today’s America, there’s also been a measles outbreak in the facility.)