April 7, 2016

• Global military spending is on the rise—36% is the US alone, at $596B.
• The trials of women and children refugees, who now make up over half the refugee population in Europe.
• Report finds "unprecedented" levels of violence and threats against abortion providers in 2015.
• Obama's drug and immigration policies collide: Immigrants with low-level, nonviolent drug crimes are being rounded up and deported.
• The Dept. of Homeland Security created a bizarre, elaborate web presence for a fake New Jersey college.
• DHS can't compete with Silicon Valley wages to attract the computer experts it needs to hack Iran.
• The TSA paid IBM $47,400 for an iPad app that randomly points left or right.
• Massey Coal CEO Don Blankenship sentenced to a year in prison.
• Bernie Sanders: "Mostly cogent" on breaking up banks.
• DEA to announce whether or not it will reschedule cannabis within a matter of months.
• Economists tricked us into treating them like geniuses with fancy math.
• Mississippi governor signs extremely broad "religious protection" anti-LGBTQ bill into law.
• It's unclear whether or not the Cleveland Division of Police, under Justice Dept. oversight, can handle the GOP Convention.
• San Francisco approves full six-week paid parental leave—for mothers and fathers, including same-sex couples.
• At the bottom of the ocean, a dead whale is an ecosystem unto itself.