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“No nation can have the policy that whole classes of people are immune from immigration law or enforcement. It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. The message is that no one is exempt from immigration law.”

White House official Stephen Miller wants credit for breaking up families at the border.

↩︎ GQ

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"Digital wellness," app-enabled, is the movement to help you take your life back from your phone.

↩︎ The Washington Post 17h

Yes, of course they're concentration camps. They aren't the unique subset of death camps that were invented by the Nazis for genocide, or even Arctic Gulag camps built for hard labor. But they're camps created to punish a whole class of civilians via mass detention without trial.

An expert on concentration camps on the United States’s border and customs facilities.

↩︎ Andrea Pitzer / Twitter

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In case you're feeling helpless, here are some things you can do to help immigrant families separated at our border.

↩︎ Slate 19h

Photos from 50 years ago when lunar orbiters circled the moon, looking for a landing site for the Apollo missions.

↩︎ World of Indie 23h

More than 4,000 homes in Marin County may not outlive a 30-year mortgage because of rising seawater.

↩︎ The San Francisco Chronicle 23h

A California town names a new school after Jose Antonio Vargas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning undocumented immigrant.

↩︎ The Associated Press 23h

Most people know the stigma associated with mental illness. But there’s even more stigma within communities of color, and within Asian culture, it’s particularly bad. It’s like Russian nesting dolls of shame.

Studies show Asian Americans are three times less likely than white people to seek mental health treatment.

↩︎ Vox

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Inside an old South Texas warehouse, hundreds of migrant children wait in cages, caring for each other.

↩︎ The Associated Press 1d

A Dutch designer created a human-powered machine that knits a scarf in five minutes. The designer writes:

Imagine it's the midst of winter. You are cold and bored waiting for your train at the station. This pedal-powered machine gets you warm by moving, you are making something while you wait and in the end you are left with a free scarf! That you can decide to keep yourself or give to someone who needs it more.

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Behavioral scientists say mindfulness is great for employees, but not their bosses who need maximum productivity.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d

For Merkel to reach for radical responses in the name of German Europeanism would be ideological, programmatic and engaged. It would go entirely against the spirit of Merkelism.

Germany’s political drama puts Merkelism to the test. Then again, Merkel has been systematically underestimated.

↩︎ Jeremy Cliffe / Twitter

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"Wake Up!" German newspapers see a national crisis after their soccer team's World Cup loss to Mexico.

↩︎ The Guardian 1d

Nineteen of Napoleon's favored hats are thought to still exist. One goes on sale today.

↩︎ BBC News 1d

French air traffic control causes a third of flight delays in Europe each year, thanks to strikes and old equipment.

↩︎ The Guardian 1d

The Carters, Beyoncé and Jay Z, released a new album over the weekend, with a music video shot in a Louvre Museum rarely seen: without crowds.

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"Classical liberal" makes a comeback, for those who believe in liberty for all, not just for themselves.

↩︎ Politico 1d

For eighteen years, a Japanese photographer's family of seven coexisted in a one-room apartment.

↩︎ The New Yorker 1d

Mexico fans celebrated their team's dominating World Cup performance over Germany with an earthquake.

↩︎ ESPN 1d

"They had been separated from their child between May 23 and May 25, and as of June 11, not one of them had been able to talk to their child or knew a phone number that functioned from the detention center director."

The head of an asylum nonprofit in Houston relates what she’s seeing in border detention facilities.

↩︎ Texas Monthly

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