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AP’s Today in History for December 26th
A tsunami kills more than 200-thousand people is Southeast Asia; Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten to death; Winston Churchill addresses joint session of Congress; Presidents Truman and Ford die.
Breakfast Tune Rhiannon Giddens featuring Yo-Yo Ma – “Build A House”
Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below
- No, Joe, Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet for Torture Enablers
MEDEA BENJAMIN – MARCY WINOGRAD
- We Need $2,000 and Real COVID-19 Relief
DAVID SIROTA, ANDREW PEREZ, WALKER BRAGMAN
- Getting Serious About Repealing Section 230
DEAN BAKER
- Barack Obama Has Nothing to Say About Central America
HILARY GOODFRIEND
- FBI’s Newest Prerogative: Shooting Subway Passengers
JAMES BOVARD
- At Chipotle, They Ignore the Rats and Punish the Workers
ALEX N. PRESS
Something to think about over coffee prozac
Humane Trap-And-Removal Program Sedates Tenants So They Unconscious During Eviction
T.O.
ORLANDO, FL—Aiming to make the process of forcible displacement easier for all involved, a new humane trap-and-removal program being piloted by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office sedates apartment tenants so they are unconscious during an eviction, sources confirmed Friday. “Residents often become frightened and act in unpredictable ways when we throw them out of their homes, but the whole thing goes pretty smoothly if we just knock them out first,” said Sheriff Dale Katsakis, who described showing up at someone’s door and shooting them with a tranquilizer dart as a more compassionate approach that allowed for people and possessions to be carted off without putting renters or his deputies in harm’s way. “If it’s a family, we usually do the mother first, because then it’s a whole lot easier to do the kids. Before they know it, they wake up in an alley with their stuff in a big pile and the whole thing is over, just like that.” Katsakis added that his department had also started transporting the sedated tenants far away from their former homes to ensure they didn’t simply go right back to the place they had been evicted from.