A Canadian court held the government legally responsible for the suffering and life impairments caused to indigenous children cause by forcibly taking them from their parents and putting them into assimilationist boarding schools.

It is amazing that this continued as late as 1984.

The US had a similar policy of coercing indigenous children to attend assimilationist boarding schools, and this was only finally eliminated in 1978.

Another technique for forced assimilation was taking indigenous children away from their families and giving them to non-indigenous foster families.

Obama's head of the Securities and Exchange Commission was working the whole time for the companies she was supposed to regulate. Now she has returned to working for them more directly.

The troll's appointee will probably act even worse because person won't be obligated to pretend to be doing the job right.

SCROTUS rushed to confirm saboteur Pruitt as head of the EPA before he obeyed the court order to release emails he exchanged with fossil fuel companies. I guess SCROTUS feared that the email would give them some reason they had to reject him.

Senator Manchin is officially a Democrat, but in deeds he is a Republican.

"Ignore his insults and focus on his lies" is a step in the right direction. But you have to go further because his lies are mostly trolling too.

I'd say, ignore his insults, and ignore his lies except when attacking them is funny. Focus on the troll's actions and how they are unjust or damaging.

Germany has classified a doll with a built-in microphone as an illegal spy device. People who own them are required to disable the microphone.

Does this seem like an overreaction to you? I think action is required so as to teach people how dangerous these listening devices are. I disagree with punishing people who have bought them, but they ought to fix the devices.

The device is nasty in other ways too, It is full of proprietary software, and it communicates with other devices. To use it at all is a mistake. But the microphone allows it to snoop on people that don't use it.