Refugees Australia dumped on Manus Island are subject to constant intrusive surveillance. Guards take notes about how they look each day and about who talks with whom. When they make phone calls, the guards listen.

They are threatened not to talk with journalists, and their supporters have been arrested and deported without seeing them. All this is at the behest of the Australian state.

Sooner or later, the Australian state will arrange to waterboard them, or stick burning cigarettes into their testicles. Or behead them — videos of that would sure scare any would-be refugees away from Australia.

Iowa Republicans cut off funding to Planned Parenthood for contraception and tests for cancer and diseases.

Many women on Medicaid will have trouble getting those services from anywhere else.

Saboteur of the Treasury Mnuchin advocates bringing back all of the Glass-Steagall Act, except for the Glass-Steagall Act.

The US air force bombed some of Assad's allies in Syria.

US citizens: call on Republican congresscritters to sign the discharge petition for an independent investigation of the troll's relationship with Russia.