news again-dum May 2018

Masha Gessen in The New Yorker explains why taking children from their parents is a form of terrorism.

Trump's anti-immigrant hate now includes the forced separation of parents fr children. @mashagessen explains: "Hostage-taking is an instrument of terror. Capturing family members, especially children, is a tried-&-true instrument of totalitarian terror" https://t.co/bLDXGGIN8p

— David Leopold (@DavidLeopold) May 26, 2018

An investigation as to why this woman was killed is reported to have begun.

SHE HAS A NAME: unarmed 20 year old, Claudia Patricia Gómez González, from Guatemala, was shot and killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday near Laredo, Texas. pic.twitter.com/mNTgaomOvD

— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) May 25, 2018

Reports of US ICE Border Patrol units separating children from parents and then losing track of thousands of them, and the shock and outrage of this has spread across the internet. The ACLU is leading the cry on national venues.

We have to show the world the Trump administration's cruelty doesn't speak for us.

If you don't want to live in a country that brutally separates young children from their parents, now is the time to be loud. #EndFamilySeparation #WhereAreTheChildren https://t.co/GiVy9eeGrh

— ACLU (@ACLU) May 26, 2018

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We have to admit, this is historic. Korea for Koreans? Can we hope for peace? What could that be like?

Koreas discussing possible non-aggression pledge, peace treaty talks ahead of North Korea-U.S. summit https://t.co/4VpkFACtXt pic.twitter.com/aw6bAWdhZ0

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 27, 2018

In oblique quick-takes, this also caught my eye.

A Fascinating Map of Medieval Trade Routes https://t.co/xLdsjwJssg pic.twitter.com/VoiR2jnqoY

— Paul Banks (@PaulBanks84) May 26, 2018

American letters regrettably have lost a couple of great figures recently.

Philip Roth, a prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, dies at 85. https://t.co/eJKydUl17H

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 23, 2018

Tom Wolfe, author of 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test', died on Monday. @parisreview pulled an interview with him from the archive. https://t.co/PCX7vJwRnC

— Chicago Review of Books (@ChicagoRevBooks) May 16, 2018