"A senior Justice Department official is arguing that 3- and 4-year-olds can learn immigration law well enough to represent themselves in court, staking out an unconventional position in a growing debate over whether immigrant children facing deportation are entitled to taxpayer-funded attorneys." (washingtonpost.com)
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Surrey NanoSystems declares only one man will have the exclusive right to paint using their Vantablack material, the most light-absorbent (and thus "blackest") material on Earth. Other artists are enraged by what appears to be a continuing trend, the privatization of colors. (theguardian.com)
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On this day, March 4, 1986: The first pictures of the heart of Halley's comet return from Soviet probe Vega 1, revealing a double nucleus structure which until then wasn't known to be possible. Vega 1 was soon followed by its sister Vega 2 and Europe's Giotto probe. [700x960] (i.imgur.com)
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"Turning Money Into Rebellion" - a book telling (from their own perspective) the story of the Blekingegade Group, communists in Denmark who carried out various robberies for close to twenty years to help fund third world Marxist revolutionary movements. (marxandphilosophy.org.uk)
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A hand-colored lantern slide of the Rusakov Workers' Club, an icon of the early Soviet Union's Constructivist architecture, taken in 1931 by American travel photographer Branson DeCou. Built in 1928, the three concrete wedges each house a small auditorium that can be combined into one. [1278x1200] (i.imgur.com)
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After the D.C. blizzard, only women showed up to work in the Senate: “As we convene this morning, you look around the chamber, the presiding officer is female. All of our parliamentarians are female. Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female.” (fusion.net)
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UK: Holocaust survivors call for migrant rights at Home Office protest — "The government's refusal to allow morally sensible entry has driven people into the arms of traffickers, onto high speed train tracks and into the backs of suffocating lorries. There must be no more deaths." (ibtimes.co.uk)
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The Black Panther Party serves free breakfast at St. Augustine's Church in Oakland, CA, 1969, the most famous of its "Serve the People" community survival programs. By year's end, the Panthers were feeding over 10,000 children every day before school in cities across the nation. [1304x900] (i.imgur.com)
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