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Recently, I sat on a plastic chair across from Shakir, my teenage son. He had traveled with his older brother from about an hour away to visit me here in Trenton, at New Jersey State Prison. The three of us were discussing the importance of putting knowledge before wisdom when, out of nowhere, Shakir began to cry.

The post The Case for More Conjugal and Extended-Stay Visits in Prison appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

I wake up early at 6 a.m. It’s a habit I picked up back in my early 20s, when I was a defense contractor for a private security firm. I’ll get all the sleep I need when I’m dead.

The post A Day in My Cell: ‘The Little Things’ I Enjoy in Solitary Confinement appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

A federal copyright lawsuit targeting six of the most prominent private BitTorrent trackers, including PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits, may be the work of an impostor. Attorneys representing two of the alleged operators told a federal judge they tracked down the real person behind the films cited in the complaint. Responding to the revelation, Illinois Judge Andrea Wood slammed the brakes on pending motions, scheduling an in-person hearing to get to the bottom of it.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

The Federal Communications Commission is supposed to be an independent government agency that “regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the […]

The post How close is FCC chair Brendan Carr to the Trump White House? New records offer a look. appeared first on Poynter.

Two election modelers — Nate Silver and G. Elliott Morris — now give Democrats a better than 50% chance of winning the Senate, Bloomberg reports.

The November elections technically start on September 4, when North Carolina starts sending out absentee-vote-by-mail ballots, Jamie Dupree reports. Jonathan Bernstein: “Other states follow soon after; by early October lots and lots of people will be voting; almost a third of the states begin early voting by the end of the first week of October.”

“A Missouri judge has allowed new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump to be used in the November elections, rejecting a bid by to put the Republican-friendly districts to a statewide vote of the people,” the Associated Press reports. “The ruling Wednesday by Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green is a victory for […]

The “Asian Water Tower” is losing roughly 24.2 billion tonnes of groundwater every year, with some of the worst declines hitting densely populated farming regions. Glacier melt may temporarily soften the crisis around the 2060s, but without changes in water use, researchers expect depletion to accelerate afterward.

Specialized brain scans reveal that schizophrenia is linked to widespread loss of the synapses that connect brain cells, with the left side of the brain hit especially hard. The damage follows a surprisingly organized pattern tied to the brain’s chemistry and wiring. Researchers also identified a left frontal region that may serve as a starting point for the loss.

Spain’s total solar eclipse delivered an unexpected sight: a corona glowing gold instead of its usual pearly white. Because the Sun was setting, its light passed through more atmosphere, while smoke from nearby wildfires filtered out even more blue light. The result was a dramatic golden eclipse, punctuated by a bright pink solar prominence.

A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured detailed images showing bright and dark streaks of debris blasted across the surrounding surface. The impact even exposed fresh material buried beneath the Moon’s weathered exterior.

Extreme experiments have revealed how diamond behaves at crushing pressures beyond those inside Neptune and Uranus, resolving a decades-old conflict between theory and observation. The results could help scientists boost fusion energy output while revealing more about the exotic diamond rain hidden inside ice giant planets.

Knee osteoarthritis can seriously affect mobility and quality of life, but its progression isn’t completely out of your control. Exercise, stronger leg muscles, a healthier diet, and even modest weight loss can dramatically reduce stress on the knees and help keep pain in check.

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be folded into the genus Homo because new fossils have blurred many of the traits once used to separate them. The proposed shake-up could provide a simpler, more accurate picture of our surprisingly complicated evolutionary past.

More than 1,000 genetic switches behave differently in male and female immune cells, helping explain why women are much more vulnerable to autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Female immune systems appear genetically tuned for stronger inflammatory responses—a powerful defense against infection that may also make dangerous immune misfires more likely.

Rep Ro Khanna explained to Don Lemon why Trump is flailing around so badly: He is jealous of Barack Obama and can't believe a Black man was better than him. And so it is just this actual anger as an American citizen that we've got a president so incompetent that he is des...

While the rest of the right-wing media went into freakout mode over Sen. Jon Ossoff's jab at Trump and his aide Natalie Harp, Fox's Jesse Watters had a rare moment of candor. As we already discussed here, Ossoff hit Trump during a speech in Atlanta this past Sunday, telling the audience that Trump would rather build the White House ballroom and travel with Harp than “do the job” of President.'

Trump responded by attacking a reporter's children for daring to even ask him about it, and by calling Ossoff "Pee Wee Herman."

During a discussion on this Tuesday's The Five, Watters downplayed the comments and said he wasn't fazed by them:

On Tuesday’s edition of The Five, Fox News’ Dana Perino said to Watters, “It wasn’t a quip that just came rolling off the tongue. It was written into the speech.” Notably, the segment’s chyron read “SEXIST SMEAR.”

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In the United Kingdom, on this very day in 1971, the soon-to-be classic, whimsical musical (yes, it's a musical) fantasy that is "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" was turned loose on the British public. I love the movie, which was so innovative in so many ways. F...

Fox host Martha MacCallum was speaking with Elijah Manley, who was running to represent Florida in Congress. The subject was immigration, and MacCallum tried to be slick and trip Manley up. It didn't turn out the way she expected. MacCallum laid the trap by saying, "There a...

Peter Kauffmann helps lead a billionaire-funded network intervening in Democratic primaries — while representing a front group fighting to keep your credit fees high.