April 1st - 7th Clicks

March 18-24 Clicks: Puppies then everything is terrible

US government uses several clandestine shelters to detain immigrant children

https://www.revealnews.org/article/us-government-uses-several-clandestine-shelters-to-detain-immigrant-children/

The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pentagon-budget-mystery-807276/

Meanwhile, the Air Force, which has a $156 billion annual budget, still doesn’t always use serial numbers. It has no idea how much of almost anything it has at any given time. Nuclear weapons are the exception, and it started electronically tagging those only after two extraordinary mistakes, in 2006 and 2007. In the first, the Air Force accidentally loaded six nuclear weapons in a B-52 and flew them across the country, unbeknownst to the crew. In the other, the services sent nuclear nose cones by mistake to Taiwan, which had asked for helicopter batteries.

This was an inside joke. The joke was, the Pentagon isn’t so hot at counting buildings. Just a few years ago, in fact, it admitted to losing track of “478 structures,” in addition to 39 Black Hawk helicopters (whose fully loaded versions list for about $21 million a pop).

That didn’t mean 478 buildings disappeared. But they did vanish from the government’s ledgers at some point. The Pentagon bureaucracy is designed to spend money quickly and deploy troops and material to the field quickly, but it has no reliable method of recording transactions. It designs stealth drones and silent-running submarines, but still hasn’t progressed to bar codes when it comes to tracking inventory.

Dramatic Satellite Photos Show Historic Flooding Across Central U.S. in Wake of Bomb Cyclone

https://earther.gizmodo.com/dramatic-satellite-photos-show-historic-flooding-across-1833380530

Mar. 11-17th, 2019 Clicks you might have missed

Sleep is a brain repair mechanism

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/11/sleep-is-a-brain-repair-mechan.html

“Appelbaum said that chromosomes are constantly changing shape to allow the cells’ natural repair mechanisms to mend DNA damage at different points. When awake, the repair work cannot keep up with the rate at which damage builds up, but in the calm hours of sleep, the repair mechanisms have a chance to get on top of the job.”

What Climate Organizers Can Learn From Two Centuries of Indigenous Resistance

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/07/nick-estes-our-history-is-the-future-indigenous-resistance/

“To be Indigenous is to be political by default, because we’re not supposed to be here, first of all, and second of all, we’re Indigenous because of the land we sit atop, and the land we protect, and the territories we protect, and that means that we will always be in the way of development. There’s no neutral stance that Indigenous people can take.”

Things Cut in Half

https://www.demilked.com/things-cut-in-half/

Intercept Investigation Leads to Record FEC Fines

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/11/intercept-investigation-leads-to-record-fines-over-foreign-campaign-contributions/

“It is illegal for foreign nationals to contribute money in connection with U.S. elections. However, APIC and Right to Rise USA attempted to use an odd loophole created by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision to funnel overseas cash into American politics.”

Here’s What New York’s Climate Strike Looked Like

https://earther.gizmodo.com/heres-what-new-yorks-climate-strike-looked-like-1833320316