The Pentagon might have a budget of over $1 trillion but they're somehow short on whiteboards... Meanwhile, schools are literally falling apart and students are freezing, boiling and being piled into trailers in order to learn about the gloriousness and exceptionalism of 'Murica.  And absolutely relatedly, 11 million of the 70+ million children in the US live in extreme poverty.  In other news, cells taken without consent from a Black woman back in the 50s have been used for scientific research for more than half a century.  PLUS some updates/discussion on the Teamsters/UPS tentative agreement and is Flint getting UBI?   leecamp.net