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Jack Mirkinson
jackmirkinson
Deputy Editor, Splinter

This week in “protests are good”: A protest at ICE headquarters was reportedly so effective that the whole place had to go into lockdown! I say: good! Next up: “locking down” ICE permanently—by abolishing it. Read more

CNN released its rules for its upcoming Democratic debates, which include things like “a candidate who consistently interrupts will have his or her time reduced” and—I love this— “there will be no show of hands or one-word, down-the-line questions.” Thank the LORD. Read more

Great news: The 2020 Census is reportedly being printed WITHOUT the awful, anti-immigrant, vote-suppressing citizenship question. Seemed like a foregone conclusion after the Supreme Court rejected the government’s rationale for including the question, but still: good! Read more

This is a picture of a man and his 23-month-old daughter, drowned on the bank of the Rio Grande.