Protesting Kafka for kids: Atlanta’s huge “Families Belong Together” march, rally

By Jonathan Grant @Brambleman Families belong together. Across the United States, that was the message at 750 protests protesting the Trump Administration’s horribly cruel immigration policies that includes separating families, keeping kids in cages and putting toddlers on trial without an attorney. The sheer ugliness of the “zero tolerance” plan is beyond belief, even surreal: Kafka for kids. Several million marchers across the U.S. I haven’t seen any authoritative crowd estimates for the march and rally here in Atlanta (AJC gave a lame “several thousand”) but it was huge. I was in the middle of the march and I’d guesstimate it was at least 7,500 and maybe 10,000. (DIY crowd estimate.I didn’t see the doll babies in cages some protesters marched with,…

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Trump’s approval takes a dive

President Donald Trump almost had non-dismal rating after North Korea bump, but his dastardly bungling on immigration causes steep drop in approval. Should get worse for @POTUS as people see him fail to fix. 6/17: 50% disapprove, 45% approve 6/24: 55% disapprove; 41% approve See results: https://bit.ly/2M2sm9d

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