The wild part to me is that a the US missiles in question, the Jupiter series, were sort of dogshit and already outdated when the cuban missile crisis finally rolled around. They were stored above ground which made them easy targets, and they had a minimum response time of 15 minutes so they were pretty useless as retaliatory weapons. I mean at the end of the day it was all about projecting power, but still.

As young as thirteen, it was in the article. Legally, it’s different because minors aren’t allowed to work in an industrial environment. Scrubbing blood and chunks of dead animal off of factory machinery isn’t the same as sweeping a restaurant lobby.

Private fostering and adoption agencies. In GOP states they deliberately underfund DCS and divert funds to privately run agencies (many of which are faith based) to cover the gap. It serves a double purpose, because it’s a grift that funnels public aid money into private hands, plus faith based organizations can refuse services to whoever they feel like. In this case, it’s partially a cash grab and partially wanting to appease folks who are beholden to some kind of weird, assimilationist fantasy about saving the defenseless natives.