Farm workers are hard at work harvesting cherries in WA State. The season has just begun and it's still slow. Workers are paid $4 a bucket. When full a bucket weighs 20-25lbs. Workers tell us that on bad days like this, they are only filling 30 buckets in an 8-hr day. #WeFeedYou
"A trainee...died aftet falling ill" is something that should not be happening at all. Even accepting that people wash out or rehab & recycle in basic, death by illness is not supposed to be happening. Be it barracks or dorms, those a petri dish conditions.
Some headline writers are slightly, ever so slightly improving at their craft, it seems
United Farm Workers
That said, this kind of public rebuke from a (terrible, small man who happens to be a) senior official is a noteworthy departure from the usual leaked “we’re really really mad at Bibi and yelled at him on the phone but aren’t going to actually do anything” nonsense
Matthew J (is) Tired
The US — meaning administrations of both parties, very much including the current one — have rubber stamped and facilitated (and to a large extent modeled) precisely this national security strategy for decades.
