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Millrat set his sights on a new homestead.

This has nothing to do with politics. It has everything to do with freedom. In 2005, I fell ill, lost my job as a result of the illness (companies must minimize their risk exposure, after all). By mid...

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Millrat Homestead 2, and ponderings about frogs.

We missed out on the property. I'm a bit bummed out about it. It would seem the Amish owner sold it last weekend to another from Ohio, violating his contract with the realty company we were dealing...

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Millrat's hiatus. A step towards freedom.

Mrs. Millrat informed me tonight that we will be cancelling all electronic accounts this week so she can pursue frog-land and make it happen sooner. As a man who has spent his life with a woman some...

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Fl. Dem Candidate Graham going after Rick Scott's records on Detention camps.

Gwen Graham, daughter of Former Gov. and Senator Bob Graham seeking Rick Scott’s  records on this new immoral practice of detaining children.  Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham is going...

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As Texas prison camp for migrant kids closes, another facility in Florida...

One monstrosity in the Texas desert has been shuttered even as another one along the Florida coastline is expanding. Following the closure and upcoming dismantlement of the prison camp for children in...

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Civil rights group sues Trump admin on behalf of thousands of detained...

A top civil rights organization has filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking the release of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children who continue to remain under U.S....

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Lawyers say Trump administration has been jailing some migrant kids in...

The prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, is the largest such detention facility in the nation—and it is reportedly operating illegally. A group of attorneys and advocates who have...

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Advocates describe traumatized migrant kids packed 'like sardines' at Florida...

Campaign ActionThe Trump administration is portraying the prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, as an orderly “shelter” where kids can have talent shows and movie nights during the...

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'Morally bankrupt system': House Democrats tour Florida prison camp for...

Campaign ActionA group of House Democrats who visited an unlicensed prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, described meeting kids who have been jailed there for as long as nine months....

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ICE continues swooping in to arrest detained minors on their 18th birthday

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to arrest minors who turn 18 while held in children’s detention facilities. In one instance, a 17-year-old girl who fled sexual violence in El...

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Senators Feinstein, Grassley call for investigation into sexual abuse of...

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein are calling on the Health and Human Services (HHS) inspector general to investigate “the alleged and long-term pattern of sexual...

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Cartoon: Homestead High: 'A typical teen in a typical American for-profit...

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Under scrutiny, private company running prison camp for migrant kids abandons...

The private company that is federally contracted to run the unlicensed prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, has abandoned its plan to go public. “The Virginia-based Caliburn...

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Detained kids were told they wouldn't be reunited with relatives if they...

Three kids who are detained at the prison camp for unaccompanied migrant children in Florida told a U.S. senator that staff threatened not to reunite them with their families “if they misbehaved,”the...

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Japanese American internment camp survivors hold protest outside migrant...

Six Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in U.S. internment camps during World War II were among more than 100 demonstrators who staged a peaceful protest outside a migrant family jail in Dilley,...

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Prison camp for migrant kids in Florida could soon grow larger than nearby...

The unlicensed prison camp for migrant kids in Homestead, Florida, could soon grow larger in size than the nearby high school. The Trump administration has announced that the facility will be expanded...

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Trump admin illegally blocks House Democrats from entering prison camp for...

Three House Democrats were illegally denied entrance to a prison camp for migrant children in Florida on Monday, in violation of a law sponsored by one of those legislators and signed into place by...

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Job listing for migrant prison camp says applicants must be able to restrain...

Are you over 21 years old and able to physically restrain a migrant kid who may have recently fled for their life to the U.S.? A prison camp for migrant kids in Homestead, Florida, may be just right...

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Trump admin wants to detain as many as 23,600 migrant kids and is demanding...

On the same day that a 16-year-old migrant boy died while in U.S. custody, the Trump administration requested billions of dollars in “emergency funding” in order to have the capacity to detain tens of...

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Lawmakers want HHS watchdog to investigate migrant kids prison camp's no-bid...

A group of House Democrats representing Florida is calling on the Health and Human Services watchdog to probe the “hush-hush,” no-bid $341 million dollar contract that was recently given to the company...

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Guards block children from delivering letters of support to migrant kids...

Children from across the U.S. wrote nearly 3,000 letters of support to other children just like them, but who are jailed at the prison camp for migrant kids in Homestead, Florida. “You are not alone,”...

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Trump admin to imprison 1,400 migrant kids on site of former Japanese...

Japanese Americans who survived being jailed in internment camps by their own government during World War II have not been silent, spending years now warning about repetition of history. “When we were...

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Hundreds march on Father's Day to demand closure of Florida prison camp...

​​​​​​Carrying signs reading "Homes Instead!" and "Stop Separating Families,” hundreds marched in the rain over the Father’s Day weekend to demand the closure of the prison camp for migrant children in...

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Elizabeth Warren to visit Florida prison camp jailing 2,300 migrant children

Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced during a Florida town hall Tuesday that she would be visiting the prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, which currently jails 2,300...

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Getting Sen. Warren to tour a facility for migrant children? This little...

Big things come in small packages and that is certainly the case with Summit Wicks-Lim. The young activist attended a meeting in Florida on Tuesday with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Summit and her mother,...

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Elizabeth Warren blocked from entering Homestead facility, says migrant kids...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren was blocked from entering the prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida on Wednesday—she hasn’t been the only federal legislator prevented from entering this...

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Five 2020 candidates tried to tour the Florida prison camp for migrant kids....

Five Democratic candidates for president—two of them sitting United States senators—were denied entry to the prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, on Friday, Rep. Debbie...

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Officials jailed teen who has lived in U.S. since he was a baby at the prison...

He just wanted to earn some extra money over the summer to help his mom with bills and buy an iPhone. He ended up getting detained by federal immigration officials and thrown into a prison camp for...

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Hundreds of jailed migrant teens are at risk of being turned over to ICE when...

The population of the prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, has fallen from thousands earlier this year to 774 kids as of this week, with the vast majority of them released to family...

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Trump admin reportedly looking at California, Florida, and Virginia for...

Just days after announcing that a plan to reuse a World War II-era internment camp to jail migrant children has been halted for now, the Trump administration is reportedly looking for permanent...

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Sofia was jailed at a prison camp for migrant kids. Then, on her 18th...

Her 18th birthday should have been a special day for “Sofia,” but because she was jailed at the prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, the asylum-seeker was instead shackled and...

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Migrant children in private detention center removed under the cover of...

The children were removed under the guise of a hurricane.To be clear. Miami is not under a hurricane watch or warning, nor is any of South Florida in “the cone”. In fact, there is no hurricane in the...

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All kids have been removed from the Homestead prison camp in Florida, but...

The Department of Health and Human Services said this past weekend that all remaining kids jailed at the unlicensed prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, have either been released to...

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Florida prison camp for migrant kids, emptied out just weeks ago, could...

The prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, was cleared out just two weeks ago, but it appears that vacancy could be short-lived. The Trump administration expects it could resume...

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Trump admin has kept the empty Homestead prison camp running to the tune of...

There have been no children jailed at the Homestead prison camp for migrant kids in Florida since the beginning of August, and that’s the way it should stay. But even though the prison camp has...

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Trump admin wants to block doctor testimony in legal case around migrant kids...

Trump administration attorneys are demanding a federal court ignore declarations made by a number of experts, including physicians and children’s advocates, as part of a legal case that could once and...

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Private company with tie to former Trump official is raking in big bucks to...

Apparently it’s not enough that the Trump administration has increased the number of detained immigrants, to the glee of for-profit companies that run private prisons, because officials are also...

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Trump administration plans to close Homestead concentration camp, and to open...

In “Homestead detention center will shut down, but will cost millions to run empty till the end”, the Miami Herald’s Alex Daugherty and Monique O. Madan reported yesterday that the Department of Health...

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For-profit company's contract to run prison camp for migrant kids won't be...

The closure of the Florida prison camp for migrant kids has turned into a saga, but its final chapter could be coming soon. The Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed that the private,...

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Company contracted to jail migrant kids cancels plan to hold holiday party at...

Caliburn, the for-profit company that was contracted to jail migrant children for the Trump administration, apparently faced a dilemma earlier this month. No, not over jailing kids in abusive...

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Museums 101: The Whalen homestead cabin (photo diary)

In 1988, the Upper Swan Valley Historical Society was established in Condon, Montana. The goal was to discover, collect, preserve, and interpret materials relating to Montana’s Swan River Valley. Today...

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Why Donald Trump likes evangelicals enough to have them around

Think about it — most US evangelical leaders are rich bosses, mostly white guys who have their own real estate empires in development, who wanted to give Donald Trump money and votes before his first...

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Empty prison camp for migrant kids could reopen later this year, report says

Trump administration officials continue to threaten float the possibility that the prison camp for migrant children in Florida could be reopened later in the year if the number of migrant children...

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Museums 101: The Maki Homestead Cabin (photo diary)

In 1988, the Upper Swan Valley Historical Society was established in Condon, Montana. The goal was to discover, collect, preserve, and interpret materials relating to Montana’s Swan River Valley. Today...

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The Iowa Derecho at Our Homestead, a Photo Diary

Author’s noteThis diary is not meant to be representative of the derecho as a whole.  It’s is just what happened to us and our homestead.  If you are looking for overview, you might...

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Museums 101: A homestead kitchen (photo diary)

One of the displays in the Museum of North Idaho in Coeur d’Alene features a homestead kitchen.

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Biden administration reopens Trump-era prison camp for migrant kids

The Biden administration has reopened an unlicensed, Trump-era prison camp that’s expected to jail up to 700 children who arrived to the U.S. without parents, The Washington Postreports. The Carrizo...

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While U.S. taking steps to speed up release of asylum-seeking kids, advocates...

The Biden administration will allow officials to bypass policy that required relatives and other sponsors to have to pay for the flights of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in U.S. custody, the...

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Biden admin reportedly reverses decision to reopen Homestead prison camp for...

The prison camp for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, will apparently remain closed after all. The Biden administration had last month said it would reopen the camp to hold asylum-seeking...

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They Say You Can't Go Back, But We Did

I forgot how much work it is to pack and travel. Egads, do I really need to take this much stuff? Yes, yes I do. The December weather feels like September, but if it decides to change, I need boots and...

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