Putting Kids in Cages Is Making Private Contractors Rich 

Here’s all the shit we couldn’t cover today:

• Private contractors are raking in $1 billion from the U.S. government to imprison immigrant children, a 1,000 percent increase since 2007. [AP]
• Even people fleeing gang violence and domestic abuse will no longer qualify for asylum. [CNN]
• Known racist John Schnatter of Papa John’s steps down as chairman of his third-rate pizza chain after making extremely racist comment. Bye! [NPR]
• Elon Musk, who also offered to help save the 12 boys trapped in a cave in Thailand that eventually were rescued without his assistance, has now turned his sights on fixing the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. [The Hill]
• U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh looooooooves the dissenting opinion of then-Justice William Rehnquist in Roe v. Wade, as he stated in a speech he made last year before the American Enterprise Institute. [Bloomberg]
• Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin (a state that voted for Trump), announced she would not vote to confirm the Supreme Court nominee. [The Star Tribune]
• Chinese government accuses U.S. of being an “an enemy to all” in the escalating trade war. Not… false…? [Politico]
• Check out Paul Manafort’s new mugshot! [NBCNews]

Here are some tweets the president was allowed to publish:

This has been Barf Bag.