The report by the state Department of Children and Families said in one case, the agency confirmed that the mother wasn’t properly supervising Zoey Felix, but the girl was placed with her father and because of that, “No safety concerns were identified.”
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Neighbors believe Zoey and her father had been camping in a grove of trees on a vacant lot nearby.
…no safety concerns?
Yes, yes I think it does. An omnicrisis even. Because it certainly seems to me that the whole world is fucked.
Omnishambles?
In The Valley of the Dark
A Documentary from 2021:
A group of mothers discovers that the Santa Susana Field Laboratory was the site of one of the most significant nuclear accidents in United States history and may have exposed their children and their community to cancer-causing hazardous waste."In 1959, an unconfined partial meltdown of a sodium reactor at the #SantaSusanaFieldLab caused such a devastating radiation leak, that many consider it to be the worst #nuclear disaster in U.S. history. Studies have shown that the radiation released at #SSFL was 260 times greater than the radiation released at Three Mile Island.
"Located just 30 miles from Downtown, #LosAngeles, the meltdown was concealed from the public eye for 20 years before being uncovered and the contamination never fully eradicated. The partial meltdown unveiled decades of negligence and unsafe handling of extremely #toxic #radioactive and #chemical materials.
“The affected community has demanded a full cleanup of the area for decades, but they’re receiving pushback from the sites #corporate and government landowners, as these juggernauts and their persuasive #lobbyists have successfully stalled any hope of a cleanup. Until Recently.”
Related:
The article concludes,
Not doing volunteer work for the tourism industry is not the same as “hoarding and hiding.”
The amount printed on the receipt? 
No; employers are keeping some/all of the tips.
… “There was never an opportunity for a local artist to work on this,” [Detroit artist and muralist Sydney G.] James said. ”None of us knew about it.”
The murals were the work of artists commissioned by a New York-based nonprofit called Street Art for Mankind. The nonprofit reached out to James to tell her about the project in September, but James did not see the message until recently. The City of Detroit paid the group to assemble prominent street artists for a series of large-scale murals as part of a downtown art walk ahead of the 2024 NFL Draft to be held in Detroit. None of the artists are originally from the United States, let alone Detroit.
Detroit artists like James are worried about being passed over for big commissions like these. They say they should be given first or at least equal opportunity to apply for the work, especially when city funds are being used.
“This was paid for by Detroit’s Arts, Culture and Entrepreneurship team,” James said. “And there’s not one artist from Detroit represented?” …
… Street Art for Mankind works with international muralists and says its mission is “raise awareness around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and child trafficking through street art.” Founders Audrey and Thibault Decker said they help create about 50 to 70 murals a year around the world. …
… The city said in a press release that it paid the nonprofit $140,000. The Deckers said that Diageo, a United Nations Global Compact company, sponsored one of the murals.
Very little of that money ends up in muralists’ pockets. The Deckers said that at the request of artists, they don’t publicly discuss pay. James said if total funding for the project was divided among the artists, let alone for administrative costs, artists wouldn’t even be making enough to cover insurance, equipment and paint. …
ETA
… Detroit artists Outlier spoke with found the connection between the murals and nonprofit’s goals tenuous. One mural depicts a wide-eyed girl holding a microphone with birds flying around. Another is a portrait of three women surrounded by flowers. A mural by a U.K.-based artist shows the head of the Statue of Liberty surrounded by greenery. …
WTAF
I. Can't. Even.
Not a joke.
Read the article. Or… treat yourself and don’t.
Extensively discussed in the comments.
I missed that entirely. Thanks.
