EP.013: Pattern Person

Episode 13 brings a special guest to the table. R'Dacted spent nearly a decade inside Mississippi's youth courts and child welfare system. Our guest walks through how a state with 52 foster homes for every 100 children ends up keeping kids in hotel rooms under contract sitters, at a cost of more than $34 million since 2022, and why that worries anyone who has watched trafficking up close. From there: trafficking numbers that don't agree with each other, the ACEs and PACEs research on childhood trauma, the school-to-prison pipeline, an inside look at Angola, the federal money that follows children into custody, and why the one thing that works every time is community. Before that, Black Vault documents show the Pentagon admitting the official story of some Cold War spy-plane losses may not be what really happened. A real essay calls migrant sexual assault a price worth paying, and the hosts look at how softening language is used to sell the indefensible. Plus the show gets picked up on the No Agenda stream.