"I want bread!" Francie called out. A big girl gave her a strong shove and wanted to know who she thought she was. "Never mind! Never mind!" Francie told her. "I want six loaves and a pie not too crushed," she screamed out.

—excerpt from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Here's a link to an archive of graphic photographs showing American soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

—link via American Samizdat.

Want more info? The official U.S. Army report on this fucked up shit can be seen here via the memory hole.

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