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Today on The Ignition News: four stories, one system.The cruise ship quarantine is not just a health story. It is a mirror. It reflects a public health infrastructure we deliberately hollowed out, a cruise industry that cannot survive without exploiting labor from the global south, and a social media culture that cheers for the suffering of strangers instead of demanding accountability from the people actually in charge.Then we get into the Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act, why the 2019 Rucho v. Common Cause decision set the table for everything happening now, and what it means that the court has effectively declared itself the only branch that matters.We cover the ICE contract with MVM Incorporated, a company currently being sued in federal court for the torture and enforced disappearance of migrant children, now tasked with finding unaccompanied minors and children of deported parents in schools across the country.And we close with Washington Post reporting showing the US military has been lying about the damage to American bases in the Middle East, backed up by satellite imagery the government asked commercial providers to stop producing.Every missile is a school. Every billion is a choice.Stay lit.