• The Texas fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday was last inspected by OSHA in 1985.

• The fertilizer plant blast, which left 40 people missing, shows the dangers of ammonium nitrate. Though the company filed a document with the EPA attesting the plant posed no risk of fire or explosion.

• Yes, let’s talk about Kermit Gosnell.

• “Economic slavery”: indentured servitude in the Gulf States.

• Three foremen on a Greek strawberry farm are accused of opening fire on a crowd of immigrant workers demanding back pay, wounding 28.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]