07/18/18 Overnight Links

Good god: NewsOK: Top attorney for Health Department who resigned last Friday charged with felony after OSBI determines she sent threats to herself. Ed: She sent herself death threats and then claimed they came from disgruntled pro-788 activists. My question is why would someone in her position in power, knowing her crime would be discovered, engage in this behavior?

KOCO: Official says procedure could keep recreational marijuana off November ballot

Tulsa World: 10 things medical marijuana patients would not be allowed to do under SQ 788

The American Conservative: Cronyism in action: Government’s cozy ties to Big Tech and Big War

WIRED: Schools can now get facial recognition tech for free. Should they?

ZDnet: Tech giants, civil liberties coalition urge Congress to pass email privacy law

EFF: Undermining mobile phone users’ privacy won’t make us safer

Washington Post: How your data is used by the police, and where it goes wrong

Washington Times: “Buy America”: U.S. arms sales increase despite Trump’s tough talk on NATO, trade

Mises: The EU’s new data protection rules are already hurting Europeans

The Hill: Children are one of the War on Drugs’ casualties

The Intercept: Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly ruled in favor of the National Security State, most recently for the CIA, and against me

The Federalist: Communists brutally murdered Russia’s last royal family 100 years ago today

The American Conservative: The war on Yemen’s invisible victims

Charlotte Observer: What data on 20 million traffic stops can tell you about ‘driving while black’

FEE: The second Social Security crisis nobody is talking about

Oh no: Massive: Pulling all-nighters could permanently damage your brain

Author: S. Smith