Motherboard: Pentagon wants to predict anti-Trump protests using social media surveillance
Reason: Despite $900 billion and 2,400 U.S. lives lost, Afghanistan continues to deteriorate Ed: Winning isn’t the goal. Perpetuating the conflict is.
TAC: The costly and irrational Iran obsession
Also Reason: Massachusetts cop charged with kicking Latino teen, spitting on him, saying: “Welcome to the white man’s world”
Washington Examiner: Trump is in denial about the effect of his tariffs
High Times: Mexican Supreme Court declares prohibition of recreational weed unconstitutional
Stars and Stripes: Long trip: Psychedelic advocate nears goal of legal ecstasy
FEE: Stanford dean: 8 basic skills we’re failing to teach young people
JIM BOVARD: We need a #MeToo movement for political consent
The Week: What does a ghost smell like?
Big Think: Why the number 137 is one of the greatest mysteries in physics
Gizmodo: Why a mission to a visiting interstellar object could be our best bet for finding aliens
SingularityHub: De-extinction is now a thing–starting with passenger pigeons
