The Intercept: Weapons makers rushing campaign cash to Democrat in line to chair defense industry’s key house committee

Reuters: UNICEF: Yemeni children die as warring sides block aid deliveries

Reason: It’s not just one bad apple. Little Rock’s police department is rotten throughout. Ed: Too many cops with what I like to think of as the ‘Barney Fife thinks he’s the Punisher’ syndrome.

FEE: Why the hammer and sickle should be treated like the swastika Ed: It is stupefying that this is not the case. Support for communism/socialism is commonplace, despite a far bloodier record than the Nazi reign.

Cato: Walling off liberty: How strict immigration enforcement threatens privacy and local policing.

ART CARDEN: Are we serious about reducing poverty? Then we need to welcome immigrants

Truthdig: The U.S. military’s empire of secrecy

Activist Post: CIA secretly intercepted Congressional communications about whistleblowers

The Guardian: Weed woes: Canada struggles to meet huge demand for legal cannabis

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