05/25/18 Overnight Links

The Verge: Orlando police scramble to defend Amazon facial recognition pilot

Human Rights Watch: Are US police disclosing use of Amazon’s facial recognition technology?

The Week: Beware the new military-technology complex

The Federalist: The FBI used its secret spy program to protect killers, jail innocents, and screw victims

Antiwar.com: House passes $717 billion military spending bill

Reason: NFL’s national anthem policy exposes free speech hypocrisy of Right, Left, and Trump Ed: Mandatory displays of respect for the symbols of the State is a symptom of fascism.

ACLU: We’re demanding the government come clean on surveillance of social media

Libertarian Institute: Cop siccs K9 on driver who politely refuses to answer questions Ed: There is video, and it is as ugly and insane as you’d imagine.

The Nation: America’s “War on Terror” has cost taxpayers $5.6 trillion

GARETH PORTER: How corporate media are undermining a US-North Korea nuclear weapons deal

FEE: U.S. schools don’t measure up, and polling shows Republicans and Democrats know it

World Socialist Website: US primaries: Military-intelligence candidates win four Democratic congressional nominations

Boing Boing: Alexa listened to a couple’s conversation and sent it to the husband’s employer without permission

Engadget: Google will always do evil

High Times: Arizona Supreme Court rules medical marijuana legal on college campuses

Truthdig: Security troops at US nuclear missile base took LSD, records show

Motherboard: The Pentagon releases new documents about the ‘tic-tac’ UFO

Author: S. Smith