02/27/19 Overnight Links

Axios: Thousands of migrant youth allegedly suffered sexual abuse in U.S. custody for years

High Times: San Francisco DA plans to expunge or reduce over 9,000 marijuana convictions

East Bay Times: California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it

The Week: Tulsi Gabbard warns talk of regime change in Venezuela undermines the Kim-Trump summit

DAMON LINKER: America is not responsible for Venezuela

More from the weird world of false flag hate crimes: Gay rights activist burned down own home, killing his five pets, in hate crime hoax

Actual hate crime caught on tape: UC Berkeley police seeking felony warrant for suspect in assault on conservative

Techdirt: Beware the rise of censorship under the guise of stopping fake news: UK regulators push for dangerous plan. Ed: Fake news, the kind that does real damage (i.e. starting a war, manufacturing consent for various legislative atrocities, etc.), is promulgated by the major news outlets, whose owners have a vested interest in what “news” is printed. Read independent news and opinion sites, watch only Jimmy Dore, and vote Tulsi Gabbard.

Forbes: Survey: Nearly half of people who use cannabidiol products stop taking traditional medicines

FEE: How government-guaranteed students loans killed the American dream for millions

JEFF TUCKER: Where did AOC get her sweet potatoes?:“It drives me crazy to see people so fully enjoying the benefits from private property, trade, technology, and capitalistic endeavor even as they blithely propose to truncate dramatically the very rights that bring them such material joy, without a thought as to how their ideology might dramatically affect the future of mass availability of wealth that these ideologues so casually take for granted.

To me, it’s like watching a person on IV denounce modern medicine — or a person using a smartphone to broadcast to the world an urgent message calling for an end to economic development.”

Author: S. Smith