His picks for attorney general and director of CIA advocate total surveillance. Bloomberg

Justin Raimondo wonders why America must fight a war for NATO’s latest member, tiny Montenegro.

Come on, we knew this would be his opinion. Politico

Techdirt.  They didn’t think anyone notice, much less the bereaved themselves?

Trump thinks the U.S. military isn’t big enough, and wants to pump taxpayer billions into it until it reaches the size he prefers.  As this article at Motherboard notes, any time the military gets a big cash infusion, it blows it almost immediately on boondoggles of the most ridiculous sort.

Will include 60 million French citizens. They do not like this.

They use the stolen funds to buy surveillance goodies. Vice Motherboard

Things are looking good for marijuana, but a punitively prohibitionist Trump regime could sue states, impose crushing taxes, or unleash a torrent of SWAT raid on pot businesses. Associated Press

Slate, of all places, provides a few reminders and warnings about giving cops more unregulated technology.

On the whole, body cams for cops are a good thing.  Provided they can’t be turned off at will by the cop.  Also, there needs to be a prohibition on turning a cop into a walking real-time surveillance camera, scanning and storing every face that comes into view of the technology.

Twitter users exercise their free speech rights to excoriate the Canadian PM for flowery language about someone who denied free speech to his people for half a century. Reason