Daily Links: 07/20/17 – Court rules against gov’t transparency

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• Appeals court deals blow to government transparency, rules that recipients of National Security Letter gag orders should STFU indefinitely.

• Baltimore, MD cop accidentally records himself planting drugs with his own body camera.

• PETA-inspired imbecile(s) released 20–30,000 cage-raised minks ^[pictured] from a rural pelt farm into the wild, ensuring that small animals will be all but wiped out until the minks all starve to death. Another “animal rights” victory!

• Puppycide in Wood County, TX: Deputy follows up on crime report, is accosted by barking dogs, shoots and kills one of them after it allegedly bites at his pant leg. Body cam footage very unclear, but sheriff already says shooting was justified.
  (via Dogs Shot by Police | Facebook)

• Answers in Genesis’s Ken Ham: Still, always and forever a tax-avoiding religious conman. Friendly Atheist has more details.

• Republican official arrested for indecent exposure in a men’s bathr— what do you mean, you’ve already heard this one?
  (via @fark)

• And finally, your headline of the day: “Manitowoc police subdue naked man, accidentally light him on fire”
  (via @fark)

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Edit (07/22/17 @ 4:23 AM ET): Added a couple missing “via”s.