Daily Links: 08/01/17 – Mooch out

Anthony Scaramucci

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• Australia’s preparing new laws that would make it a crime to hold your passwords from the police.

• The Mooch ^[pictured] is out – 10 days into the job, which officially hadn’t even started yet. Even for this administration, that’s cold.

• Police departments around the country distance themselves from Trump’s pro-brutality speech … even as Right-wing commentators and the White House trip over themselves to claim it was a “joke”.

• Court rules Arizona’s famously racist ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio guilty of criminal contempt.
  (via @fark)

• Alabama judge strikes down law forcing underage girls to go to trial before being allowed to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
  

• Excellent, albeit difficult, article at Cracked about the lesser-known realities of female genital mutilation: It was common in the US as recently as the ’50s, it’s far from an Islam-exclusive problem, and it has a disturbingly large and loud support base amongst women. (The fact that it’s rooted in religious tradition is far less surprising.)

• Women at Marvel Comics post a milkshake selfie. Online misogynists lose their goddamned minds.

• Love-and-peace Jesus has a very poor defender in the Catholic League’s blowhard Bill Donohue.

• And finally, here’s last Sunday night’s exposé on professional lunatic and shill Alex Jones, courtesy of John Oliver:

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