Daily Links: 08/16/17 – It’s raining Confederate monuments

Confederate monument torn down by protestors in Durham, NC

• Thanks to the campaign efforts of neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Confederate monuments around the country are coming down faster than ever. ^[pictured]

• Texas deputies forcibly undress a motorist and rape cavity-search her vagina for 11 minutes after already searching her clothes and vehicle. No drugs found. They’re then cleared of charges.
  (via RT: @radleybalko)

• Trump “seriously” considering pardoning Arizona’s ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio, convicted of criminal contempt for defying a court order to end his racist police practices.

• Canadian right-to-die group plans to sue to end the Ontario government’s religious exemptions allowing Catholic hospitals to force terminal patients to suffer rather than die peacefully.

• Web hosting company DreamHost pushes back against a ridiculously overbroad DoJ warrant for 1.3 million IP addresses to identify visitors to an anti-Trump site.

• Texas’s “bathroom bill” is officially dead. Of course, you know they’ll try again.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

• And finally, neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer gets dropped by GoDaddy and Google (and YouTube) after mocking Charlottesville murder victim Heather Heyer. Curious that it took until now – the site didn’t start spouting neo-Nazi rhetoric just yesterday.

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