Late Links: 09/03/17 – Canada forms underground railroad for Chechen gays

Kimalhi Powell

Feeling lazy this rainy weekend, so have a bunch of links in lieu of real posts.

• Major: How Canada formed its own underground railroad ^{[director pictured]} to smuggle persecuted gay people out of Chechnya. Consider how this was done in defiance of international conventions. At least some still get to be proud of their country.
  (via @Popehat)

• Federal judge axes Colorado’s public sex offender registry for constituting “cruel and unusual punishment”.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Important breaking news: Justice Department finds no evidence for crazy baseless claim Trump made some 348 crazy baseless claims ago.

• Jay Caruso at RedState on Trump and the creation of the pseudo-alpha male.
  (via @TheRickWilson; RT: @Popehat)

• Philadelphia police union chief calls Black Lives Matter “a pack of rabid animals” and “a racist hate group determined to instigate violence” … for peacefully protesting at the home of an officer who twice shot Black men in the back as they were fleeing. But he did defend a fellow cop who sported a Nazi-like tattoo.
  (via @radleybalko)

• Meanwhile, a Cleveland police union will refuse to hold the US flag for a football pregame ceremony because the Cleveland Browns management allows their players to kneel during the National Anthem, and in other news, irony has just died, please send flowers.
  (via @Popehat)

• Another woo-peddling charlatan uses legal threats to try and bully a critic into silence.

• Finally, your Headline of the day: First Amendment Protects Cinema's Right to Show Unicorn Masturbation Scene While Serving Alcohol, Says Judge
  (via @radleybalko)

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