Daily Links: 09/12/17 – House passes asset forfeiture amendment

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Oh, look, I’m still feeling lazy. Shameful. Have some more links.

• Surprising, most likely futile, but still welcome: Republican-controlled House of Representatives passes amendment to reverse AG Sessions’s expansion of asset forfeiture ^[pictured].

• Iraqi-American man tries to deposit a $150K cheque after selling his family home. Naturally, fifteen police cars turn up to arrest him, his wife and their two children, and detain them for hours before releasing them with zero charges.
  (via @Popehat)

• More zero-tolerance stupidity: Eighth-grader accidentally brings a pocket knife to school, informs the principal, gets suspended.
  (via @fark)

• After two years, PETA agrees to settle their bottomlessly stupid lawsuit against the “monkey selfie” photographer. Techdirt has more.

• Sen. Ted “no right to stimulate one’s genitals” Cruz (R-TX) has a Twitter-porn problem.
  (via @KrangTNelson [NSFW])

• Ken Ham apparently thinks adding a “damaging” hyphen will defeat “gay mar-riage”.

• Finally, your headline of the day: Woman trapped in window trying to retrieve poo after Tinder date
  (via The Daily Grail)

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