Daily Links: 12/01/17 – Republicans ruining everything again

Congressional Republicans are about to skullfuck the country (yet again), net neutrality may die in less than a week, and my dentist’s appointment has left me both numb and aching (isn’t the former meant to preclude the latter?), so links are all you’re getting today. Now I need to go numb my brain hunting deathclaws in New Vegas.

• The Republican war on the poor continues apace in North Carolina. Note how the gutless bastards didn’t even put their names on the bill.

• Comcast: We’re totally not gonna violate net neutrality rules, promise.
  Comcast, after FCC announces plans to repeal net neutrality rules: What? We never said that. It’s not on our site, see? Also, what’s this “Wayback Machine”?

• Meanwhile, another legislative threat to the Internet is Congress’s plan to punish websites for what commenters say, which would radically change how the Net works for the worse.

• How Wyoming police stole $92,000 from an innocent man under the banner of civil forfeiture. And this after the state passed forfeiture reforms. | Update: This very afternoon, a judge ordered that all the man’s money be returned to him. Good. Now if we could prevent this kind of skullduggery in the first place.
  (via @Frimp13; RT: @Popehat)

• Study finds that police sniffer dogs are unreliable at detecting drugs when handler bias is removed. For some strange reason, police are spurning the results.

• Some good news: A win for civil liberties here in Québec as a judge temporarily halts the province’s Muslim-targeting ban on facial coverings in public.

• Finally, here’s a Republican stooge being completely and utterly owned by … himself. And Jake Tapper.

Good lord, you have to watch this hardcore Jake ownage pic.twitter.com/MwEfmDfnuM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 30, 2017

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