Daily Links: 12/04/17 – SCOTUS okays Trump’s Muslim travel ban

• US Supreme Court greenlights Trump’s Muslim travel ban, though legal challenges continue.

• The ACLU is getting involved in the case of an unidentified US citizen who’s been imprisoned by the military for months without access to a lawyer.
  (via @ggreenwald)

• Texas substitute teacher triggers police and CPS investigation after accusing a 6-year-old special-needs Muslim boy who can’t speak of being a “terrorist”.
  (via @SachinKalbag; RT: @Popehat)

• It’s your average day in America as Trump nominates a Milo-Yiannopoulos-loving, race-baiting, far-Right troll to represent the US at the United Nations.

• Current Affairs’s Nathan J. Robinson ably debunks the notion, recently peddled by the New York Times, that Ben Shapiro is anything other than a garden-variety Right-wing agitator.
  (via @ggreenwald)

• Finally, for some reason, flat-Earther limousine driver “Mad” Mike Hughes is having trouble getting his homemade, scrap-metal, steam-powered rocket off the ground. I’m starting to wonder whether I got his Darwin Award all polished up for nothing.

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