Daily Links: 01/15/18 – Chelsea Manning for Senate

Chelsea Manning

• Chelsea Manning ^[pictured] files to run for US Senate in Maryland to challenge Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

• … So naturally, establishment Democrats are already labeling her campaign a Russian ploy. Because obviously, Putin bribed Obama to commute her sentence so that she may run to unseat Sen. Cardin, who I can only guess is Putin’s true nemesis, don’t you see?
  

• Appeals court upholds Missouri’s ridiculous law forcing stylists to spend thousands of dollars and hours getting a government license before they can braid Black people’s hair.
  (via @senatorshoshana; retweet by @Popehat)

• For the second time in less than a week since it came into effect, Germany’s brand-new “hate speech” law silences an innocent bystander – specifically, the justice minister who championed the law.

• El Cajon, California police arrest and issue misdemeanor citations to a dozen people, including a 14-year-old, for handing out food to the homeless at a park.
  (via @kellylynndavis; retweet by @radleybalko)

• Finally, fans of science & TV rejoice: Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson is back for a second season in 2019.

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