Daily Links: 01/18/18 – Senate Democrats help Republicans give Trump mass spying powers

• Senate Democrats join their House counterparts in helping Republicans give the Trump administration vast warrantless powers to spy on Americans. Viva la #Resistance!

• British Columbia Supreme Court judge strikes down Canada’s indefinite solitary confinement regime. An Ontario court ruled similarly last month.

• Two dozen US state attorneys general file a lawsuit against the FCC over the repeal of its net neutrality rules.

• Supreme Court temporarily blocks a lower court order that North Carolina throw out its ridiculously gerrymandered electoral map that heavily favors Republicans.

• Deputy guns down an unarmed 16-year-old after he tries to stop the deputy from arresting his upset mother after a juvenile court hearing.
  (via @ShaunKing; retweet by @pzmyers)

• Christian-fascist legal group Alliance Defending Freedom is pushing to kill protections for trans prison inmates, because Christianist bigots just aren’t happy unless sexual minorities live in constant fear.

• Trump’s week-long-awaited Fake News Awards are out. If you must read about them, check out PolitiFact’s analysis.

• Finally: Quack who pretends to treat cancer with baking soda and vitamins is exposed as a quack, sues to silence the critic, prepares to run face-first into wall labeled “Streisand Effect”.

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