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Must Reads
Michael Hudson: Why Failing to Solve Personal Debt and Polarization Will Usher in a New Dark Age (Lengthy, but fascinating article, Naked Capitalism)
The Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes From a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook (The Intercept)
What JPMorgan and Citigroup Have in Common When It Comes to Crime (Wall Street on Parade)
Bernie Sanders Loyalists Are Taking Over the Democratic Party One County Office at a Time (The Wall Street Journal)
Rep. Sensenbrenner Thinks We Can Pay For The Border Wall With More Asset Forfeiture (Peak stupid, TechDirt)
U.S. Life Expectancy Will Soon Be on Par With Mexico’s and the Czech Republic’s (Putin’s fault, The Washington Post)
U.S. Politics
Not MAGA: Spicer Says Feds to Step Up War Against Marijuana on the Same Day Sessions Reverses Plan to Phase Out Private Prisons (TruthStream Media)
Roger Stone: Marijuana Crackdown Would Be ‘Huge Mistake’ (The Hill)
GOP Rep: No ‘Artificial Crowd’ at My Town Hall (The Hill)
DHS Intel Report Disputes Threat Posed by Travel Ban Nations (AP)
Trump’s First Terror Arrest: A Broke Stone the FBI Threatened as Knifepoint (The Intercept)
The Deep State Saga Continues — the Battle Between Donald Trump and John McCain (Breitbart)
John Podesta Joins The Washington Post as Contributing Columnist (What a joke, Politico)
Obama Lawyers Team Up to Fight Trump (Same lawyers who refused to prosecute a single bank executive? The Hill)
Trump to Name Apologist for the Republican Establishment Welfare State to Head the Council of Economic Advisers (Economic Policy Journal)
College Writing Center Declares American Grammar A ‘Racist,’ ‘Unjust Language Structure’ (The Daily Caller)
Illinois High School Paid Second “White Privilege” Consultant $109K to Train Its Teachers (North Cook News)
Trump Officials Weigh Fate of Birth-Control Mandate (The Hill)
Geopolitics/WW3
Pope Suggests ‘Better to Be Atheist Than Hypocritical Catholic’ (Reuters)
Refugee Influx to Turkey Sharply Rises (Al Monitor)
Finance/Economy
Even China Can’t Kill Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
Italy Warned by EU Over High Public Debt With Spillover Risk (Bloomberg)
London Metal Exchange Cuts Deal with Banks to Propel Gold Futures (Reuters)
Miscellaneous
Cop’s Indecent Requests Caught On Secret Recordings (Channel 5 News Nashville)
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