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Feds ran a money-laundering operation for over a year in $20M darknet sweep

“The core of the operation was an online money-laundering business seized by agents from Homeland Security Investigations and operated as a sting for over a year. By offering cash for bitcoin, HSI agents were able to identify specific drug dealers, ultimately tracing more than $20 million in drug-linked cryptocurrency transactions.”

The Struggle for American Independence: The Tea Parties

While almost all histories of the timeframe concentrate on the Boston Tea Party, I felt it was important to cover how other colonies responded to the Tea Act as well.

Psychedelic Drugs May Help the Brain Repair Itself, Study Finds

“Most of the psychedelics tested, the researchers found, promoted the growth of new dendrites from a neuron cell, which help transmit information from other neurons to the cell, as well as increased the density of small protrusions on these dendrites, known as dendritic spines. They also jumpstarted the growth of new connections, or synapses, between individual neurons.”

California Committee Passes Bill to Allow People to Expunge Some Marijuana Charges

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (June 28, 2018) – On Tuesday, a California Senate committee passed a bill that would create a process to expunge or reduce the sentences of people charged under the state’s marijuana laws before recreational cannabis was legalized this year. Passage into law would take another step toward nullifying federal marijuana prohibition in effect in…

American Totalitarianism and the Culture of Fake News

“The Pew study indicates that there is a significant cognitive problem among US people in being able to assess facts from opinions.”

Why Doesn’t Outrage At U.S. Imprisoning Children Extend To U.S. Killing Children?

While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries.”

Supreme Court says public-sector unions can’t force dissenters to pay them

“The justices said in a 5-4 opinion that state government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be compelled to pay a share of union dues for covering the cost of negotiating contracts.”

California Bill to Help End Unchecked Police Surveillance, Establish More Local Control Clears Another Hurdle

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (June 27, 2018) – Yesterday, a second California Assembly committee passed a bill that would increase oversight and transparency of law enforcement surveillance technology. Passage of the bill would take the first step toward limiting the unchecked use of surveillance technologies that violate basic privacy rights and feed into a broader national surveillance…