Linkage

• In Colorado Fracking Fight, Emails Show Constituents ‘Begging’ Lawmakers For Help (International Business Times) It's the needs of the people versus obscene campaign donations, wanna guess who wins?
• Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years (The Guardian) Cue outrage meter.
• Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers In 'Test' It Doesn't Inform Customers About (Techdirt) Clearly the incumbent providers won't abuse a repeal of net neutrality.
• How to get free US military weapons—build fake website and DOD will oblige (Ars Technica) They created a fake law enforcement website, and got weapons.  Reassuring ………
• The Democrats’ ‘Better Deal’ is a box-office dud (MarketWatch) I'm not the only one calling it lipstick on a pig.
• Democratic donors still think they can anoint rising stars in the Hamptons (The Guardian) Kamala Harris is the latest politico to be the next big thing because of how well she rubbed elbows with the Clinton base at the Democratic Party at a party in the Hamptons.

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