• Pro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft | US news | The Guardian
• Why the dockless scooter industry is going after a repossessor and a bike shop owner – The Verge
• Why Nancy Pelosi Won’t Impeach | The New Republic Because she is primarily concerned with hedging potential losses, not governing. 
• Why Corporations Want You to Shut Up and Meditate | The Nation
• Privatization of public goods can cause population decline | Nature Ecology & Evolution
• Just an abstract, and about bacteria, but a may apply to our society. 
• Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds” (Buzzfeed) Pretty much.
• Rashida Tlaib: While Trump spews hate, I continue to do my job (Washington Post) Bam!
• Seeing Through Silicon Valley’s Shameless ‘Disruption’(WIRED) Likens them to scabs, who, to quote  Pete Seeger, “Will bounce back and make a good living on what he takes out of blind men’s cups.”  A well deserved cup of whup ass.

And then their instruments caught fire: