LEADS

How Vaping Giant Juul Explains Everything That's Wrong With Our World
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/27/juul-vaping-industry-regulation/

Hostile bid for pot producer Aphria comes from billionaire Ohio family’s new U.S. company
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-cannabis-company-makes-hostile-bid-for-aphria-2018-12-27

Pot Producer Aphria Rejects $2.1 Billion Green Growth Hostile Bid
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-28/pot-producer-aphria-spurns-2-1-billion-hostile-green-growth-bid

The Fight To Save Independent Health Care in the Age of Medical Monopolies
https://newrepublic.com/article/152775/fight-save-independent-health-care-age-medical-monopolies

Deadly Hepatitis A Outbreaks Are Exposing Crumbling U.S. Public Health Infrastructure
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hepatitis-a-outbreak-america_us_5c0ecf0fe4b06484c9fd9d0c

Fentanyl leaves a lethal mess that's costly and complicated to clean up
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/27/fentanyl-secondary-exposure-can-kill-small-amounts/

The impact homelessness and the opioid crisis are having on San Francisco streets
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/27/health/drug-use-san-francisco-streets/index.html

As U.S. soldiers battle landlord, confidential records shine light on his lucrative business
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-military-developer/

EXCLUSIVE: Read Desperate Emails From People Scammed by A.G. Matt Whitaker’s Business Associates
http://reason.com/blog/2018/12/27/read-consumer-complaints-against-the-sca

County Agrees To Pay $390,000 To Students Arrested By A Sheriff 'Just To Prove A Point'
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181223/13144641286/county-agrees-to-pay-390000-to-students-arrested-sheriff-just-to-prove-point.shtml

How a Crackdown on MS-13 Caught Up Innocent High School Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/magazine/ms13-deportation-ice.html

Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/article219016820.html

Cohen dashes leftists’ hopes of smoking gun, but leaves cryptic message: ‘Mueller knows everything!’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/12/28/cohen-dashes-leftists-hopes-of-smoking-gun-but-leaves-cryptic-message-mueller-knows-everything-707413

Mueller Would Not Have Needed a Foreign Intelligence Agency to Geolocate Michael Cohen's Phone
https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/12/27/mueller-would-not-have-needed-a-foreign-intelligence-agency-to-geolocate-michael-cohens-phone/

Mysterious 'nude selfie' said to be in Mueller's possession, lawyer for Russian firm asserts in court filing
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/muellers-russia-probe-obtained-nude-selfie-from-indicted-russian-company

This 195-gigapixel photo is so huge, you can zoom in and see people’s faces
https://nypost.com/2018/12/24/this-195-gigapixel-photo-is-so-huge-you-can-zoom-in-and-see-peoples-faces/

Nvidia’s Fake Faces Are a Masterpiece—But Have Deeper Implications
https://singularityhub.com/2018/12/24/nvidias-fake-faces-are-a-masterpiece-but-have-deeper-implications/

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/world/facebook-moderators.html

What Monopolies and King Kong Have in Common
http://evonomics.com/monopolies-king-kong-hearn-tepper/

POLITICS and FLEAS

Syrian army enters Manbij in new alliance with Kurds
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/syrian-army-enters-manbij-in-new-alliance-with-kurds/article25851138.ece

Trump’s Syria decision was essentially correct. Here’s how he can make the most of it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/even-without-troops-the-us-can-still-have-influence-in-syria/2018/12/27/757582b8-0a08-11e9-85b6-41c0fe0c5b8f_story.html

For liberal media, Trump's visit to US troops in Iraq can't go uncriticized: Today's talker
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/12/27/donald-trump-iraq-visit-troops-talker/2420454002/

Fox News Hits Trump for Turning Troop Visit Into ‘Campaign Rally’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-hits-trump-for-turning-troop-visit-into-campaign-rally

Americans Are Blaming Trump for Shutdown That Is Likely to Last Into 2019
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/americans-are-blaming-trump-for-shutdown-that-is-likely-to-last-into-2019.html

Americans Are Optimistic About The Future — Just Don't Ask About Politics
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/680191197/americans-are-optimistic-about-the-future-just-dont-ask-about-politics

The Real Roots of American Rage
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/charles-duhigg-american-anger/576424/

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

China allows first-ever U.S. rice imports in 'goodwill gesture' ahead of trade talks
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-trade-rice/china-allows-first-ever-u-s-rice-imports-in-goodwill-gesture-ahead-of-trade-talks-idUSKCN1OR0LB

Chinese schools enforce 'smart uniforms' with GPS tracking system to monitor students
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-28/microchipped-school-uniforms-monitor-students-in-china/10671604

Japan’s Defense Budget Swells to Counter China’s Growing Military Threat
https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/japans-defense-budget-swells-to-counter-chinas-growing-military-threat/

Princely ties: The growing Chechnya-Gulf security relationship
https://thedefensepost.com/2018/12/27/russia-chechnya-gulf-security-relationship/

PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER

Gorilla inbreeding linked to webbed feet and fertility problems in endangered apes, study suggests
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/gorillas-inbreeding-webbed-feet-endangered-species-apes-mutations-congo-a8701731.html

Endangered Monkey Killed and Eaten on Facebook Live Stream, Say Police
https://www.newsweek.com/endangered-monkey-killed-and-eaten-facebook-live-stream-say-police-1273558

Update: New law makes it easier to kill salmon-eating sea lions
https://www.hcn.org/articles/latest-columbia-river-update-new-law-makes-it-easier-to-kill-salmon-eating-sea-lions-steelhead-salmon

An Elephant’s Personhood on Trial
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/12/happy-elephant-personhood/578818/

THE MEDIA SCRUM

FACING NUCLEAR REALITY: 35 years after The Day After
https://thebulletin.org/facing-nuclear-reality-35-years-after-the-day-after/

The True Story of the Lost Sci-Fi Movie 'Brainstorm,' Natalie Wood’s Last Film
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a25654064/sci-fi-movie-brainstorm-natalie-wood-final-film/

Original Storytelling Is Losing Its Cultural Power, And That’s Bad For America
http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/28/original-storytelling-is-losing-its-cultural-power-and-its-bad-for-america/

ODDS, ENDS

Senegal's Museum of Black Civilisations is open, asking the West to return stolen treasures
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-27/museum-of-black-civilisations-opens-in-dakar/10669212

History or hatred? Selling Hitler’s belongings and Nazi artifacts stirs a backlash.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/history-or-hatred-selling-hitlers-belongings-and-nazi-artifacts-stirs-a-backlash/2018/12/26/b0c21932-f27d-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.html

How Native Americans adopted slavery from white settlers
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/native-americans-adopted-slavery-white-settlers-181225180750948.html

The Totem Thieves
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/28/the-totem-thieves-2/

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