NRO | According to Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman is using the murder of one of his deputies “to politicize his grievance.

“Kill King Bitcoin – Long Live the King” call is somewhat inevitable, and we should expect this to happen from time-to-time, now that the cat is out of the bag. Read more about the Politics behind the BitcoinXT Fork

USA Today | More than half of the nation’s immigrants receive some kind of government welfare.

Is Lightning centralized? Technically yes, to a degree, but who cares when you’re not trusting hubs anyway? Equally, if it avoids mining centralization, it’s a good tradeoff – Peter Todd Read More on the Bitcoin Lightning Network from Peter Todd

Kurt Nimmo | Militarized cops tell residents to stay inside their homes.

Militarized cops tell residents to stay inside their homes

Weasel Zippers | Obama is completely on his own for this, *cough, cough* hike near a glacier.

EAG News | U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack thinks everything is going just fine with the ratcheting regulations on school food in recent years.

Sputnik | Foreign countries are withdrawing their gold reserves from world’s largest gold depository.

Life News | StemExpress removed a section that refers to “financial profits” available to facilities that provide “raw materials” to their company.

RT | Baltimore police have broken up a protest that blocked a busy city street, as the first pre-trial hearing of six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray got underway.

RT | Russian scientists have begun their quest to clone pre-historic animals, including but not limited to a woolly mammoth.

Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council and others call for debate on potential of altering DNA to prevent diseases – and risk of ‘designer babies.’