Linkage

• Republican official appears to have moved $1.3m from non-profit to own law firm (The Guardian) The Republican Grift abides.
• The Western Media Is Whitewashing the Azov Battalion (The Nation) The US has been supporting Neo Nazis in the Ukraine since before the Madan protests.
• Larry Summers Was Wrong About Inflation (NY Mag) So nu? He's wrong about everything. 
• Venture Capital’s AI-Run Lettuce Farms Are Starting to Go Bust (Bloomberg) No one has learned anything from Juicero.
• Sean Kelly on Twitter: "One of the big problems with "dark and gritty" Batman movies is that the people writing them can't craft a mystery that's so complex only Batman can solve it, so Batman's "superpower" ends up being "the ability to violate people's Constitutional rights."" /  (Twitter) The idea is that Joe Chill, who killed Batman's parents, is a cop.  Needs a story treatment.
• Tesla’s “Self-Driving” System Never Should Have Been Allowed on the Road (The American Prospect) This is just more true for Elon than it is for the rest of the self-driving snake oils salesman.
  

Kind of like The Devil and Daniel Webster on acid: