A.M. Links: Obama Seeks $1 Billion to ‘Reassure’ Eastern Europe, Seattle Hikes Minimum Wage, NRA Calls Open Carry Protests ‘Scary’

• Seattle’s city council unanimously
  approved a minimum wage hike to $15—more than double the
  federal minimum wage of $7.25. 
• Oliver Stone will
  direct a movie about Edward Snowden, because of course he
  will. 
• President Obama is
  seeking up to $1 billion to support increased U.S. military
  presence in Eastern Europe, calling it the “European Reassurance
  Initiative” (don’t worry, Europe, we’re from the government
  and…) 
• Signs you may be on the wrong gun rights track: the
  National Rifle Association calls your efforts “downright weird”
  and “scary.” Looking at you, Open Carry Texas… 
• Chemist Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, known as the “Godfather of
  Ecstasy” for introducing MDMA to psychologists in the
  1970s, has
  died.   
• 
  Bitcoin is no longer the very worst investment you could have
  made in 2014 (the honor now goes to iron ore and the Argentine
  peso). 

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