Tuesday link dump: Let's get South Carolina back to work!

• With a new report on political surveillance and harassment, the ACLU relaunches SpyFiles. Here's a helpful state-by-state map of law enforcement agencies spying on citizens and obstructing legal political speech. Fun!
• Depressing but utterly unsurprising headline of the day: "Tom Coburn Objects to Bill to Provide Benefits to Homeless."
• More on the Kos/Research 2000 polling fraud fracas from The Plum Line, Justin Elliott, and FiveThirtyEight, who received a ridiculous cease & desist.
• Let's all sue the Pope!
• Anti-mosque opposition in New York still racially-motivated.
• Austerity measures didn't really help Ireland that much.
• Russ Feingold is looking weak in Wisconsin.
• Dan Kois on his mean old boss getting told off by the vice president.
• One of those Russian spies was also a shoddy reporter.
• Alvin Greene has a wonderful new website.
• The 2012 GOP nominating process could get kinda crazy.

By Alex Pareene

Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of "The Rude Guide to Mitt." Email him at apareene@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @pareene

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