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

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  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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