Some breaking news on this Thursday morning, as Black Lives Matter protests around the country tear down racist Civil War monuments in cities like Richmond, Virginia.

In response to Trump's recent mind-boggling tweet accusing an old man who was assaulted by police in Buffalo as being part of an elaborate Antifa sting operation (I hate that… Read the rest of the article: What to do if you think your grandparents are Antifa

President thanks "The SS" for violence against citizens

Robert Baden-Powell founded scouting, the worldwide organization cultivating youngsters' abilities and teamwork that's now open to all "without distinction of gender, origin, race or creed". But that was not quite… Read the rest of the article: Statue of scouting founder and Nazi sympathizer Robert Baden-Powell to be removed

The Hard Times is a satire site in the vein of The Onion, but with content focused more on hipsters, punk rock, and video game culture. And it is a… Read the rest of the article: Howard Stern and the Village People both fell for a satire article about the cop from the Village People

JK Rowling's retroactive Harry Potter continuity additions have been a continuous source of pop cultural embarrassment. But her repeated allusions to trans-exclusionary radical feminism has been even worse. After a… Read the rest of the article: Annotating JK Rowling's bonkers anti-Trans rant

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pablo Rochat (@pablo.rochat) Amazing what can be made with some gaffers tape, a pair of scissors, and a step ladder. San… Read the rest of the article: Artist turned crossing light into Black Power fist

Popular Information published an article about three companies that publicly stated support for Black Lives Matter but at the same time advertised on dog whistling virtuoso Tucker Carlson's Fox News… Read the rest of the article: Three companies stopped advertising on Tucker Carlson's TV show

Does anyone think Trump would ever leave the White House of his own accord, no matter what the results of the election? Vox interviewed Amherst College law professor Lawrence Douglas,… Read the rest of the article: What if Trump loses but refuses to go? Alarming interview with a law professor

I like to walk around Cat Street and its intriguing side streets every time I go to Tokyo. It's full of eclectic little stores and cafes and there are surprises… Read the rest of the article: Watch this relaxing walk along Tokyo's Cat Street

Perfect. A petition is being circulated on Change.org to replace Richmond, VA's Monument Avenue statue of Robert E. Lee with Oderus Urungus (aka the late Dave Brockie) of GWAR.

NASCAR is an activity in which humans sit in wheeled, self-propelled boxes and hold contests to see who can roll the fastest. Other humans surround the rolling boxes and cheer… Read the rest of the article: NASCAR banned the Confederate flag, prompting calls for a boycott

Ecoji is like Base64 encoding, but it's Base1024 and uses emojis instead of the alphabet. [via @codinghorror] For example: $ echo "Base64 is so 1999, isn't there something better?" |… Read the rest of the article: Encode Your Data With Emoji

Mtsyry: Octobriana 1976 is a new book from Jim Rugg featuring Octobriana, the Russian superhero star of cult 70s comics which themselves have a strange and confusing history. Rugg's incarnation… Read the rest of the article: Fluorescent blacklight comic book

The US government announced funding clinical trials on three COVID-19 vaccine candidates. According to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, we're still on track… Read the rest of the article: Fauci: US government announced funding of three vaccine trials, on track for scale by end of the year/early 2021

COPS has glorified police since 1989, riding along as officers chase down, interview and arrest people. It crafted a reality-TV aesthetic of shaky cameras, counterfeit danger and harsh lighting, cruel… Read the rest of the article: COPS cancelled after 33 seasons

Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? In 1994, Atari released COPS, a LaserDisc-based videogame based on the now-cancelled "reality" TV series. Above is rare footage of the gameplay. According… Read the rest of the article: COPS, the Atari arcade videogame from 1994 based on the now-cancelled "reality" TV show

Writer Gerry Conway has been vocal for years about the misappropriation of the Punisher, a vigilante murderer superhero he created in 1974 when he wrote Amazing Spider-Man #129: It's disturbing whenever… Read the rest of the article: Creator of the Punisher is organizing a Black Lives Matter benefit to reclaim the skull symbol from police

Chris Watts killed his pregnant wife and two young children and buried them in a tank. This mini-documentary by Jim Can't Swim (patreon) takes us through the bodycam footage of… Read the rest of the article: Psychology of a killer

In March of 2019 — about a year after the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School — the ACLU released a report titled "Cops and No Counselors: How… Read the rest of the article: The ACLU analyzed the number of police in schools compared to social workers, and the results are staggering