Ugly Christmas Sweater A fugly ALF Christmas Sweater exists Rusty Blazenhoff

picks Michu Meszaros, who played ALF the extraterrestrial on television, RIP David Pescovitz

black lives matter "Promissory Note" marries MLK's moving words with music and imagery Andrea James

Games Bernband: explore a looming yet intimate alien city Rob Beschizza

Science "My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy." David Pescovitz

Spoken Word with Electronics Space Aliens are no longer visiting Earth due to an allergy to our cell phones Ethan Persoff

Chaos in America, O.J. Simpson framed by cops, and Brad Pitt’s saggy butt, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

Space Astronaut Helen Sharman: extraterrestrials exist and they may be here now David Pescovitz

News UPDATED: Tony Robbins accused of sexually assaulting high schooler at summer camp Xeni Jardin

Copyfight Minnesota Public Radio sent us one of the weirdest legal threats we've ever received (and they won't explain it) Cory Doctorow

it can and probably will happen here Kurt Eichenwald's Twitter thread about how Trump could cancel the election is keeping people up at night Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber Cory Doctorow

science fiction Read: Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech, in which she correctly identifies Campbell as a fascist and expresses solidarity with Hong Kong protesters Cory Doctorow

china From Tiananmen to Occupy Central to the Umbrella Movement to today's General Strike: understanding the Hong Kong uprising Cory Doctorow

elections Shahid Buttar: the civil rights cyberlawyer and community organizer who's challenging Pelosi from the left #ShahidVsPelosi Cory Doctorow

tabloids Celebrity grave-digging, flesh-eating bacteria and alien abductions in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

science fiction Exclusive excerpt of Rudy Rucker's new novel: Million Mile Road Trip Mark Frauenfelder

aliens The best evidence for extraterrestrials may be their massive engineering projects David Pescovitz

Democrats A Sanders candidacy would make 2020 a referendum on the future, not a referendum on Trump Cory Doctorow