santa claus We need to close the North Pole tax loopholes to pay for Universal Elfcare Thom Dunn

santa This onesie will make you look like a seriously depraved Santa Rusty Blazenhoff

drugs Watch Jeanette go from pills to reefer to heroin in this 1961 anti-drug film Andrea James

Delightful Creatures Watch: Playful coyote excited to pal around with a badger Carla Sinclair

cancer Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for cancer, again Xeni Jardin

christ what an asshole The "Tragedy of the Commons" was invented by a white supremacist based on a false history, and it's toxic bullshit Cory Doctorow

candy These Mac 'n' Cheese Candy Canes are selling out fast Rusty Blazenhoff

trump Yevgeniy Nikulin, Russian charged in 2012 LinkedIn & DropBox hacks, now of 'great interest' in Mueller probe Xeni Jardin

censorship The platforms control our public discourse, and who they disconnect is arbitrary and capricious Cory Doctorow

police Surveillance camera shows off-duty NYPD cop dropping a weapon near man he shot in the face Rob Beschizza

ousters California voters fire the judge who sentenced rapist Brock Turner to six months Mark Frauenfelder

television Grant Morrison on Happy! "the world is a nihilistic hellhole plunging toward screaming entropy, but … we have hope" Thomas Negovan

picks I rode Amtrak's Coast Starlight the wrong direction. I still loved it. Jason Weisberger

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fake news Dead aliens, a Royal curse, and Trump’s war on Scientology, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

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gift guide Boing Boing's 2016 Gift Guide: Books Boing Boing

politics Residents of Silicon Valley homeless camp clear 48,000 Lbs of garbage from creek, ask for housing Cory Doctorow

Business Black-hat hacker handles are often advertisements Cory Doctorow

elections Dick Van Dyke, 90: Bernie Sanders is the best candidate for seniors Cory Doctorow