Blue collar work Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe offers scholarships to aspiring trade workers Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets Here are 39 of the best July 4th deals to help keep some money in your wallet Boing Boing's Shop

Business 'We are desperate — we need more immigrants.' Mick Mulvaney, Trump's Office of Management and Budget chief Xeni Jardin

movies Actor Danny Aiello has died at 86 Xeni Jardin

Japan What is it like to be a foreign worker in Tokyo? Mark Frauenfelder

documentaries Trailer: Take a peek at Barack and Michelle Obama's first film, American Factory Carla Sinclair

china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

class war From prisons to factories to offices: the spread of workplace surveillance and monitoring tech Cory Doctorow

politics Trump made history: introducing tax cuts made him LESS popular Cory Doctorow

surveillance Ios and Android app stores both host Saudi government app that lets men track their spouses' movements Cory Doctorow

gop After $4.1 billion subsidy, Foxconn cancels plan to build Wisconsin "factory," now proposing a small R&D facility Cory Doctorow

Business Amazon's NYC digs being built on land that would have been used for low-income housing Seamus Bellamy

Copyfight Why would a company give free tablets to prisons for inmate use? Cory Doctorow

transparency Laramie County, Wyoming Sheriffs' department blocks public records requests for their prison phone monopoly deal Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2017 Gift Guide

Gadgets Kids' smart watches are a security/privacy dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow

tech Three terrible tech trends Rob Beschizza

trumpism How to agree with something Trump does without endorsing trumpism Cory Doctorow

class war Company town + Internet of Things + Drones = total surveillance of remote mine workers Cory Doctorow

politics If blue-collar workers want better jobs, they need unions, not Trump Cory Doctorow