slapp Watch John Oliver explain how a coal industry giant failed to sue him in to silence Mark Frauenfelder
News CCPA: California to enforce new digital privacy law starting today, despite calls for further pandemic delay Xeni Jardin
facebook Facebook's new Fact-Checking policies have carved out an exemption for climate deniers Thom Dunn
Business Facebook helps launch American Edge, lobbying group in DC to fight antitrust regulators Xeni Jardin
Comic Books Talking Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics with Visionary Comic Book Creator Tom Scioli Jeffery Klaehn
pollution A pandemic seems like a great time to *checks notes* weaken regulations on toxic pollutants? Thom Dunn
Gadgets Take back your bed. We’ve got options to make your slumber a pleasure again. Boing Boing's Shop
eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz
corruption Leaks reveal how creepy, cultish monopolist Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS to kill free tax-filing Cory Doctorow
law Trump's FCC won a terrible victory in last week's net neutrality ruling, but we're still winning the war Cory Doctorow
apple Apple bans an app because Hong Kong protesters might use it to avoid the murderous, out of control police Cory Doctorow
corruption A loophole in nonprofit law means that corporate lobbying is at least double the official figure Cory Doctorow
carceral state Edelman PR drops GEO Group after employee revolt at the prospect of laundering the reputation of private US concentration camps Cory Doctorow
Business For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants' protections Cory Doctorow
elections Europe's surging, far-right, "anti-establishment" parties: funded by billionaires, voting for billionaire-friendly policies, lining their own pockets Cory Doctorow
aoc Bipartisan groups call on Congress to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment, which Gingrich killed in 1995 Cory Doctorow
corporatism Beto O'Rourke just hired a "senior advisor" who used to lobby for Keystone XL, Seaworld and private prisons Cory Doctorow