trains Terror on Amtrak: a slow, not-friendly, screaming, laughing, smiling, lady with no name tag Mark Frauenfelder

News CCPA: California to enforce new digital privacy law starting today, despite calls for further pandemic delay Xeni Jardin

antifa Trump's tweets about Antifa show his ignorance of US law Thom Dunn

police brutality Police response to protests against police brutality with more brutality Rob Beschizza

george floyd Minneapolis ablaze after prosecutor suggests no crime was committed by cops who killed George Floyd Rob Beschizza

police brutality The cop who killed George Floyd has a long record of police brutality Thom Dunn

trump Here's what's in Trump's executive order against social media companies David Pescovitz

youtube Fraudsters are shaking down YouTubers. Won't the company do anything to stop them? Rob Beschizza

coronavirus Finally, Amazon + Whole Foods workers to get masks, temperature checks Xeni Jardin

television Watch Johnny Carson joke about the toilet paper shortage David Pescovitz

Pee-Wee Herman Pee-wee Herman fans are going all out for "Big Adventure" 35th anniversary tour Rusty Blazenhoff

Weird Beehive, 8 feet long, is removed from someone’s apartment Xeni Jardin

America FCC received 1300 complaints about the suggestive nature of the Superbowl halftime show Jason Weisberger

politics National Archive to let ICE destroy documents Rob Beschizza

transparency How the Trump administration is putting public records under threat, so history may never know the awful things they did Thom Dunn

tabloids Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don’t use Viagra, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

youtube Youtube's Content ID has become the tool of choice for grifty copyfraudsters who steal from artists Cory Doctorow

corporatism The sordid tale of Microsoft's epic tax evasion and the war they waged against the IRS Cory Doctorow

Business Elon Musk's Tesla denies claims of unintended acceleration in vehicles Xeni Jardin