politics Austerity Robin Hood: a billionaire who takes from "scroungers" and gives to "hardworking people" Cory Doctorow

tabloids Roy Horn lives, China lied, and Murder Hornets Swarm America, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

rock and roll Iggy Pop on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1979 Gareth Branwyn

politics Marianne Williamson assails Trump for pardoning Charles Manson's corpse (he hasn't) Rob Beschizza

politics Second whistleblower comes forward Jason Weisberger

books Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the making of a whistleblower Cory Doctorow

LGBTQ Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans Cory Doctorow

class war Connecticut's racist NIMBYs have used zoning laws and dirty tricks to make it one of the most unequal, racially segregated states in the union Cory Doctorow

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

late stage capitalism The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow

wonderful creatures Trump "doesn't have time" to love a dog Rob Beschizza

Comrade Dana Putin fanboy Dana Rohrabacher has almost certainly lost to a Democrat Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets To Protect and Server: The tale of the tape on two top VPNs Boing Boing's Shop

racism Republican congressman Steve King endorses white supremacist mayoral candidate Rob Beschizza

dog whistles GOP candidate for Florida governor warns people not to "monkey this up" by electing black candidate Mark Frauenfelder

law Prenda law copyright troll lawyer pleads guilty to fraud and money laundering Rob Beschizza

scholarship When should the press pay attention to trolls, lies and disinformation? Cory Doctorow

videos How Russian investigative journalists working for precarious free press outlets exposed the "troll factory" Cory Doctorow

white supremacy White Supremacists who are running for office Jason Weisberger

usausausa The first-ever independent audit of whistleblower retaliation in US spy agencies was looking bad for the agencies, so it was shut down Cory Doctorow