movies VHS horror movies are corrupting our children! A "20/20 Special Report" from 1987 David Pescovitz

trump Trump's properties routinely employed (and abused) undocumented Latinx workers, including dozens from a single Costa Rican town Cory Doctorow

History Hurricane Maria started in 1898: how America spent more than a century brutalizing Puerto Rico Cory Doctorow

apple NYU grad student goes undercover in Chinese iPhone factory and it ain't pretty Carla Sinclair

censorship Watch Pages of Death, the long-lost anti-porn public information film Rob Beschizza

Vintage Weird Bizarre illustrations from old men's adventure magazines Mark Frauenfelder

corruption Jailer-owned "Christian business" forced inmates to make cornhole games Mark Frauenfelder

conservation Diego and other giant tortoises head to home island after saving their species Andrea James

police violence A US Air Force Sergeant linked to Boogaloo Bois charged with killing police officer Thom Dunn

cannabis Celebrate 4/20 by watching the weed exploitation classic Reefer Madness David Pescovitz

music Josie Cotton released a new album more than 30 years after it was recorded Matt Maranian

copyright A federal judge declared that a famous song about public property is still private property Thom Dunn

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

tabloids An Epstein tell-all, a vengeful Queen wannabe, and Harry & Meghan’s final insult, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

useful stuff Interview with Douglas Rushkoff Mark Frauenfelder

peanuts Planters Peanuts is killing off their cannibal capitalist mascot in the most capitalist way possible Thom Dunn

Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow

mexico Thousands of Zapatista women gather in the mountains of Mexico Thom Dunn