extremism John Cleese's 30-year-old rant on extremists seems relevant today Rusty Blazenhoff

white supremacists Noted white nationalist and guy who got punched in the face Richard Spencer is "financially crippled" from lawsuit Thom Dunn

pentagon The Pentagon developed a plan to stop a potential Gen Z rebellion in the 2020s. Thom Dunn

Welome to Gilead Barr gives DEA power to investigate people protesting George Floyd's murder Mark Frauenfelder

protests Black protestor tells two white women to stop tagging Starbucks with BLM Mark Frauenfelder

Technology Clearview AI promises to cancel accounts that aren't law enforcement or government entities Xeni Jardin

censorship Zoom says it's using artificial intelligence to block nudity Mark Frauenfelder

Business More reporting links Clearview AI to Trump-aligned racists, neo-Nazis, and alt-right trolls Xeni Jardin

politics FBI elevates risk from neo-Nazis to same level as ISIS Xeni Jardin

politics Clearview AI founder linked to Trump world and Far-Right, NYPD denies facial recognition firm's boast that it helped catch terrorist suspect Xeni Jardin

climate The DHS classes nonviolent environmental activists in the same "domestic terrorist" category as Dylan Roof and James Fields Cory Doctorow

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

usausausa Elizabeth Warren's plan to denazify America Cory Doctorow

guns Seattle authorities used "Red Flag" gun laws to disarm a Neo-Nazi Thom Dunn

happy mutants Annalee Newitz's "Future of Another Timeline": like Handmaid's Tale meets Hitchhiker's Guide Cory Doctorow

racism Facebook claims to be taking white supremacist violence more seriously, LMAO Xeni Jardin

elections In California, the 2020 elections will feature an epic battle to allow cities to reinstate property taxes Cory Doctorow

security You have the right to remain encrypted Albert Fox Cahn & Ayyan Zubair

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

racism InfoWars and others spread lies on migrants bringing Ebola to US, officials confirm they're lying Xeni Jardin