Business New York City raised minimum wage to $15, and its restaurants outperformed the nation Cory Doctorow

class war Assessing Occupy's legacy Cory Doctorow

Business Avengers: Endgame made $1.2B last weekend and Bernie Sanders wants Disney to spend it on raises that will give all their employees a middle-class wage Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism McDonald's will drop opposition to increases in the federal minimum wage Cory Doctorow

Business Amazon will raise its minimum wage for employees to $15 (what about contractors?) Cory Doctorow

happy mutants #MeToo meets the #FightFor15 as McDonald's workers walk out over sexual harassment Cory Doctorow

bernie sanders None of the Above won the 2016 election Cory Doctorow

themepunks Disneyland will raise park employees' minimum wage to $15 Cory Doctorow

Democrats Meet Hereditary Congressman Dan Lipinski, an anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ Illinois "Machine Democrat" who opposes the $15 minimum wage Cory Doctorow

class war A socialist candidate for Minneapolis city council has broken all fundraising records through individual $25 donations Cory Doctorow

tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

sponsored If Cannabis Is “A Potential Way To Prevent COVID-19” Then Why Is Trump Blocking Research? Boing Boing

Gadgets The Evercable is the steel reinforced charging cord that won’t break within 2 weeks Boing Boing's Shop

racism The US Department of Justice was originally created to tackle white supremacy Thom Dunn

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

facebook In a panic over fleeing advertisers, Facebook launches PR blitz to announce it is "a mirror to society" Mark Frauenfelder

racism NASCAR investigating noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage stall at Alabama race Xeni Jardin

Business Plagued by security woes, Zoom promises end-to-end encryption starting in July Xeni Jardin

glasses Original nerd glasses from 1756 saved from trash, auctioned for $5k David Pescovitz

police The ACLU analyzed the number of police in schools compared to social workers, and the results are staggering Thom Dunn