kansas Birtherism for everyone: Kansas woman told birth certificate can't be used for passport renewal Cory Doctorow

racism Lawyer for gun-toting St. Louis couple describes his clients as "melanin-deficient human beings" Thom Dunn

nihilism Two great deep-dives mine the endless hole at the bottom of Mitch McConnell's inhumanity Thom Dunn

surveillance What it's like inside the CIA during Donald Trump's "Deep State" purge Thom Dunn

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

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

alt-right A former InfoWars employee describes Alex Jones' bizarre and dangerous behavior Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids How Mafia Killed the Pope, Meghan & Harry quit the Royal Family, and the Obamas divorce, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

politics Trump White House changed top-secret system to heighten secrecy Xeni Jardin

health E.P.A. won't ban chlorpyrifos pesticide that scientists say damages children's brains Xeni Jardin

fake news Royal bombshells, Obama’s boozing daughter, and if Star Trek’s Captain Kirk was a cat, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

trump Trump chose a thin-skinned, blowhard ignoramus as ambassador to Germany, and now no one will talk to him except Nazis Cory Doctorow

Business Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the collapse of 2008 and things are much, much worse Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Here's the report that showed the FCC lied about being hacked and then lied about lying Cory Doctorow

trumpism Customs stole a US citizen's life savings when he boarded a domestic flight, now he's suing to get it back Cory Doctorow

fake news Royal wedding bombshell, the CIA’s Trump assassination plot, and the stars really are like us, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

addiction Public ignorance about “drunk/drugged up losers” is expensive and deadly Maureen Herman

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

climate As climate deniers claim credit for killing Net Neutrality, the FCC's internal auditor reveals that Neutracide was based on a lie Cory Doctorow

fake news Hitler found alive after WWII, and how Donald Trump is misunderstood, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan