politics Spanish central government fires Catalonian government officials, police chiefs Cory Doctorow

teeth Teen forced dentist to remove braces, at gunpoint David Pescovitz

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politics Trump commutes Roger Stone's prison sentence Xeni Jardin

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surveillance What you need to know about police drone surveillance at protests against police brutality Thom Dunn

education Harvard and MIT are suing over the Trump administration's student immigration ruling Thom Dunn

#COVIDIOTS The screaming no-masker was fired from his job Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction New edition of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother/Homeland with intro by Edward Snowden Mark Frauenfelder

News SUV plows into BLM protest in NYC's Times Square, similar potentially deadly attacks happening around U.S. Xeni Jardin

rona Screaming man threatens shoppers at Florida Costco Rob Beschizza

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

police Police militarization is objectively bad for police and for society, according to science Thom Dunn

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

Oakland Oakland Symphony performs radical social justice song of yore Rusty Blazenhoff

trump Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt: "Trump's betrayal to U.S. troops is impossible to overstate" Mark Frauenfelder

police I don't think the creator of this pro-policing political cartoon actually read "Frankenstein" Thom Dunn

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

books "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death, and dad's amateur erotica career Thom Dunn