Free range children Boy repeatedly spit on air passengers, mom banned from airline Carla Sinclair

History Juneteenth: "Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones." David Pescovitz

books Two far-out books about California counterculture reviewed by Erik Davis David Pescovitz

Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson's daughter Christina on the new edition of her father's book, Ishtar Rising Mark Frauenfelder

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

tabloids Royal brawl in palace, Brad & Jen’s reunion, and 2020 predictions in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books The Pursuit of Capyness is a capybaras-only coloring book Rob Beschizza

tabloids The multiverse, universal wave function and quantum mechanics in this week’s tawdry tabloids Peter Sheridan

administrative cruelty After ICE raid, children left homeless and without food Mark Frauenfelder

france Having burnished their reputations with extravagant promises, the billionaires who pledged €600m. to rebuild Notre Dame are missing in action Cory Doctorow

Kids Teens are filling Tiktok with memes deploring #Life360, a parenting app that tracks teens Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018 Cory Doctorow

happy mutants 2019 Hugo Award finalists announced Cory Doctorow

uk London developer makes last-minute changes to lock poor kids out of "communal" playground Cory Doctorow

News Trump ex-attorney Michael Cohen sentenced: 3 years prison, $500,000 forfeiture, $1.4 million restitution, $50,000 fine Xeni Jardin

fake news Why the Queen is up in Meghan’s uterus, and how to tell you’ll be dead in 23 hours, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

fake news Tabloids turn on Trump, Brad and Jen reunite, and Natalie Wood’s death mystery solved, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

podcasts How politics became our identity David McRaney

fake news Queen collapses, Stacy Peterson’s body found, Jennifer Aniston’s post-divorce hook-ups, and other news that never happened, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza