Business Amazon's NYC digs being built on land that would have been used for low-income housing Seamus Bellamy
class war Even the telco industry thinks Ajit Pai is an asshole for maiming Lifeline, a broadband subsidy for poor Americans Cory Doctorow
baseball A minor league Yankees affiliate team tried to throw an "OJ Simpson Trial"-themed baseball game Thom Dunn
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
politics Trump to kick 700,000 Americans off food stamps just in time for holiday cruelty display Xeni Jardin
uk Labour pledges universal broadband and nationwide fibre, will renationalise the farcical, terrible BT Openreach Cory Doctorow
Journalism Northwestern journalism students wrote something dumb. The freakout around it is even dumber. Thom Dunn
health In Kansas's poor, sick places, hospitals and debt collectors send the ailing to debtor's prison Cory Doctorow
uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Majority of American millionaires support a wealth tax on American millionaires Cory Doctorow
corruption How the "prosperity gospel" convinces poor people to give everything to grifty millionaire preachers Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Frontier receives $283.4m/year in taxpayer money, neglects network, rips off customers — and Trump's FCC won't investigate Cory Doctorow
health Twitter users answer the question: "When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system?" Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism LA's teachers are ready to strike on Tuesday, rejecting privatization of public education Cory Doctorow
