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racism Tech CEO in racist restaurant rant Rob Beschizza

marketing "Like a glory hole for your hands": Socially distanced mani trucks announced Rusty Blazenhoff

politics Trump lies, 'They’ve come up with the AIDS vaccine' Xeni Jardin

Harry Potter Annotating JK Rowling's bonkers anti-Trans rant Thom Dunn

police brutality NYPD officers assault Associated Press journalist, force crew to stop covering protest Rob Beschizza

News Meet Rahul Dubey, 'absolute legend' who sheltered ~70 protestors inside his home for 8 hours overnight Xeni Jardin

politics Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot has 2 words for Donald Trump: 'It starts with F and ends with U' Xeni Jardin

music What everybody knows Rob Beschizza

trump Trump calls U.S. Postal Service 'a joke,' threatens defunding if it won't raise Amazon's rate Xeni Jardin

meditation Lose yourself in "Fuck That: An Honest Meditation" David Pescovitz

Funny An oral history of The Office David Pescovitz

russia Russia's airborne dicketry comes close to America's shores Seamus Bellamy

travel My life on the road: Marrakesh Seamus Bellamy

travel My life on the road: Morocco Seamus Bellamy

politics Something Awful's "Fuck You and Die" forum went from freewheeling jokesters to Nazi shitposters, so it's dead Cory Doctorow

Entertainment Netflix's "The Circle" is my seventh layer of hell, and I can't stop watching it Thom Dunn

Science Anne Dagg, pioneering giraffe biologist and feminist critic of "evolutionary psychology" receives the Order of Canada Cory Doctorow

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