Technology Senate GOP introduce bill to end 'warrant-proof' encryption, end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp is targeted Xeni Jardin
health Fast-tracked South Dakota bill will felonize doctors who offer gender-confirmation therapy to trans kids Cory Doctorow
law Bill from Missouri's Rep Ben Baker threatens librarians with prison sentences for allowing minors to read books banned by town committees Cory Doctorow
b-side Kentucky's former GOP governor pardoned a bunch of rapists and murderers on his way out of office, including a child rapist Cory Doctorow
crime Kentucky's ex-governor Matt Bevin defends pardon of child rapist by claiming 9-year-old girl had 'intact hymen' and 'she made it up' Xeni Jardin
corruption Lawmaker admits not independently researching lobbyist's claim that ectopic fetuses could be reimplanted in the uterus, blames medical journals Cory Doctorow
corruption White nationalists who got a $2.5m payout from UNC abuse the DMCA to censor lawyer's trove of documents about it Cory Doctorow
corruption As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn't even been filed Cory Doctorow
elections Twitter is awash in disinformation bots tweeting lies about the Kentucky gubernatorial election results Cory Doctorow
trump Taxpayers spent $10b for Trump's wall (so far); smugglers are cutting it with $100 saws and $10 blades Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: "cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one" Cory Doctorow
facebook A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers Cory Doctorow
gop Washington state rep Matt Shea secretly backed and organized terror-training camps to create child soldiers to fight in a race war Cory Doctorow
law Judge orders the State of Georgia to be prepared for pen-and-paper balloting by March 2020 Cory Doctorow
