picks Former CIA Chief Hayden Says Trump is Russia’s Useful Fool Xeni Jardin

History New Netflix movie about the Chicago 7 trial, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman David Pescovitz

News Bars fill up with thirsty patrons after Wisconsin court strikes down stay-at-home order Mark Frauenfelder

synthesizers Meet the Harmonicade, a multi-channel MIDI keyboard that uses arcade push-buttons in a Wicki-Hayden button layout Gareth Branwyn

Weird 'I go to thrift stores with $20 and try to make the weirdest outfits I can.' Xeni Jardin

novels Review: "The Nobody People" is like a literary X-Men novel for the Trump era Thom Dunn

happy mutants Thanks to an article about why science fiction great John M Ford's books are out of print, they're coming back Cory Doctorow

trumpism State department official alleged be behind white nationalist terror-supporter pseudonym: "[Whites] need a country of our own with nukes" Cory Doctorow

poetry Joy Harjo named 23rd Poet Laureate, first Native American to serve in U.S. position of honor Xeni Jardin

fake news Queen in drunken brawl, Prince Harry’s hell, and Meghan Markle’s secrets, in this week’s dubious Royal tabloids Peter Sheridan

books RIP, author Carol Emshwiller Cory Doctorow

Science Neil DeGrasse Tyson accused of rape and sexual harassment by 4 women Xeni Jardin

happy mutants A list of real songs about fictional songs (e.g. "Jailhouse Rock") Cory Doctorow

News Before Robert Bowers killed 11 in synagogue, on Gab he offered to help a white supremacist hate group dox a journalist Xeni Jardin

happy mutants "Radicalized" will be my next book! Cory Doctorow

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

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

politics Trump threatens to revoke security clearance of intel chiefs who criticize him (LOL, half those guys lost theirs already) Xeni Jardin

calls for genocide Former senior CIA official says it's "quite near time" for Trump supporters to kill Trump opponents Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Founder of Diamond Comic Distributors donates 3,000 comics rarities to the Library of Congress Cory Doctorow