happy mutants Beautiful, spirographian images created with metal and wood drawing machines Cory Doctorow
Spider-Man Bolivian brothers let a black widow bite them all in hopes of getting superpowers Thom Dunn
canada Canada Post apologizes for stamps bearing decapitated head of prime minister John Macdonald statue David Pescovitz
photos Magnificent images from the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition David Pescovitz
science fiction New edition of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother/Homeland with intro by Edward Snowden Mark Frauenfelder
native americans That time George Washington ordered "total destruction and devastation" of the Haudenosaunee Thom Dunn
corruption Trump administration gave a $700M bailout to a $70M truck company after it allegedly defrauded the Pentagon Thom Dunn
racism Lawyer for gun-toting St. Louis couple describes his clients as "melanin-deficient human beings" Thom Dunn
politics Carl Bernstein: Trump 'delusional' & danger to national security — McMaster, Tillerson, Bolton, Mattis, Kelly Xeni Jardin
Tom the Dancing Bug Four years of Trumpist surrealism and horror in one Book: Into the Trumpverse, comics by Ruben Bolling Boing Boing
police brutality North Carolina cop: "We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f—— n——" Rob Beschizza
arsenic Whole Foods' bottled water has "concerning levels of arsenic," says Consumer Reports Carla Sinclair
police Massachusetts governor proposes a $5000 bonus for cops who undergo anti-racist training Thom Dunn
voter suppression Kentucky Election Board conveniently cuts 3,500 polling stations ahead of primaries Thom Dunn
law IRS says it bought in to location database for millions of US cellphones to track tax crime suspects Xeni Jardin