Real things you can actually buy Two brothers deface worthless baseball cards for fun and profit Rusty Blazenhoff
Technology Damien Patton, CEO of tech surveillance company Banjo, once helped KKK shoot up a synagogue: Report Xeni Jardin
crime Boy, 10 years old, fires shotgun at cops during 2-hour SWAT standoff in San Diego, CA Xeni Jardin
zero-tolerance gone bad Teacher calls cops on 6-year-old with Down syndrome who pointed a finger gun at her Mark Frauenfelder
obituaries Little-known, criminally underappreciated 70s singer-songwriter, Judee Sill, finally gets an obit in the New York Times Gareth Branwyn
yes they're concentration camps On the history of concentration camps, and what Trump's doing on the border Xeni Jardin
Kids After American juvenile offenders are released, they can be re-imprisoned for failing to make restitution payments Cory Doctorow
police Chicago police discourage use of mobile phone cases that look just like handguns David Pescovitz
Kids Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow
drugs US FDA approved chemical twin of dissociative psychedelic ketamine to treat depression David Pescovitz
Science US governmental conservationists really hope that young endangered seals will stop getting eels stuck in their nostrils Cory Doctorow