picks Trump sours on Kushner, wishes his daughter married someone else Jason Weisberger

Gadgets Your home office could use some work of its own and these 20 items might just do the trick Boing Boing's Shop

Science Tropical Storm Fay imaged by NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Xeni Jardin

MeidasTouch On Trump's tax returns, "Supreme Loser" video tells Trump, "You lost. Bigly." Carla Sinclair

News SUV plows into BLM protest in NYC's Times Square, similar potentially deadly attacks happening around U.S. Xeni Jardin

b-side Trash-talking chess player's ass handed to him by 16-year-old Mark Frauenfelder

music String quartet performs for a sold-out audience of 3,000 plants David Pescovitz

recipes A children's book recipe for "No-Bake Spice Cookies," inspired by David Lynch's DUNE Thom Dunn

puzzles My trip through the Starmaze: a world in the 9th dimension Jane Frauenfelder

us news Petition circulates to replace Richmond's Robert E. Lee statue with Oderus Urungus of GWAR Gareth Branwyn

#blacklivesmatter NASCAR banned the Confederate flag, prompting calls for a boycott Mark Frauenfelder

News Trump vows to bring U.S. military in to protests, as violent police attacks on protesters and press continue Xeni Jardin

flag of treason The Lincoln Project's new ad: America or Trump? Carla Sinclair

electron microscopy Snapdragon seed pod under electron microscope Rob Beschizza

television 100 TV shows ranked by their final episode Mark Frauenfelder

music Kraftwerk's connection to R&B and black DJs in America David Pescovitz

Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Roy Horn lives, China lied, and Murder Hornets Swarm America, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

cars "I bought the cheapest new car in the world" for $930 on Alibaba David Pescovitz

Spoken Word with Electronics Those weird dirty records in our parents' basement: Belle Barth's Scary 'Adults Only' LP — and SMURF HEIST: "That Day, at Age 6, When I Broke Into a Friend's House to Steal a Gargamel Figurine" Ethan Persoff