trumpism Grifty "Students For Trump" founder pleads guilty to wire fraud for pretending to be a lawyer Cory Doctorow
crime That woman who got fired for comparing Michelle Obama to an ape is now going to jail for defrauding FEMA Cory Doctorow
crowdfunding Trump supporters astonished to learn that the man they gave $20m to "build the wall" has nothing to show for it Cory Doctorow
gop When Steve Bannon & co spent $1,000 on booze at Mar-a-Lago, taxpayers picked up the tab Cory Doctorow
privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow
health In Kansas's poor, sick places, hospitals and debt collectors send the ailing to debtor's prison Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Wework, Uber, Lyft, Netflix, Bird, Amazon: late-stage capitalism is all about money-losing predatory pricing aimed at creating monopolies Cory Doctorow
books How "meritocracy" went from a joke to a dogma, and destroyed the lives of everyone it touched Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Rule of Capture: Inside the martial law tribunals that will come when climate deniers become climate looters and start rendering environmentalists for offshore torture Cory Doctorow
happy mutants J Michael Straczynski's "Becoming Superman": a memoir of horrific abuse, war crimes, perseverance, trauma, triumph and doing what's right Cory Doctorow
human rights Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow
floss Electronic Health Records: a murderous, publicly subsidized, $13B/year grift by way of shitty software Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Artists against Article 13: when Big Tech and Big Content make a meal of creators, it doesn't matter who gets the bigger piece Cory Doctorow
patents Patent trolls celebrate as Trump's new rules breathes fresh life into parasitic grifter capitalism Cory Doctorow
