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

war Killing people with drones is working out great for America, says ex CIA chief Xeni Jardin

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

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

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

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

Copyfight Thanks to streaming, recording industry revenues are back up to pre-internet levels, but musicians are poorer than ever Cory Doctorow

happy mutants A Good American: a documentary about Bill Binney, an NSA whistleblower who says 9/11 could have been prevented Cory Doctorow

picks How would you explain the difference between war and terrorism to a space alien? Barry Eisler

security On whistleblowers and secrecy: What author Barry Eisler said to a room of ex-intelligence officers Barry Eisler

law Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks' malware checklist Cory Doctorow

science fiction Very sad news about science fiction titan David G Hartwell Cory Doctorow

web theory Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century Cory Doctorow

politics Carly Fiorina boasts: I sold the NSA its mass-surveillance servers Cory Doctorow