xenophobia A list of companies that contract with ICE Cory Doctorow

Funny WTF Visualizations names and shames terrible data viz Andrea James

racism Lawyer for gun-toting St. Louis couple describes his clients as "melanin-deficient human beings" Thom Dunn

sesame street A dark fan theory explores the illicit affair between Elmo's mom and his Uncle Jack Thom Dunn

racism Ahmaud Arbery: 2 months ago, unarmed black man shot and killed by civilians for jogging. Video just came out. Thom Dunn

mistakes Kentucky governor apologizes to Tupac Shakur Rob Beschizza

Comics "The Black Ghost" is a fun Latina twist on urban noir superheroes Thom Dunn

tabloids Worst Royal crisis ever spells the end of the monarchy, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Japan Must-haves: Drunk in public Japanese capsule toys Rusty Blazenhoff

sexual harassment Academic published erotic fiction about own students Rob Beschizza

cults Love Letters to Hitler Mike Shaughnessy

eff In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis Cory Doctorow

online shaming Gentleman calls police after Target employee won't sell him an electric toothbrush mispriced at $0.01 Mark Frauenfelder

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

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow

grifters George Zimmerman is suing Trayvon Martin's mother for $100M in order to promote a movie Thom Dunn

podcast A small city mayor explains why safe drug injection sites are so effective Thom Dunn

racism NRA TV was so racist even the NRA says it was racist Rob Beschizza

Business Zuck claims he chows down with politicos from "across the spectrum" but they all seem to be far-right creeps Cory Doctorow