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coronavirus Elon Musk to CA factory employees: Back to work. Gov. Newsom: This may violate public health order Xeni Jardin

trump Why tabloid reporters are like Donald Trump Peter Sheridan

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guns A fascinating computer analysis of the linguistic context around the 2nd Amendment Thom Dunn

politics Biden wins most Super Tuesday states; Sanders takes California Rob Beschizza

coronavirus CDC planned to drop off coronavirus cruise passengers at a shopping mall Cheesecake Factory, when they got out of quarantine Xeni Jardin

Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin

music Fifty of the most drug-drenched albums of all time Gareth Branwyn

climate change Republicans get billions of dollars in public funding to fight climate change by pretending that it isn't real Thom Dunn

privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow

pigs 30-50 feral hogs are now building pigloos Thom Dunn

christ what an asshole The Lincoln Library executive director got fired for renting Glenn Beck the original Gettysburg Address Cory Doctorow

music Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes wrote a young adult novel and it sounds fantastically weird David Pescovitz

Robert Crumb Robert Crumb's iconic "Stoned Agin!" original art up for auction Mark Frauenfelder

crime 'MURDER' — Aaron Dean, former Fort Worth TX police officer, charged with murder for fatal shooting of black woman Xeni Jardin

police brutality Texas cop shoots black woman dead in her own home, through her window Rob Beschizza