voting Alaska wins election stickers race Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets The Bite Helper removes the itch of a mosquito bite in seconds Boing Boing's Shop

voter suppression Trump's campaign against mail-in voting is backfiring by discouraging Republican absentee voters Thom Dunn

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racism The US Department of Justice was originally created to tackle white supremacy Thom Dunn

writing tools The Writers' Co-op is a great new podcast about how to make your freelance writing career work Thom Dunn

about face Fox host Steve Doocy pushes the idea that Trump should wear a mask Carla Sinclair

Gadgets The Allbaro Air takes a new approach to fixing your bad posture and it doesn’t feel like a straitjacket Boing Boing's Shop

History Juneteenth: "Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones." David Pescovitz

racism Statue of scouting founder and Nazi sympathizer Robert Baden-Powell to be removed Rob Beschizza

facebook Facebook makes 'Boogaloo' groups advocating US civil war harder to find, after arrest of participants plotting violence Xeni Jardin

george floyd Minneapolis police have allegedly blinded a photojournalist permanently in one eye Thom Dunn

podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn

Gadgets You won't want to miss out on these Memorial Day kitchen steals Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets If you need to wear a face covering, it may as well be a cool one Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets These moving, 3D wooden mechanical models are as gorgeous as they are crazy cool Boing Boing's Shop

News India and Bangladesh brace for Super Cyclone Amphan, strongest storm ever in Bay of Bengal Xeni Jardin

nihilism Two great deep-dives mine the endless hole at the bottom of Mitch McConnell's inhumanity Thom Dunn

Technology Damien Patton, CEO of tech surveillance company Banjo, once helped KKK shoot up a synagogue: Report Xeni Jardin

Science Coronavirus 'acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen,' say doctors Xeni Jardin