Oakland Oakland Symphony performs radical social justice song of yore Rusty Blazenhoff

music Listen to the darker, original "Born in the USA" David Pescovitz

Games Viral Chinese mobile game requires players to "applaud" a speech by President Xi Jinping Cory Doctorow

prisons Many American flags atop government buildings are made by prisoners Andrea James

music Mark Twain's 1900 rewrite of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, strangely apropos today Cory Doctorow

Business July 4: Rumblefish claims to own US Navy rendition of "America the Beautiful" Cory Doctorow

COVID-19 Politico asked 34 big thinkers to predict how the coronapocalypse will permanently change our world Gareth Branwyn

pizza Pizza honoring September 11 gets surprise online response Xeni Jardin

Cola The Pepsi Challenge: a blind taste test started an expensive war Jason Weisberger

videos Ta-Nehisi Coates makes the case for reparations to Congress Cory Doctorow

uk Leaked UK military "Extreme Right Wing" checklist: "using the term 'Islamofascism'", adding "-istan" to place names Cory Doctorow

racism Portrait of a fake news troll and the racist retiree who believes everything he writes Cory Doctorow

rip John McCain's farewell to America Gina Loukareas

italy Italy gives boot to 629 desperate migrants Seamus Bellamy

shithole presidency Pruitt tried to illegally get a Chick-fil-A restaurant for his wife because "it is a franchise of faith" Mark Frauenfelder

california 'Fuck Trump' projected on a building in California's 'Mayberry by the Bay' Rusty Blazenhoff

usausausa Durham protesters turn themselves in at police station after pulling down Confederate statue Cory Doctorow

censorship Quackspeak ascendant: China's subject-changing astroturfers rule the Chinese internet Cory Doctorow