usausausa Prisoners in 17 states are on strike, demanding an end to prison slavery and basic human justice Cory Doctorow

Trump calls Roger Stone's proposed sentence a "terrible miscarriage of justice" Mark Frauenfelder

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

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow

eu Catalan independence movement declares a general strike in Barcelona Cory Doctorow

politics Why don't more Chinese people oppose the Chinese government? Cory Doctorow

china Thousands of elderly Hong Kongers march in solidarity with young human rights activists Cory Doctorow

china Hong Kong protesters repeatedly blockade police HQ, demanding release of people arrested at #612strike demonstrations Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Bernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education" will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline Cory Doctorow

china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

science fiction Exclusive excerpt of Rudy Rucker's new novel: Million Mile Road Trip Mark Frauenfelder

crime Ahead of California's criminal justice reforms to reduce mass incarceration, prosecutors are locking in plea deals forcing defendants to give up the rights they're about to get Cory Doctorow

Food Court strikes down Iowa's unconstitutional ag-gag law Cory Doctorow

law Federal workers must show up and can't strike even when not paid in Trump's Shutdown Xeni Jardin

late stage capitalism LA's teachers are ready to strike on Tuesday, rejecting privatization of public education Cory Doctorow

trumpism Molly Crabapple's illustrated report from the immigration detention Gulags of Texas Cory Doctorow

politics Papadopoulos allegedly told confidant in 2016 he was pursuing Russia deal that would help Trump: Report Xeni Jardin

education US tax shortfalls have our public schools begging for donations Cory Doctorow

class war Chinese students, made to study Communism, are rising up for workers' rights Cory Doctorow