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sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing
coronavirus County sheriffs claim that prisoners sleeping head-to-toe count as being "six feet apart" for coronavirus safety Thom Dunn
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movies The Iron Mask is a fantasy adventure movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan and Rutger Hauer, and is definitely real Rob Beschizza
gwot One of the CIA's waterboarding torturers called himself "The Preacher" and shouted religious nonsense while performing executions Cory Doctorow
gender Two years after a federal law banning shackling women during childbirth was passed, prisoners in America are still giving birth in chains Cory Doctorow
Business When contracting with Chinese manufacturers, it's very hard to avoid forced labor Cory Doctorow
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
b-side Kentucky's former GOP governor pardoned a bunch of rapists and murderers on his way out of office, including a child rapist Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow