education Propublica offering diversity scholarships for students to attend 2020 journalism conferences Cory Doctorow
taxes Howto: file your taxes for free without getting defrauded into paying a big tax-prep firm 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
Kids Illinois schools don't just lock special ed kids in solitary, they also restrain them Cory Doctorow
Kids Quiet Rooms: Illinois schools lead the nation in imprisoning very young, disabled children in isolation chambers Cory Doctorow
trumpism Search the databases of Trump political appointees' resumes and discover their undisclosed conflicts of interest Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Facebook forced to drop "feature" that let advertisers block black people, old people and women Cory Doctorow
censorship Leaked Facebook docs: weird censorship standards that protect "white men but not black children" Cory Doctorow
Gadgets If you are still waiting to do your taxes then you won't want to miss out on this TurboTax offer Boing Boing's Shop
Business Trump administration gave coronavirus bailout money to private jet companies of Trump donors Xeni Jardin
coronavirus Medical professionals and Healthcare providers are getting their pay cut while dealing with COVID-19 Thom Dunn
coronavirus Healthcare providers are allegedly denying chloroquine to patients because of Trump's statements Thom Dunn
coronavirus Alabama disaster plan would deny treatment to those with "severe mental retardation" Rob Beschizza
politics 'Resign!' 2 GOP senators should lose jobs for coronavirus stock jump, say critics Xeni Jardin
politics Republican Senator dumped ~$1.5m in stock before crash, while reassuring public that coronavirus was no big deal. Rob Beschizza
transparency The Catholic Church broke its promise to publish a list of "credibly accused" abuser priests, so Propublica did it for them Cory Doctorow
corporatism The sordid tale of Microsoft's epic tax evasion and the war they waged against the IRS Cory Doctorow
health For the first time, you can search the database of money that publicly funded researchers in Illinois received from pharma companies Cory Doctorow
