protest song Public Enemy releases new anti-Trump protest video Gareth Branwyn

music Prophets of Rage play Cleveland RNC, kick off 'Make America Rage Again' tour in 35 U.S. cities Maureen Herman

surveillance What you need to know about police drone surveillance at protests against police brutality Thom Dunn

Gadgets Nearly 200,000 happy students can’t be wrong about this machine learning-AI deep dive training Boing Boing's Shop

Business Ben & Jerry's on Black Lives Matter and the police killing of George Floyd: We Must Dismantle White Supremacy Xeni Jardin

News Mike Mullen, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman: 'I Cannot Remain Silent' Xeni Jardin

podcasts Open Culture has a new directory of the "Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind" Mark Frauenfelder

magic North Korea state media officially admits that Kim Jong Un did not teleport or time travel David Pescovitz

blackwater Blackwater founder Erik Prince used ex-spies to infiltrate liberal groups for Project Veritas Thom Dunn

surveillance What it's like inside the CIA during Donald Trump's "Deep State" purge Thom Dunn

Business Coronavirus emergency is 'Public Enemy Number 1,' says World Health Organization Xeni Jardin

security CIA secretly owned world's top encryption supplier, read enemy and ally messages for decades Xeni Jardin

MLK Day Public Enemy's 'By The Time I Get To Arizona' Jason Weisberger

los angeles LA police union will not defend cop accused of sexual assault on a corpse Cory Doctorow

security Equifax used "admin/admin" as login and pass for an unencrypted server full of your personal data Cory Doctorow

snowden Edward Snowden on the global war on encryption: "This is our new battleground" Cory Doctorow

corruption CBP officer refuses to allow American journalist into the country until he admits he writes "propaganda" Cory Doctorow

books Tolkien’s Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is probably a misogynist satire of women's rights campaigner Victoria Sackville-West Cory Doctorow

art The "lost" Leonardo da Vinci painting has been found hanging in a yacht David Pescovitz

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky