sports Watch the first 1260 in pro skateboarding history David Pescovitz

happy mutants Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a plan to pay for the Green New Deal: a 70% tax on the super-rich Cory Doctorow

nonsense Trump perfects his gibberish today while babbling about Biden's economic plan Carla Sinclair

free speech Why Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" is dumb Mark Frauenfelder

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

holidays Happy Independence Day Rob Beschizza

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

art How a Black woman turned quilting into a surprisingly radical art form Thom Dunn

punk rock Celebrate Emma Goldman's birthday (belatedly) with this radical song Thom Dunn

anti-endorsement Daughter of GOP candidate begs "Please for the love of God do not vote for my dad" Mark Frauenfelder

censorship Church of England refuses to allow foreign language on a gravestone, calling it a "political statement" Thom Dunn

satire What to do if you think your grandparents are Antifa Thom Dunn

Harry Potter Annotating JK Rowling's bonkers anti-Trans rant Thom Dunn

antifa Trump's tweets about Antifa show his ignorance of US law Thom Dunn

politics Facebook studied how it polarizes users, then ignored the research Xeni Jardin

podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn

Innovation Listen: Inspiring commencement speech from Astro Teller, X's captain of moonshots David Pescovitz

conspiracy theories How come so many Christians fall for conspiracy theories? Thom Dunn

Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder