racists YouTube reinstated these extremist and white nationalist channels, apologized to them Xeni Jardin

privacy A tip to keep your home address off the internet Cory Doctorow

politics Putin: Russia hopes Trump will visit Moscow for Victory Day ('May Day') Xeni Jardin

surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow

Democrats The DCCC is sabotaging Marie Newman's primary challenge to Dan Lipiniski, a hereditary, anti-choice, anti-minimum-wage, homophobic "Democrat" Cory Doctorow

patents Patent trolls celebrate as Trump's new rules breathes fresh life into parasitic grifter capitalism Cory Doctorow

videos Sacha Baron Cohen confronts Roy Moore with a beeping "pedophile detector" Cory Doctorow

fake news Trump hiding DC sex scandals, Bill & Hillary’s $350m divorce, and ”you can fly,” in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

law A startup wants to buy your grievance against Equifax for 30% of your court award Cory Doctorow

sweet revenge This guy wrote a program to call scammers' phone lines 28 times a second Mark Frauenfelder

sexual assault Jogger's fitness tracker captures how she fought off an attacker Andrea James

happy mutants In 1937, a judge quietly asked Meyer Lansky to form a squad of Nazi-punching gangsters to raid Bund meetings Cory Doctorow

politics Jeff Sessions confirmed as Attorney General under Trump, despite protest of his racist legacy Xeni Jardin

war on poor How police punish impoverished victims of car insurance scams Mark Frauenfelder