tabloids Roy Horn lives, China lied, and Murder Hornets Swarm America, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
law Jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's health is improving, and he's out of solitary – spokesman Xeni Jardin
futility closet In 1952, New Zealander Tom Neale set out to live alone on a desert island Futility Closet
chelsea manning An update from Chelsea Manning's support team on her ongoing incarceration Cory Doctorow
Science Video: 5 California mountain lions hanging out together, home surveillance camera footage Xeni Jardin
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
Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow
Business A poor, Trump-voting Florida town opened a government grocery store to end its food desert, but it's "not socialism" Cory Doctorow
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
barbarism Watch Trump official say caged children don't need soap, toothbrushes, or beds to be "safe and sanitary" [UPDATED] Mark Frauenfelder
