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podcast A small city mayor explains why safe drug injection sites are so effective Thom Dunn

security Group sex dating app has "the worst security for any dating app" Cory Doctorow

law French politicians want to add an ag-gag rule to the country's sweeping online hate speech proposal Cory Doctorow

usausausa Americans are too poor to survive whether or not they're working Cory Doctorow

Technology Millions of rehab records leak, including patient names – nearly 150,000 affected Xeni Jardin

Business Silicon Valley's techie uprisings reveal growing support for socialism in tech Cory Doctorow

Kids Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow

picks Father of Sandy Hook victim dead of an apparent suicide Gina Loukareas

drugs Watch Spike Jonze's short film about cannabis David Pescovitz

the spice must flow Kashmiri saffron is disappearing Mark Frauenfelder

politics A list of Steve King's worst remarks: Racist, shocking, and just plain stupid Xeni Jardin

normalizing white supremacy Racist Iowa Republican Steve King asks why racism has such a negative stigma Jason Weisberger

health New York hospitals illegally billed rape survivors for their rape kits, then sent debt-collectors after them Cory Doctorow