trumpism Grifty "Students For Trump" founder pleads guilty to wire fraud for pretending to be a lawyer Cory Doctorow

politics This 23-year-old who is charged with posing as a NYC lawyer to grift 'clients' also co-founded 'Students for Trump' Xeni Jardin

education Harvard and MIT are suing over the Trump administration's student immigration ruling Thom Dunn

politics Canadian "protesters" at Huawei extradition hearing say they were tricked, thought they were in a music video Cory Doctorow

class war Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow

Musical instruments The move towards making musical instruments out of plastic Mark Frauenfelder

trumpism Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow

kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow

china MMT: when does government deficit spending improve debt-to-GDP ratios? Cory Doctorow

ice ICE arrested 250 foreign-born people for the most heinous of crimes: pursuing higher education Thom Dunn

protest Nicaragua continues to be on its bullshit Seamus Bellamy

elections When Republicans say "How will you pay for Medicare for All?" Democrats should answer: "Mexico will pay for it" Cory Doctorow

florida Student body president at University of Florida is facing impeachment proceedings over payments to Donald Trump Jr Thom Dunn

happy mutants Just This Banjo: free/open banjo instruction for an angry moment, because you can't be sad while playing the banjo Cory Doctorow

censorship Tiktok has become a vital tool for monitoring abuses against Xinjiang Uyghurs, but that's threatened by the company's new censorship rules Cory Doctorow

health Anti-vaxxer escalates from wishing children dead to threatening to kill adult lawmakers Xeni Jardin

guillotine watch When Trump's #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people Cory Doctorow

california Fur industry paid protesters to attend California and New York hearings on a fur ban Cory Doctorow

detroit Detroit charter school salutatorians use their graduation speeches to condemn their school for putting profits before kids Cory Doctorow

trump Texas teacher who tweeted Trump her school was 'taken over' by 'illegal students from Mexico' may be fired Xeni Jardin