tories Margaret Thatcher sold off public housing to create "the dignity of ownership" and today 40% of that housing is owned by gouging landlords Cory Doctorow

music Why The Animals' Eric Burdon is OK with Trump using "House of the Rising Sun" David Pescovitz

music "Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy" David Pescovitz

Gadgets Your home office could use some work of its own and these 20 items might just do the trick Boing Boing's Shop

guns Not first rodeo for gun-toting St. Louis couple Rob Beschizza

tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

voter suppression Trump's campaign against mail-in voting is backfiring by discouraging Republican absentee voters Thom Dunn

News SCOTUS rules Donald Trump financial records must be released to NY DA, but House won't get tax returns before election Xeni Jardin

tabletop games Solo roleplaying a Thousand Year Old Vampire Gareth Branwyn

b-side Republican Voters Against Trump put an old Regan ad to great use Jason Weisberger

strange bedfellows Republican Voters Against Trump use Reagan speech to slam Trump Mark Frauenfelder

racism The US Department of Justice was originally created to tackle white supremacy Thom Dunn

Space US silver dollar coin design commemorating astronaut/schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe David Pescovitz

micronations Sealand's caretakers Rob Beschizza

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

the lincoln project This Lincoln Project ad congratulating "Comrade Trump" is all in Russian Carla Sinclair

mistakes Exploding Whale Memorial Park opens near site where that beached whale was blown up in 1970 Rusty Blazenhoff

News CCPA: California to enforce new digital privacy law starting today, despite calls for further pandemic delay Xeni Jardin

cereal Kellogg's is releasing Green Onion-flavored Chex, and the commercial is absolutely bonkers Thom Dunn

facebook In a panic over fleeing advertisers, Facebook launches PR blitz to announce it is "a mirror to society" Mark Frauenfelder