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noaa New FOIA'd emails reveal the chaos behind the scenes of the National Weather Service's #SharpieGate Thom Dunn
happy mutants Rule of Capture: Inside the martial law tribunals that will come when climate deniers become climate looters and start rendering environmentalists for offshore torture Cory Doctorow
national security Here's how hackers could hijack America's Wireless Emergency Alert system Xeni Jardin
surveillance Hong Kong's #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell Cory Doctorow
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fake news Queen collapses, Stacy Peterson’s body found, Jennifer Aniston’s post-divorce hook-ups, and other news that never happened, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan