politics Trump pushes false Obamagate conspiracy, abuses female reporters in White House press conference Xeni Jardin
books William Gibson talks about scrapping and rewriting a novel after the 2016 Trump election Cory Doctorow
happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff
corruption As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn't even been filed Cory Doctorow
ice ICE arrested 250 foreign-born people for the most heinous of crimes: pursuing higher education Thom Dunn
happy mutants J Michael Straczynski's "Becoming Superman": a memoir of horrific abuse, war crimes, perseverance, trauma, triumph and doing what's right Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Boing Boing's own Rob Beschizza interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast Mark Frauenfelder
Copyfight As the EU Copyright Directive was approved, Germany admitted it requires copyright filters, putting it on a collision course with the EU-Canada trade deal Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow
mistakes Leaked Sonic the Hedgehog movie design looks like a dollar-store cereal mascot Rob Beschizza
rock'em sock'em robots The Themis Files: humanity races to kill itself before the aliens can Jason Weisberger
music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff
