good ideas Trump on Twitter: "Impeach the Pres." Carla Sinclair

free speech Why Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" is dumb Mark Frauenfelder

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

psychedelics Counterculture icon and psychedelic pioneer Ram Dass, RIP David Pescovitz

grifters Trump's "China muse" advisor has been citing a made-up economist for years Thom Dunn

Gadgets Turn killer quotes by 50 Cent, Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump and more into wall art Boing Boing's Shop

Love your mother Mr. T's words of wisdom could be put to no better use Jason Weisberger

poetry Joy Harjo named 23rd Poet Laureate, first Native American to serve in U.S. position of honor Xeni Jardin

music Patti Smith has a new memoir on the way David Pescovitz

Funny BIGTIME TOMMIE, an Instagram of pure greatness Xeni Jardin

science fiction Exclusive excerpt of Rudy Rucker's new novel: Million Mile Road Trip Mark Frauenfelder

law Deposition of opioid profiteer Richard Sackler reveals his bizarre defense: definitional games and insistence that words mean their opposite Cory Doctorow

books China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Scenes from the Bangalore Literature Festival Jasmina Tesanovic

corruption Britain's Corbyn-panicked oligarchs are shifting money offshore Cory Doctorow

economics Modern Monetary Theory: why government spending isn't like household checkbooks Cory Doctorow

religion Interview: Dr. Karl E H Seigfried talks Ásatrú, Heathenry and beards Seamus Bellamy

the dice man game Is control over your life just an illusion? Here's a game that has you making life decisions based on the roll of a die Ferdinando Buscema

addiction Public ignorance about “drunk/drugged up losers” is expensive and deadly Maureen Herman

happy mutants What, today, would most delight a serious Joni Mitchell fan? (Other than a new album?) Spider Robinson