uk Tory Council Leader's son gets plum job with government contractor, teen constituent damned as an "appalling little child" for asking about it Cory Doctorow
meat Someone is mysteriously dumping massive amounts of raw meat in suburban Christchurch trash cans David Pescovitz
censorship Massachusetts Supreme Court upholds Constitutional Right to be a dick at town meetings Thom Dunn
Group handed out pure heroin, cocaine, and meth outside Vancouver police department Mark Frauenfelder
prison reform Prison labor in Massachusetts is used to manufacture Blue Lives Matter merchandise Thom Dunn
politics Three women independently accuse Gordon Sondland of repeated acts of highly similar sexual misconduct Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Dynasties: in-depth reporting on the wealthy, influential political and corporate families that not-so-secretly rule Canada Cory Doctorow
canada Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow
uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow
uk On Grenfell's second anniversary, 60,000 Britons are still living in firetraps clad in the same deadly, decorative materials Cory Doctorow
amazon Amazon killed Seattle's homelessness-relief tax by threatening not to move into a massive new building, then they canceled the move anyway Cory Doctorow
corruption Public records requests reveal the elaborate shell-company secrecy that Google uses when seeking subsidies for data-centers Cory Doctorow
rome Rome and the Catholic Church fighting over change tossed into the Trevi Fountain David Pescovitz