smart cities IBM supplied surveillance gear to Davao while Duterte was mayor and cheering on the city's police-linked death-squads Cory Doctorow
death penalties Death row inmates in South Carolina must now make gruesome choice: electric chair or firing squad Carla Sinclair
Comic Books This white collar dot-com true crime story about Stan Lee's media company is absolutely wild Thom Dunn
kooks If Trump is removed from office, says famous pastor, "veterans, cowboys, mountain men" will go on a Democrat killing spree Mark Frauenfelder
media theory The reporter on the NYT's Bernie Sanders beat consistently fails to identify her sources as corporate lobbyists Cory Doctorow
brazil Crisis for Bolsonaro's justice minister Sergio Moro after leaks reveal that he targeted Lula for political prosecution Cory Doctorow
war criminals How Doonesbury helped turn George HW Bush into a mass-murdering war criminal Cory Doctorow
politics A hive of scum and villainy: meet the right-wing "Democrats" the DCCC is planning to win 2018 with Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Citing Trump, Philippines dictator declares himself to be a "fascist" and vows to persecute peaceful left-wing opposition groups Cory Doctorow
law Philippines legislature sets annual budget for the national Commission on Human Rights: $19.53 Cory Doctorow
Business "Global Britain": the plan to turn post-Brexit Britain into the world's money-laundering arms-dealer Cory Doctorow
privacy How Kenyan spies and cops use electronic surveillance for illegal murder and torture squads Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole The trumpian president of the Philippines admits to murdering "suspects" Cory Doctorow
politics Bruce Sterling on the US election: the net is great at tearing down, terrible at building Cory Doctorow
