privacy Erik Prince's new "secure" smartphone is an even bigger joke than it sounds Thom Dunn

blackwater A PR firm claimed Glenn Greenwald will promote Erik Prince's new smartphone. "All a lie", he says Thom Dunn

trump The new bipartisan Senate Intelligence report on Russia's election meddling is utterly damning, and utterly meaningless Thom Dunn

blackwater Blackwater founder Erik Prince used ex-spies to infiltrate liberal groups for Project Veritas Thom Dunn

trumpism Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism War criminal and snowflake Erik Prince cancels Beloit College talk after student protests, threatens lawsuit Cory Doctorow

guillotine watch Blackwater founder to site mercenary training camps conveniently close to China's Uighur concentration camps Cory Doctorow

picks Puerto Rico's streets crawl with heavily armed, masked mercenaries bearing no insignia or nametags Cory Doctorow

News U.S. court tosses murder conviction of Blackwater guard Nicholas Slatten in massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians Xeni Jardin

tabloids Royal rampages and facelifts in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

American turncoats Steve Bannon and Blackwater founder support Putin for being anti-LGBTQ Carla Sinclair

tabloids Queen "kills" Andrew sex probe in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

noir An elegy for the dying breed of San Francisco private eyes Thom Dunn

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

pyramid schemes Federal judge dangles jail time in front of Betsy DeVos Thom Dunn

soothsayers Shingy, AOL's secret weapon for staying hip, is leaving Mark Frauenfelder

trump George Nader indicted on child porn charges and traveling with a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity Xeni Jardin

Alien invasion base on the moon, Michael Jackson's body missing, and Prince Harry's clash with Trump, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

fake news Scientology hell, Hollywood destroyed, and Prince Charles' illegal marriage, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants 2019 Hugo Award finalists announced Cory Doctorow