Comics Comics publisher IDW delisted from NYSE, lays off 39% of workforce Ruben Bolling

art Meet Betsy, the 30-foot spiny lobster guarding the Florida Keys Popkin

Entertainment Freedomland USA: was this 1960s theme park just a five-year land scam? Ruben Bolling

adorable animals Eastern black rhino Zuri cools off with a hose — and it's adorable Jennifer Sandlin

youtube The saga of the weirdest theme park in the Midwest via Defunctland Grant St. Clair

Boing Boing Gadgets This $60 AI meeting assistant listens to your meetings so you don't have to Boing Boing's Shop

media barons Ted Turner's secret newsroom lair looks like the saddest airport lounge ever Jason Weisberger

History How a 1958 magazine cheered America's slide into installment debt Ellsworth Toohey

television SpongeBob's original bible banned romance and the surface world Popkin

Science The doctor who proved handwashing saves lives was locked in an asylum for it Ellsworth Toohey

Boing Boing Gadgets This $15 Sam's Club Membership is adulting on Easy Mode Boing Boing's Shop

DHS Kristi Noem left search and rescue techs without the tools to do their job Séamus Bellamy

travel The world's largest prairie chicken, explained Popkin

News Kristi Noem says Americans should be ready to prove citizenship to ICE Ellsworth Toohey

The Guardian Investigative journalism series exposes the dangers of "wild pregnancies" and unassisted home births Jennifer Sandlin

Internet Cory Doctorow explains how to use the Internet, in 1995 Rob Beschizza

politics Trump's immigration sweep in Chicago mostly nabbed the innocent Jason Weisberger

terror Trump 2.0 turns immigration enforcement into a traveling terror show Jason Weisberger

ice Chicago couple avoids 8-year sentence after grand jury declines to indict in ICE protest case Séamus Bellamy

Cult comic "Halloween Boy" in new hardcover edition Gareth Branwyn