santa claus USPS Operation Santa program lets people respond to kids' Santa letters with gifts Rusty Blazenhoff
surveillance USPS nearly always lets law enforcement spy on Americans' mail without warrant Natalie Dressed
united airlines United Airlines' Christmas movie "Love in Plane Sight" is as awful as you'd imagine Jennifer Sandlin
real estate This perfect reproduction of a Wild Western town can be your cowboy cosplay retreat for just $3.7 million David Pescovitz
law EFF to Facebook: enforce your rules banning cops from creating sockpuppet accounts and be transparent when you catch cops doing it Cory Doctorow
vaccination Entitled anti-vaxxers weasel around California law to dangerously enroll their kids in school Jason Weisberger
trump Trump's properties routinely employed (and abused) undocumented Latinx workers, including dozens from a single Costa Rican town Cory Doctorow
Robert Anton Wilson A review of Cosmic Trigger, a play based on Robert Anton Wilson's autobiography Ferdinando Buscema
books To Do in L.A.: 'God's Eye View' author Barry Eisler in conversation with Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin
weather Bridge collapse shuts down major California freeway after record-breaking July rain Mark Frauenfelder
NASA New NASA imagery reveals extent of tar on Santa Barbara beaches left by Refugio oil spill Xeni Jardin
An amazing first image of the sun from NASA's NuSTAR, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Jason Weisberger