corruption Merciless reporting on the Chicago Police Department's extortion racket, & the senior officials who covered it up Cory Doctorow

television Velma dethrones Dragonball: Evolution to become IMDB's worst-rated film Devin Nealy

politics Lauren Boebert says her husband was the victim when he whipped out his penis at a bowling alley Carla Sinclair

music The Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen is 45 years old Devin Nealy

Ghislaine's daddy issues in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Delightful Creatures Johnny Rotten gets bitten by fleas while befriending squirrels Mark Frauenfelder

Business Adblocking: How about nah? Cory Doctorow

Business KPMG is in the middle of an unbelievably dirty cheating scandal that keeps on getting uglier Cory Doctorow

travel This mobile workstation is my new favorite travel companion Séamus Bellamy

podcast Seth Godin's Akimbo podcast is definitely worth a listen Rusty Blazenhoff

christ what an asshole Devin Nunes's much-touted California farm secretly moved to Iowa in 2006, in a district dependent on undocumented workers Cory Doctorow

politics Beach Week (2018), a film by the Coen Brothers Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Not in our name: Why European creators must oppose the EU's proposal to limit linking and censor the internet Cory Doctorow

delightful fruits Crazy Russian Hacker tries Durian – a very smelly fruit Mark Frauenfelder

animals Man gets swallowed by hippo and lives to talk about it Séamus Bellamy

law Baltimore cops so corrupt two of them actually got convicted of something Rob Beschizza

cool stuff Five great crime novels Mark Frauenfelder

makers I made my own ink for the apocalypse Meg Elison

salt Suicide Squad fan petition launched to shut down Rotten Tomatoes after dreadful reviews Rob Beschizza

gender Ghostbusters vs masculinity's downranking campaign against "women's" movies and TV Cory Doctorow