kamala harris Secret Service team breaks into salon, uses it as a personal porta-potty, leaves without relocking door (video) Mark Frauenfelder

censorship "Titicut Follies" (1967) is a once-banned documentary about the horrific treatment of prisoners at Bridgewater State Hospital Jennifer Sandlin

Entertainment Barbie's strange promotion of China's expansive territorial claims Ruben Bolling

History The long arc of counter-revolution to fascism, according to historian Gerald Horne Elías Villoro

nsa A new, never-before-seen document from the Snowden archives was just published Thom Dunn

eff In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis Cory Doctorow

twitter Twitter wants to develop an open, decentralized, federated social media standard…and then join it Cory Doctorow

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

usausausa The first-ever independent audit of whistleblower retaliation in US spy agencies was looking bad for the agencies, so it was shut down Cory Doctorow

law Defcon vote-hacking village shows that "secure" voting machines can be broken in minutes Cory Doctorow

News Halt and Catch Fire: The Most Relevant Show on Television is Set in the 80s Maureen Herman

happy mutants The forgotten blockbuster locksport competitions of the mid-Victorian era Cory Doctorow

eff Your cyberpunk games are dangerous Jon Peterson

WATCH: Beatnik in a fallout shelter breaks orphan's cigar box guitar (1964) Bill Geerhart

Science Scary science, national security, and open-source research Maggie Koerth