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music Pussy Riot use footage of cossack horsewhipping in new music video Cory Doctorow

videos Cossacks horsewhip Pussy Riot at Sochi Cory Doctorow
Business Sochi's black-market Starbucks, courtesy of NBC Cory Doctorow
corruption Reporters document Sochi's Potemkin hotels Cory Doctorow
corruption Sochi: the most corrupt Olympic Games in history Cory Doctorow
censorship Missouri House of Representatives sets new budget for public libraries to $0 Mark Frauenfelder
video games YouTuber beats Elden Ring without walking Grant St. Clair
pride The New York Times called out for editorial bias about transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people by its own writers Jason Weisberger
art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn
drugs Watch a miserable cocaine user get whipped by a terrifying demon (don't worry, it's a PSA) David Pescovitz
art Drive yourself up the wall with the Busy Simulator Rob Beschizza
art The home of shockingly bad sci-fi book covers Jess Sabine
Gloomy poetry Thousands of dark haikus inspired by 2020 Claudia Dawson
futility closet In 1946, Australian engineer Ben Carlin decided to circle the world in an amphibious jeep Futility Closet
music "The Fuddy Duddy Walk," is the '60s dance craze that never was Matt Maranian
drugs DC comic creator regrets seeing "Cats" on 'shrooms Rusty Blazenhoff
crime Woman claims Matt Lauer 'anally raped' her, Ronan Farrow reports Rob Beschizza
politics Trump sends Pompeo to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov, May 12-14 Xeni Jardin
happy mutants How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell's case for resisting "The Attention Economy" Cory Doctorow
law GOP lawmaker driven mad by bill that would decriminalize children who take naked photos of themselves, delivers a frenzied rant about anal sex on legislature's floor Cory Doctorow