News Social security for all — for now Maureen Herman

trumpism Trump's stealth attack on Social Security: "Chained CPI" Cory Doctorow

social security Homeless woman proves the U.S. government owes her $100,000 Mark Frauenfelder

politics Trump Org's chief financial officer sentenced to 5 months in deal so sweet his teeth might fall out Rob Beschizza

politics U.S. House of Representatives bans Tik Tok from official government devices Rob Beschizza

History Bastards of the Party: a ­documentary about why gangs emerged in L.A. Elías Villoro

politics Tik Tok kept Financial Times reporter under surveillance Rob Beschizza

Cassandra Sentinel intelligence, explained Jennifer Sandlin

maps Redlining maps show racism and white supremacy "in 1930s technicolor" Elías Villoro

books Cory Doctorow interviewed about cyberpunk and surveillance capitalism in The New Yorker David Pescovitz

twitter Phony free-speech advocate Elon Musk bans prominent left wing Twitter accounts Mark Frauenfelder

strikes Call for the "largest labor action in higher education history" Elías Villoro

facial recognition Artists disrupting facial recognition technologies Jennifer Sandlin

twitter Large-scale efforts have begun to capture Twitter history before its gone Thom Dunn

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demographics Earth now has population of 8 billion, says U.N. Rob Beschizza

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surveillance New DHS reports reveals terrifying scope of the Department's manufactured Antifa scare Thom Dunn

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons and Dragons is banned in state and federal prisons for bogus reasons Mark Frauenfelder

finance Self-proclaimed "Anti-woke" bank bombs Thom Dunn