finance New Sanders bill: If a bank is too big to fail, it's too big to exist Cory Doctorow

crime Obama's legacy: eight years of not holding executives criminally responsible for their companies' misdeeds Cory Doctorow

law Goldman Sachs will pay $5B for fraudulent sales of toxic debt, no one will go to jail Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Captured: a book of prison inmate drawings of CEOs and other too-big-to-jail criminals Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Fellowships for "Robin Hood" hackers to help poor people get access to the law Cory Doctorow

politics Elizabeth Warren's new 1%: the percentage of fraudulent profits companies pay in fines Cory Doctorow

united airlines United Airlines' Christmas movie "Love in Plane Sight" is as awful as you'd imagine Jennifer Sandlin

Games Curated list of awesome engineering games Rob Beschizza

apple Apple's Magic Mouse hacked to be ergonomic Rob Beschizza

american history Speaker Mike Johnson is flying a Christian nationalist flag outside his office Mark Frauenfelder

streaming Spotify's new royalty payment update hurts indie musicians even more than before Thom Dunn

"evidence-free impeachment stunts" GOP backs off Biden impeachment — and admit it's due to his low polling Carla Sinclair

Christian hate preachers Texas pastor says the government should shoot gay people "in the back of the head" (video) Carla Sinclair

donald trump Robert De Niro's delivers blistering statement on Trump: "When I look at him, I don't see a bad man. Truly. I see an evil one." Mark Frauenfelder

party of bullies Watch GOP lawmaker Dan Crenshaw try to trip a far-right reporter (video) Carla Sinclair

George Santos treasurer pleads guilty, spills the beans on him Rob Beschizza

politics U.S. government to shut down today unless last-minute deal reached Rob Beschizza

religion 1942 letter suggests Pope Pius XII knew "detailed information" about mass killings of Jews and Poles Rob Beschizza

movies Adam Savage tests whether his Iron Man suit is bulletproof (video) David Pescovitz