Comic Books "Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt" — documentary tracing the artist's evolution from underground comics to the cover of The New Yorker Mark Frauenfelder
noise pollution Car alarms are "idiotic, selfish forms of noise pollution that do nothing to deter crime" Mark Frauenfelder
portraits This video of Brother Theodore sparring with Jerry Lewis on Merv Griffin in 1966 is incredible Mark Frauenfelder
zines All-star cartoonist line-up for the upcoming issue of the great Mineshaft magazine Mark Frauenfelder
News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin
health The "ghost networks" of mental health professionals that US health insurers rely on to deny care to their patients Cory Doctorow
picks Former CDC director Tom Frieden pleads guilty to sex abuse case but gets no jail time Xeni Jardin
cable company fuckery Why is there so much antitrust energy for Big Tech but not for Big Telco? Cory Doctorow
abortion These corporations backed the politicians who will murder women by banning legal, safe abortions Cory Doctorow
health One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000% Cory Doctorow