News Russia convicts yet another American — student Trevor Reed gets 9 years in prison on dubious charges Xeni Jardin
prisoners Watch the runway prisoner swap of Brittney Griner for Viktor "Merchant of Death" Bout (video) David Pescovitz
russia American who spent nearly 3 years in Russian prison describes his experience Mark Frauenfelder
GQP American held prisoner in Russia for 985 days describes how Marjorie Taylor Greene and other GOP 'idiots' failed to help him Jason Weisberger
politics Trevor Noah's powerful closing remarks at this year's White House Correspondents Dinner Gareth Branwyn
music New Zealand weaponizing Barry Manilow and James Blunt against vaccine mandate protestors David Pescovitz
This is (allegedly) the original Star Wars Episode IX plot by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly David Pescovitz
happy mutants The Internet Archive is hosting a symposium on John Perry Barlow on April 7 (and I'm emceeing) Cory Doctorow
corruption Lawsuit forces DoJ to admit that Obama administration sneakily killed transparency bill Cory Doctorow
corruption Leaked FBI manual reveals agency targets innocents as informants, blackmails them into cooperating, can deport them afterwards Cory Doctorow
security Freedom of the Press releases an automated, self-updating report card grading news-sites on HTTPS Cory Doctorow
picks North Dakota must drop outrageous charges against journalist Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now" Trevor Timm
News Dozens of news orgs demand DOJ release its secret rules for targeting journalists with secret National Security Letters Xeni Jardin