Your tax dollars at work Two women issued the same Social Security Number, and the SSA won't help Mark Frauenfelder

encryption Signal's response to Homeland Security's grand jury subpoena for user data is basically "You get nothing. You lose. Good day, sir" Mark Frauenfelder

transportation The US Department of Transportation just put out its own Lo-Fi Chill Mix Thom Dunn

fbi After being investigated for his blog post, Cory Doctorow sent this FOIA request to the FBI Mark Frauenfelder

climate change The Pentagon wants to spend $100 billion on a new nuclear arsenal Thom Dunn

Your tax dollars at work Even the fireworks were corrupt at Trump's July 4th 'Salute to America' Xeni Jardin

Your tax dollars at work ICE and Florida Sheriff try their hardest to deport man born in Philadelphia Mark Frauenfelder

trump Trump won't stop tearing up official papers so the White House archives employ a staff to tape them back together for the National Archives Cory Doctorow

Business Trump's finance watchdog wants to make the taxpayer-funded database of crooked banks go dark Cory Doctorow

Foolishness Man arrested for not returning VHS rental 14 years later Mark Frauenfelder

Boing Boing Gadgets Black Friday is here: Get a refurbished MacBook Air for just $400 Boing Boing's Shop

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

climate change Oil company blames Captain Planet for climate change in recent court filing Thom Dunn

economics It's time to kill the carbon credit Thom Dunn

Netflix Finland makes taxes fun with a Netflix-style website Annie Rauwerda

mainstream republicans In wild talk, Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Fauci paid China to create Covid, suggests audience should use guns to defend against vaccine workers Mark Frauenfelder

creepy goons Trump still paying Stephen Miller with tax-payer funds Jason Weisberger

retro gaming In 1974 I played the Lunar Lander game on a pocket calculator for hours on end Mark Frauenfelder

movies TV writers and actors made a wonderfully awful Batman short film for charity Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Trump administration scraps plans to give early coronavirus vaccines to Santa Clauses Thom Dunn