A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong. ~health Article 2259 words 5 votes
The president’s job is to manage risk. But Donald Trump is the risk: Donald Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off. ~misc politics Article 3788 words 4 votes
Does “The Case Against Socialism” hold up? It does not. A brief look at Rand Paul’s new book ~books reviews Article 16 528 words 9 votes
Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by the US government ~misc Link 29 votes
A handful of sheriffs in Washington State have said they won’t enforce the governor’s shutdown orders. But who are the state’s rural residents actually listening to? ~health Article 6159 words 6 votes
US Navy releases new UFO incident reports: This is about newly-released written incident reports, not the grainy videos that made headlines several weeks ago ~space Article 15 votes
Coal industry will never recover after coronavirus pandemic, say experts ~enviro climate change energy Article 1308 words 24 votes
How New York suffered nearly ten times the number of deaths as California ~health Article 11 354 words 6 votes
The prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase ~misc politics Article 6 votes
The paranoid style in American politics: It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it (1964) ~misc politics Article 5880 words, published Nov 1 1964 5 votes
United Launch Alliance launches robotic X-37B space plane on sixth classified mission ~space spaceflight.military Link 7 votes
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sues Betsy DeVos over “reprehensible” new sexual assault rules ~news usa Article 872 words 5 votes
Rep. Justin Amash ends his third-party White House bid: Amash said the timing wasn’t right, in large part because of the coronavirus pandemic ~misc politics Article 858 words 6 votes
Never Trumpers will host their own ‘Republican convention’ during the RNC ~misc politics Article 12 votes
Rep. Justin Amash “looking closely” at third-party run in US presidential election ~misc politics Article 476 words 14 votes
Ameelio, a startup backed by the Mozilla's 'Fix the Internet', aims to provide free video calls and messaging to prisoners in the US where video calls can cost as much as $25 for 15min ~tech Link 11 votes
US State Department Inspector General fired after investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Democrats decry ‘dangerous pattern of retaliation’ ~news usa politics Article 9 votes
Peter Dutton opens door to new Australian surveillance of journalists via foreign orders ~news australia journalism usa Link 6 votes
A spectacularly bad Washington Post story on Apple and Google’s exposure notification project ~health Link 3 votes
Truckers see escalation, results during thirteenth day of Washington protest ~finance Article 2231 words 9 votes
2020 looks like the year US renewables first out-produce coal ~enviro energy.renewable Article 10 votes
An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries: Published in the journal Research in Number Theory, he showed for the first time regularities in the approximation of a vast class of numbers ~science mathematics Link 8 votes
In key US state of Florida, Trump stumbles among senior voters: Trump has virtually no path to victory without winning Florida, and older voters - which he is losing - are critical ~misc politics Article 5 votes
Reflections on the Bernie Campaign: What it meant, why it inspired us, why we lost, and where we go now ~misc politics Article 5 votes
Biden names Ocasio-Cortez, Kerry to lead his climate task force, bridging Democrats’ divide ~enviro climate change Link 13 votes
Pandemic bills are so big that only money-printing can pay them ~finance economics.macro Article 6 votes
The fight is on for progressives to push Biden to the left. They might just win. ~misc politics Article 9 votes
US Senate approves bill to sanction China over Uighur rights ~news china.xinjiang usa politics Article 10 votes
IKEA's shopping malls arm Ingka Centres plans US entry in major play ~finance business Article 778 words 6 votes
The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America ~humanities Article 5662 words 6 votes
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017 ~tech internet security.cyber Article 13 662 words 33 votes
As COVID-19 gets worse, Trump is talking about things that the average American couldn't care less about ~misc politics Article 513 words 10 votes
Two suspects charged with murder in Ahmaud Arbery killing ~news crime usa.ga.brunswick Article 76 words 12 votes
Stop trying to shame socialists into voting for Joe Biden: It’s really about performatively denouncing leftists as irresponsible, for the edification of the liberals who are watching ~misc politics Article 677 words 19 votes
Ohio has stopped kicking workers off unemployment after a hacker targeted its website ~life work Article 314 words 12 votes
US Appeals court rules against Donald Trump on Emoluments Clause ~news law politics usa Article 9 votes
A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic ~tech Article 339 words, published May 8 2020 23 votes
It's no accident Britain and America are the world's biggest coronavirus losers ~health healthcare Article 965 words, published May 10 2020 14 votes
US tribal nations face most severe crisis in decades as the coronavirus closes casinos ~finance business Article 517 words 3 votes
COVID-19 is fueling a boom in the doomsday bunker market, thanks to some dubious marketing claims ~life Article 2075 words 3 votes