Tech
The legal war over Afghan war rugs (The Verge)
As demand for bikes surged, Amazon got in the way (The Verge)
Info Wars: Inside the Left’s Online Efforts to Out White Supremacists (ProPublica)
So What The Hell Is Doxxing? (ProPublica)
Is It Right To Dox A Nazi? (On The Media, WNYC)
“What The Hell is Doxxing?” (XRay FM)
A million StreetEasy accounts hacked (The Real Deal)
WeWork acquires office management startup Managed By Q (The Real Deal)
Can social media help fight gentrification in Astoria? (Global City NYC)
Politics
A Short History of Threats Received by Donald Trump’s Opponents (ProPublica)
Legislators in Many States Can Push Bills They’d Profit From (ProPublica)
A Guide for Digging Through Trump’s Financial Disclosures (ProPublica)
Major Feminist Groups Endorse Cuomo, Despite Record (The Indypendent)
Over Half a Million Dollars from Trump-Related Donors Has Flowed to Andrew Cuomo (The Indypendent)
Acrimony in the UK: Trump Visits (The Indypendent)
Make America White Again: A Play In Three Acts (Trumplandia Magazine)
Disaster/Environment
Houston-Area Officials Approved a Plan for Handling a Natural Disaster — Then Ignored It (ProPublica)
Texas Official After Harvey: The ‘Red Cross Was Not There’ (ProPublica)
Post-Harvey Red Cross Failures on AirTalk with Larry Mantle (KPCC)
The Pipes, The Pipes Are Calling (Trumplandia Magazine)
Immigration
The Immigrant Children’s Shelters Near You (ProPublica)
About the Immigrant Children Shelter Map (ProPublica)
Housing/Real Estate
New York landlords rush rent hikes ahead of housing reforms (The Real Deal)
Michael Gianaris: The people’s champ — and the industry’s adversary (The Real Deal)
As Brexit looms, British consulate pays $16M for Manhattan penthouse (The Real Deal)
NYC’s amenity battleground (The Real Deal)
NYC’s Residential Bosses (The Real Deal)
Walker Tower penthouse tied to 1MDB scandal gets another staggering price cut (The Real Deal)
How to (get away with selling) A (murder) house (The Real Deal)
In London, Young Mothers Declare They Will Not Be Moved (Waging Nonviolence)
Exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui sues Soho China for $300M, (The Real Deal)
NSFW: All the artwork in Steve Cohen’s new $33.5M condo listing is censored, (The Real Deal)
Labor
In UK, big-labor strikes and low-wage struggles jockey for future (Waging Nonviolence)
Culture
Remembering Yanka Dyagileva, the queen of Siberian punk who died as the Soviet Union fell (The Calvert Journal)
‘I lived once in a grave’: Palestinian writers respond to the attack on Gaza (King’s Review)
Radical Witches (STRIKE! Magazine)
Freedom Bus tour teaches cultural forms of resistance (+972 Mag)
Interview: James Ellroy (Varsity)
Jacques Rancière postpones visit to Israel following an appeal from Palestinian boycott movement, (Verso Books)
'Society on steroids' —Stephen Graham on Olympic security (Verso Books)
"Despite repression, despite concessions" - Immanuel Wallerstein on what the Arab Spring can learn from 1968 (Verso Books)
Rendering Michael Gove speechless - Melissa Benn on the fight for Britain's schools (Verso Books)
Occupy the Olympics! - Simon Critchley on politics after Occupy and the Arab Spring (Verso Books)
“Psychotic spatial awareness”: Will Self on Rebecca Solnit and political walking (Verso Books)
Personal Essay
Letters to Keziah (Eothen: A Literary Journal)