2020: VICE (258)

JANUARY

The Trump Administration Just Banned Almost All Flavored Vape Pods

We Talked to Experts About Iran’s Cyberwar Capabilities

Women Voting in Their ‘Self-Interest’ Got Us Trump

Scientists Discover Two New Cannabinoids

Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos

This Secretive Surveillance Company Is Selling Cops Cameras Hidden in Gravestones

Feminist Zines Have Been Around Longer Than You Thought — Here’s Where One Began

It’s Clear Who’s to Blame for Australia’s Fires, and It’s Not Arsonists

Bernie, Biden, and Warren Are Finally Fighting Over Something Real

House Democrats Just Dropped a Boatload of Impeachment Documents That Look Really Bad for Trump

How I Get By: A Week in the Life of an Amazon Delivery Driver

Netflix Is Projected to Spend the GDP of a Small Country on content in 2020

Inside Country Radio’s Hidden, Sexist Policies That Keeps Female Artists Off the Air

Think Bernie Is ‘Radical’? He Disagrees

‘I Need to Claim My First Victim’: Alleged Neo-Nazis’ Violent Plans for Virginia Rally Revealed

22,000 Protesters Couldn’t Stop the Virginia Senate From Passing a Gun Law They Hated

Trans People Who Blocked Puberty Are 17% Less Likely to Think About Suicide

Palantir’s CEO Finally Admits to Helping ICE Deport Undocumented Immigrants

Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data

The House Will Finally Do Something About Trump’s Travel Ban

If Bernie Is Unelectable, So Is Joe Biden

Weinstein Accuser Testifies He Tried to Trade a Threesome for Action Roles: ‘This Is How the Industry Works’

Longer American Life Expectancy Means More Time to Enjoy This Dying Planet

FEBRUARY

Here Are the Most Common Airbnb Scams Worldwide

Researchers Find ‘Anonymized’ Data Is Even Less Anonymous Than We Thought

Here’s the Shadow Inc. App That Failed in Iowa Last Night

It’s Over: Trump Acquitted of Impeachment Charges by the Senate

A Missouri Bill Could Make Cops Go After Women Who Have Aboritons

Queer Asians Refused to Be Left Out of Lunar New Year Celebrations

The Arguments for Abortion as a Religious Right

All the Places We’ve Been Publicly Dumped

Analysis: The Real Winner of the New Hampshire Primary Was Bernie Sanders

California Police Have Been Illegally Sharing License Plate Reader Data

Target’s Delivery App Workers Describe a Culture of Retaliation and Fear

Jeff Bezos’ $10B Earth Fund Can’t Undo Amazon’s Damage

Big Telecom Says It Has First Amendment Right to Sell Your Private Data

TikTok Challenges, Ranked by How Likely They Are to Maim or Kill You

White House Report Is ‘Pure Propaganda’ for AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast

Weinstein’s Guilty Verdict Is a Victory for ‘Imperfect’ Victims

Of Course Millenials Want to Stay Home – It’s All We Can Afford to Do

How I Get By: A Month in the Life of a Walmart Employee

This 26-Year-Old Is Poised to Oust an Anti-Abortion, Pro-Gun Democrat

It’s Warnie Time!

MARCH

Our Galaxy Is Mysteriously Distorting and Nobody Knows Why

As an ER Doctor, I Need You to Know These Things About Coronavirus

The Supreme Court’s Biggest Abortion Case in Years Might Come Down to One Man

Trump’s Promise for 1 Million Coronavirus Tests This Week Is Already a Bust

I Just Got Back From Coronavirus Hot Zone, and No One at JFK Seemed to Notice

College Students Create Scholarship to Protest Pantir

Sanders and Biden Cancel Cleveland Rallies Over Coronavirus Concerns

Young Voters Did Show Up for Bernie – But a Lot of Gen Xers and Boomers Voted Too

These Are the Impacts of Trump’s Coronavirus Fumbles – and How to Protect Yourself

Here’s What Your, Personally, Should Do About Coronavirus

I make Coronavirus Test Kits for a Living – We Are All Working in a Frenzy

Top Coronavirus Task Force Expert Says Please *Please*, Stop Socializing

How to Convince Your Boss to Close the Office and Let People Work From Home

How I Get By: A Day in the Life of a Delivery Guy During Coronavirus Panic

States Can’t Keep Up with Surging Unemployment Claims from Cronavirus

Scientists Explain Why Coronavirus Isn’t Good for the Climate

The World After This

Uber Asks US Government to Give Its Workers Health Insurance

‘A Total Joke’: The US’s Busiest Airport Is Skipping Coronavirus Screenings

San Francisco Says Coronavirus Has Made Gig Economy’s Labor Abuses Untenable

Motorcyclists Like Me Are Delivering Protective Gear to ER Doctors

Startups Are Eager to Push At-Home COVID-19 Testing for Profit

A Pandemic Expert Tells Us Why She Was So Wrong About Coronavirus

APRIL

New York City Has Released 900 Inmates Over Coronavirus Fears

Coronavirus Is Actually Helping the Environment – for Now

Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’

Gun Lovers Are Claiming a Huge ‘I Told You So’ Moment with the Coronavirus Outbreak

The Semi-Dirtbag’s Guide to Safely Cleaning with Bleach During Coronavirus

They Know Tenants Can’t Pay, So These Landlords Aren’t Collecting Rent

My Dying Coronavirus Patient Was Concerned About Their Hospital Bill

NY Continued to Relocate Inmates After Saying It Would Stop Due to COVID-19

Advocates Urge Cuomo to Grant Clemencies Before Prison Outbreak Worsens

We Talked to an ICU Nurse Working in an Overwhelmed Coronavirus Ward

Airlines Are Getting a $25 Billion Bailout, But You’re Still Not Getting Your Money Back

FDA Admits There’s Actually No Evidence Vaping Makes COVID-19 Worse

The Motherboard Guide to Getting Laid Off

LGBTQ Orgs Say They’re in Deep Fundraising Trouble Because of Coronavirus

Neo-Nazis Are Spreading a List of Emails and Passwords for Gates Foundation and WHO Employees

Racist Housing Policies Have Created Dangerous ‘Heat Islands” in Cities

COVID Testing Is Supposed to Be Free for New Yorkers.  Not Here

The Coronavirus Truthers Don’t Believe in Public Health

The People Who Fled Their Cities Now Want to Come Back

These Doctors Are Hitting the Street to Protect Athens’ Homeless from Coronavirus

Rural Transit Agencies Are Keeping People Alive

MAY

How to Protect Yourself When Your State Reopens Way Too Early

NOLA Nurses Are Losing Their Jobs After Weathering a Peak of COVID-19

Don’t Panic. We’re Not Running Out of Food

Coronavirus Proves Only Structural Changes Can Avert Climate Apocalypse

A Worker in Amazon’s New York Warehouse Has Died of the Coronavirus

University Deletes Press Releases Promising ‘Bias-Free’ Criminal Detecting Algorithm

The Obscure Law Protecting the 2 White Men Who Killed Ahmaud Arbery

House Democrats Push to Cancel Student Debt Because of Coronavirus

Trump Administration Wants Bosses to Snitch on People Scared to Go to Work

That Mysterious Coronavirus-Linked Disease Has Put Dozens of New York Kids in the ICU

Everything You Wanted to Know About Donating COVID-19 Antibodies

They Call Me a Hero Because I Work at Kroger, So Why Do I Feel Disposable?

China Has a Whole New Conspiracy Theory About the Origins of Coronavirus

Heartwarming Family Portraits During Lockdown

Amazon Delivery Driver Says He Was Fired For Asking About Coronavirus

Landlords Can’t Evict Their Tenants, So They’re Shutting Off Utilities and Threatening Them Instead

Congress Has No Idea How Much Web Browsing Data the FBI Collects

Local News Stations Run Propaganda Segment Scripted and Produced by Amazon

Surveillance Hawks Sabotaged a Vote to Stop the FBI From Collecting Your Internet History

More and More Companies Are Covering the Cost of Egg Freezing. But Who Is It Really For?

Bail Funds Are Being Flooded With Donations for George Floyd Protestors

‘Hands Up Don’t Shoot:’ Brooklyn Erupts In Violence During a Second Night Of Protests

JUNE

How to Protest Without Sacrificing Your Digital Privacy

How to Actively Oppose Racist Violence Instaed of Posting a Black Square

NYPD claims ‘Looters’ Put Bricks at a Brooklyn Corner Miles Away From Any Protest

This Tool Lets Your Email All of Your City’s Elected Officials With Once Click

The Police Are Gaslighting Us

$1 Million Buried Treasure Found After 10-Year Hunt in Rocky Mountains

Trump’s Deranged Antifa Tweet and OANN Are the Result of Failed Media Policy

The ‘Bon Appetit’ Test Kitchen and the Myth of the Happy workplace

Is There a Racist Monument In Your Town? Check This Map to Find Out

Actors Dressed as Black Panthers in Atlanta Protest Say They’re Sorry

Black Trans People Need Critical Support and Care Right Now – and Forever

The Incident on the A-Road

How to Find an Incarcerated LBGTQ Pen Pal – and Why You Should

One of America’s Most Powerful Unions Will Shut Down 29 Ports

Why Juneteenth Feels Different This Year

How to Make More LGBTQ Friends

The Himbo Is The Harmless, Dumb Hottie of Our Dreams

Defunding Police Isn’t Enough. There’s Systemic Racism in Healthcare Too

Neo-Nazi Memoir Describes Terror Group’s Acid-Soaked Ram Sacrifice

‘My Coworkers Make Fun of Poor People’

Artists Are Ditching Their Racially Insensitive Band Names. Who’s Next?

This Map Shows Which U.S. Homes Will Flood Over the Next 30 Years Due to Climate Change

JULY

Facebook Just Labeled the Boogaloos a ‘Dangerous Organization’ and Banned 500 Groups and Pages

What Went Wrong at the Los Angeles Times

Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App

Is Racism a Mental Illness?

Hackers Are Finding Footage on Police Body Cams They Bought on eBay

The ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Reboot Is Already Getting Credible Tips from Viewers

The Trump Administration Is Attacking Critical Internet Privacy Tools

The Secret Service Tried to Catch a Hacker With a Malware Booby-Trap

The World Just Had Its Worst Ever Day of Coronavirus Infections — and the U.S. Is Leading the Way

The Only Way to Change a Voter’s Mind

The White House Really Doesn’t Want You to Know How Bad The Coronavirus Crisis Is

Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts

UT Will Close Campus if a Student – But Not an Employee – Dies From COVID

Alonzo Brooks’ Body Has Been Exhumed Following ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Coverage

Here’s Why Cities Won’t Be Able to Stop Trump’s Secret Police

‘We’re Embarrassed’: This Is What Twitter Sent

‘He Knew Everything’: Fear, Control, and Manipulation at Yoga to the People

Protests Against Police Brutality and Trump’s Secret Police Are Exploding Across the U.S.

Twitter Suspends Donald Trump Jr. for Tweeting COVID-19 Misinformation

A Navy Vet Describes Being Beaten and Pepper-Sprayed by Trump’s Secret Police in Portland

Trump Suggests Delaying the 2020 Election Over Mail-In Voting

AUGUST

New Ghislaine Maxwell Documents Reveal Explosive Sex Abuse Allegations

100 Years After Women’s Suffrage, US voters Still Face Countless Barriers

Conspiracy Theorists Adamantly Insist Beirut Explosion Was a Nuke (It Wasn’t)

Beirut Wakes Up Searching for Answers After Deadly Explosion

The Making of a Boogaloo Boi

California Judge Rules Uber and Lyft to Immediately Classy Classy Drivers as Employees

The Defund the Police Movement is Coming for the DEA

Uber Will ‘Shut Down’ in California If It Must Classify Drivers as Employees

Trump Just Admitted He’s Sabotaging the USPS to Screw Up the Election

Internal USPS Documents Outline Plans to Hobble Mail Sorting

Pentagon Announces Task Force to Study UFO’s

How to Argue With a Narcissist

These Are the Plans and Permits for Steve Bannon’s Border Wall

Here’s Why Trump’s Praise of QAnon Is So Dangerous

The Last Good Summer

5 Cops Involved in Breonna Taylor’s Case Were Also Part of a Botched Raid in 2018

The ‘AT&T Girl’ Knows You’re Obsessed With Her

The Strange Bliss of the Mashup Era

The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation

SEPTEMBER

How Shadowbanning Went from a Conspiracy theory to Selling Point

The Way to Prevent a Recount Disaster Is Sitting Right in Front of Us

The Little Cards That Tell Police ‘Let’s Forget This Ever Happened’

Man linked to Killing at a Portland Protest Says He Acted in Self-Defense

Police Don’t Have Their Story Straight About the Killing Of Michael Reinoehl

How a Group of Punks Scammed ‘Jerry Springer’ and Became DIY Legends

Hundreds of Americans Planted ‘Chinese Mystery Seeds’

We Talked to the Host Accused of Doing “Satanic Rituals” In His Airbnb

Why So many Celebrities Joined NXIVM, According to Cult Experts

How a Minor Calculation Error Cost Intel Half a Billion Dollars

Breonna Taylor’s Family Just Got a $12M Settlement. Here’s What That Means for the Police

How Michael Imperioli Became Instagram’s Favorite Punk Intellectual

The Military wanted to Use a Heat Ray to Clear Protesters Outside the White House

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Died at Age 87

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Puts Obamacare in Jeopardy

What Happens Next If President Trump Refuses To Concede?

Trump Is Still Downplaying COVID: ‘It Affects Virtually Nobody’

2 Police Officers Shot in Louisville as Breonna Taylor Protests Intensify

Here’s What’s Happened at Breonna Taylor Protests Around the Country Last Night

12 Environmental Justice Organizations to Donate Time and Money To

New Body-Cam Footage Raises Questions About Breonna Taylor Death Investigation

A Modest Proposal: We Should Hibernate Through the Rest of the Pandemic

OCTOBER

How to Cope When Everything Feels Bad and Somehow It Keeps Getting Worse

Trump Taken to Walter Reed Medical Center After Positive COVID Test

Trump Tweets ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID’ While the Disease Runs Wild in the White House

Facebook Let Breitbart Spread Anti-Mask Misinformation on White House COVID Outbreak

How One Man Built a Neo-Nazi Insurgency in Trump’s America

Trump Took a COVID Drug Tested Using Fetal Cells From an Abortion

Witches Are Trying to Figure Out Whose Spell Gave Trump COVID-19

Trump Is Returning to the Campaign Trail With Lies About COVID Immunity

QAnon Fans Try to Explain Why Trump Took a Drug Developed With Fetal Tissue

Twitter Says It Blocked NY Post Hunter Biden Article Because It Contained Hacked Data

We Are Collectively Losing Touch With Reality and It’s Extremely Obvious

It’s Time for the Eternal September to End

Trump’s Top Intelligence Official Is Fueling Wild Election Conspiracies

USPS Has Made 57 Changes to Mail Operations Since Louis DeJoy Took Over

Inside the NYPD’s War Against Drill Rap

Hit-Boy Is Tired of Making Money for His Publishing Company

Abolishing the Electoral College May Not Save Us

Is the U.S. Already in a New Civil War?

Undercover Video Shows California ‘Trump Store’ Collecting Ballots

YouTube Is Using Fox News to Combat Election Night Propaganda

Workers Say They Were Manipulated Into Free Labor For National Yoga Brand

What Happened to All Those ‘Vote for Pedro’ Shirts?

NOVEMBER

Trump Rallies Linked to More Than 30,000 COVID cases and 700 Deaths: Study

The Election Isn’t Over Yet, No Matter What Trump Says

Joe Biden Didn’t Declare Victory.. But He Came Pretty Damn Close

Trump’s Legal Strategy to Squeak Out an Election Victory Actually Kind Of Sucks

Biden Pulls Ahead in Pennsylvania, Putting Him on Cusp of Victory

European Leaders Are Ignoring Donald Trump and Congratulating Joe Biden

Trump’s Post-Presidential Criminal Nightmare Begins Now

Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, Said There Will Be a ‘Smooth Transition’ to a Trump Second Term

Why We Sigh

COVID Is Completely Out of Control. Again.

How to Actually Help the Georgia Senate Runoff Elections

The Million MAGA March in DC Got Ugly

How to Have A Very Nice Solo Holiday

Trump’s Favorite COVID Adviser on Thanksgiving: Old People Might Die Anyway

Bigger Than Its Pastor: What Hillsong’s Post-Carl Lentz Future Looks Like

People Are Dying After Joing a ‘Pro-Choice’ Suicide Forum. How Much Is the Site to Blame?

Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups

Don’t Hire Gig Workers to Wait In Line for Your COVID-19 Test

When Does ‘Outside’ Become Inside? We Asked the Experts

Everything You Already Forgot About 2020

DECEMBER

Mysterious Monolith Update: Now Mysterious Monolith Appears in Romania

Leaked Documents Show Facebook’s Absurd ‘Breast Squeezing Policy’

Life Inside a Pre-Release Center: Like Prison, But More Work

Why We Forget How Early It Gets Dark Every Year

Who Got a PPP Loan? Dov Charney, Jeff Koons, and Flywheel, for Starters

The Chaotic Pleasure of Cultivating a Bad Habit

The 100 Best Albums of 2020

The 100 Best Songs of 2020

The Wealthy Are Leaving Cities. Good Riddance

You Don’t Have to Work On Yourself Forever

In a Huge Policy Shift, Pornhub Bans Unverified Uploads

The Movie Theater as We Know It Is Dying. We Can Make Something Better

QAnon’s Mysterious Leader ‘Q’ Is Actually Multiple People

Researchers Have Achieved Sustained Long-Distance Quantum Teleportation

Anti-Vaxxers Are Coaching People How to ‘Refuse’ the COVID Vaccine

How to Be Bored

Trump Is Executing 3 More People Before He Leaves Office. Here Are Their Stories.

No New New Years’ Resolutions

A Woman Attacked a 14-Year-Old Black Boy on Video After She Falsely Accused Him of Stealing Her Phone

An A-Z of All the Things We Lost in 2020

The Cop Who Killed Breonna Taylor Is Finally Getting Fired

News Source: Vice

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