2021: VICE (262)

JANUARY

Google Workers Publicly Launch Union

‘Lazy,’ ‘Money-Oriented,’ ‘Single Mother’: How Union-Busting Firms Compile Dossiers on Employees

The Most Surreal Photographs of the Invasion of the Capitol

Trump Finally Publicly Concedes

Trump Is Permanently Suspended From Twitter

Capitol Police Officer Who Faced Pro-Trump Mob Dies Off-Duty

Even More Dumb Stuff That’s Happened Since the Insurrection

Etsy Is Full of QAnon and Insurrection Merch

Desperate QAnon Believers Think Trump Spoke to Them in Morse Code

Trump Staffers Are Mysteriously Having Trouble Finding a New Job

Trump’s Presidency Ends Wednesday. His Legacy Will Haunt America For Years

Trump’s ‘Last Great Lie’ Is the 1776 Report That Whitewashes Slavery

Trump Fails to Ascend as God Emperor, Leaving Diehard Fans Adrift

The People the Suburbs Were Built for Are Gone

As COVID Worsens, Here’s What to Do to Protect Yourself Before You Get the Vax

QAnon Thinks Trump Will Become President Again on March 4

The Century-Old Neon Sign Tearing Up LA Conservationists

Send This To Anyone Who Wants to Know WTF Is Up With GameStop Stock

AOC, Ted Cruz Agree: Robinhood’s GameStop Stock Ban Is “Unacceptable’

GameStop Short Seller Citron to Stop Advising Traders to Short Companies

FEBRUARY

Sophie Showed Me The Cybernetic Divinity of Being Trans

How Normal People Deployed Facial Recognition on Capitol Hill Protesters

Anti-Vaxxers Misuse Federal Data to Falsely Claim COVID Vaccines Are Dangerous

Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers Into Brutal ‘Megacycle’ Shifts

Why Is Everyone I Know an Empath Now?

Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City’s Water Supply, Police Say

Asian Americans Are Calling on Allies in Response to a Wave of Violence

My Generic Medications Failed Me. I’m Not Alone

Here’s How Many COVID Deaths We Can Blame on Trump’s Terrible Response

People Told Us About the Last Time They Hooked Up With Complete Strangers

How to Escape the Confines of Time and Space According to the CIA

Facebook Stops Australia From Sharing the News

Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication With Lucid Dreamers In Breakthrough

The Future of Identity

Amazon Is Paying Employees to Quit Right Before Critical Union Vote

LA’s Rich Somehow Got COVID Vaccines Meant for Minority Communities

McDonald’s Secretive Intel Team Spies on ‘Fight for $15’ Workers, Internal Documents Show

Before Texas, Feds Warned of ‘Catastrophic’ Blackouts Due to Fossil Fuel Failures – But Did Nothing

The Pandemic Saved My Relationship with My Parents

MARCH

Minneapolis Will Pay Influencers to ‘De-Escalate’ Tension During Derek Chauvin Trial

We Feel ‘Alonely’ When We Don’t Get Enough Time By Ourselves

Get the Vaccine When You’re Eligible – Even if Some Older Folks Haven’t Yet

This Small Town Shows How QAnon Is Quietly Going Mainstream

The Race to Patent Psychedelics Is Just Getting Started

Inside a Massive Anti-Trafficking Charity’s Blundering Overseas Mission

Parents Are Demanding Surrogates Who Won’t Get the COVID Vaccine

My Friends and I Fought Over the Pandemic. How Do We Make Up?

I Was Kidnapped at the US-Mexico Border

Scientists Have Unlocked the Secrets of the Ancient ‘Antikythera Mechanism’

A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16

Ancient Biblical Texts Have Been Discovered In a ‘Cave of Horror’

Cars Have Your Location. This Spy Firm Wants to Sell It to the U.S. Military

All Kinds of Marine Animals Are Mysteriously Circling in Bizarre Discovery

The Solution to Violence Against Women Will Never Be ‘More Police’

Amazon Illegally Interrogated Worker Who Led First COVID-19 Strikes, NLRB Says

Anti-Vaxxers Are Already Big Mad About Krispy Kreme’s Free Doughnut Offer

There’s a New Exploding Star in the Sky

Amazon Says It’s the ‘Bernie Sanders of Workplaces’ Ahead of Union Vote

Something Huge and Invisible Is Making Nearby Stars Vanish, Scientists Propose

We Talked to a Guy Whose Blood Is Inside Lil Nas X’s ‘Satan’ Shoes

The Mysterious Case of the F*cking Good Pizza

QAnon Thinks Matt Gaetz Being Investigated for Sex Trafficking Is All Part of the Plan

APRIL

Chinese Police Dismantle ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Operation

Why This Teen Walked Away From Millions of TikTok Followers

White People Keep Posing As People of Color for Clout

Q Accidentally Outed Himself, But QAnon Followers Don’t Care

RIP Yahoo Answers, The Guide to My Sex Education

The Fall of the Bassnectar Empire

Amazon Has Enough Votes to Bust Bessemer Union

Candian Military Documents UFO Sightings, Intelligence Report Reveals

How Scientists Discovered a Massive Toxic Dump Site Off the LA Coast

‘My Boss Expects Me to Have Career Ambition. Do I Have To?’

I Tried to Recreate the Original Four Loko to Prepare for a Summer of Chaos

Shantay, You Pay: Inside the Heavy Financial Burden of Going On ‘Drag Race’

Here’s What We Know About the Suspected Indianapolis FedEx Shooter

How to Fight Police Violence Beyond Just Posting About It

Derek Chauvin Found Guilty of Murdering George Floyd

Here’s How Much Prison Time Derek Chauvin Is Facing for Murdering George Floyd

American Honey Is Radioactive From Decades of Nuclear Bomb Testing

‘We Are Not a Match’: Bumble Date Turns Capitol Rioter In to the FBI

The Oscars This Year Were Actually Kind of Good

Amazon Launches Another Union-Busting Campaign

Schools Use Software That Blocks LGBTQ+ Content, But Not White Supremacists

Target Is Prepared to Call the Cops on Frantic Pokemon Card Hunters

I Bought a Fake COVID-19 Vaccine Card on Etsy

MAY

A Huge Chinese Rocket Part Is Making an Out-of-Control Descent to Earth

This Motorcycle Airbag Vest Will Stop Working If You Miss a Payment

Viral TikToks Are Promoting Literal ‘Cheat Codes’ for the Universe

What to Do if You’re Feeling Especially Bad About Your Body Lately

Starbucks Baristas Are Sick of Your Ridiculous Custom Orders

The Three Tiers of Cheuginess, Explained

People Aren’t ‘Addicted’ to Wearing Masks, They’re Traumatized

How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body

Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Reveals

What to Do if You’re Barely Keeping It Together Right Now

Trump Voter Allegedly Murdered His Wife Then Cast Her Ballot for Trump Too

It’s Time to Take Suburban Food More Seriously

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Big Moves: How Texas Became an Influencer Haven

Israel and Hamas Just Agreed to a Cease-Fire

Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force

Here’s What Happened at the TikTok Commune After It closed to the Public

For Diversity Consultants, the Past Year Has Been a Roller Coaster

Newly Vaxxed Travelers Are Overrunning Seasonal Destinations

Amazon Introduces Tiny ‘ZenBooths’ for Stressed-Out Warehouse Workers

Cops Raid ‘Cannabis Farm,’ Find Bitcoin Mine Instead

JUNE

A Beginner’s Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy

Two Kids Found an AK-47 and Got Into a Shootout With Police

90% of Sharks Were Mysteriously Wiped Out and Never Recovered, Scientists Find

A Bunch of TikTokers and YouTubers Are Going to Beat the Crap Out of Each Other

Muslim Family Killed in ‘Hate-Motivated’ Attack, Canadian Police Say

The Making of a Perfect Celebrity Apology

How the Pandemic Changed Antarctica

Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA

Cryptocurrency Is In a New Wild West Phase. Things Are Really, Really Weird

Girls Do Porn Performer Is Going to Jail for 20 Years

Abolish the Driving Test

‘Are All Jobs… Bad?’

Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened

A Homeless Amazon Warehouse Worker in New York City Tells Her Story

Cannabis Cocktails Will Be Everywhere – But Are They Even Any Good?

The Teamsters Announce Coordinated Nationwide Project to Unionize Amazon

John McAfee Reportedly Dead From Suspected Suicide In Spanish Jail

Here’s Exactly What Needs to Happen for Britney Spears to End Her Conservatorship

Scientists Discover ‘Time Cells’ In the Brain That Enable ‘Mental Time Travel’

A TikToker Smelled This ‘Devil’s Breath’ Flower and Accidentally Drugged Herself

Bill Cosby Will Leave Prison After Overturned Conviction

JULY

I Learned How to Cope with Agoraphobia. The Pandemic Eroded It All

How to Deal With Post-Vax Travel Anxiety

Scientists Studying Temperatures at Which Humans Spontaneously Die With Increasing Urgency

We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals

Two US Citizens Are Accused of Assassinating Haiti’s President

A Team USA Athlete Reveals the Hidden Costs of Going to the Olympics

How Hip-Hop Reached Peak Guitar

Vince Staples’ New Record is a Masterclass in Simplicity

How to Take Care of Your Body if You Stand All Day at Work

I’m a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week

It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity That’s Killing Us

‘Zero’ Risk of COVID spilling from Olympic Village? We’ll Soon Find out

Amazon Denied a Worker Pregnancy Accommodations. Then She Miscarried.

Pandemic Was a Boon for right-Wing Extremism

What I Learned about American Men as a Translator at a Matchmaking Agency

‘WE ALL QUIT’: How America’s Workers Are Taking Back Their Power

5% of Earth’s Power Plants Create 73% of the Energy Sector’s Emissions

What Is Burning Man Without Burning Man?

The Truth Is Out There. But This Company Holding UFO Info Won’t Share It

Iceland Is the Tip of a Vast Lost Continent Beneath the Ocean’s Surface, Scientists Propose

AUGUST

A Heat Wave Has Triggered a ‘Massive Melting Event’ in Greenland

Blizzard’s President Is Stepping Down

Why Do I Hate the Way I Look in Every Photo?

Starlight Could Really Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes

Please, Help Me Justify My Millennial Nostalgia

‘Nobody Is Safe,’ Warns Latest IPCC Climate Report

Andrew Cuomo to Resign Amid Sexual Harassment Scandal

What Happens to a Pipeline After It Dies?

Reddit Quarantines AntiMask Antivax Subreddit

Zillow, Other Tech Firms Are in an ‘Arms Race’ To Buy Up American Homes

Taliban Fighters Enter Kabul As Afghanistan’s President Flees

The Appropriation of Kava Almost Destroyed It. Will This Time Be Different?

5 People on the Devastating Long-Term Effects of Eviction

Apple’s Double Agent

We Wait Too Long to Diagnose Psychopathy. Doctors Are Trying to Change That

‘I Felt Betrayed’: OnlyFans Creators Scramble to Adapts to Imminent Ban

Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Sentenced to Jail

The Director of the CIA Held a Secret Meeting With the Leader of the Taliban

FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim

12 US Service Members Are Dead After ISIS Attacks at Kabul’s Airport

People Around the World Are Stepping Up to Help Afghan Refugees in Their Own Ways

Are Anti-Vaxers Really Pooping Themselves Because of Ivermectin?

Minneapolis Is Just One Vote Away From Dismantling the Police 

Researchers Accidentally Discover World’s Northernmost Island Due to GPS Error

SEPTEMBER

Confessions of a Venture Capitalist

TikToker Makes Script to Flood Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site With Fake Info

An Anti-Masker Just Tried to Zip-Tie a School Principal Over COVID Rules

Reddit Bans Abortion Bounty Hunter Forum

Evangelical Pastors Are Secretly Spreading the Gospel of QAnon on YouTube

Big Tech Has Made Billions Off the 20-Year War on Terror

9/11 Is Still Claiming Victims: ‘I Wake Up in Pain’

UFO Hunter and Harvard Geneticist Announce $15 Million Effort to Resurrect Wooly Mammoths

56 Percent of Young People Think Humanity Is Doomed

Scientists Are Searching for Clusters of Spacetime-Eating Bubbles In the Cosmos

Why Did Hundreds of Birds Die at The World Trade Center in One Morning?

I Got Hypnotized To Get Over My Frog Phobia

Amazon’s AI Cameras Are Punishing Divers for Mistakes They Didn’t Make

A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is on the Rise, Scientists Say

Bipartisan Police Reform Bill Is Officially Dead in Congress

A ‘Get COVID’ Party Helped Overrun Alberta’s ICUs: Report

Chris Pratt Is Mario? Okey Dokey Then

R. Kelly Found Guilty in Sex Trafficking and Racketeering Trial

The Ground Is Literally Exploding Due to Climate Change in Siberia, and It’s Going to Get Worse

Amid Record Overdose Deaths, Canada’s North Opens First Safe Drug Consumption Site

‘I Felt So Along’: Congresswomen Share Their Abortion Stories

OCTOBER

Trudeau Spent the First Truth and Reconciliation Day on Vacation

Look At These Photos Of Taliban Fighter Enjoying a Day at the Fairground

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Are All Down

216,000 Children Were Sexually Abused in French Catholic Church, Report Finds

A Teacher Chopped Off Their Hair. An Attempted Suicide and Strike Followed.

‘Fuck ‘Em Up’: Bodycam Video Shows Minneapolis Police ‘Hunting’ Protesters

‘People Work 100 Day Straight’: Kellogg’s Workers Shut Down Cereal Factories

CIA Funding Arm Gave Encrypted App Wickr $1.6 Million

The Shooter’s Wife: Wife of the Pulse Nightclub Gunman, Is Ready to Speak

Here’s What It’s Like to Flee Texas and Drive 200 Miles for an Abortion

An Escaped Zebra in Maryland Died, But They Died Free

How to Make a Phone Call

Anti-Vaxxers Are Already Weaponizing Colin Powell’s Death

Court Mistakenly Gave Potential Jurors Access To Ahmaud Arbery’s Mental Health History

Pig Kidney Successfully Transplanted From Hog to Human

‘100% Sure’ Police Were Almost Certainly Wrong That Tesla Crash Had No One Behind The Wheel

Tragic Alec Baldwin Prop Gun Shooting Isn’t the First Movie-Set Death

This Band Thought Their Biggest Hurdle Was the Patriarchy. It’s Actually the Internet.

Las Patronas: The Rise of Female Drug Bosses in Latin America

The Great Competition to Give Away Money

World’s ‘Greenest City’ Will Be Totally Unaffordable Because of Climate Change

Meet the Young Activist Suing the UK Government Over Climate Change

Rare ‘Penis Plant’ Blooms for the first time in 25 Years

NOVEMBER

Zuckerberg’s Meta Endgamer Is Monetizing All Human Behavior

Wildfires Are So Bad Now Even Wealthy Countries Can’t Handle Evacuees

Pregnant Woman’s Death Linked to Poland’s Near-Total Abortion Ban

Actually, Everyone Is Thinking About You

Everything You Need To Know About Abortion Laws in the US

The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery: What We Know About the Murder Trial

Who Is Trying to ‘Save Parking Structure 3’ From Becoming Affordable Housing?

Kyle Rittenhouse Breaks Down Crying on Stand Discussing Night He Killed 2 Men

LGBTQ Employees Are Qitting the BBC Because They Say It’s Transphobic

Lockdown’s Over and I Still Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything. What’s Wrong With Me?

More Than 100 Indigenous Students Died at Former Nebraska Boarding School

Cops Allegedly Declared ‘Taser Tuesday’ and Tortured a man in Jail. Then He Died.

Travis McMichael Admits Ahmaud Arbery Never Threatened Him Before Shooting

Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty

The GOP Is Just Loving the Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict

GOP Official Says Straight People Are ‘Superior’ to Gay People

Watch NASA and SpaceX Launch the First Asteroid Defense Test In History

Workers Held at Gunpoint in Modern-Day Slavery Operation in Georgia, Feds Allege

Kyle Rittenhouse Has Set off a QAnon Civil War

Countries Shut Borders Over Threat Posed by New ‘Highly Mutated’ COVID Variant

Toronto Is One Step Closer to Decriminalizing Personal Drug Possession

Feminist Activist Shot Dead While Protesting Violence Against Women

DECEMBER

Cop Caught on Video Shooting Man in Wheelchair 9 Time From Behind

Jussie Smollett’s Trial Is Not Going Great

Jussie Smollett’s Trial Just Got a Few More WTF Moments

I’m Sociable, But I Hate Hanging Out in Groups. How Do I Loosen Up?

Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119 Million

Same-Sex Marriage Just Got Legalized in Chile in Landslide Vote

The True Stories of 10 of the most Disputed Objects at the British Museum

“I Never Felt Welcome Anywhere”: Young People Of Colour On Growing Up In Australia

It’s DEFCON 1 for Democracy. So Where Is Biden?

Breaking News: Prison Sucks

‘Adulting’ Is a Made-Up Word, but the Struggles That Come With It Are Very Real

Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Sued By DC Attorney General for Jan. 6

The NFL Is a COVID Superspreader Right Now

You’re Getting Holiday COVID Dread Whether You Like It or Not

It Sure Seems Like Everyone Is Getting COVID. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Closing Arguments in the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Went Full Scorched-Earth

Omicron Is Taking Over the United States

Fox News’ Jesse Watters Wants Someone to ‘Ambush’ Fauci With Conspiracies

Poverty Forced Him Into Child Labour, Now His Film Is Winnng Awards for Capturing Harsh Realities

‘It’s Not Personal’: When Chronic Illness Forces You to Take a Rain Check

Police Are Busting Record Numbers of Trap Houses in the UK

Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Called Kwanzaa a ‘Fake Religion’

Save the Children Confirms Staff Among 35 Killed in Christmas Eve Massacre

Tattoo Parlor Killer Named His Victims in Violent, Misogynist Novels

The Omicron Variant s Redefining the Pandemic. What You Need to Know.

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