What to expect if the shooter turns out to be: Hispanic — Build the wall Arab — Ban Muslims Black — BLM are terrorists! White — We need to ask ourselves how are we as a society failing these poor troubled young men? What kinds of movies, video games, and music are we making?

Many of neo-Nazis say they are defending free speech, or due process, or democracy, but their only purpose is to empty these concepts of meaning, to make them as contemptible to their ideological opponents as they are to them — As the original Nazis did theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The pandemic has proved that paternalistic, infantilizing messaging backfires. Transparency and accountability work. Since Covid emerged, millions of people died, but so did the trust of a great many people in the science of public health nytimes.com/2024/06/08/opi…

Harris pulls ahead of Trump in the battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin, but her slight lead is either within or barely outside the margin of error politico.com/news/2024/09/0…

More than 382,000 students have experienced gun violence at US schools since Columbine in 1999, in 416 school mass shootings washingtonpost.com/education/inte…

Farmed fur animals in China harbour viruses with zoonotic spillover potential nature.com/articles/s4158…

Advertiser exodus from X gathers pace with 26% planning to cut spending. Since Musk took over the site at the end of 2022, its global revenues have more than halved, with annual revenue forecast to fall to $1.9 billion by the end of 2024 theguardian.com/media/article/…

Tibet non plus—Des musées français courbent l’échine devant les exigences chinoises de réécriture de l’histoire et d’effacement programmé des peuples qui ont été annexés par la Chine, jusqu’à en perdre leur propre ethnonyme et celui de leur territoire lemonde.fr/idees/article/…

Nicaragua’s dictator freed 135 political prisoners, including 13 members of a Texas-based evangelical organization, in a secret operation negotiated by the Biden administration. They're all Nicaraguan citizens and will be able to apply for US legal status washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/…

Monfalcone, the town that bans Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants to play cricket, as part of far-right policies to preserve the cultural essence of the town and defend its Christian values—"They say cricket is not for Italy. But it’s because we are foreigners" bbc.com/news/articles/…

A strongman’s guide to disabling the free press — A weakened press make it easier for him to keep secrets, rewrite reality, undermine political rivals, act with impunity and consolidate unchecked power. It's eroding democracies all around the world washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Did the media learn nothing from its disastrous coverage of Trump and Clinton in 2016? The press is still pursuing the appearance of fairness by treating the true and the false, normal and outrageous, as equally valid theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Algeria election to take place amid steady erosion of human rights under Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who is expected to win a second five-year term theguardian.com/world/article/…

Trump explained: “I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’” economist.com/united-states/…

UK Labour government’s worrying lack of ambition in Europe, trapped by the mindset of the post-Brexit years even when it was propelled to power by a largely pro-European electoral coalition, and a clear majority of Britons now consider Brexit a mistake economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

180 congressional districts—roughly 40 percent of the House of Representatives—experienced a mass shooting in 2017 If the shooters were Muslim, Congress would tackle it Since they’re not, lawgivers take #NRAbloodmoney instead