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Determined, methodical, relentless. I have been in the Elizabeth Warren camp since the day of her announcement last winter. The Senator will be the nominee. The Wall Street Journal and Fox juggernaut will go into Bloviation Overdrive to tear her down. The above photo montage in a recent WSJ is illustrative.

Wall Street Journal 8.10.2019

A new national poll of the Democratic presidential primary suggests the race could soon start to feel like a two-way contest between former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Mr. Biden and Ms. Warren lead the latest Quinnipiac University poll of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters, with 32% and 21%, respectively. That marks a high for Ms. Warren in the poll, which put Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) at 14% and Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) at 7%—a major drop from the 20% Ms. Harris boasted after the first debates in June.

According to the sample of 807 people contacted for the poll, Ms. Warren was the winner of the July round of debates. Twenty-eight percent of respondents said she did the best job in the debates, ahead of Mr. Biden, with 15%. Mr. Sanders, another leading progressive vying for some of the same supporters, took 8%.

The Massachusetts senator’s debate performance seems to have earned her support in the race: Her 21% in the recent poll taken just after the CNN forum July 30 was up from 15% in a Quinnipiac poll taken just before the debate.

Her strong night at the last debate is not the only—or main—reason to think she and Mr. Biden will begin to dominate the race. The candidates represent two emerging choices for Democratic voters in the primary race: a candidate who can beat President Trump versus one with compelling policy ideas.

Ms. Warren has consistently led on who has the best policy ideas, notching 32% in the latest poll, well above Mr. Sanders’s 16%. And Mr. Biden is without peer on the question of electability: 49% say he has the best chance of beating Mr. Trump. Mr. Biden’s overall support has also appeared to stabilize since dipping after the first debates.

The division between electability and compelling policy is not just an imaginary one. The Quinnipiac survey found that 46% of voters value a candidate who shares their policy views, while 50% want someone who is the “most electable.”

With the Democratic primary so far focusing on the question of finding a candidate with policy bona fides versus a candidate with perceived electability, Mr. Biden and Ms. Warren seem like compelling standard bearers.

I was exiting the Department of Public Works and was an eye witness to the immediate aftermath of one more example of Police callous indifference.

10 days ago the SFPD shot and killed a dog just three blocks away on Market Street.

Whether it’s SFPD or BART.. these cops are rogue.

SFPD, BART Police, Homeland Security, the Sheriffs were all there. Must have been at least 100 cops. The street was completely closed off.

Tax dollars being wasted.

Lead Photo – Mira Ingram

Three Photos above – Lee Heidhues

San Francisco Examiner 8.9.2019

A BART police officer shot and wounded a dog Friday in front of Civic Center BART station on Market Street around 1:10 p.m, according to BART.

This is the second time police have shot a dog on Market Street in recent weeks. San Francisco police shot a dog at Cyril Magnin and Market on July 31 after the dog allegedly “advanced” on an officer. The dog was put down after the shooting.

The dog was wounded and taken for veterinary treatment. The severity of its injuries was not immediately clear.

BART police are conducting a use of force investigation and reviewing video of the incident, said BART spokesperson Anna Duckworth.

Duckworth described the dog, which was not on a leash, as a pit bull-type dog and said it “aggressively lunged toward” the officer.

Mira Ingram, who was nearby when the shooting happened, told the San Francisco Examiner she heard the gun shot. When she turned to look at what happened, the police officer was apparently standing about five to seven feet away from the dog.

Ingram could not verify if the dog was on a leash or unleashed.

Ingram said the owner of the dog looked “traumatized” and “shocked.” After the dog was shot, the owner held the dog in his hands for several minutes, Ingram said.

On social media, some witnesses have said the dog was on a leash. A video on Facebook shows a man scooping up the dog into his arms, with a leash visibly dangling from the dog’s collar. It is unclear, however, if anyone was holding that leash when the incident occurred.

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/bart-police-shoot-dog-in-sf/

Welcome to Amsterdam in America.

Legalize it. San Francisco will sell it.

It is a historic moment when Weed is sold legally at a public event. The City has been a smokin’ trailblazer in many political and cultural moments. Today is one of them.

The three day Outside Lands music festival is celebrated near our home.

We expect both the music and marijuana smoke to waft up the hill from Golden Gate Park.

Tobacco smoke is not on the menu. Cigarette sales are banned.

Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle 8.9.2019

Outside Lands is no stranger to pot. This year, it will be legal.

For the first time, San Francisco’s largest summer music festival has won approval for cannabis sales and a designated smoking area at the three-day event, which starts Friday in Golden Gate Park.

The festival will transform an area of the park into a sprawling marijuana exhibit called Grass Lands. It will feature about a dozen cannabis companies, mostly licensed vendors whose products are sold on San Francisco marijuana delivery app Eaze, which is also a sponsor.

Festivalgoers may buy up to 7 grams of non-concentrated cannabis, like dry plant material, and 2 grams of cannabis concentrates, which are found in vape pens and edibles, across all vendors.

The city’s new regulations require that the areas for consumption remain separate from where cannabis is sold, so that sellers aren’t impacted by secondhand smoke, the city agency said. Both areas must be hidden from view by an opaque barrier.

“It’s going to be a landmark moment for the end of prohibition,” said Alex Fang, a co-founder of Sublime, an Oakland cannabis firm that will sell infused mints and freeze pops at the festival.

Alex Traverso, a spokesman for the Bureau of Cannabis Control, said in an email later Wednesday that the state agency would also issue a license for Outside Lands in time for the event.

It is generally illegal to use cannabis in public in California, though the state legalized the drug for recreational use in 2016.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Outside-Lands-gets-city-s-green-light-for-pot-14288811.php?psid=bEC9a

Kafkaesque: “characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka’s fictional world.” Kafkaesque events have become commonplace in the everyday world and for those thrown into the legal system. Average citizens are caught up in the Kafkaesque nightmare of the judicial system. That is why arguably Kafka’s most well known book is “The Trial.”

New York Times 8.8.2019

JERUSALEM — Franz Kafka liked to doodle and draw.

In one of his notebooks — revealed to the public for the first time in Jerusalem on Wednesday — he sketched a man lying in bed, perhaps depicting his own terminal illness and auguring the end. The drawing was a fitting, if grim, coda to a yearslong, labyrinthine legal battle over the author’s legacy nearly a century after his untimely death.

The notebook and materials arrived recently at the National Library of Israel from Zurich, where they had been held in safe deposit boxes. They are the final batch of a vast trove of original texts and manuscripts by the celebrated German-speaking, Jewish writer that had been entrusted to a friend.

The retrieval of this last portion of the archive from a Swiss bank vault is the culmination of more than a decade of tortuous courtroom wrangling over the writer’s papers that many have likened to a Kafka novel, as well as a more scholarly argument between Israel and Germany over the ownership of the cultural legacy and its rightful home.

Kafka left the documents to his close friend and literary executor, Max Brod, upon the writer’s death from tuberculosis, at 40, in 1924.

Among the dozens of manila file folders unveiled Wednesday were hundreds of documents, most of which have already been published, including a typed version of Kafka’s anguished “Letter to His Father,” which Mr. Brod said Kafka had typed himself; three handwritten versions of Kafka’s “Wedding Preparations in the Country,” one of his earliest works, from around 1907, each rendition more concise than the last, until 58 pages were boiled down to five; and postcards that Kafka wrote to Mr. Brod just weeks before the writer died.

David Blumberg, the chairman of the National Library of Israel, told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday, “Cultural assets have a tendency to evaporate if efforts aren’t made to preserve them.”

The Kafka papers are due to be digitized, and construction is underway for a larger building to house the library’s treasures, he said, adding that the intention is to make the archive accessible “for the good of the public in Israel and abroad.”

The papers arriving from Zurich join other documents gathered from around Germany and from a fetid Tel Aviv apartment that was once overrun by cats.

The saga began with Mr. Brod’s fleeing to Tel Aviv, in what was then British-ruled Palestine, from Prague in 1939, carrying a suitcase of Kafka’s work.

Kafka, a relatively unknown figure during his lifetime, had instructed Mr. Brod to burn his manuscripts, letters and papers after his death. Instead, Mr. Brod published many of the writer’s most monumental, if incomplete, works, including “The Trial” and “The Castle,” bringing Kafka posthumous fame.

Kafka IV 8.8.2019

When Mr. Brod died in 1968, he bequeathed his archive, including Kafka’s papers, to his secretary, Esther Hoffe, who stashed them in her Tel Aviv apartment. She sold off some works, including the manuscript for “The Trial” for $2 million in 1988. When Ms. Hoffe died in 2007, the materials passed to her two daughters.

Israel sued for the trove in 2008, arguing that Mr. Brod’s 1948 will said that his archive should go to a “public Jewish library or archive in Palestine,” and that he had later specified the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which houses the National Library. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled in 2016 that Mr. Brod’s estate, including Kafka’s writings, belonged in the National Library.

The contest also involved legal processes in Germany, where some manuscripts that the Hoffe family claimed had been stolen from the Tel Aviv apartment turned up on the private market. A court in Zurich upheld the Israeli ruling and said that the safe deposit boxes’ contents, which were stored in the headquarters of the bank UBS, should be handed over to Israel.

Both Kafka and Mr. Brod were born in Prague, which was then part of the state of Bohemia in the Austrian-Hungarian empire and is now the capital of the Czech Republic. Though both writers were part of the literary scene known as the Prague Circle, the Czech government never made claims to the archive, said Mr. Blumberg, the national library chairman.

The lingering debate over the rightful home for Kafka’s legacy has been fanned by the complexity of Kafka’s relationship with Judaism and his apparent ambivalence about Zionism. He was, however, a maven of Yiddish literature, considered moving to Palestine at one point and studied Hebrew.

“It is interesting that the assumption by the Israeli party in all the 12 years of legal battle was that by virtue of Kafka’s Jewishness, his cultural heritage belongs somehow in Jerusalem, a place he never visited,” said Benjamin Balint, who wrote a 2018 book about the saga of the archive, “Kafka’s Last Trial.”

“He died before there was a state of Israel,” Mr. Balint said. “So for the Germans, this was all bewildering.”

Whether Mr. Brod defied Kafka’s dying wish is yet another ambiguous aspect of this tale.

According to Mr. Brod, Kafka left two notes instructing that his papers be burned after his death. But those notes have never been found.

“Unfortunately,” said Stefan Litt, the curator of the National Library’s humanities collection and the archivist responsible for Mr. Brod’s estate, “we don’t know where they are.”

In an epilogue that Mr. Brod wrote for “The Trial,” he described finding a folded note in Kafka’s writing desk, beneath a pile of other papers, written in ink and addressed to him, instructing him to burn all of the writer’s manuscripts, notebooks, letters and sketches “unread and to the last page.”

A closer search brought to light another “yellowed and obviously more ancient piece of paper” written in pencil requesting the same, Mr. Brod wrote.

But Mr. Brod said he had refused to “commit the incendiary act” that his self-critical friend demanded of him, adding, “I have good reasons for it.”

Among them, he said, were that he had told Kafka that he had no intention of burning the papers, and that Kafka would have appointed another executor had he truly wanted his wish to be carried out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/books/kafka-archive-jerusalem-israel.html?searchResultPosition=1

Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin and later German Chancellor was an outstanding leader who stood up for progressive causes and the rights of all people. He was a fervent anti-Nazi. To see the extreme right wing anti-migrant AfD use Willy Brandt for its own puproses is beyond reprehensible. Willy Brandt abhorred everything in the AfD platform.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 8.7.2019

Social Democrats (SPD) said the move by the far-right party “smeared” the memory of former Chancellor Willy Brandt. The SPD leader sought atonement for Nazi Germany’s crimes and a reduction in Cold War tensions.

Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) criticized the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Wednesday for displaying former SPD Chancellor Willy Brandt on its electoral campaign posters.

German daily Der Tagesspiegel first reported on the posters in the eastern state of Brandenburg, which is scheduled to hold elections on September 1.

The posters show Brandt captioned with his quote: “Dare to be more democratic!” Underneath the caption is the AfD’s logo alongside “Vote for the AfD!” and “We’re writing history!”

Brandt was chancellor from 1969 to 1974. Many Germans remember him for kneeling in Warsaw in 1970 to commemorate the victims of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 in part for seeking closer ties with East Germany and other Communist countries during a tense period of the Cold War.

https://www.dw.com/en/afd-slammed-for-using-center-left-cold-war-chancellor-on-election-posters/a-49936342

Are the Feds and SFPD really serious in thinking that by incarcerating low and mid level level drug dealers life in the City will improve? This is just another political stunt in the failed War on Drugs going back to the Nixon Presidency. Makes good headlines for the “Nightcrawler” crowd and not much else.

Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle 8.7.2019

San Francisco’s newly appointed top federal prosecutor announced a sweeping initiative Wednesday to arrest and charge dope peddlers in the city’s notoriously drug-plagued Tenderloin neighborhood.

The effort to clean up the district — named the “Federal Initiative for the Tenderloin,” or FIT — comprises 15 federal agencies, including the U.S. attorney’s office, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security.

U.S. Attorney David Anderson (pictured below) unveiled the effort as federal authorities were making arrests following federal charges against 32 defendants — mostly Honduran nationals — who were accused in a complex Bay Area drug trafficking operation that allegedly extended from the southern U.S. border to Seattle.

“The Tenderloin has become a magnet for retail drug trafficking to an extraordinary degree,” Anderson said at a news conference. “It is my belief that those people living, working and visiting the Tenderloin neighborhood should not be required to run a gauntlet of crime.”

He said the effort will last at least one year and will target dealers and their suppliers who bring in large amounts of heroin, crack and powder cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine. The operation will not focus on people possessing small amounts of drugs for personal use, Anderson said.

Chris Nielsen, the DEA special agent in charge of the San Francisco field division, said the federal charges unsealed Wednesday against 32 defendants “peddling their poison” in the neighborhood stemmed from an investigation that began in 2017. Agents obtained search warrants and wiretaps, and used street-level undercover operations to expose two “highly organized” trafficking operations.

Wednesday’s announcement was welcomed by some neighborhood residents, including Randy Shaw, executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. He applauded the effort and personally thanked Anderson.

“If we had members of my community here, they’d probably be breaking down crying right now,” Shaw said. “This is going to make a big difference. This is going to send a whole new message.”

San Francisco District Six Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents the Tenderloin, said Wednesday that the federal initiative should focus on high-level investigations, while he “will fight to make sure this initiative is also connected to a larger comprehensive, collaborative plan to meaningfully address street-level drug dealing and the deadly drug use epidemic.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Feds-launch-initiative-to-crack-down-on-drug-14288145.php#photo-18042676

It is reassuring that a diverse segment of the San Francisco political and cultural community is banding together to preserve an interpretation of American history that needs to be remembered.

Excerpted from San Francisco Examiner 8.6.2019

Black community leaders say mural was intended to ‘critique American history’

Leaders from San Francisco’s black community on Tuesday announced their opposition to efforts by the school district to remove a New Deal era mural inside of George Washington High School considered offensive by some community members.

Calling the board’s vote “cotton candy politics,” the group’s president, Rev. Amos Brown, defended the mural as a crucial reminder of the unjust treatment of African Americans in San Francisco and across the nation.

“We cannot deny the fact that slavery was a reality in this country for 350 years…George Washington was complicit in the barbaric treatment of my ancestors,” Brown said.

“The persons who express concern over this mural were I’m sure well intentioned — but it would be majoring in minor things for us to do a whole lot of brouhaha regarding a mural that the original artist did because he wanted it to critique American history,” said Brown, who on Tuesday was joined by local NAACP Vice President Rev. Arnold Townsend.

Supporters of the 1936 mural by Russian painter Victor Arnautoff have argued that it was meant as a critique of manifest destiny and of Washington’s legacy, and that the imagery is a subtle expression of the Russian painter’s critical views of American history.

The mural was ordered painted over by the San Francisco Unified School District board in June at a projected cost of $600,000, in a decision that made national headlines. The mural, the “Life of Washington, depicts enslaved African Americans shucking corn and white colonizers towering over a dead Native American, among other things.

Supporters of the mural, which include members of the high school’s alumni association, have threatened to challenge the decision with a ballot initiative.

On Tuesday, leaders with the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called on the school board to walk back its decision, echoing arguments made previously by arts preservationists and free speech advocates that likened the effort to censorship.

Columnist Noah Griffin, a former student at the high school, called the debate over the mural a historic intersection of art, censorship and history.

“Save it, learn from it, teach from it — they did not destroy the concentration camps [in Germany]— The ovens are preserved to serve as a ghastly reminder of a history vowed to happen never again,” said Griffin. “Those panels don’t honor Washington, they expose him.”

But school board leaders have said that in taking action on a decades-old debate over the mural’s value in the present day, they are aiming to support the experiences and activism of students.

At multiple school board hearing on the issue, teachers, parents and students said that the mural made them uncomfortable and had no place in a public high school.

School Board member Alison Collins said that the fight to save the mural is more about “power” than about the students confronting history in their lives each day.

“People want to maintain a narrative that makes them feel good and they are willing to override recommendations made by the community that is most harmed by the mural to do that,” said Collins.

“This is beyond even a political issue — this goes into our core [beliefs] that some people’s voices are more important than others. It doesn’t matter that we follow a democratic process, what matters is money and power and people are flexing,” Collins said.

Members of the school’s Black Student Union first called for the removal of the mural during the Civil Rights movement. At the time, the school district hired black artist Dewey Crumpler to paint a response mural at the school portraying the positive achievements of Native and African Americans.

Students, teachers and parent advisory councils at the school in recent months renewed calls to address the murals, which they said lack context, perpetuate racist stereotypes and are offensive to black and brown students who attend the school.

Crumpler, who attended another high school in the district, said he became aware of the mural in 11th grade and was initially “appalled” by the imagery, but added that after studying it, he learned to understand Arnautoff’s intentions.

“Arnautoff used symbolism — that’s images that serve much deeper meaning,” said Crumpler. “Art’s role is to make us uncomfortable with the status quo so we can be about this business of change.”

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/movement-to-preserve-controversial-mural-gets-support-from-naacp/

Speaking out for human rights is a risky proposition.. Be it in the biggest nation state or smallest. The Gatekeepers will monitor, impede and crush dissent.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 8.5.2019

Germany’s Green party says China has rejected a Bundestag delegation because one of its members is a vocal supporter of the Muslim Uighur minority. Another committee’s plans to travel to China are also in doubt.

But the trip appeared to be under threat due to China’s apparent refusal to let in one of the committee members, Margarete Bause (pictured above), the Green party said Saturday.

“I see that as an attempt at silencing parliamentarians who support human rights loudly and clearly,” Bause said.The Green parlimentarian wrote in a letter to the committee that she still wanted to participate in the trip and saw no reason why it should be abandoned.

“This will only strengthen my work for human rights,” she added on Twitter.

The Bundestag committee on digitization is supposed to visit startups and learn about artificial intelligence in Shanghai and Beijing later this month.

Bause, who has a long history of expressing support for the human rights of the Uighur Muslim minority in China, was supposed to join the trip as a temporary committee member, standing in for her party colleague and the committee’s head Dieter Janecek.

“The Chinese message — which states that as long as I am on the list, the delegation cannot travel to China — is absolutely unacceptable,” Bause told German news agency dpa.

https://www.dw.com/en/china-denies-entry-to-german-greens-party/a-49883911

These vicious killers have been overlooked by American law authorities who have never expended sufficient resources to hunt down these deranged people who present a Clear and Present Danger. The statutes are insufficient and the will to vigorously eradicate this menace are lacking at the highest levels of government. Until the full power of the government is unleashed these horrific events will continue unabated.

Rosa Schwartzburg Excerpted from The Guardian 8.5.2019

This conspiracy theory is influencing killers from Germany to New Zealand and now, it seems, El Paso

This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.” Those were the words that appeared in a manifesto published shortly before the deadly shooting in El Paso on Saturday. More than half of so-called “alt-right killers” are motivated by the “white replacement” theory, which refers to the belief that white people will be systematically replaced by black and brown migrants. The killer in El Paso, who law enforcement believes authored the memo, is apparently no exception.

The white replacement theory is actually made up of two sub-conspiracies: “the great replacement” theory, which originated in France, and “the white genocide theory”, which comes from the US. Together, the theories are among the most widespread ideologies in far-right spaces, and the primary catalysts of far-right mass violence.

The great replacement can generally be understood as two core beliefs. The first is that “western” identity is under siege by massive waves of immigration from non-European/non-white countries, resulting in a replacement of white European individuals via demographics. The second is that replacement has been orchestrated by a shadowy group as part of their grand plan to rule the world – which they will do by creating a completely racially homogenous society. This group is often overtly identified as being Jews, but sometimes the antisemitism is more implicit.

These beliefs have proliferated in mass killer texts for the past eight years. They are generally understood as having begun with Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass shooter whose 1,500-page manifesto expressed a fear of white ethnic replacement by migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. This same fear cropped up in the manifestos of several more mass killers in Europe, before making its way to the rambling screed published by the Christchurch shooter, which was titled The Great Replacement. The Christchurch manifesto begins with: “It’s the birthrates. It’s the birthrates. It’s the birthrates.” It was directly inspired by Breivik – and he, in turn, inspired the El Paso shooter.

The El Paso shooter begins his text by writing: “In general, I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto. This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/05/great-replacement-theory-alt-right-killers-el-paso

H. Rap Brown said, “Violence is American as Apple Pie.” That was 50 years ago and with the Racist White Nationalist in power, Mr. Brown has been proven all too correct. The President’s Base is acting out its nihilistic fantasies in real time.

Excerpted from The Guardian 8.4.2019

People hold their mobile phones with flash on during a vigil in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state, on Saturday after a mass shooting which left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas. Photograph: Hérika Martínez/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump faced a barrage of criticism on Sunday as the US reeled from a brutal mass shooting in the border city of El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, linked to white nationalism and anti-immigrant hate rhetoric.

Trump made no reference to the nature of the alleged hate crime in El Paso and did not speak about gun control, but added: “Hate has no place in our country. We’re going to take care of it.”

A total of 20 people were killed in the majority Latino city, nestled in western Texas on the US-Mexico border, as federal authorities investigated a potential hate crime and local prosecutors charged a 21-year-old white man, Patrick Crusius, with murder and said they would pursue the death penalty.

The suspect was from the town of Allen 650 miles from the site of the shooting, at a busy Walmart in the city.

Less than 13 hours later another mass shooting took place in the city of Dayton, Ohio, leaving nine dead there and bringing the total injured from both shootings to at least 52.

Authorities in Dayton named the shooter as 24 year-old Connor Betts and listed the names of the nine people killed, which included the shooter’s 22-year-old sister Megan Betts.

Police in El Paso were examining a hate-riddled message on the website 8chan, posted around 20 minutes before Saturday’s attack, in which the author expressed sympathy for a white nationalist massacre at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, a few months ago, and which stated: “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

Donald Trump eventually addressed reporters over a day after the shooting in El Paso, having sent a few short tweets and issuing a presidential proclamation to lower flags to half mast earlier in the day.

As the US president travelled back to the White House from his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump said: “I want to extend our condolences from El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. They’re incredible people, they’ve been through a lot.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/04/mass-shootings-el-paso-texas-dayton-ohio

Author: leeheidhues

Unwieldy Dem Pack. Two Candidates in the lead. Warren will be Prez nominee.

Trigger happy cops assault another dog. Second mindless reaction in 10 days

Grass more than underfoot at San Francisco Outside Lands

“The Trial” Battle Over Kafka’s legacy ends in Jerusalem 95 years after his death

Shameless. Hard Right AfD uses center-left Cold War chancellor as election tool

Talk about low hanging fruit. Feds crack down on drug dealing in SF’s Tenderloin

Controversial school mural gets NAACP support. “Critiques American History.”

Heavy Price for pushing human rights. China denies entry to German Greens.

‘White replacement theory’ motivates vicious alt-right killers the world over

Trump faces barrage of criticism. His Base is Happy. He couldn’t care less.

People hold their mobile phones with flash on during a vigil in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state, on Saturday after a mass shooting which left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas. Photograph: Hérika Martínez/AFP/Getty Images

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