The US had three mass shootings in one weekend.

Only a small fraction of US gun killings are part of mass shootings, but mass shootings seem to inspire more mass shootings, and they are often acts of terrorism inspired by hate movements.

The first of these two shootings, in Dallas, was an act of right-wing terrorism and so was one other.

These are clearly inspired by the bully's support of racism and violence.

He surely knew this would happen; it isn't the first time, after all. Therefore it must be intentional. Even people who already agreed with white supremacism are encouraged to leap into violence by their crowds of supporters.

He has converted the whole Republican party into supporters of racism and violence.

Some may not entirely like it, but they haven't the courage to resist the mob that boils around them.

Iranian programmer Saeed Malekpour was sentence to life in prison for releasing a program for "uploading photos to the web". He has escaped somehow from Iran.

Beto O'Rourque held the bully responsible for the mass shooting in El Paso.

We know this is true. It is important that prominent people say it.

Republicans are trying to evade responsibility by saying that the killers must be mentally disturbed. Perhaps they are. However, when people are predisposed to follow some hate campaign or other and commit violence for it, they look for a hate movement that is powerful. Politicians that support certain hate movements help draw killers to support them.

Marijuana stores are using face recognition against giant databases of people who are not in any way suspects and have not done anything wrong to or in the marijuana store.

This should be illegal.

A one-day general strike in Hong Kong was very effective. However, China is threatening to attack and repress.