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Warren 2020: Senator Elizabeth Warren has formed an "exploratory committee" to research if she should run for president in 2020. (This means it's very, very, very likely it will happen).

NO: An armed, masked man was stopped en route to a church in Seguin, Texas to "fulfill a prophecy,"

Also NO: Sexual harasser Louis CK has quietly returned to stand-up and has settled on some really reputation repairing material: Making fun of Parkland high school shooting survivors.

Rigged: Bangladesh's authoritarian prime minister has won a third term in office, raising alarms of election rigging. Related protests have left at least a dozen people dead.


Montavilla Makes Headlines: Mercury pal Thacher Schmid wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times about the group of Montavilla neighbors who
have been antagonizing local homeless people
. A particularly poignant line: β€œPeople are frustrated, and frustrated people do stupid [stuff].”

Portland Racism, in Three Acts:

Act I: The Lloyd District's DoubleTree has fired the two employees responsible for booting a Black guest out of the hotel for talking on the phone in the hotel lobby.

Act II: A longtime board member for the Portland Business Alliance has stepped down after publicly declaring that racial minorities are not intelligent enough to participate in the business world.

Act III: A woman in McMinnville spewed racist slurs and threatened a Black family with a knife over a poor parking job.

Longread of the Day: The New York Time's editorial board published a powerful piece on how anti-abortion policies have placed the civil rights of an unborn fetus above the woman who's carrying it.