June 14, 2016

• Photos of worldwide memorials to Orlando—including in places where it's illegal to be gay.
• Orlando shooter was enough of a regular at Pulse to have been kicked out before.
• Clinton backs assault weapon ban.
• A timeline of the NRA and gun makers' wildly successful manipulation of American politics.
• Trump declares war on the First Amendment, revokes Washington Post's press credentials.
• Roundtable of progressive leaders discuss what they think Bernie should do next.
• "Taken at face value, Ryan and the GOP's new anti-poverty plan may be, at a minimum, a starting point for compromise."
• With a pollution problem ignored as solved, Mexico City's air degrades to compare with worst in the world.
• The world is choosing electricity over fossil fuels because it's cheaper.
• Microsoft's massive LinkedIn purchase is part of a strategy to corner the "professional cloud" with Office.
• "The Internet, in its vastness, induces a sense of personal powerlessness that can be relieved by joining a crowd—until the crowd reshapes itself, and must be joined again."
• "Suspunk" designers imagine installations in the security state inspired by suspicious packages.
• Replacing addresses with a unique three-word phrase sounds nuts, but the first large-scale test is coming to Mongolia.