• A shooting inside an El Paso Walmart left at least 20 dead, another 20-plus injured. The 21-year-old college student—who has posted white supremacy-related postings on social media—opened fire, using a semi-automatic weapon, in a crowded Walmart store in the majority-Hispanic border city. [NYT]
• Less than a day later, another mass shooting took place within a bustling Dayton, Ohio nightclub, Ned Poppers, leaving 10 dead, including the gunman, and another 26-plus injured. The shooter’s identity has yet to be released, but, just as in El Paso a single day prior, a “young white male” was responsible for the bloodshed, per Senator Sherrod Brown. [CNN]
• Frederick Brennan, the wheelchair-dependent former angry young man who founded the site 8chan, tells the New York Times it ought to be shut down. Brennan sold the site in 2015, and he now regrets its role in amplifying the messages of mass shooters, including the El Paso gunman. [New York Times]
• A fatal collision involving a box truck and a fire engine on 101 in Palo Alto shut down the freeway through this morning. The collision occurred around 4:30 a.m. in the southbound slow lane. [Bay City News]
• The Oakland A’s have officially signed one contestant from their public speed pitch challenge to the team—no joke. Nathan Patterson—the Nashvillian who decided to, on a whim, try the speed pitch challenge at the Sounds game he attended with friends almost exactly a year ago, throwing a 96 miles-per-hour fastball—has officially signed with the Oakland-based baseball team; Patterson hadn’t played competitive baseball since high school and starts practice with the A’s this coming Friday. [WTKR]
• The Oakland Raiders sign league-veteran running back Mack Brown, completing their roster. [ClutchPoints]
• San Francisco city officials are keen on making you only drink from reusable cups, but they’re facing more than a few roadblocks. [Chronicle]
• Permanent housing intiatives for otherwise homeless women, children, and other vulnerable populations are increasing in SF. [ABC 7]
• To the surprise of no one driving in-and-around the downtowns of SF and OAK, construction jobs in the two metros are on the rise. [KTVU FOX 2]
• Here’s where you can sip the city’s best malts and shakes, putting the proverbial cherry on top your Sunday-Funday. [Eater]

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