Adding el paso shooting.

microsoft.md

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   - [Microsoft acquires Skype, it becomes bloated and users flee to other platforms.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/736tfh/skype_is_officially_bloatware_uninstalled_it/)
 
 - Its [workers often suffer burnout](https://archive.is/20120629191556/http://www.krsaborio.net/research/1980s/89/890423.htm), and has been called a *velvet sweatshop*. Microsoft lost a lawsuit for $93 million for using "permatemp" employees, which were worked as hard as ordinary employees, yet received none of the benefits. Microsoft is the largest American corporate user of H-1B guest worker visas in order to pay them less. Microsoft has also come under criticism for developing software capable of analyzing the output of remote sensors in order to [measure the competence and productivity of workers based on their physical responses.](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/microsoft-seeks-patent-for-office-spy-software-h0dd5zmtfnt)
+- Github, now owned by microsoft, begins [blocking developers from countries antagonistic to the US](https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-starts-blocking-developers-in-countries-facing-us-trade-sanctions/) such as Iran, Russia.
 
 ## Sources
+
 - https://stallman.org/microsoft.html
 - http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html
 - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

us_hate_crimes.md

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 - US citizens are [7 times more likely to be killed by a far-right extremist than a Muslim attacker.](https://thinkprogress.org/you-are-more-than-7-times-as-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-right-wing-extremist-than-by-muslim-terrorists-417f3c3461db/)
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+- On Aug 3rd, 2019, white supremacist Patrick Crusius killed [20 latinos in an El Paso Texas Wal-Mart](https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/03/el-paso-shooting-suspect-may-have-authored-manifesto-containing-white-nationalist-talking), and was taken alive. He left a four-page anti-immigrant manifesto containing standard "ethnic displacement" and "race mixing" white nationalist talking points, refers to immigrants as "invaders", and professes admiration for the New Zealand Christchurch mass shooting. His twitter includes a “BuildTheWall” hashtag, a photo using guns to spell out “Trump,” and posts from Paul Joseph Watson, a far-right Youtuber who works with Alex Jones at InfoWars.
 - On Oct 27, 2018, a white supremacist [shot and killed 11 people and wounded 7 more in a Synagogue in Pittsburgh PA, while morning shabbat services were being held.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting). The shooter posted on the right-wing social network Gab, shortly before the attack that "HIAS (Hebrew immigrant aid society) likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in." He shouted "All Jews must die" as he carried out the attack. The shooting was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States in history. The intervening years between 2016 and 2018 saw rising indicators of antisemitism in American public life, including a 57% rise in antisemitic incidents in 2017 in context of rising hate crimes against other groups including Muslims and African Americans as reported by the FBI, a wave of vandalizations of hundreds of Jewish gravestones in Pennsylvania and Missouri, and a multiplication by 2 of antisemitic incidents on university campuses. [2](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46002549)
 - On Oct 24, 2018, A white supremacist [killed two black people, Maurice Stallard, and Vickie Jones, while they were shopping at a Kroger in Jeffersontown Kentucky.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersontown_Kroger_shooting) The shooter had earlier tried to enter the First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown, a predominantly black church, during a service but was unable to because the doors were locked. Between 10 to 15 minutes later, Bush entered the Kroger, shot Stallard inside, then Jones in the parking lot. He then exchanged gunfire with a bystander, who saw him shoot Jones. Another man said Bush told him, "Don't shoot me. I won't shoot you. Whites don't shoot whites" and then tried to flee.
 - In late October 2018, Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc Jr. (later nicknamed the magabomber), [mailed sixteen packages containing pipe bombs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2018_United_States_mail_bombing_attempts#Suspect) to several critics of Donald Trump, including various Democratic Party politicians. Sayoc constructed the pipe bombs in his [van, covered with pro-trump and pro-pence stickers.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/pipe-bomb-suspect-apos-van-180951324.html) It was later found that Sayoc's Florida home was [foreclosed on by Trump's treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin's, Bank](https://theintercept.com/2018/10/26/cesar-sayoc-foreclosure-steven-mnuchin/), during a period of foreclosures caused by the 2008 financial crisis.