Headlines from May 4, 2015

Last night at an anti-Muslim event near Dallas, two gunmen were killed after shooting a security guard.
Elite patronage drives art-world delusion: “That by looking at political art we are somehow engaged in a deeply political act.”
Texas’s new governor capitulates to conspiracy theorists, deploys State Guard to monitor military training exercise.
After winning this weekend’s bout, Floyd Mayweather’s net worth shot up by 37%.
Related: Thousands of people skirted pay-per-view fees by streaming Twitter feeds of the fight.
“The kids of tomorrow won’t freak out over terabytes of storage. They’ll freak out over kilowatt-hours.”
Two decades after approving medical marijuana, California hears new legislation to regulate an out-of-control industry.
Related: An unusual DEA raid on an LA dispensary reveals the bewildering conflict between state and federal drug laws.
Here is exile that is also asylum from the larger, unforgiving world. Sex offenders build colony, find community.
The Intercept investigates how 43 students disappeared in Mexico.
Smith College reverses course to accept transgender applicants.
“The biggest threat to Parkour—as even Parkour’s all-male founders would agree—is testosterone.”
In the end, I no longer trusted myself to talk to the post office clerk, the bus driver, the department store lady. The shut-in life. #longreads
The Onion stealthily became the Web’s best sponsored content publisher.
People who become Odinists may do so because they like Thor, but actually they’re joining a racist movement.
“While buying homemade gifts is a lovely thing to do, thinking of it as a social good is problematic.”
His cousin was sleeping on the floor with a comforter wrapped around him. The oral history of Redman on Cribs.