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At a press conference earlier today, Ben Carson referred to the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California as “a hate crime.”

The San Bernardino mass shooting wasn’t the only mass shooting today. Four people were shot in Savannah, Georgia, early this morning, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Two suspects—one male; one female—in the fatal San Bernardino shooting Wednesday morning were killed by police later in the afternoon, Police Chief Jarron Burguan told reporters.

The too-little-too-late redemption tour of one Jay Dickey continued today—of all days—on Capitol Hill, with a letter released by the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. This will be a handy reminder that regret—truly a weighty motherfucker for the sufferer—has a realtime value of roughly jack-shit in the world outside your tormented soul.

Who would have thought a softball question from Mike Allen could end so disastrously?

The state of Texas is suing the United States government, the Associated Press reports, in an effort to stop 6 Syrian refugees from being resettled in Dallas this week. Governor Greg Abbott has consistently sought to impede the arrival of refugees in his state since the terror attacks in Paris last month.

The San Bernardino county sheriff has confirmed the presence of an active shooter near the 1300 block of S. Waterman in San Bernardino, CA. At least 12 people are dead, with another 20 reportedly injured.

Kristin Cavallari’s gloomy day outfit.

David Bowdich, the Assistant Director of the FBI, spoke at a press conference addressing the ongoing situation in San Bernardino earlier today. And he is apparently very, very confused about their own definition of the word “terrorism.”

Rahm Emanuel has said the right things in public about the Laquan McDonald travesty, even if behind closed doors he’s been a force for something less than total justice. The reported details of a series of meetings Emanuel had with a number of black civic leaders from Chicago’s South Side prior to the release of the dashcam footage won’t do much to shore up his image among Chicagoans.

In the wake of last month’s terror attacks in Paris, U.K. lawmakers voted this afternoon 397-223 to launch airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.

One person has died in a shooting outside a women’s health clinic in Houston, though Mic’s Tom McKay reports that a woman who answered the phone there said the death was unrelated to the clinic’s mission.

The Republican establishment’s progression through the stages of grief over Donald Trump’s enduring popularity is getting perilously close to “acceptance.” Fortunately, the party has some fresh new ideas about how it will proceed in the now-thinkable case of a Trump nomination.

After bearing some heavy criticism for being slow to respond to last week’s mass shooting, the still all-too-many presidential candidates have been quick to offer up their thoughts and, as always, their prayers in the wake of today’s shooting in San Bernardino.

Some people say it’s whats on the inside that counts. Other people say it’s not being a gross fat loser that counts. Guess which one Donald Trump is.

“Probably just 12 or 15 of [the richest people in America] own as much as America’s worst-off 160 million people.” It is only a matter of time before those 160 million people figure out they can confiscate those rich motherfuckers’ money. Mark Zuckerberg is just trying to get out ahead of the curve.

The people having the most success destroying the Wall Street elite these days are not bomb-throwing anarchists. They are buttoned-up investment types who are just less greedy.