The Gist
Farming for Red Herring
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On The Gist, Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation is all but certain.
A recent Donald Trump tweet gave credence to a bogus (and dangerous) claim: that South Africa's white farmers are the first targets in a looming genocide. Quartz reporter Lynsey Chutel has the actual statistics, as well as the political context—land reform—that pushed white nationalists into embracing victimhood in the first place.
In the Spiel, a roundup of the minor scandals that broke over Labor Day weekend.
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