Texas Standard for October 2, 2015
The Oregon shooter and an online screed no one bothered to report: The wild west of digital speech and the dangers. Plus: A flurry of news pushes Syria off the front pages, but a former National Security Council analyst in Texas warns there’s much more to Russia’s gambit there than meets the eye. Also: In the game of East Texas hold ’em known as patent trolling, the tables are turned in dramatic fashion. And: Hey Twitter! What are we outraged about today? Making the case for and against so-called slacktivism. All this and much more on today’s Texas Standard.

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