This weekend, we saw what unhooded white supremacists look like in 2017. By light of tiki torch, unmemorable men in polo shirts and plaid button-ups with tidy haircuts put a 21st century face to humankind’s oldest, ugliest affliction: Hate. “They could be from anywhere,” wrote CHRIS GAYOMALI for GQ, “and wouldn’t look out of place foisting martini shakers in Portland, or Nashville, or Brooklyn.” Racists of all magnitudes walk among us and very few of them—surprise!— have swastika tattoos by which we can identify them. Like Gayomali, I’m shocked by the group’s brazen nonchalance: These monsters do not fear the consequence of being identified (compare this to the sheets KKK members cower under) and that’s on all of us. As a society, we all need to be reprimanding hate in its smallest forms so that it does not have the chance to blossom into what we saw in CHARLOTTESVILLE… In more progressive news, ROBIN GIVHAN has an excellent survey of CHELSEA MANNING’S relatively un-glam VOGUE shoot. With unfussy hair and makeup and a swimsuit that’s more everywoman flattering than body flaunting, Manning and Vogue are broadening the image of transgender women in pop culture—definitely give this one a read… Will WALMART scoop up BIRCHBOX? If so, it will mark the fifth digital-first brand acquisition by the retailer since MARC LORE was appointed head of e-comm last fall (Lore came into the fold by way of JET.COM, which he founded in 2014 and sold to Walmart in 2016 for $3B cash and $300M in stock). The idea is to get in with coastal millennials with money to spend—Walmart already has the middle of the country, families, and the budget-conscious on lock, but this millennial demo is spending all that money with AMAZON and Walmart wants a piece of the commerce pie. GLOSSY offers a deeper look at what the purchase could mean for both Walmart and Birchbox and, while you’re at it, check out this BUSINESS INSIDER piece from earlier in the month explaining how Amazon is the new Walmart: “a symbol for everything wrong with big business.”