Borderline: After seeing video of migrants throwing rocks at Mexican police, President Trump announced that he plans to change the rules for asylum seekers and that he’s told the military that if anyone throws rocks, “consider it a rifle.”

“This is a defense of our country,” Trump said at the White House before departing to a campaign rally in Missouri. “We have no choice. We will defend our borders. We will defend our country.”

No one is attacking the borders but Trump is using fear of immigrants to drive Republicans to the polls next week.

He also pumped up his false characterization of the immigrant march heading north. He said “large, organized caravans” are heading toward the United States, filled with “tough people, in many cases.”

He described the group that includes thousands of women and children as “A lot of young men, strong men and a lot of men we maybe don’t want in our country.” No one who has seen the caravan in person has described it that way.

Contrary to current law, Trump also said he would allow migrants to apply for asylum only at official border crossings. The law says you may apply for asylum anywhere you cross into the US.

Willie Horton: One of the most notorious and boldly racist political ads in US history was the infamous “Willie Horton” ad in 1988 that blamed Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis for a murder committed by the inmate Horton while on a weekend furlough. Horton, who was black, was presented as every white American’s nightmare.

President Trump this week posted an updated Willie Horton ad featuring a Mexican illegal immigrant who murdered two police officers. As Luis Bracamontes laughingly says in court, “I will kill more,” the super on the screen says “Democrats let him into the country.”

Trump continues to spread the falsehood that illegal immigrants are more likely to kill and commit crimes than born Americans — they are not. And “Democrats” did not allow Bracamontes into the country. He came illegally, twice; once when Bill Clinton was president, and a second time when Republican George W. Bush sat where Trump sits today.

The Homeless Tax: San Francisco has one of biggest and most visible homeless problems in the country and there’s a big fight about a ballot measure that would do something about it.

Proposition C, a tax on the city’s largest companies, would add $300 million to the city’s budget for dealing with and helping the homeless. Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, has been one of the most prominent faces promoting the bill. “It’s a crisis of homelessness. It’s a crisis of cleanliness. But you can also see it’s a crisis of inequality,” Benioff told CNN Business. “This is a city with 70 billionaires.”

Benioff says business has an obligation to help people, not just make money. He’s put $2 million of his own money and $6 million from his company into a campaign to pass the bill.

On the other side is Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square some of whose companies would be taxed at a higher rate because they are not considered by the city to be technology companies. He tweeted, “We just want to be treated fairly with respect to our peer companies, many of whom are 2-10x larger than us.” He said, “Taxes would grow at rates multiple times our adj. revenue, which no company can sustain.”

Benioff dismisses the argument. He says that for the companies that would pay the 1 percent tax, it’s pocket change.

“Truth,” He Lied: President Trump, whose lies and falsehoods have spawned a journalistic industry charting them, told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that, “I always want to tell the truth. When I can, I tell the truth.”

He can tell the truth any time he wants, and in that vein the President told a crowd in Missouri last night that, “I’ve kept more promises than I’ve made.”

Google This: Roughly 17,000 Google employees around the world — both men and women — walked off the job yesterday in protest over sexual harassment and the general treatment of women in the company. Tech companies can be worse for women than a construction site.

Flexible: Despite falling twice, American Simone Biles, a  four-time Olympic champion, won the women’s all-around final at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday.She also had a kidney stone.

Shredded Cheese and Toasted Buns: A federal judge in Chicago dismissed a lawsuit  against several grocers and food companies who sold “100% Grated Parmesan Cheese” that also contained cellulose, a wood product used as an anti-clumping agent. U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman in Chicago didn’t think the labels would mislead reasonable consumers into thinking the cheese was 100 percent cheese even though the label said “100%.” Also on the culinary beat, police in Kingsport, Tenn. say a woman who was naked from the waist down fell through the ceiling of a restaurant into the kitchen. Maybe this is what’s happening when your waiter says, “We’re backed up in the kitchen.”

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