Who Knew?: Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine rolled out yesterday in Miami as Hillary Clinton’s running mate, revealing himself as a fluid, comfortable, and humorous campaigner. “I know for a lot of you this might be the first time you’re hearing me speak, and let’s be honest, for many of you this might be the first time you’ve heard my name.”

Kaine spoke of laboring in his father’s iron working shop and spending time as a Jesuit missionary in Honduras, where he learned to speak Spanish. He talked about political policy. He spoke soberly of being governor during the Virginia Tech shooting.

Kaine didn’t spend much time attacking Donald Trump, although he had one good hit on Trump’s failure to produce his tax returns: “Raise your hand if you think those returns are going to show that he paid his fair share.”

Kaine instantly created buzz on the internet and collected flattering reviews. Michael Tomasky wrote for The Daily Beast that, “He was natural. He was smart. He was relaxed and funny, and he was serious. He was proud of himself and his wife and family but never arrogant. He was humble without ever being cloying in that way the politically humble can often be. He was genuine.”

Permawar: The Islamic State is taking responsibility for three suicide bombers who killed 80 people and wounded 230 in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. In what was the first ISIS attack in the Afghan capital, the Sunni terror army claimed it had hit “a gathering of Shiites.” The bombers struck where thousands of people were protesting the rerouting of a major power line.

World: German police say the Munich shopping mall killer was obsessed by mass killings and hated foreigners, even though he was the German-born son of Iranian immigrants. The shooter, an 18-year-old high school student, targeted mostly younger victims. Seven of the nine people killed were between the ages of 14 and 19. Investigators say the shooting did not appear to be motivated by terrorism.

Nation: The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday overturned Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s executive order restoring voting rights to 206,000 convicted felons who had completed their punishment. The court said the governor does not have the power to make such a sweeping order, but he does have the right to do it case by case.

McAuliffe has argued that depriving felons of the vote also tends to deprive black citizens because a disproportionate number of them go to prison.

About 13,000 felons had registered to vote. McAuliffe said, “I will expeditiously sign nearly 13,000 individual orders to restore the fundamental rights of the citizens who have had their rights restored and registered to vote. And I will continue to sign orders until I have completed restoration for all 200,000 Virginians.”

Politi-Salad: The head of the Democratic Party has been withdrawn from the list of convention speakers after the leak of DNC emails that embarrassed the leadership. One Democratic leader described Debbie Wasserman Schultz as having been “quarantined” — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren yesterday described Donald Trump as “a man born with cash in his fist and hate in his heart.”

The Pokémon Threat: Two young Canadians this past week were apprehended after accidentally crossing the border into the US while playing Pokémon Go. Saudi clerics renewed a fatwa against Pokémon, calling it “un-Islamic”; Bosnia warned enthusiasts that players looking for virtual monsters might find land mines instead; and a member of Egypt’s Parliament denounced the game as “the latest tool used by spy agencies.”

Movie director Oliver Stone sees an even bigger threat in the behavior monitoring and data mining Pokémon can provide. He said at the San Diego Comic Con, “It’s what some people call surveillance capitalism—it’s the newest stage. It’s not for profit at the beginning, but it becomes for profit in the end. Because it creates its own awareness, and it gets into everywhere in the world, until it manipulates our behavior, and we start to act like that, which has happened already quite a bit on the internet.”

Stone warned, “It’s what they call totalitarianism.”

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