On this week’s weekly Independent comics page, where deadlines have depressingly caused a mass-shooting reference to become “outdated,” because there’s been another mass shooting since: Jen Sorensen looks at border-crisis blather; The K Chronicles examines Stockton’s universal basic income experiment; This Modern World ponders the excuses surrounding the shootings in Atlanta; Claytoonz checks in with Rep. Boebert regarding the recent shootings; and Red Meat asks whether Papa Moai could put on some shorts.