IT’S THE LAWSUITS THAT MATTER, BUT THERE’S ALSO THIS: Electronic Privacy Information Center files FTC complaint against Facebook.

And the boilerplate terms-of-use provision won’t help Facebook, since it was added to the TOU after the experiment.

I DUNNO, THERE’S A LOT OF COMPETITION FOR THAT SLOT: Is FATCA the Worst Part of the Internal Revenue Code?

CLAIM: The Presidency Has Turned Into An Elective Monarchy.

DANA MILBANK HELPFULLY VOXPLAINS THAT if Obama loses the Senate next year, it will actually be a good thing.

SPONTANEOUS ORDER: Refugee Camp for Syrians in Jordan Evolves as a Do-It-Yourself City. I suspect that most of the inhabitants of this camp were bourgeois types before they became refugees.

UBER’S CUSTOMERS HAVE MORE CLOUT THAN ORGANIZED TAXI DRIVERS: Despite Taxi Opposition, Uber Gets Green Light In London.

SPYING: In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are. “Nearly half of the surveillance files, a strikingly high proportion, contained names, e-mail addresses or other details that the NSA marked as belonging to U.S. citizens or residents. . . . The surveillance files highlight a policy dilemma that has been aired only abstractly in public. There are discoveries of considerable intelligence value in the intercepted messages — and collateral harm to privacy on a scale that the Obama administration has not been willing to address. . . . Many other files, described as useless by the analysts but nonetheless retained, have a startlingly intimate, even voyeuristic quality. They tell stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes. The daily lives of more than 10,000 account holders who were not targeted are catalogued and recorded nevertheless.”

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JIM TREACHER: “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt Alan Colmes’ feelings.”

L.A. TIMES: Murrieta immigrant detainee protests keep growing. “Hundreds of people gathered on the road to the federal processing facility, anticipating another convoy of vehicles containing immigrants who had crossed the border in Texas. A boisterous crowd of protesters turned back three busloads of migrants on Tuesday.”

SO THE INSTA-DAUGHTER IS HOME FROM COLLEGE, and is putting together stuff for her apartment next year, where (unlike her dorm room last year) she’ll have a full kitchen. One thing she’s gotten is the Nutri Bullet blender, which seems to be excellent. She’s made almond butter, pureed brazil nuts, and otherwise blended stuff that other blenders might have trouble with. It’s smooth, powerful, and easy to clean. Speaking as someone who loves a good blender myself, it seems like an excellent one. She calls it “life-transforming,” which may be an exaggeration, but which was sincere.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: How Obama Lost The Middle East.

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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The Right Won The Unemployment Debate.

While liberals hail new job numbers as a vindication of President Obama’s economic policies, it is conservatives who should feel vindicated, said Charles Krauthammer on Thursday’s Special Report. Citing a recent National Review Online post on The Corner by economist Robert Stein, Krauthammer noted that the sharp drop in unemployment has coincided with the end of emergency unemployment benefits. Obama and the Democrats, who insisted that the benefits be extended, wrongly predicted that their expiration would come as a calamity to the poor. Instead, their end has demonstrably had “precisely the opposite effect.”

“These six months coincide with a decrease in the medium length of unemployment from 17 weeks to 13 weeks — the largest six-month decline in the length of unemployment ever measured,” he said. “Which means the real problem of long-term unemployment was a function of this anomaly of emergency-extended unemployment, which should never have happened, and whose end has contributed to this excellent result. The debate on that extension is over, and the conservatives were right.”

On the other hand, it’s a “conservative victory” that produces a better number for Obama.

POLITICS: Stuff Liberal White Ladies Like.

TESLA: The Great American Road Trip Has Gone Electric. Well, on certain routes.

THE TOWN THAT WENT UNDERGROUND.

COULD PUTIN LOSE? “Pro-Russian rebels abandoned Sloviansk as government troops retook the eastern Ukraine city after a night of fierce fighting and barrages of mortar fire, the country’s president and a spokesman for the rebels said Saturday. President Petro Poroshenko said in a statement that government troops took Sloviansk, a city of about 129,000 that has been a center of the fighting between Kiev’s troops and the pro-Russian insurgents in Donetsk. Poroshenko commanded the armed forces to raise the Ukrainian flag over the city, which had been under rebel control since April 12 when they seized the city’s administrative and police buildings.” Or will he send in regular troops?

REPORT: Report: Federal Government Email From The Inside.

I LIKE THE PHOTO: Driving the Ford F-350 Super Duty Diesel V8.

ALEX NUNEZ: Independence On Wheels: Your car is more than a conveyance—it’s freedom. That’s why some people hate cars so much.

As P.J. O’Rourke said:

Cars didn’t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We’re way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy’s lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren’t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat.

Like I said.

TEST-DRIVING the new Porsche Macan, an SUV that wants to race.

MOWING TIPS FOR THE LAWN OF YOUR DREAMS.

INSIDE THE EXPLOSION: A fireworks show as seen from a drone.

The drone, a DJI Phantom 2 with a GoPro Hero 3 camera, was not harmed.