WHAT TRUMP HAS TAUGHT US ON IMMIGRATION: “The contretemps over Trump and immigration has been a useful reminder of how much this issue revolves around trust. For many conservatives, it goes back to 1986.”

VIDEO: THE FAILURE OF AFRICAN SOCIALISM IN THE 20th CENTURY.

That’s quite a lot of bad luck.

YOUR SCARY-ASS CHART OF THE DAY: How Obamacare Destroyed The Middle Class In One Chart.

They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Turkey’s campaign against Kurds muddles war on ISIL.

Turkey claimed it had “neutralized” 25 Kurdish fighters in airstrikes across the Syrian border Sunday, the latest attack in Turkey’s stepped-up campaign to retake towns from Kurdish rebels.

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency, citing the Turkish military, said the attack was carried out against “terrorists groups” that had attacked Turkish troops supporting a Free Syrian Army operation targeting Islamic State militants. Five buildings used by the Kurdish rebels also were destroyed, the military said.

The Turkish military said it took “all necessary measures” to protect the local civilian population. The BBC, however, said the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported 35 civilian casualties.

The attacks reflect the increasingly complex, uneasy military alliances in the region.

The report also says that the U.S. “has pressed Turkey to show restraint against the Kurds,” but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan isn’t exactly making headlines these days for his restraint.

I wrote here five days ago: “ISIS was Putin’s excuse for pounding his real enemy in Syria: anti-Assad rebels. There’s real danger here of Turkey using the same excuse to pound the Kurds.”

That didn’t take long.

WE’VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT THE ALT-RIGHT. What About The Alt-Left?

Remember, people on the right have “hate.” For people on the left, it’s “passion.” Plus:

It’s not our intention to suggest that there are never grounds for grievance against the police or that the police are always right. Neither is it our intention to suggest that Mrs. Clinton is herself a racist (even if, during the 2008 campaign, there were suggestions that the Clintons were using racist tactics in the Carolinas). It is our intention to suggest that Mrs. Clinton is no more high-minded than Mr. Trump. She still, insofar as we’re aware, hasn’t broken with President Obama’s outrageous claim that the Iranian regime could be rational about its economy even if it was anti-Semitic.

The Democratic Party alt-left agitators protesting against Mr. Trump’s rallies in this campaign have illuminated nothing so much as the fact that the alt-right has no quarter on violence, bigotry, and thuggery. Ironically, Mrs. Clinton was the first to make the ad hominem attack the central feature of her strategy against her general election opponent. She has refused to engage the GOP nominee on the issues — and, indeed, has swung in behind him on certain big issues, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. On immigration, one issue where she is playing the race card against him, she vows to pursue Mr. Obama’s strategy.

That consists of acting without Congress, which is one of the things that has so inflamed the issue in the past eight years. Another is the strategy of trying to boost employment with easy money rather than economic growth. It’s a combination that may have delivered what is ostensibly a low unemployment number but has also given us the lowest labor participation rate in decades. This has enabled Mr. Trump to make the argument that, despite the efforts to tar him as a racist, he has the better strategy for striving minorities. We look forward to at least the possibility of the presidential debates getting into all this.

There’s a possibility.

AIRCRAFT RESTORATION: The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum restores a World War 2 German “flying wing.” The US Army captured the Horten Ho 229 V3 jet prototype in April 1945. The restoration process included an analysis of the airplane’s potential stealth capabilities.

THAT ABEDIN CENTIPEDE KEEPS DROPPING SHOES: Huma Abedin’s mom linked to shocking anti-women book.

IT HELPS IF YOU HAVE THE REFEREES ON YOUR SIDE: Elections are a game — and Clinton plays it better.

ONE PSYCHIATRIST? ONE? BEFORE DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS ONE SHOULD REQUIRE A PANEL OF A DOZEN PSYCHIATRISTS OR MORE: Children’s minds are plastic.  They are influenced by their parents, their peers, the media.  We wouldn’t allow them to drink, but we want to rush them into this? Team Obama’s new low in the name of ‘trans rights’.  If the change is legitimate, it can always be done later.  BUT once done it’s irreversible.  Wouldn’t this be a case for caution in creating irrevocable modifications?

SELLING DREAMS: As ‘Star Trek’ Turns 50, a Complicated Legacy for Creator Gene Roddenberry.

OH, IS IT LEBENSUNWERTES LEBEN TIME AGAIN? Killing the Mentally Ill in Netherlands.

GEEK, YOU IZ DOING IT WRONG.  OR PERHAPS STOP CULTURALLY APPROPRIATING MY (SF/F) PEOPLE: Congress faces physicists’ ‘multiverse’ of issues including IRS, Zika upon impending return.

YOU MEAN THE LAYERS AND LAYERS OF EDITORS AND THE PROCESS OF PEER REVIEW DON’T CATCH THOSE?  THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE. Turns out that scientific papers are full of computer-created mistakes.  Take for instance:

You see, genes are often referred to in scientific literature by symbols — essentially shortened versions of full gene names. The gene “Septin 2” is typically shortened as SEPT2. “Membrane-Associated Ring Finger (C3HC4) 1, E3 Ubiquitin Protein Ligase” gets mercifully shortened to MARCH1.

But when you type these shortened gene names into Excel, the program automatically assumes they refer to dates — Sept. 2 and March 1, respectively. If you type SEPT2 into a default Excel cell, it magically becomes “2-Sep.” It’s stored by the program as the date 9/2/2016.

Even worse, there’s no easy way to undo this automatic formatting once it has happened.

Read The Whole Thing: An alarming number of scientific papers contain Excel errors.

GEE, WHAT COULD THEY BE THINKING? Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek.  Oh, wait, the key is that more “diverse” thing.  Of course.  Making jobs for married women.

NPR JOURNOLIST SUFFERS KINSLEY-GAFFE SYNDROME, ACCURATELY DESCRIBES THE CLINTON FOUNDATION: Clinton Global Initiative Moderator Describes Group’s Events As ‘Creepy,’ ‘Disgusting,’ ‘Gross.’