OF COURSE THE COST WILL KEEP YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT:‘Clean’ sleeping is the next big wellness trend.

NEITHER: The wrong question, the right answer.

AND MANY OF THEM DID IT KNOWINGLY AND GLEEFULLY: The Media Spreads Fake News About Ivanka Trump.

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THIS REALLY DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE. Historically Black College Leader: So Far, Trump a Step UP From Obama.

THE INSTA-WIFE: Is Humor Helpful in Reducing Men’s Suicide Rates?

FAKE NEWS: Reporters Fall for Fake Document of Trump Making Absurd Demands in Israel.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Why was the person who got confronted terminated?

The Georgetown professor doing the confronting is Christine Fair, who was last seen bullying a Muslim Trump supporter.

The lefties will miss civil society when it’s gone.

NEWS FROM BOSTON: Blue mayor bemoans hypocrisy of blue elitism.

HUH. I NEVER REALLY THOUGHT OF MEGAN MCARDLE AS A CONSERVATIVE: What a Conservative Sees From Inside Trump’s Washington.

HUMOR: “I think a lot of people don’t get Trump’s statements because they don’t understand the humor. But why should they? They don’t want to let him off the hook more than they don’t want to look like they have no sense of humor. There’s the famous feminist punchline: That’s not funny.”

HMM: Report: Three White House leakers identified, Trump preparing to fire them.

THE PRESSING PROBLEM OF Hollywood Ageism. I’d say ageism in tech companies — and in academic hiring — is a bigger problem.

BREAKING: Several people killed and many injured after two explosions in England’s Manchester Arena at the end of pop singer Ariana Grande’s concert as bloodied teenage concert-goers flee to their waiting parents.

Initial reports are still very sketchy, although Tom Winter of NBC News tweets, “Law enforcement officials say at least 20 dead and hundreds have been injured following reports of an explosion in Manchester, UK.”

UPDATE (8:20 PM EDT): Manchester police are currently reporting 19 dead, approximately 50 injured, and add, “This is currently being treated as a terrorist incident until police know otherwise.”

“UK authorities suspect a possible suicide bomber responsible,” Winter tweets.

UPDATE (8:31 PM EDT): “How many casualties were caused by the explosion and how many by the ensuing stampede?”, Allahpundit asks at Hot Air. “Ed [Morrissey] emails to say he’s seen reports saying that some people were trampled.”

“Twitter has a running Trends item for further information. An awful lot of the tweets are people looking for missing friends,” Charlie Martin writes at PJM.

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OCCUPY SILICON VALLEY? TECH MAGNATES FEAR NEXT CAMPAIGN IN SOCIALIST WAR MIGHT TARGET THEM: “And they’ve spent so many years courting them, promoting them, and even paying them a lot of money to act as ‘consultants’ for their social media platforms — what a shame if the alligator next turns to eat them.”

I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN “IF YOU’RE NOT WITH US, YOU’RE AGAINST US,” WAS CONSIDERED WILDLY UNAMERICAN: Refusing To Allow Neutrality On Trump Will Not End Well: When we’re sternly admonished that you’re for Trump unless you make it clear you’re against him, the central Trumpist axiom about the danger of political correctness is affirmed.

THEY TOLD ME A TRUMP PRESIDENCY WOULD BE MARKED BY OUTRAGEOUS VIOLATIONS OF PRIVACY — AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Private Investigator’s Attempt To Obtain Donald Trump’s Tax Return Led IRS To Shut Down FAFSA Data Retrieval Tool; Who Hired Him? “The person accused of a 2016 attempt to use a web-based federal student-aid tool to illegally obtain taxpayer information is a Louisiana-based private investigator who used the tool to target then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, court records obtained by Diverse show. The records allege that when Jordan Hamlett, 31, met FBI agents in the atrium of the Embassy Suites in Baton Rouge, he ‘immediately volunteered that he had committed the crime and he even sounded proud of what he had done.'”

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Anyone who loves clothes can be a designer now. Ha! You think that’s the case now? Wait ten years.

DAVID HORNIK: Trump’s First Day in Israel: An Encouraging Performance.

UNEXPECTEDLY: The price tag on universal health care is in, and it’s bigger than California’s budget.

California would have to find an additional $200 billion per year, including in new tax revenues, to create a so-called “single-payer” system, the analysis by the Senate Appropriations committee found. The estimate assumes the state would retain the existing $200 billion in local, state and federal funding it currently receives to offset the total $400 billion price tag.

The cost analysis is seen as the biggest hurdle to create a universal system, proposed by Sens. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, and Toni Atkins, D-San Diego.

Steep projected costs have derailed efforts over the past two decades to establish a publicly funded, universal health care system in California. The cost is higher than the $180 billion in proposed general fund and special fund spending for the budget year beginning July 1.

Californians already pay some of the highest tax rates in the nation, which have all but driven out the state’s formerly robust middle class.

Single payer — and the taxes required to pay for all that paying — would be the final nail in California’s coffin.

FRANKENARMY: Germany Is Quietly Building a European Army Under Its Command.

Germany and two of its European allies, the Czech Republic and Romania, quietly took a radical step down a path toward something that looks like an EU army while avoiding the messy politics associated with it: They announced the integration of their armed forces.

Romania’s entire military won’t join the Bundeswehr, nor will the Czech armed forces become a mere German subdivision. But in the next several months each country will integrate one brigade into the German armed forces: Romania’s 81st Mechanized Brigade will join the Bundeswehr’s Rapid Response Forces Division, while the Czech 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade, which has served in Afghanistan and Kosovo and is considered the Czech Army’s spearhead force, will become part of the Germans’ 10th Armored Division. In doing so, they’ll follow in the footsteps of two Dutch brigades, one of which has already joined the Bundeswehr’s Rapid Response Forces Division and another that has been integrated into the Bundeswehr’s 1st Armored Division. According to Carlo Masala, a professor of international politics at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich, “The German government is showing that it’s willing to proceed with European military integration” — even if others on the continent aren’t yet.

What could go wrong?

IT LOOKS BAD, BUT HEY, SO DID LOIS LERNER. Michael Flynn Will Plead the Fifth After Senate Committee Refuses Him Immunity.

MICHAEL LIND: The New Class War. He’s sounding a theme that I’ve noted for over a decade, the grab for supremacy of the managerial “New Class.” “The thesis of this essay is that the theory of the managerial elite explains the present transatlantic social and political crisis. . . . Freed from older constraints, the managerial minorities of Western nations have predictably run amok, using their near-monopoly of power and influence in all sectors—private, public, and nonprofit—to enact policies that advantage their members to the detriment of their fellow citizens. Derided and disempowered, large elements of the native working classes in Western democracies have turned to charismatic tribunes of anti-system populism in electoral rebellions against the selfishness and arrogance of managerial elites.”