VIDEO: The moment ex-DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz warns Capitol police chief to ‘expect consequences’ if he fails to return her laptop seized during probe into aide who ‘stole secrets from Congress.’

WHY SALMAN ABEDI GREW TO HATE US: “Abedi was not disenfranchised. He was not rejected by British society. He was taught to reject and hate it, despite everything it gave him and his family. . . . Manchester and Birmingham are home to some of the most militant Islamists in the UK. They mingle and operate throughout local Muslim communities with relative impunity.”

Somehow the “hate speech” prosecutions don’t seem to reach them, just people who warn about them.

FOR STRCITLY PEACEFUL PURPOSES: Iran says it has built third underground ballistic missile factory.

Or maybe this one should have been filed under “Thanks, Obama.”

PREDICTION: THIS WOULD GET A LOT MORE ATTENTION IF HE WERE A REPUBLICAN. De Blasio Aide Who’s President of Manhattan Young Democrats Arrested for Horrifying Child Porn.

This will be treated as a “local crime story.”

PEOPLE OF TOLERANCE, DIVERSITY, AND GENDER-INCLUSION ARE VERY ANGRY WITH STEPHEN MILLER OF HEAT STREET FOR BUYING A TICKET TO THE “WOMEN-ONLY” WONDER WOMAN SCREENING IN NEW YORK.

That Twitchy link is just a fraction of the abuse Miller is receiving; click on his Twitter feed and keep scrolling for much more.

Speaking of which:

JUST THINK OF THEM AS DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Dylan Byers admits on CNN that reporters tell a progressive story defined by Obama and Hillary.

Earlier: “Why would you trust a campaign?”

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JUSTICE: Judge overturns life without parole sentence for DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo.

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SO, HERE’S SOME SWELL NEWS TO START THE WEEKEND OFF RIGHT: Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said that if we knew what he knows about terror threats in this country, we’d “never leave the house.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I think he left off “unarmed.”

LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS: Push to get more anti-Israel activists into power at American Anthropology Association.

The countermove is to get state legislatures and trustees to defund travel to their conferences, and departmental memberships. In fact, given the widespread Gramscian damage, a move to defund all conference travel, and all departmental memberships in academic associations, would be an effective move.

A MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Charges filed against Tim Kaine’s son, others who crashed MN Capitol Trump rally. “The chaos that counter-protesters brought into the Minnesota Capitol in March during a rally in support of President Donald Trump included smoke bombs, mace in people’s faces and fireworks, prosecutors said Friday as they announced charges against eight people. . . . ‘When people seek to prevent others who are peacefully assembled from making their voices heard, it threatens the very foundation of our democracy and I am very pleased that we have gathered sufficient evidence to charge these individuals who we allege unlawfully took their counter protest activities too far,’ Choi said Friday.”

IF THE RIGHT HAD A PROPERLY DEVELOPED LEGAL INFRASTRUCTURE, SOME GLORIA-ALLRED-EQUIVALENT WOULD HAVE ALREADY FILED SUIT AND HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE: Movie Theater Doubles Down on Women-Only ‘Wonder Woman’ Showings.

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK.

● Shot: The conservative mind has become diseased.

—Former GWB speechwriter Michael Gerson in the Washington Post today on Hannity and Limbaugh’s Seth Rich conspiracy theories.

● Chaser: Tim Kaine’s kid hit with criminal charges after disrupting pro-Trump rally.

● Hangover: De Blasio employee arrested for child pornography.

—Both from the New York Post, today.

NIXON WASN’T IMPEACHED, OF COURSE. BUT HEY, BILL WAS: Hillary Jabs Trump at Commencement Speech, Brings Up Nixon’s Impeachment.

CNN, MSNBC FAWN OVER ‘FREE’ ‘FEISTY’ HILLARY ‘FINDING HER GROOVE.’

Meet the new Hillary – just the same as all of the old Hillaries.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Wonderful: Our Judicial Overlords Overturn Sentence on Younger Member of the Beltway Sniper Duo.

THE OBVIOUS COURSE OF ACTION IS TO SUE APPLE: Working Theory in Jet Crash: iPhone in Cockpit Is to Blame. “The theory is that the co-pilot plugged the device into a socket not meant for such things, which eventually caused the lithium battery to explode and ignited a fire in the cockpit.”

TO DO THAT, DON’T YOU HAVE TO GO AWAY FIRST? Obama Attempts Government In Exile.

The unprecedented extent to which the Democrats have tried to delegitimize Trump’s presidency, starting the day after the election, has done tremendous damage. But most of the tongue-clucking from pundits is aimed at Trump, for some reason.

DEVELOPING STORY: MAN ARMED WITH 4 GUNS AND SEVERAL KNIVES TRIED TO ATTACK A COMIC CONVENTION IN PHOENIX.

CHARLOTTE ALLEN: We’re Living The Handmaid’s Tale Now, But Not The Way Feminists Think:

At first I scoffed. There couldn’t be any more unlikely a theocrat than Trump, what with his misquotes from the Bible and speculation that he hasn’t been in a church more than twice since the inauguration. But then I realized that the liberal paranoiacs were right. Except not in the way they think. Instead of seeing Atwood’s fictional Gilead as a near-future militant fundamentalist Christian elite dystopia, we should see it as the mostly secularist elite dystopia we live in right now.

Take those elite-class Wives. Liberals typically assume the 1% consists of striped-pants tycoons off the Monopoly board who reliably vote Republican and want to cram retrograde religious ideas down people’s throats. In fact, as social scientists (Charles Murray in “Coming Apart”) and political analysts (Michael Barone, writing recently for the Capital Research Center) have observed, it’s the Democratic Party that’s the party of the 1%: the tech and finance billionaires, the media and entertainment moguls who cluster in expensive ZIP Codes around metropolitan Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Washington.

Those folks aren’t known for their church-going, and they vote in favor of liberal social and economic causes from abortion and immigration rights to sustainable energy to higher taxes. They contribute heavily to political campaign, and with their upper-middle-class epigones they run the culture, deciding who gets banned on Twitter, which kinds of “diversity” are allowed on campuses, and what television programs we’ll be allowed to see. Today’s overclass Wives typically hold Ivy League degrees, “lean in” to high-status careers, and stand with Planned Parenthood.

We also have a rigidly defined caste of Marthas (and “Marthos,” their male counterparts), because the Wives and their high-earning husbands need them to mop their floors, care for their children, mow their lawns and trim their trees, all for bargain-basement wages. And so we have the irony of Malibu declaring itself a sanctuary city out of “solidarity” with its servant class, many of whom are in the country illegally, who can’t afford to live anywhere near their wealthy and high-minded masters and mistresses.

Finally, the Handmaids. As in the fictional Gilead, real-life elite-class Wives have something of a fertility problem, although it’s related not to environmental degradation but delayed marriages and childbearing attempts of women who pursue high-power careers. Thanks to 30 years of advances in egg-transfer technology since Atwood published her novel, today’s gestational surrogates don’t have to get into embarrassing “threesome” sexual positions with the Commanders and their Wives in order to do their jobs. And they tend to be drawn not from the ranks of political dissidents, but from the financially strapped Econowife class (military bases are common surrogate-recruiting centers) who are willing to put up with a year’s worth of uncomfortable hormone treatments and possible pregnancy problems for the $40,000 or so that they receive.

Related: How Serfdom Saved The Women’s Movement.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Yale Cements Its Line in the Academic Sand by Awarding the Student ‘Truthtellers’ Who Bullied Faculty. In 2015, an email over Halloween costume propriety prompted a public debate over free speech and race. Its conclusion is telling.

Related: Campus ‘Snowflakes’ Will Never Face the ‘Real World.’

WHY TRUMP GOT ELECTED, PART 1,322,217. “‘Far Cry 5’ Is About Living Under Fear in America. The game will put the player up against a Montana based cult and militia that has plenty of real world analogues:”

Dan Hay, creative director and executive producer of Far Cry 5, is standing in front of a TV displaying the word pressure, written out in all caps. PRESSURE. He’s telling a room of games journalists about the game he’s wanted to make since the 2008 recession, one that engaged with the rise of rural, American militias during Obama’s presidency. What if, Hay said, one of these groups so dedicated to preparing for the end days of America decided to actively push for it, instead.

But he couldn’t find enough support for the game: the core premise seemed “unrealistic.” After all, the world—the western world, it is implied—was “a global village.”

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Though the game’s “key art” and first teaser trailer focus only on the cult, Hay’s presentation (and many of the assets that Ubisoft sent to the games press for today’s embargo lift) additionally evoke a more mundane, almost idyllic Hope County: Bait shops. Main street bars. Little league fields. Two bedroom homes with flags out front. Taken alone, these parts of the FC5 press blast read like a love letter to the “fly over states” like Montana.

Responses to that key art over the past few days has been mixed, including arguments that FC5 will simply be about killing stereotypical, white “rednecks.” This response (and Far Cry’s own history) shows why this focus on “everyday” Montana is necessary. Far Cry as a series has always labored over transforming beautiful, distant places into chaotic playgrounds—these are even the words Hay uses to describe the series, “beauty and chaos”—and it has often done so with limited or mishandled interest in the inhabitants of these places.

Hat tip, Kathy Shaidle, who adds, “No word on when the same company will be doing a video game about Muslim terrorists.”

That’s different because shut up and maybe they’ll all go away.

Related: 7 Virtue-Signaling Celebrities Silent on Massacre of Coptic Christians.

SHOCK: HERE’S HOW TRUMP SUPPORTERS LOSE ACTING GIGS:

Trump supporters, apparently, have it the worst.

For the vast majority of conservatives who work in entertainment, going to set or the office each day has become a game of avoidance and secrecy. The political closet is now a necessity for many in an industry that is among the most liberal in the country.

The Hollywood Reporter also weighed in on the subject. A magazine columnist decried the “new McCarthyism” facing conservatives in the entertainment business.

In an astonishing reversal of Hollywood history, just as liberals here once considered themselves an endangered species, so do conservatives today. They no longer are free to talk in the open, because they feel — rightly — we’re no longer prepared to listen, any more than they’re prepared to listen to liberals. There’s deafness on both sides.

Why are we acting like this is a “shocking,” “astonishing” new development, or the new blacklist is exclusive to Trump supporters? Roger Simon’s autobiography of his screenwriting days was originally titled Blacklisting Myself when first published in early 2009 for a reason: in Hollywood, admitting that you were a supporter of President Bush or for simply not laughing at the reflexive Bush bashing by Learjet leftie Hollywood executives was a near-guarantee of losing a writing or acting gig.

Nothing has changed except for the level of hatred by the Hollywood left – which is now so bad, ABC cancelled Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing series, despite it being the number two-rated sitcom on the network,very likely because of its conservative tone.

I STILL MISS HARVEY’S, WHICH DID OLD-SCHOOL OLD-SCHOOL. The Stalwarts: 7 Classic Washington D.C. Restaurants. “The Restaurant of Presidents.” I didn’t realize that it still existed in the suburbs until I looked it up.